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Mobile app development for business: a store owner sees customers ordering in the app

For store chains, wholesalers and online stores

A mobile app for your business. Your icon on your customer’s screen.

Turnkey iOS and Android app development. Customers come back on their own: one-tap reorders, rewards and push notifications with no per-message fees. And subscriptions and paid features bring in income on top of product sales.

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from $22,000price fixed in the contract

Notifications: example with demo data

Customer’s phoneTo your customer, your website is
one tab out of 37.

From browser tab to dock

Now

Your website is one tab out of 37

The customer bought from you once. Now you’re just a gray tab in their browser. To win them back, you pay for ads, SMS and marketplace fees all over again.

Day 1

App installed

The icon lands on the third screen, in the “Misc” folder. Login by phone number, no password: the customer is in right away.

Day 1, 20:14

First order in two taps

Catalog, prices and stock come from 1C; payment by card or SBP instant bank transfer. After the order, the icon moves to the home screen.

Month 5

Back on their own

A push notification reminded them of their last order, and they repeated it with one tap. Push notifications cost nothing to send, unlike SMS and ads.

Month 5, Saturday

Loyalty card on the phone

At the checkout the customer shows a QR card instead of plastic, and the points are added. The icon moves up to the top row.

Month 6

A subscription: income on top of sales

“Svetly Dom Pro”: free delivery and wiring diagrams in PDF. The icon moves to the dock, next to the phone and banking apps.

You were a tab.
Now you’re an icon in the dock.

Sales, repeat orders, subscriptions, paid features and partner ads: we choose the revenue model for your business at the start. We don’t promise amounts in advance — we show the mechanics and measure with analytics.

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On their phone

One tab out of 373rd screen, “Misc” folderHome screenHome screen and pushTop rowDock, by the bank appIn the dock

Revenue streams

1235

To win the customer back

  • Ads
  • SMS
  • Marketplace fees
  • Push fees: $0
  • Product sales
  • Repeat orders
  • Subscription
  • Paid features
  • Partner ads

Example with demo data

From browser tab to dock

  1. Now

    One tab out of 37

    Your website is a gray tab in the browser. To win the customer back, you pay for ads, SMS and marketplace fees.

  2. Day 1

    Home screen

    App installed, login by phone number, first order in two taps. The icon is on the home screen.

  3. Month 6

    In the dock

    Push instead of paid SMS, a QR card instead of plastic, a subscription on top of sales. Revenue streams: 5.

You were a tab. Now you’re an icon in the dock.

Example with demo data

Mobile app development for business: customers come back on their own

A customer bought from you once — and from then on you have to pay to bring them back: ads, SMS, discounts and marketplace commissions. They’ll close your website and forget it, leave the loyalty card at home, and make their next purchase from whoever shows up first in search.

A mobile app changes this. Your icon lives on the customer’s phone screen: one-tap reorders, rewards and a QR card instead of plastic, free push notifications instead of paid SMS. And subscriptions, paid features and in-app purchases add income on top of product sales.

We develop mobile apps for iOS and Android and connect them to what we have already built and tested in our own business: catalog and stock from 1C, CRM, shipping and the AI assistant.

A business mobile app, always in the customer’s pocket

Who needs a mobile app for business

  • Store chains and retail brands: loyalty card, promotions and repeat purchases on the customer’s phone, not on plastic and in SMS.

  • Online stores and Wildberries and Ozon sellers who need their own repeat sales channel and their own customer base.

  • Wholesalers and manufacturers: an app for dealers, installers and regular clients — their prices, stock and ordering in a couple of taps.

  • Businesses with regular purchases — consumables, memberships, service bookings: easy for customers to come back, easy for you to remind them.

  • Those who want to test an app idea: we start with an MVP — a first version with the core features — before major investment.

Four situations where customers leave without an app

How it often goes today — and how the same situation looks when the business has its own mobile app.

A customer repeats an order in the store’s mobile app with one tap

Bought once — and gone

The way it is now

A customer bought an LED strip for her kitchen from you. Six months later she needs the same for the bedroom — she no longer remembers where she bought it, opens a marketplace and buys from whoever ranks higher. To win her back, you pay for ads again.

