How do you make sure the app meets user expectations?

Before design and development begin, the process includes competitor analysis, user feedback research, and feature prioritization. Reviews of similar apps and their ratings help identify common usability issues and feature gaps. These insights guide the user flows, interface design, and feature set, reducing the risk of building something users won’t adopt.

Do you provide both iOS and Android app development services?

Yes. Mobile app development teams typically support both iOS and Android platforms, depending on your audience, business goals, and technical requirements. Some products benefit from fully native iOS or Android app development, while others are better suited to cross-platform solutions. The choice is usually based on performance needs, time to market, and long-term maintenance strategy.

When should I choose Flutter or cross-platform app development?

Flutter app development is often a good option when you want to launch on both iOS and Android with a shared codebase. It can reduce development time and maintenance costs while still delivering a consistent user experience across platforms. Cross-platform solutions are especially useful for MVPs, internal tools, and products that need to reach multiple platforms quickly.

Can AI features be integrated into a mobile app?

Yes. Many companies now add AI features to their mobile apps to improve automation, personalization, or decision-making. Common examples include recommendation engines, chat assistants, document or image recognition, and predictive analytics. At Globaldev, AI functionality is introduced only where it delivers measurable value, and it’s tested in real product scenarios before being added to the app.

Is it better to outsource mobile app development or build an in-house team?

Outsourcing mobile app development is often faster and more cost-effective than building a full in-house team, especially for companies without existing engineering departments. It allows businesses to access experienced mobile app developers, designers, and QA specialists without long hiring cycles. Many organizations use outsourcing for full product development or as an extension of their internal teams.

Can you modernize or rebuild an existing mobile app?

Yes. Many companies approach Globaldev’s mobile app development services not for new products, but to modernize outdated applications. This may include redesigning the interface, improving performance, migrating to a new architecture, or adding new features such as AI-powered automation. App modernization helps extend the product’s lifecycle and improve user satisfaction without starting from scratch.

What does it cost to develop a mobile app?

The cost of mobile app development highly depends on the app’s complexity, supported platforms, integrations, and required features. A simple MVP usually costs significantly less than a complex, enterprise-grade application with advanced security, analytics, or third-party integrations. During the discovery phase, the team defines the scope and priorities to provide a realistic estimate and avoid unexpected costs later in the project.

Custom eCommerce development services

Launch smarter eCommerce software with proven engineering

We design and develop custom eCommerce systems that connect storefronts, payments, inventory, logistics, and analytics. From new marketplace launches to enterprise system modernization, we turn complex ideas into working software.

Globaldev retail & eCommerce software development services

Build eCommerce software solutions that fulfill your operational needs, convert new audiences, and keep loyalty high.

360° eCommerce platform development

Develop complete eCommerce platforms tailored to your business model. As an experienced eCommerce development company, we build everything from storefront and checkout experiences to backend systems that manage orders, payments, inventory, and more across channels.

eCommerce AI solutions

Apply machine learning to improve merchandising, pricing, and operations. We develop such AI tools for eCommerce as demand forecasting, promotion optimization, personalized product recommendations, checkout behavior analytics, and conversational customer support.

eCommerce system modernization

Legacy platforms limit innovation and growth. Our custom eCommerce software development teams modernize existing systems by refactoring monolithic architectures, improving performance, and introducing modular services for payments, promotions, inventory, and fulfillment that can evolve without disrupting the entire platform.

Mobile eCommerce & PWA development

Create mobile shopping experiences that extend beyond your website. Our eCommerce software developers engineer native apps and progressive web apps with features like digital loyalty cards, tailored promotions, shopping lists, barcode price checks, push notifications, and mobile-first checkout.

Marketplace & multi-vendor platforms

Launch scalable vendor ecosystems with our marketplace development services. We build platforms with vendor onboarding, product catalog governance, commission management, and supplier order workflows.

Payment & fraud management systems

Implement secure and flexible payment infrastructures including BNPL integrations, multi-bank checkout, subscription billing, B2B payment automation, fraud detection, and age or identity verification workflows.

Third-party integrations

Connect your platform with critical business systems such as ERP, CRM, POS, WMS, and logistics providers. Our eCommerce developers implement integrations for real-time inventory sync, external carrier connections, supplier order routing, and unified customer data.

Headless & composable commerce solutions

Adopt flexible architectures that allow your storefront, checkout, and backend systems to evolve independently. We build headless commerce platforms powered by APIs that support omnichannel experiences across web, mobile, and in-store touchpoints.

