ON-DEMAND APP DEVELOPMENT
Marketplaces, Delivery, Mobility and
Home Services Built to Scale
Brandrums builds on-demand platforms across delivery, ride-hailing, home services, beauty and wellness, fitness coaching, and B2B logistics. We ship customer apps, provider apps, dispatch consoles, and the matching engines that keep them in sync, with payments, routing, and fraud controls hardened from day one.
POWERED BY
The stack real on-demand platforms run on
WHY BUILD ON-DEMAND WITH US
Tested patterns, not first-time guesses
Real-Time Everything
Sub-second order updates, live tracking, and push events tuned for spotty mobile networks, not lab conditions.
PCI-DSS Payments
Stripe, Adyen, and local rails wired through tokenised flows, with KYC and AML checks on driver and provider onboarding.
Built for Scale
Architecture proven from city-one launches up to multi-region rollouts with Kubernetes, Redis, and event-driven workers.
AI Where It Pays
Demand forecasting, surge pricing, and ETA models that lift driver utilisation and cut wait times, not slide-deck AI.
OUR ON-DEMAND SERVICES
Every piece of the platform, shipped together
Most on-demand failures are not feature problems, they are integration problems. We design the customer app, provider app, dispatch dashboard, matching engine, payments, and AI models as one system so launches go live on time and stay up under load.
Customer Apps with Booking and Live Tracking
Consumer-facing iOS and Android apps with onboarding, search, booking, real-time order tracking, in-app payments, ratings, and re-order flows. Built in React Native or Flutter depending on team and budget profile.
Technology Stack
Technical Implementation
- Phone OTP, social, and passkey login with abandoned-signup recovery
- Smart search with category filters, geofencing, and saved addresses
- Live order or driver tracking using Mapbox or Google Maps with WebSocket updates
- In-app wallet, saved cards via Stripe or Adyen, and Apple Pay or Google Pay
- Ratings, reviews, tipping, and re-order flows with deep links and push notifications
- Crash-free release pipeline with Firebase Crashlytics and feature flags per market
Provider and Driver Apps
Worker-facing apps that handle availability, job allocation, navigation, proof-of-delivery, and earnings. Designed for one-handed use, low-end devices, and long shifts.
Technology Stack
Technical Implementation
- Shift toggle, heatmap of expected demand, and tap-to-accept job allocation
- Turn-by-turn navigation with Google Maps or Mapbox and offline fallback tiles
- Proof of delivery with photo, signature, OTP, and barcode scanning
- Earnings dashboard with per-trip breakdown, tips, bonuses, and tax exports
- In-app masked calling and chat via Twilio so phone numbers stay private
- Battery-aware background location with adaptive polling for older Android devices
Admin and Dispatch Dashboard
Operations console for the people running the platform. Orders, fleet, finance, support tickets, fraud signals, and analytics in one place, with role-based access for ops, finance, and growth teams.
Technology Stack
Technical Implementation
- Live order and fleet map with manual reassign, cancel, and refund tools
- Provider and merchant onboarding with KYC document review and audit log
- Catalogue, pricing, and promo management with city and segment overrides
- Finance views for payouts, reconciliation, refunds, and chargeback handling
- Fraud signals dashboard for stolen cards, fake GPS, and collusion patterns
- Cohort analytics with retention, frequency, and LTV by city and service
Real-Time Matching and Routing Engine
The piece most on-demand startups underestimate. Sub-second matching of demand and supply, batched dispatch where it makes sense, and routing that respects traffic, vehicle type, and SLA windows.
Technology Stack
Technical Implementation
- Spatial indexing with PostGIS and Redis GEO for nearest-driver queries under 100ms
- Configurable matching strategies, first-accept, batched, and auction-style
- Order batching for delivery and shared rides with constraint-aware grouping
- Routing via OSRM, Mapbox Directions, or Google Routes with traffic data
- SLA timers for pickup, prep, and drop with automatic escalation paths
- Event sourcing with Kafka so every state change is replayable for audits and bugs
Payments, Wallet and Payout Infrastructure
PCI-DSS compliant payments, in-app wallets, split disbursements, and same-day or instant payouts to providers across markets and currencies. Built with Stripe, Adyen, and local rails where they win on cost.
