Recently, the term takeaway commission has attracted a lot of attention and discussion, in fact, many people do not even clearly know what is takeaway commission, there is a certain bias in understanding, then, what exactly is the takeaway commission composed of?

Commission is also known as "dental commission", which refers to the honorarium obtained by middlemen such as dental dealers and brokers for introducing business, and it is a kind of mandatory. The way merchants work with takeout platforms, they are free to choose whether or not to use the platform's delivery service, so strictly speaking, delivery service fees shouldn't be included in the commission.

Taking the US group as an example for simple analysis, if a Beijing catering merchants want to go on line US group takeaway, total **** there are two ways of cooperation, one is the merchants choose to go on line platform, at the same time to complete their own delivery link, so the rate of 3% ~ 10%, the average down to about 6.5% or so; the other way of cooperation is to go on line at the same time the takeaway platform, but also use the US group of delivery service, and choose this way of cooperation, the rate is 3% to 10%, the average down to about 6.5%. The rate for choosing this type of cooperation is in the range of 15%~21%, which averages out to about 18% or so. By choosing delivery service or not, you can calculate the delivery service rate for merchants is 11.5%.

Since meals are non-standard items, takeaway platforms cannot calculate delivery service fees based on weight like physical e-commerce platforms, so from the early development, takeaway platforms have been charging delivery service fees and commissions together as a package, which is the main reason for people's confusion about the concept of commissions. We can understand it like this: "Actual commission = platform fee - delivery service fee". After deducting the delivery service fee, the actual commission charged by the takeaway platform to the merchant should be 6.5%.