Our eCommerce and retail software development experience in numbers

8.2+M

users rely on solutions developed by Globaldev

15+

years delivering eCommerce software development

80%

of new clients come through referrals

450+

technology and product specialists

eCommerce and retail businesses that work with Globaldev

Marketplace & platform businesses Manufacturers & distributors Consumer & industrial brands Multi-location & retail chains

Grow your marketplace while keeping a tight rein on operations. As platforms expand, vendor onboarding, catalog governance, payments, and supplier order routing quickly become complex. We help marketplace operators build systems that automate vendor workflows, coordinate fulfillment partners, and maintain visibility across thousands of products and transactions.

eCommerce challenges we tackle with you

Architecture that blocks growth

Many commerce systems were built for an earlier stage of the business. Over time, new integrations, payment providers, loyalty tools, and custom features accumulate, making updates slow and risky. Teams spend more time maintaining the platform than evolving it. As an eCommerce development company, we help clients modernize their architecture so new capabilities can be introduced without disrupting core operations.

Disconnected commerce operations

Retail teams often manage inventory, logistics, suppliers, storefronts, and customer data across multiple disconnected tools. Store inventory may not match online availability, supplier orders may be routed manually, and delivery decisions require workarounds. Connecting these operations allows inventory, fulfillment, and sales channels to stay synchronized across online and physical retail.

Low conversion and revenue leakage

When shoppers can buy similar products from multiple retailers, the experience often determines where they complete the purchase. Difficult product discovery, lengthy checkout flows, limited payment options, or broken loyalty programs introduce friction that sends customers to competitors. Globaldev eCommerce software developers will help you simplify the purchasing journey, improve retention strategies, and turn more visits into completed purchases.

AI initiatives failing due to poor data layer

If you want to successfully implement AI tools for eCommerce into your system, you must ensure that the data infrastructure is ready. Customer information may live in separate systems, inventory data may be inconsistent, and analytics pipelines may not produce reliable insights. We have expertise in consolidating these data sources, establishing reliable data pipelines, and building a unified data layer, supporting analytics, automation, and AI-driven capabilities.

Enhance your software with eCommerce AI tools

Turn commerce data into actionable decisions. We implement AI tools that help retailers predict demand, personalize offers, optimize pricing, and improve the shopping experience.

Demand prediction

We build demand forecasting systems that analyze historical sales data, seasonality patterns, promotional activity, and regional purchasing behavior to anticipate product demand across channels. These models are integrated directly into the commerce platform and inventory services, allowing retailers to allocate stock between warehouses and stores more intelligently, plan replenishment cycles, and coordinate fulfillment operations. Our teams also connect forecasting outputs with reporting dashboards and eCommerce analytics tools so operational teams can monitor trends and adjust planning strategies in real time.

Promotion personalization

Promotion engines analyze purchase history, browsing behavior, loyalty program activity, and shopper segmentation data to determine which offers resonate with specific audiences. Instead of broadcasting the same discount to every shopper, retailers can trigger targeted campaigns based on real behavioral signals. We integrate these systems with marketing platforms and customer profiles to enable eCommerce personalization, allowing promotions to adapt dynamically as customers interact with products and campaigns.

Smart pricing logic

Our teams implement pricing engines that continuously evaluate demand signals, competitor pricing data, product performance metrics, and margin targets. The system can recommend price adjustments, promotion timing, or discount strategies based on current market conditions and product demand. These models are integrated with catalog services and reporting dashboards, enabling retailers to test and refine pricing strategies using dynamic pricing tools without interrupting daily commerce operations.

AI-assisted merchandising

We develop systems that analyze product performance, search queries, browsing behavior, and purchase patterns to determine which products should be promoted across the storefront. These insights help retailers highlight relevant products, create effective cross-sell bundles, and improve product discovery with personalized product recommendations.

Automated supplier order routing

We implement intelligent fulfillment logic that determines the most efficient supplier, warehouse, or store to process incoming orders. The system evaluates inventory availability, geographic proximity, logistics constraints, and delivery timelines before automatically routing the order to the appropriate fulfillment partner. These workflows integrate with supplier systems, warehouse management platforms, and order orchestration services to speed up large-scale fulfillment operations.

Checkout customer behavior analytics

Checkout analytics systems monitor how shoppers move through the purchasing funnel, capturing signals such as page load performance, payment failures, shipping option selection, and abandonment patterns. By analyzing these behavioral insights, you can identify exactly where friction appears during checkout and what changes will have the greatest impact. These insights help teams refine checkout flows and remove obstacles that prevent shoppers from completing purchases.

