Delivery app commission calculator
Enter your weekly orders, your average order value and the commission rate you pay. See what commission adds up to each month and each year, next to the cost of an ordering website of your own. Free, no sign-up.
Platform commission rates vary by plan and delivery option. Adjust to match your current rate. Figures are estimates.
What the apps take
30% of £14,300 a month in orders
£4,290/month
£51,480 a year
Your own ordering site
£44.99 a month plus 1.5% + 20p card fees
£389/month
£4,674 a year
You could keep
£46,806 a year
The commission rate is the one you enter. The slider starts at 30% only so the calculator shows a result: it is not a statement of what Just Eat, Deliveroo or Uber Eats charges you. All figures are estimates and exclude VAT.
How the calculation works
Commission is a percentage of what your customers spend. The calculator multiplies your orders by their average value, then applies the rate you give it.
Your monthly order value
Orders per week × 52 ÷ 12 gives your orders in an average month. That number × your average order value gives your monthly order value.
What commission costs
Monthly order value × the commission rate you enter. The rate is your own input, taken from your agreement or statement. It is not a figure we attribute to any app.
What your own site would cost
Our £44.99 monthly fee, plus card processing of 1.5% of the monthly order value and 20p for each order. The yearly figures are the monthly ones × 12.
The last figure is the yearly commission minus the yearly cost of your own site. It assumes every order you entered moves to your own site, which will not happen in practice. It does not include VAT, our one-off £499 setup fee, your delivery costs, or app charges other than commission. For what each app publishes about its fees, read our guide to Just Eat, Deliveroo and Uber Eats commission rates.
What the calculator includes and what it leaves out
The result is an estimate built from three numbers you enter. It is a starting point for your own sums, not a quote and not a promise of savings.
The commission rate is yours to enter
The slider is not a claim about what any app charges. Rates differ by platform, by service and by business. Uber Eats publishes 30% for delivery by its couriers and 13% for self-delivery or pick-up, plus VAT. Deliveroo and Just Eat set the rate in your own agreement. Use the percentage on your statement or contract.
What each app publishesVAT is not included
Every figure is shown before VAT. Delivery apps add VAT to their commission, and our monthly fee is also plus VAT. If your business is VAT registered you can normally reclaim both, so leaving VAT out gives a like-for-like view. If you are not VAT registered, both sides cost you 20% more than the calculator shows.
One-off and extra fees are left out
The app side counts commission only. It leaves out joining or activation fees, per-order admin fees, paid promotion and offers you fund. The own-site side counts our £44.99 monthly fee and card processing of 1.5% + 20p per order. It leaves out the one-off £499 setup fee, so take that off the first year’s figure.
Delivery is not costed
When an app’s couriers deliver, part of the commission pays for that. With a site of your own you deliver with your own drivers or offer collection only. Driver wages, fuel and insurance are not in the calculation. For a fair comparison, use your self-delivery or collection commission rate, or add your delivery costs to the own-site figure.
How to use the result in your own planning
Start from your real statements
Take the last four weekly statements from each app. Add up the orders, divide the total sales by the number of orders for your average order value, and divide total commission by total sales for your true rate. Numbers from your own paperwork will give a far more useful answer than a guess.
Only some orders will move
The calculator compares all of your entered orders on each side. In practice a site of your own mostly wins orders from regulars who already know you, while new customers keep finding you on the apps. Enter only the weekly orders you think would realistically switch, and run it again with a lower number.
Check the fixed cost at low volume
Commission rises and falls with sales. A site of your own has a fixed monthly fee whether you take five orders or five hundred. At low volume the fixed fee can cost more than the commission would have. Lower the orders per week until the two figures meet to find your break-even point.
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Multiply the order value by your commission percentage. A £20 order at a 25% rate costs £5 in commission. The apps then add VAT to the commission, so the deduction on your statement is £6. Uber Eats and Deliveroo both work the percentage out on the order value including VAT. The 25% here is only an example: use your own rate.
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Take a lookImportant: This calculator gives an estimate for general guidance. It is not a quote, a forecast or a promise of savings. Delivery apps also bring you new customers and, on their delivery services, couriers, and the calculator puts no value on either. Check the figures against your own statements and agreements before you make a decision.
The own-site figures use the prices of Bee Compared's online ordering system: £44.99 a month and card processing of 1.5% + 20p per order, with a one-off £499 setup fee. All prices exclude VAT. We sell this system ourselves, so we have a commercial interest in the comparison.
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