With Giant4 IT

The app is on her phone: order history, one-tap reorder and a push reminder at the right moment. Push notifications cost nothing to send — unlike SMS and ads.

Loyalty card in the mobile app: a customer shows a QR code at the checkout

Left the card at home

The way it is now

Your store chain uses plastic loyalty cards. The customer left the card in another jacket, the cashier rings up the purchase without it, no points are added, and he’ll learn about the Saturday sale from an SMS — if he reads it at all.

With Giant4 IT

The loyalty card lives in the app: a QR code at the checkout, points and tier visible right away, personal offers via push notification. You see who buys what and bring back exactly those who haven’t visited in a while.

A mobile app for a wholesale company: an installer orders products right from the job site

An installer on the job site

The way it is now

Your regular client’s installer is on a job site and calls a manager: “Do you have 40 meters of profile? What’s our price?” The line is busy, the manager calls back an hour later, and the crew has already bought from the store next door.

With Giant4 IT

Regular clients get their own ordering app: their prices, warehouse stock from 1C, search by SKU or barcode scanner, ordering in a couple of taps, the invoice and shipment status on the phone. The manager only confirms the shipment.

A business owner checks in the evening how the app brings in repeat orders and subscriptions

Income only from sales

The way it is now

All income comes from the markup on goods: sell and you earn, don’t sell and you don’t. Meanwhile clients keep asking managers for wiring diagrams, calculations and advice — and get them for free, taking hours away from the team.

With Giant4 IT

The app adds paid options on top of sales: a subscription with free delivery and early access to new products, ready-made wiring diagrams in PDF, partner ads — installers and designers — in the catalog. We choose the model for your business at the start, and analytics shows what works.

App screens: example with demo data

What a business gets with its own app

Not a list of features but the outcome: customers come back on their own, and the business gains new revenue streams.

  • Your icon on the customer’s phone screen

  • One-tap reorders

  • Push notifications instead of paid SMS

  • Rewards and a QR card instead of plastic

  • Subscriptions and paid features: income on top of sales

  • One build for both iOS and Android

  • Catalog, stock and prices from 1C

  • Orders and customers go straight to the CRM

  • Publishing on the App Store, Google Play and RuStore

What turnkey mobile app development includes

From the idea and revenue model to store publishing and growth after launch.

Discuss your app’s features
  • Idea, revenue model and prototype

    We work out who will use the app and how it will make money. We build a clickable prototype on a phone so you can walk through the customer journey before development starts.

  • Screen design

    Easy to use with one hand, in your brand style and following iOS and Android guidelines. We agree every screen with you in mockups.

  • One build for iOS and Android

    Cross-platform development: one codebase for both systems instead of two separate apps. Cheaper to develop, and updates ship on iPhones and Android phones at the same time.

  • Catalog, cart and online payments

    Search, filters, product pages, payment by card and SBP instant bank transfer through your bank. Login by phone number, no passwords.

  • Customer account, rewards and loyalty card

    Order history and one-tap reorder, points, tiers and a QR card for the checkout. Wholesale clients get their own prices and ordering by SKU or barcode.

  • Push notifications and monetization

    Order status, promotions and repeat purchase reminders via push notifications. If it’s part of the model, we add subscriptions, paid features, in-app purchases and partner ads.

  • Integration with 1C, CRM, website and shipping

    Catalog, stock and prices come from 1C, and orders and customers go into the CRM. CDEK and Russian Post shipping, and an AI assistant in the app chat.

  • Publishing, analytics and support

    We publish the app on the App Store, Google Play and RuStore and connect analytics. After launch we update it for new iOS and Android versions and keep developing it under contract.

What we have already built for ourselves

Why Giant4 IT: everything behind the app screen is already running in our business

A mobile app is a storefront on the customer’s phone. Everything behind that storefront we have already built and use every day in the Giant4 group, which sells lighting through its own online stores, giant4.ru and giant4.ae, and on Wildberries and Ozon. We connect the app to what’s already proven instead of starting from scratch.

  • 1C, shipping and AI already run in our business

    1C sync, our own CDEK and Russian Post shipping module, an AI assistant that takes orders right in the chat, including by voice — we built all of this for our own stores. We connect the app to what’s proven instead of reinventing it.