Technology Stack
Technical Implementation
- Tokenised card capture with 3D Secure 2 and Apple or Google Pay support
- Multi-currency wallets with hold, capture, refund, and partial refund flows
- Split payments between platform, merchant, driver, and tax authority on each order
- Instant payouts via Stripe Connect Express and Adyen for Platforms
- Idempotent webhook handlers so a retry storm never double-charges or double-pays
- PCI-DSS scope minimisation, encrypted vaulting, and quarterly ASV scan workflow
AI Demand Prediction and ETA Optimisation
Forecast where demand will spike, position supply ahead of it, and quote ETAs riders and eaters can trust. Models trained on your trip history and tuned per city and daypart.
Technology Stack
Technical Implementation
- Demand forecasting per hexagon and 15-minute slot using gradient boosted models
- Driver positioning hints and incentives driven by predicted under-supply zones
- ETA models trained on actual pickup, prep, and drop times, not raw distance
- Surge or boost pricing engine with caps, fairness rules, and audit trail per change
- Anomaly detection on cancellations, refunds, and GPS spoofing for fraud teams
- Online evaluation with A and B holdouts so model wins are measured, not assumed
OUR PROCESS
From category bet to first paid order
Discovery
We map the category, geography, unit economics, supply side, and regulatory shape before scoping a single screen.
MVP Scope
We cut the platform to what is needed for a paid pilot in one city, customer app, provider app, dispatch console, payments, and a single matching strategy.
Build
React Native or Flutter on the apps, Node.js on the backend, PostgreSQL plus Redis on the data, with CI, staging, and feature flags from week one.
Pilot
We launch in a single neighbourhood or vertical, instrument every funnel step, and tune matching, ETAs, and pricing on real trips.
Scale
Add cities, vehicle types, languages, and payment rails on the same codebase, with observability that tells you which city is breaking and why.
Sub-second dispatch under real-world load
Matching Engine
We index supply with Redis GEO and PostGIS, score candidates with rules tuned per category, and dispatch in well under a second. Batched dispatch, auction-style matching, and SLA timers are all configurable per city and service.
PCI-DSS payments, multi-currency, instant payouts
Payments and Payouts
Stripe Connect and Adyen for Platforms power split payouts to merchants, drivers, and tax authorities on every order. Local rails are added where they beat global processors on cost. Webhooks are idempotent so retries never double-pay.
One screen for orders, fleet, finance and fraud
Ops Console
A Next.js console with role-based access for ops, finance, growth, and support teams. Live map of orders and drivers, manual override tools, fraud signals, cohort analytics, and finance exports, all wired to the same event stream as the apps.
TESTIMONIALS
What founders and ops leads tell us
Operators of delivery, mobility, and home services platforms describe what changed after working with Brandrums
“We went from a Figma file to a paying first city in four months. The matching engine alone saved us from the dispatch chaos we had on our old MVP, and the dashboard gave ops their evenings back.”
Sarah Johnson
Co-founder and CEO, SwiftCart Logistics
“Their team rebuilt our driver app and routing service on a single codebase. Crash rate dropped, driver utilisation went up, and we finally trust the ETAs we show riders.”
Michael Chen
CTO, RideForge Mobility
“The provider app is the part most agencies treat as an afterthought. Brandrums treated it as the core product, and our cleaner retention numbers prove it was the right call.”
Emily Rodriguez
Head of Product, HomeCrew Services
“Payments, payouts, and fraud detection were our biggest worries. The team brought a working playbook, wired Stripe Connect and Adyen, and shipped without a single reconciliation incident in our first quarter.”
David Park
VP Engineering, FleetPulse B2B
ON-DEMAND APP FAQ
What founders ask before they commit to a build
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From a single-city MVP to a multi-vertical marketplace, we ship the apps, the backend, the payments, and the matching engine as one product, not six.
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