Loyalty and ordering apps
Rewards, order-ahead and offers that work at every location and connect to the point of sale.
iOS and Android apps for Dallas-Fort Worth restaurant, retail and fitness brands, franchise operations teams, roofing and repair crews and real estate firms.
Dallas, TX, United States, served remotely from Pune, India
Quavento Technologies designs and develops mobile apps for businesses in Dallas, Texas. We take an app from idea to the App Store and Google Play: research, design, development for iOS and Android, the server behind it, testing, submission and updates. We work remotely from Pune, India, hold calls between 8 am and 11 am Central Time and quote in US dollars.
Many of the apps people use every day belong to chains, and a good number of those chains are run from Dallas and its suburbs. A loyalty app for a restaurant brand, a booking app for a fitness studio, a checklist app for store managers: each has to work the same in three hundred places and connect to systems that were never designed with it in mind.
This page explains how we build apps for brands with many locations and for the field crews, brokers and employers of the region.
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Rewards, order-ahead and offers that work at every location and connect to the point of sale.
Checklists, audits and tasks for managers and field staff across many sites.
Photo reports, measurements and signatures for roofing, foundation and service crews.
Listings, tours and client communication for brokers and leasing teams.
Schedules, announcements and forms for large, dispersed staffs.
Store submission, phased rollout, monitoring and updates each year.
If customers return often or staff use it every day. A regular who orders lunch twice a week, a member who books four classes a month and a manager who completes an opening checklist every morning all have a reason to keep an app.
Apps earn their cost through saved payment and preferences, notifications, location and working offline. For a business customers visit a few times a year, a fast mobile website serves better at a fraction of the cost.
We will tell you which we think you need. Where a website is the better answer, our web design for Dallas page describes that work.
It saves the customer time and gives them something back. The features that matter are few: order ahead and skip the queue, pay in a tap with a saved card, earn and redeem rewards without thinking about it, find the nearest location with its hours and reorder a usual order.
Everything depends on integration. The app must send orders into each location's point of sale and kitchen system, read menus and prices from one source so they are never wrong, and know each location's hours and whether it is accepting orders. A location that runs out of an item should be able to switch it off from the counter.
Offers and notifications are used with restraint. A message that a reward is about to expire, or that a favorite item is back, brings people in. Daily promotions get the app deleted. Rewards programs collect personal data and should say plainly what is collected and why.
Money and control. In a franchise system, each location is an independent business. An order placed in the brand's app has to be credited to the right franchisee, with fees and any brand-funded discounts settled as the franchise agreement provides.
Not every franchisee uses the same point of sale version or offers the same menu, so the app has to cope with variation: items available at some locations and not others, local prices where the brand permits them and locations that opt in or out of a promotion.
We design those rules with the franchisor's operations and finance teams, and build reports that show each owner exactly what the app brought them. Rolling out to several hundred owners takes planning, so we pilot with a small group, fix what they find and then widen. Franchisee support, including a way to report a problem from the counter, is part of the plan.
By putting the standard in the manager's hand. A brand manual sets out how a location should open, close, clean, store food and present itself. Whether that happens in location two hundred and six on a Tuesday is another matter.
An operations app turns the manual into daily tasks. Checklists appear at the right time for the right role, some requiring a photograph or a temperature reading. Area managers carry out audits on a tablet, scoring each item and assigning follow-ups. Head office sends tasks and announcements and sees who has completed or read them. Problems, such as broken equipment, are reported with a photograph and tracked.
It works offline in a walk-in cooler or a basement stockroom and syncs later. Results feed the dashboards described on our custom software for Dallas page. The aim is that a problem is seen by someone who can fix it on the day it starts.
A fast, complete way to document a property. After a hailstorm in North Texas, a contractor may inspect dozens of roofs a day, and each inspection supports an insurance claim.
The app gives each inspector the day's appointments in route order. A guided inspection prompts for each slope, the gutters, vents, windows and siding, with photographs tagged to their location on the roof and marked up on screen. Measurements can be drawn from aerial imagery. The report is produced on the spot and reviewed with the homeowner, who can sign an agreement on the device.
Sales teams who knock on doors after a storm use the app to record which homes were visited and what was said. Many Texas cities require permits for door-to-door solicitation and limit the hours, and the law gives homeowners a right to cancel certain contracts signed at their door. The app can record the permit and present the required notices, as your attorney specifies.
They are built around measurements and long records. A foundation evaluation involves taking elevation readings across a house to see how far it has moved. Those readings, drawn on a floor plan, are the basis of the repair plan and of every later warranty visit.
An app lets the evaluator sketch or import the floor plan, record readings at each point, photograph cracks and other signs, and generate a report with the proposed repair and price. Years later, a technician returning under warranty can see the original readings and compare.
