Meridianstacks builds top-quality on-demand delivery apps for the UK market — a customer app, a driver app and a dispatch dashboard, complete with live GPS tracking, in-app payments and ratings — at a fraction of local-agency cost. Senior, fluent-English engineers working from your matched hub, Lagos (UTC+1) — a 0–1 hour offset, so they share your full working day — a fixed price in pounds, and full code ownership. Premium build, best value.
A full on-demand delivery app in the UK — customer app, driver app and dispatch dashboard — costs around £60,000–£120,000+ at a local agency. Meridianstacks builds the same thing to a high standard for £20,000–£40,000 — our Full tier — as a fixed price in pounds — a 40–70% saving. It is the most cost-effective way to get a professionally built delivery app in the UK: senior engineers working your hours, full code and IP ownership, and real-time same-day collaboration throughout.
Launching a new on-demand brand and need a credible customer app, driver app and dispatch from day one — built to grow without a marketplace taking a cut.
Run your own ordering and delivery instead of handing 25–35% commission to a marketplace. Keep the customer, the data and the margin.
Fast local delivery with slot booking, substitutions and live tracking — the experience shoppers now expect from a corner store or supermarket.
Digitise dispatch with real-time job assignment, route optimisation and proof of delivery — for parcels, pharmacy, flowers or same-day B2B runs.
A single founder or owner-driver wanting a branded app to take and manage orders — a professional build at a small-operation price.
Aggregating many restaurants or stores under one app, with vendor onboarding, per-vendor menus, commission splits and a shared fleet.
Every serious delivery app is really three products talking to each other in real time — the customer ordering app, the driver app, and the dispatch dashboard that ties them together. We build all three plus the live infrastructure around them, so an order placed on a phone reaches the nearest driver and updates the customer’s map in seconds.
| Component | Platform |
|---|---|
| Customer app | iOS + Android (one codebase) |
| Driver app | iOS + Android (one codebase) |
| Dispatch dashboard | Web (React/Next.js) |
| Backend & real-time engine | Node.js / Laravel |
| Maps, tracking & routing | Google Maps platform |
| Payments | Stripe (cards, Apple/Google Pay) |
A free UK-hours call to pin down your model, features and budget. You get a fixed price in pounds, a timeline, and the senior engineers who will build it.
Clickable designs for the customer app, driver app and dashboard, so you approve the full flow before production code is written.
We build the ordering app, driver app and dispatch engine in parallel, wiring up live GPS tracking, payments and notifications, with weekly demos.
Route optimisation, two-way ratings, promo codes and reporting are layered on, with payments and tracking tested under realistic load.
End-to-end QA across devices, then we submit both apps to the App Store and Google Play under your own developer accounts.
Go live with your first drivers and customers. You receive all code, repos and credentials, plus optional ongoing support.
Timelines are realistic for a launch-ready app; phased delivery means real users are testing early.
| Build | Typical UK agency | Meridianstacks | DIY / template |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single-vendor delivery app, web (Focused tier) | £20,000–£45,000 | ~£8,000–£14,000 | £0–£6,000 |
| Multi-vendor delivery platform (Standard tier) | £40,000–£85,000 | ~£14,000–£26,000 | Not realistic |
| Delivery platform + driver & customer apps (Full tier) | £60,000–£120,000 | ~£20,000–£40,000 | £0–£8,000 (you don’t own it) |
| Support retainer (monthly) | £1,500–£4,000 | ~£600–£1,800 | DIY only |
Prices published from our Open Price Book (v1.0 · July 2026 · next review October 2026). All prices exclude VAT.
Indicative ranges in pounds; every engagement is quoted as a fixed price before work begins. A template app is cheap up front but you rent it, can’t fully change it, and don’t own the code — our build is yours outright.
| Meridianstacks | UK agency | Template / SaaS rental | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cost vs UK agency | 40–70% less | Baseline | Low up front, ongoing fees |
| You own the code & IP | Yes — fully | Usually yes | No — you rent it |
| Senior engineers | Yes, you meet them | Often a resource pool | No engineers |
| Works UK business hours | Yes — same-day | Yes | N/A |
| Fully customisable | Yes | Yes | Limited to the template |
| Fixed price in pounds | Yes | Sometimes | Subscription |
| UK GDPR / ICO + DPA + IDTA | Yes | Yes | Varies |
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