5 Best Third-Party Food Delivery Services

DoorDash pricing for most businesses ranges from 15-30% (delivery commission on each order), depending on which plan you’re on. You also have the option of white-labeled delivery using DoorDash, which lets you integrate DoorDash with an existing delivery website. Self-delivery (using your DoorDash’s ordering network but your employed delivery drivers) and customer pickup are also options, and you’ll be charged 12% and 6% on those order types, respectively.

DoorDash offers an on-demand delivery option to use their drivers with your restaurant website or online ordering app, charging a flat fee of $6.99 to $10.99 for this type of order.

There are no credit card processing fees charged to merchants on the regular DoorDash app, but if you use DoorDash Storefront to offer white-labeled DoorDash delivery from your website, you’ll pay a processing rate of 2.9% + $0.30. DoorDash Storefront does not charge any commissions other than credit card processing.

DoorDash integrates with a variety of the best POS systems for small businesses, including Square (which is a great free POS option), Toast, Aloha, Clover, Harbortouch, and others. You can also connect DoorDash to your POS using an order aggregation service like Chowly, Deliverect (through which you can integrate Lightspeed POS), and ItsaCheckmate.

Grubhub commission fees range from 15-30% depending on how many marketing features you want (this includes a 5-20% base price, plus a 10% delivery fee). You can adjust your marketing fee to increase your visibility on the app. At higher plan tiers, you also have access to loyalty perks and promotions that drive sales, and your customers will pay lower fees.

Grubhub offers on-demand delivery services (using Grubhub delivery drivers without the other Grubhub services), starting at 10% of the order total.

Grubhub also charges businesses a 3.05% + $0.30 payment processing fee.

Grubhub integrates with many popular POS systems, including Clover, Revel, Toast, Upserve, and NCR, as well as third-party order aggregators, including Deliverect, Chowly (through which you can have Grubhub orders sent to your Square KDS), Ordermark, and ItsaCheckmate.

Uber Eats includes a standard delivery option, as well as a reduced-fee pickup option, a self-delivery option, and a white-label on-demand delivery. Uber Eats pricing includes a 15-30% delivery commission depending on your plan, or a 6% fee for pickup orders (same pricing as DoorDash). You’ll pay 15% on self-delivery orders, which is a bit higher than DoorDash’s fee for this type of order. On-demand delivery pricing isn’t listed, as it is tailored based on distance.

Uber Eats doesn’t charge merchants processing fees for orders placed on the app. If you use Uber Eats webshop, an online ordering solution that lets you integrate Uber Eats into your existing web channels, you’ll be charged a processing fee of 2.5% + $0.29 per order.

Uber Eats integrates directly with POS systems, including Lightspeed Restaurant and Toast, and aggregators Deliverect, Chowly (which you can use to connect with Square for Restaurants and other systems), and ItsaCheckmate.

You can also create your own POS integration within the system. And thanks to Uber Eats’ prescription delivery integration, Uber Eats can even be used with pharmacy POS systems.

Instacart does not disclose its fees for businesses online, and it’s not immediately clear how stores can partner with Instacart. So, you’ll have to contact the company to find out how to list your products on Instacart. Instacart does say that stores can set their own prices on Instacart and that these prices can be higher than the price they charge in person.

Instacart doesn’t have built-in POS integrations, but you can use its API to integrate your POS transaction information with Instacart to reconcile your sales data.

You can also use the Instacart API to integrate Instacart into your eCommerce website.

Drizly does not list its pricing for retailers but states that stores do not have to pay any fixed costs; you only pay a percentage of each order (similar to DoorDash and other food delivery services).

Drizly also has direct integrations with several liquor store POS systems, including Lightspeed and Clover.