If you're wondering "How to write an App specification document?" then this page and its Free Sample App Specs Document download is for you.
The Executive Summary.
No matter how clichéd it sounds, you should be writing an appropriate summary covering the business information about the project, the team behind, the market you are hitting etc. Introduce the salient offering of the app, its goal, and information on target users. Below are some of the key points that you should follow in the executive summary section
Introduction of Application
You can write as “We are looking to develop a taxi app like uber but with a twist related to the occasion of travel, and we are targeting everyone in New York area at first so that they can book cars for occasions like wedding, birthday parties, business meetings, leisure etc and the driver and cab would be tailor-made for the occasion.”
Brief Introduction of Your Startup, Experience, Founders
Tell others what you are up to, are you funding privately or have raised a seed, experience of co-founders, long and short term vision of the startup. Consider you are hiring not just an App Development Company, but a team that should be knowing you and feel confident and glad to be a part.
Decision Maker’s Contact Details
Well, it’s as simple as it can get. Write something like:- Please email your proposal or questions to Mr John Smith, following are their contact details
+91-9540620830
info@tyranosoftwares.com
Stellar Jeevan Greater Noida, India
Services Needed from the App Development Company.
An App development Company like our's (Tyrano Softwares) could offer a lot more than just coding services that can be related to your requirement like
App Design & Development services.
App Development Services.
App Design Services.
App Store Optimization, App marketing.
Full Stack Development.
Consulting Services.
Most of our first-time customers need all the services, and we happily offer the same. Although no one is stopping you from getting a custom service from our side.
Technology Preference.
It’s always good to keep technology preference open to discussion before you’ve finalized your specs though many times an app publisher is pre-convinced to use a particular set of technology. Some most popular Technical Approaches related to app development are:
Native App Development
In this type of technical approach you use native tool kits like Xcode and Swift for iOS, or Java for Android.
Hybrid App Development
Here you use a combination of native and cross-platform tools
Cross-Platform Development
This type of development is done using tools like Xamarin, Ionic, Cordova, Unity, Phonegap.
Note: Every technology approach has its pros and cons, you may read one of our cool blog postings on the same topic at this link – Cross Platform Vs. Native App Development and decide which way is preferred to you, else just share your project info with us and we suggest you the best option.
Features Description (The Core of This App Specs Document).
Describe the app as it flows for all kind of users, like the way we are describing a live App (Barnow Experience; It is an iOS based Application) here
The App Shall Be Having These Categories of Users
End users (People looking to find, review, and go to bars).
Bar Owners (who maintain their profile, send offers etc).
Functionality for End User
Sign up using Facebook, Google, and Phone.
Allows permission to access camera, photo, contacts.
App would capture age (should be minimum 21 years), gender, email ID and phone number of party-goers.
On feeds page, there shall be an icon that says GO LOVE and with this icon party goers will have the ability to post a 10 second video of them while they are in that specific bar and once they have that video they shall post it to their feed so that way it is another way to show users what is going on in real-time in that bar.
Functionality of Website for Bar Owners
Signup, registration after authentication (via email ID or phone number).
Bars will have their profile page that they can update their info (name, contact person, email, Twitter/ Facebook, location on map, pictures, description, speciality).
Bars will have the ability to post pics of their flyer, happy hour specials, any post they want to saying getting people in for the night, videos of past performers that will be returning soon etc.
Admin features
Ability to moderate users and bar owners.
Logs into username/ password secured, admin portal on any browser, and see user analytics (number of users on the app, new downloads, their email IDs/ contact details).
Mock-ups or Drawings to Depict the Flow.
It is great if you can back your textual description with some drawings or raw mock-ups so that a developer can visualize it better. You can use tools like Invision , Balsamiq, or Mockups with little a little practice, or ask your App Development Company to do this for you. We generally do this for our customers just after taking a brief.
What is Acceptance Criteria?
An acceptance criteria are the conditions that a particular app in development must fulfil. It can cater towards the clients itself, the platform for which it is made, and most importantly the target audience.
Scope of the Features
These are all the mandatory features that your application should have. It ensures that you are meeting the market demand of a standard application in its niche.
Errors Lot of initial builds of any application has multiple bugs. Although, there are certain errors that aren’t accepted. For instance, a crashing application or your application getting stuck on a particular screen.
Communications The more precise information is imparted regarding the application, the easier it is for the developer to develop your application.
Setting a Criterion It is essential that you set up a criteria for each important feature for acceptance.
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