  • We sell online ourselves

    The Giant4 group sells lighting through its own online stores, giant4.ru and giant4.ae, and on Wildberries and Ozon. We see in our own sales how customers come back and why they leave for competitors.

  • Our own CRM and our own mobile game

    Orders and customers from the app go into the CRM — the whole group of companies works in our own CRM every day. And we’re currently developing our own mobile game on Unity. In IT since 2022.

  • Fixed contract price

    “From $22,000” is a guide price for a turnkey app, excl. VAT. We name the exact cost after a conversation and fix it in the contract; international clients are invoiced by Giant4 FZ-LLC (UAE).

How we build your mobile app

  1. Idea review and estimate

    We discuss who will use the app and how it will make money: repeat orders, rewards, subscriptions, in-app purchases. We write the technical specification and a full estimate, and fix the price and timeline in the contract.

  2. Prototype and design

    We build a clickable prototype and design the screens — from login to payment. You flip through it on your own phone and approve it before development starts.

  3. Development and integrations

    We build the app for iOS and Android at once and connect 1C, CRM, payments and shipping. Every week you get a test build on your phone.

  4. Device testing

    We test on different iPhones and Android phones, on weak connections, with real payments and push notifications. A stable version goes to the stores, not a half-baked one.

  5. Store publishing

    We help set up developer accounts in your company’s name, prepare the description and screenshots, and get through App Store, Google Play and RuStore review.

  6. Analytics and growth

    We see what users do and add features based on data: rewards, subscriptions, new sections. We update the app for new OS versions under contract.

Mobile app development cost

from $22,000

You can start with an MVP — a first version with the core features

The price depends on the number of screens and features, design, integrations (1C, CRM, website, payments, shipping), the rewards program and monetization (subscriptions, in-app purchases, ads), the wholesale account and the AI assistant. You can order the app in phases: start with an MVP, then add features based on analytics.

Prices exclude VAT. We confirm the exact cost and timeline after a short call and fix them in the contract.

Frequently asked questions

How much does mobile app development cost?

Turnkey mobile app development starts at $22,000 excl. VAT, for iOS and Android at once: design, development, integration with your systems and store publishing. The total depends on the number of screens and features, 1C and CRM integrations, the rewards program and monetization. We name the exact price after a short call and fix it in the contract — no hidden extras.

How long does app development take?

As a guide, a first version with the core features (MVP) takes 2 to 4 months: enough to launch in the stores and test demand before major investment. The full timeline depends on features and integrations, so we write the dates for each stage into the contract. We show you a test build on your phone every week.

Cross-platform or native development: which to choose?

For a business app we choose cross-platform development: one codebase builds apps for both iPhone and Android. It’s cheaper than writing two separate apps, and updates ship on both systems at the same time. We pick the technology — for example, Flutter or React Native — to fit the task; if a feature needs native development for one platform, we’ll tell you before the estimate.

How does a mobile app bring a business extra income?

Through repeat purchases and new paid options. The customer reorders with one tap, collects rewards and gets push reminders — free for you, unlike SMS. On top of that you can add subscriptions, paid features, in-app purchases and partner ads. We don’t promise income figures in advance: we choose the model for your business at the start, and in-app analytics shows what works.

Do I need a mobile app if I already have a website or online store?

A website is great for the first purchase: the customer found you in search and placed an order. An app is for those who come back: an icon on the screen, login without a password, one-tap reorders and push notifications. If customers buy from you regularly — consumables, wholesale, a store chain — the app drives repeat sales; if purchases are one-off, we’ll tell you so and suggest a website or a messenger bot instead.

Can the mobile app be integrated with 1C, CRM and the website?

Yes, it’s part of turnkey development. Catalog, stock and prices come from 1C, orders and customers go into the CRM — yours or our Giant4 CRM — and the customer account and rewards are shared with the website. In our own online store, stock from 1C updates automatically every few minutes — we connect the same integration to the app.

How do you publish an app on the App Store, Google Play and RuStore?

We handle publishing: we help set up developer accounts in your company’s name, prepare the description and screenshots, and get through review in all three stores. We account for store rules on payments and subscriptions at the design stage so the app isn’t rejected in review. The app, source code and access are yours, handed over under the contract.

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