Calculator: what delivery platforms cost you
A UK delivery platform takes between 13% and 30% of every order. For a pizzeria doing 150 orders a month at a £28 basket, a 30% rate is £15,120 a year — about what a new deck oven costs, every year.
Commission per year
£15,120
Per month
£1,260
Per order
£8.40
How the number is worked out
Commission is a percentage of the order value, so the arithmetic is deliberately simple:
orders × basket × rate = commission
What the figure excludes, on purpose: the one-off activation fee, any promotional discounts you fund yourself, and refunds charged back to you. All three push the real number up, none of them is predictable from the outside, and inventing them would make the result less trustworthy rather than more.
UK rates, September 2026
| Platform | Rate | Published? |
|---|---|---|
| Uber Eats — Uber delivers | 30% | Yes |
| Uber Eats — you deliver | 13% | Yes |
| Uber Eats — pick-up | 13% | Yes |
| Deliveroo | ~25–35% | No — reported range |
| Just Eat | ~14% self-delivery | No — reported |
Uber Eats publishes a UK rate card and also charges a £650 (excl. VAT) one-off activation fee. Deliveroo and Just Eat do not publish rates; those figures come from industry reporting. Your own contract is the only number that counts.
What the comparison should be
Not "commission versus zero". Taking orders yourself still costs card processing — roughly 1.5% plus 20p in the UK — so on a £28 order you keep about £27.38 instead of £19.60. The gap is the number worth acting on.
And the honest caveat: a platform brings customers who have never heard of you. Commission on a genuinely new customer is an acquisition cost. Commission on the regular who orders every Friday is not.
When leaving is right, and when it is not