ChatAPIBuild a food delivery app without code
Menus, checkout, live order updates, and delivery maps — wired together and live in hours.
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How do you build a food delivery app without code?
A food delivery app is a handful of familiar parts: a menu and cart, a way to take payment, order status updates, and a map so drivers and customers know where things are. Those parts already exist as APIs. Describe your delivery app to ChatAPI and it assembles them into one working product — no engineering team, no months of dev time.
“A food ordering app for a group of local restaurants. Customers browse menus, pay at checkout, and get SMS updates as their order is cooked and out for delivery. Drivers see the delivery address on a map.”
What ChatAPI wires together
Real APIs, connected with just enough glue code to behave like one product.
Take card payments at checkout on your own Stripe account
Send SMS order confirmations and 'out for delivery' updates
Delivery addresses, driver routing, and live tracking
Accounts for customers, restaurants, and drivers
Menus, orders, and order status in realtime
Email receipts and order history
What your MVP includes
- A browsable menu with a cart and Stripe checkout
- Live order status from placed to delivered
- SMS updates at each stage of the order
- A delivery map with addresses and routing
- Separate views for customers, restaurants, and drivers
Questions founders ask
Can drivers see where to deliver?
Yes. ChatAPI wires Google Maps so each order shows the delivery address and route, and customers can track status in realtime.
Do I take a cut of each order?
If you want a marketplace model, ChatAPI can wire Stripe to split payments — the restaurant gets paid and your platform fee is taken automatically.
Whose Stripe and Twilio accounts does it use?
Yours. You bring your own credentials, so payments and messaging stay under your accounts — ChatAPI never sits in the middle.
Keep exploring
Build a food delivery app with a specific API
- Stripe
Take card payments at checkout on your own Stripe account
- Plaid
Use Plaid to let customers link their bank account in your food delivery app.
- PayPal
Use PayPal to take payments at checkout in your food delivery app.
- Twilio
Send SMS order confirmations and 'out for delivery' updates
- SendGrid
Use SendGrid to send transactional email in your food delivery app.
- Resend
Email receipts and order history
- Postmark
Use Postmark to send transactional email in your food delivery app.
- Clerk
Accounts for customers, restaurants, and drivers
- Auth0
Use Auth0 to offer single sign-on (SSO) in your food delivery app.
- Convex
Menus, orders, and order status in realtime
- Supabase
Use Supabase to use a Postgres database in your food delivery app.
- Google Maps
Delivery addresses, driver routing, and live tracking
- Mapbox
Use Mapbox to show interactive maps in your food delivery app.
APIs in this build
- Stripe
Recommended. Recurring + one-time payments. Use your own Stripe account — your end-users see your brand on checkout.
- Twilio
SMS, voice, WhatsApp messaging.
- Google Maps
Maps, places, geocoding.
- Clerk
Drop-in auth, user management, organizations.
- Convex
Realtime backend & database.
- Resend
Developer-first transactional email.
Describe it. Ship it.
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