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How Much Does It Cost to Build an On-Demand Car Wash App?

Vipin Jain

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Out of all the things that you need to do every day besides your own early-morning chores, a major obligation is of taking care of endearing and expensive things you possess. And among these probably the most qualifying one is car. Even when you know how annoying and jittery it is to take care of it like a pet.

If you look into a general scenario, you almost daily need to travel from home to work and back. On weekends, you try getaways, explore night life, go off-roads and once in a while you go out for long trips. And no matter who accompanies you with all these movements, your car always be there.

After those divulging commutes on diverse routes and destinations, your car gets dirty and murky. At least more than you!

And just like you take your bath everyday it needs its care. Car Wash!

Image source: carwashbusinessblog.com

Sounds easy but it isn’t that simple to get something back to its appearance when it has eaten all the dirt and dusk on and off the road. And more so, when it is about reaching the remote bends and angles of your four-wheeler.

Which brings me to the fact that car-grooming is the sacred art and should only be left to professionals. And that saves you a lot of time, effort, and bad mood or sometimes maybe bad luck too.

And this is best interpreted by such services that are growing at a great pace across the US and other countries. With most of them making the best of it by connecting their services with mobile app services.

If you look just into the US stats of last year, it was already a $5.8 Billion industry in terms of revenue generation (annually) – providing wash service to 8 Million cars daily.

Which makes a clear indication towards how big this industry is and by the virtue of its nature it is only going to grow big with time. And when you connect it to the on-demand roles, providing services through a mobile app, it has a lot of scope left for you as it is still an untapped market with only a few big players (like Squeegy and Washe) existing.

So, with that if you look to go with your own car washing app, you may get to tap a lot of untouched spheres and unserved userbase in the segment.

Here’s how you can go about it and what it will cost you to develop a car wash app:

Planning the app

To develop the app, you need to first define the modules you are going to have. For this you can think from the utility perspective and align it with the service and presentation idea you have. To get it right in the least trials you should be segregating different app resources and bundling similar set of features together to make them belong to a certain role and trait of offering.

The preliminary services of the app

Once this is done define the flow of the app and place all your modules as per the structure of navigation and communication to make them impactfully connect with the user. While exploring and reaching these factors always consider your central idea and underlying purpose behind developing the app. And keep the app functionalities and resources validated and served around that. While doing this you can be helped by mobile app development company.

Here are a few model ideas a car wash app should be based on:

The car wash app major features

To illustrate the key features of a car wash app better we need to divide the app into 3 major segments – User (the service seeker), Technician (service engineer), Admin (business/provider). This way you will understand all the operational facets and property parameters that decide the range and scope of the app.

User:

Technicians:

Admin:

How much does developing a car wash app cost

Well, there’s no one size fit all solution available for you when it comes to developing an app, be it any segment or business vertical for that matter. So, if you just look to take estimation of the cost that goes into developing a car wash app, you will see different quotes as you try to approach different app development companies. Though if you look into a generic scenario and ideal conditions of getting an app like this developed you will be fetching these figures.

For native car wash app development, it should take 100 days for one platform. So, if you are getting the app developed only for iOS you have to pay around $24,000. If you go with Android only, it would cost you on a bit lower side as Android app development resources are available at a lower cost compared to the iOS developers. So, this would be anywhere around $20,000. However, if you choose to go with both the apps in the native category, it would combinedly cost you 10% lesser than the sum of both. Which means you will get a quote of $37,000 for both (in this case 10-15% of extra efforts for building web services separately for both platforms will be waived off).

In another case, if you choose to get your car wash app built on hybrid model and go with cross-platform app development, it would take 20-22 days more than building it on a native platform. Which makes the total cost of development around $29,000.

*The base hourly rate of development is taken as $30.

Wrapping up

So, with all the leading features in place and taking the average base rate of development as $30 per hour, you can get your app developed anywhere from around $20,000 to $37,000, depending on your needs and preferences. Consider these as a cumulative average taken on the basis of prevailing app development trends and standards from all across the world.