Development of Mobile Aggregator for Remote Placing of Orders in Restaurant System

The work is dedicated to the development of the iOS aggregator for restaurants. The paper describes the current situation at the e-commerce market and marketplaces position on it. It was also researched key players in the worldwide FoodTech market, particularly, in Russia. The specific nature of Ru-beacon work, ways of monetisation its applications, service partners were analysed. Furthermore, the existing problems in business processes of company was identified. The object of development is the iOS application that aggregates offers from current partners of Ru-beacon in a single interface. Application MVP was developed as a part of the work. It allows users to place an order in any partner restaurant of the Ru-beacon. Moreover, an additional server was developed. The key target of it is to support aggregator operation and to simplify access to the main automation system. The program was developed in the Ru-beacon company, that creates mobile solutions for the catering and coffee, using a template-based approach. The mobile application allows the company to simplify process of connecting new partners to the system, and removes the demand to release individual iOS-applications in the AppStore for each partner.