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The commission leakage calculator.

How much of delivery revenue is being paid to acquire customers who already know the restaurant? A community utility. Privacy-first — nothing typed on this page leaves the browser.

Four inputs

Run the operating math.

Exact revenue and platform cost remain in this browser.

25%
60%

Operator conversations suggest 60–70% of marketplace orders come from customers who already know the restaurant.

Live result

Where the commission goes.

Annual commission spend

$90,000

The full marketplace commission at the current revenue and rate.

Annual leakage on repeat customers

$54,000

Commission paid on orders from customers who already know the restaurant.

Breakeven on the recurring platform fee

Within month one

Compares monthly commission avoided after shifting half of repeat demand with the recurring platform fee.

Annual savings at a 50% repeat-order shift

$24,612

Commission avoided less the annual direct-platform fee. Payment processing varies by provider.

One hundred dollars, two routes

The money flow.

The direct side uses an illustrative 2.5% payment-processing cost. Actual processing and delivery costs vary.

Marketplace and direct-order money flowAt a 25 percent commission, a one-hundred-dollar marketplace order sends twenty-five dollars to the app and leaves seventy-five dollars with the operator. An illustrative direct order leaves about ninety-seven dollars and fifty cents after processing.Through the delivery appDirect$100 orderApp cut −$25.00Operator keeps $75.00$100 orderProcessing ~−$2.50Operator keeps ~$97.50

Anonymous by design

Share the result, not the restaurant.

Copy a summary that contains the annual leakage estimate and an operating-cost comparison—no restaurant name or input values.

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