DoorDash Commission Calculator

DoorDash Fees at a Glance

DoorDash charges its fees on the order subtotal.

Fee	Percentage	Flat	Notes
Marketplace commission	30%	—	Premier partnership plan

Fees That Apply in Some Cases

Fee	Percentage	Flat	When
Payment processing	2.9%	$0.30	On self-delivery orders

What You Keep

The flat component is what makes small sales expensive. The same fee schedule costs a very different effective rate depending on the order size:

Sale	Fees	You receive	Effective rate
$5.00	$1.50	$3.50	30.00%
$20.00	$6.00	$14.00	30.00%
$50.00	$15.00	$35.00	30.00%
$100.00	$30.00	$70.00	30.00%
$500.00	$150.00	$350.00	30.00%

Three Plans, Three Commissions

DoorDash sells restaurants a choice between commission rate and reach.

Plan	Commission	What it buys
Basic	15%	Smallest delivery radius
Plus	25%	Larger radius, DashPass eligibility
Premier	30%	Largest radius, growth guarantee

DashPass eligibility on the higher plans matters more than the radius for most restaurants: subscribers order noticeably more often, and they filter for restaurants included in it.

Thirty Percent Against a Restaurant Margin

Full-service restaurant net margins typically run in the low single digits to around 10%. A 30% commission on a delivery order does not come out of the margin — it exceeds it. Delivery orders are profitable only when the menu is priced for them or the order is genuinely incremental.

Approach	Effect
Same menu prices as dine-in	Usually a loss on delivery
Delivery-specific pricing (10–20% uplift)	Restores margin, is standard practice
Direct ordering with your own site	Keeps the commission, costs marketing

Packaging Is a Real Line

Containers, bags, cutlery and labels run 3–8% of a delivery order and appear nowhere in the commission calculation. Add them before deciding a plan is affordable.

Where the Marketplace Earns Its Cut

Discovery. A restaurant with no delivery brand of its own gets orders from customers who would never have found it. The strategic question is whether those customers can be converted to direct ordering over time — because the ones who cannot are permanently 30% less valuable.

Charging to Hit a Target Payout

Adding 30.00% to your price under-recovers, because the percentage then applies to the larger amount as well. The correct gross-up divides:

`` charge = (target + flat fees) ÷ (1 − percentage rate) ``

To receive	Charge
$100.00	$142.86
$1,000.00	$1,428.57

Reducing What You Pay

• Raise average order value. The flat fee is fixed, so bundling two $20.00 orders

into one $40.00 order saves the second flat charge outright.

• Watch the optional surcharges. International and currency-conversion fees stack on top

of the base rate and are easy to miss when you price for a domestic market.

• Negotiate at volume. Most processors will discuss custom rates once you are processing

meaningful monthly volume; the published rate is a starting point, not a law.

• Do not migrate for 0.2%. The engineering and support cost of changing platforms

usually exceeds a small rate difference for years.

Plans run 15% (Basic), 25% (Plus) and 30% (Premier), trading commission for delivery radius.