Conversational customer support

Offer immediate assistance to your customers while reducing pressure on support teams. Globaldev creates custom AI virtual assistants that guide users through product discovery, answer common questions, and assist with order management directly within the storefront or mobile application. These assistants connect with product catalogs, order management systems, and customer accounts, allowing them to provide contextual responses and assist with routine service requests.

AI-ready commerce data foundation

AI systems depend on reliable operational data from across your systems. We have expertise in designing data foundations that connect customer profiles, fulfillment workflows, inventory systems, and loyalty programs into a unified data layer. When you integrate inventory sync, customer identity across channels, delivery orchestration, and loyalty segmentation, your AI tools will feed on the latest, most accurate information, therefore, supporting smarter business decisions.

Our eCommerce technology stack

Commerce platforms

Magento / Adobe Commerce

Odoo

Custom WMS / ORS / CMS

Mobile commerce

iOS (Swift)

Android (Kotlin)

Firebase

GraphQL / REST

Frontend

React

Vue

Node.js

Next.js

Gatsby

Cloud & devOps

AWS / Azure / GCP

Docker

GitLab / Jenkins

SonarQube

Zabbix

Performance & data

Elasticsearch

Redis

RabbitMQ

Galera Cluster

Varnish

PostgreSQL

Integrations

Payment gateways

CDP

Salesforce CRM

Comarch ERP / Loyalty

Extenda Retail POS

Flexible engagement options for eCommerce development

Dedicated teams

Best suited for companies building or evolving complex platforms over time. A dedicated eCommerce software development team works as an extension of your organization, focusing exclusively on your product roadmap. This model works well for long-term development initiatives such as building a commerce platform, modernizing legacy systems, or continuously expanding digital capabilities

Staff augmentation

Ideal when your internal team needs additional expertise to accelerate development. We provide experienced eCommerce developers, AI experts, designers, business analysts, or QA engineers who integrate directly into your existing workflow and collaborate with your internal team. This model is often used when launching new features, expanding development capacity, or introducing specialized technical expertise.

Full-cycle development

Designed for companies that want a technology partner to take responsibility for the entire development process. Our teams handle everything from architecture and development to testing and delivery, ensuring the platform is built according to the project’s goals and technical requirements. This model is often used for launching new products or building custom commerce platforms from scratch.

Related case studies

Building the digital infrastructure behind Auchan’s eCommerce operations

Helping Columbus Coffee modernize customer loyalty with a mobile app

What makes Globaldev a trusted eCommerce development company

Enterprise complexity experience

Large eCommerce software solutions involve tens of thousands of products, multiple suppliers, and high transaction volumes. Globaldev engineers design systems that remain reliable under these conditions, supporting integrations, performance requirements, and evolving business models.

Long-term technical partner

Our average client relationship lasts around three years, and several partnerships have continued for more than a decade. Instead of delivering isolated projects, our teams support commerce platforms as they evolve, introducing new capabilities, modernizing architecture, and helping businesses scale their digital operations over time.

Deep integration expertise

Modern commerce platforms operate as ecosystems rather than single applications. Payments, logistics, supplier systems, and customer platforms all exchange data continuously. Our teams design integration architectures that keep these services connected without creating fragile dependencies that slow down future development.

Practical innovation with eCommerce AI

Innovation at Globaldev is driven by our Global AI Lab, where teams explore emerging technologies and develop internal AI prototypes. We test capabilities such as product demand forecasting, checkout behavior analysis, pricing optimization, and conversational AI assistants before introducing them into client platforms.

Client perspectives on our work

Auchan
Innovation and Client Director
All our demands to online store & mobile application development have been met in full. The objective was to create an application for various unique marketing purposes, in line with making things easier for our shopping clients. The project was a big challenge, we should admit. Nevertheless, the contractor managed to assign a specific working group, which was individually tailored to our needs. We believe that our investment in remote software development services by Globaldev is already paying off. And we would recommend this company for future reference.
Tranxactor Group
CEO
We hired Globaldev to help build out Subway’s European loyalty app. Globaldev's work meets the mark, and the app performs well on the iOS and Android stores. The team is professional, organized, and on top of the ball. They always make a concerted effort to fully understand the requirements for their assignments. Globaldev is a reliable vendor that always delivers.
Beverage manufacturing company
eCommerce specialist
The services provided by Globaldev were related to app software and backend development. While working with them, we felt that they cared about the project as much as we did. This is what makes us confident in the success of the project. Also, with their experience in software development, they were able to give good advice on the UX side of the project. We received many good ideas on the visual design of the software that was implemented.