Heating and cooling, plumbing and electrical companies use similar field apps for diagnosis, options presented to the customer on screen, signatures and payment. In a climate with extreme heat, hail and the occasional hard freeze, call volumes swing violently, and an app that lets the office reassign jobs through the day keeps crews productive.
For their own people and their active clients. Commercial brokers, leasing agents and property managers spend their days out of the office, touring buildings and meeting tenants.
A broker's app holds listings with floor plans and availability, lets them prepare and share a tour book for a client, record feedback at each stop and update the deal afterwards. Leasing teams at apartment communities use tablets for tours, applications and move-in inspections with photographs. Property managers record inspections and maintenance issues on site.
For residential communities and office buildings, a tenant app handles payments, service requests, amenity bookings, visitor access and announcements. Fair housing law governs how housing is marketed and how applicants are treated, and anything that screens or ranks applicants needs legal review. Listing data is used under the terms of the service that supplies it.
Ways to reach people who are not at a desk. The region's hospitals, distribution centers, airlines and corporate campuses employ very large numbers of staff, many without a company computer. A workforce app carries schedules, shift swaps, announcements, training, safety reporting and forms, in English and Spanish, with sign-in tied to the company's identity system so access ends with employment. It must not track employees outside work, and anything touching time recording follows your employment counsel's guidance.
The region also has major stadiums and arenas. Venue apps hold tickets, parking, maps and food ordering, and must work when tens of thousands of people share the same network, so essentials are stored on the phone.
For every app, the stores require an accurate privacy disclosure, an explanation for each permission, permission before tracking and in-app account deletion. Texas has a privacy law giving residents rights over their data and a separate law restricting the capture of biometric identifiers without notice and consent.
Discovery produces a specification and a clickable prototype that customers, managers or crews can try before any code is written. Integrations with the point of sale and other systems are investigated first, because they decide what is possible. For most apps we recommend a cross-platform framework such as React Native or Flutter, covering iPhone and Android from one codebase.
Development runs in two-week sprints, each ending with a build on your own phone. Rollouts across many locations start with a pilot group and widen in stages, with releases phased so that a problem is caught early. Calls are between 8 am and 11 am Central.
Developer accounts are in your company's name, and the code and all rights are yours. After launch an app needs yearly updates for new operating system versions and monitoring, and we offer a monthly plan for both. We are based in Pune and have no Dallas office. See also our app development for US businesses page and the Dallas overview.
Weeks 1 to 3
Users, locations, systems to integrate and business rules explored on Central Time morning calls.
Weeks 3 to 5
Clickable design of the main screens, tested with real users and revised.
Weeks 6 to 15
Two-week sprints, each delivering a build to install on your own phone.
Weeks 16 to 18
A pilot at a few locations or with one crew, device and accessibility testing, then store submission.
Ongoing
Rollout in stages, monitoring and a monthly plan for updates.
Discovery and prototyping are a small fixed-price project. Development is then quoted in US dollars as a fixed price per phase or a monthly team rate, depending on how settled the scope is. The cost depends on the number of screens and user roles, the systems to be integrated, the number of locations, offline behavior and languages. Apple and Google developer fees, cloud hosting and third-party services are paid by you directly. Support after launch is a separate monthly plan. We do not publish prices, but discovery ends with a detailed estimate before you commit to the build.
Our team works from Pune, India. We do not have a US office, so every project is run remotely with a named project manager, a weekly call and written updates. These are the hours we keep for calls with US clients.
| US time zone | Examples | Call window |
|---|---|---|
| Eastern (ET) | New York, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina | 9 am to 1 pm ET |
| Central (CT) | Texas, Illinois, Tennessee | 8 am to 11 am CT |
| Mountain (MT) | Colorado, Utah, Arizona | 8 am to 10 am MT |
| Pacific (PT) | California, Washington, Oregon | 8 am to 9 am PT, or 5 pm to 7 pm PT |
Yes. Order-ahead, payment, rewards and a store finder, connected to each location's point of sale so menus, prices and hours are always right.
Yes. Orders are credited to the right franchisee, with local menus and prices where permitted and reports showing each owner their results.
Yes. Timed checklists with photographs or readings, scored audits, tasks from head office and issue reporting, working offline.
Yes. Guided inspections with tagged and annotated photographs, measurements, on-the-spot reports and homeowner signatures.
In stages. We pilot with a small group, fix what they find and widen, with phased releases so a problem is caught before it reaches everyone.
You do. Developer accounts are in your company name, the code is in your repository and our agreement assigns all rights to you once paid for.
No. We work remotely from Pune, India, with calls between 8 am and 11 am Central Time. We do not have a US office.
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