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What is commission
actually costing you?
Set the sliders to match your restaurant. The figure on the right is what you hand to a marketplace in a year — against €120 for Orderzest, whatever your volume.
Paid in commission: €26,208
Orderzest for a year: €120
Illustrative only. Set the rate to whatever your platform actually charges — marketplace rates commonly land between 15% and 30% before delivery and payment fees.
You would keep
€26,088
Every year, by taking the same orders on your own link instead of paying a percentage.
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How the calculation works
Weekly orders × average order value × 52 gives annual sales through that channel. Multiplying by the commission rate gives what the platform keeps. Orderzest is €10 a month, so €120 a year, and it does not change with volume — that is the whole difference between the two bars.
The calculator deliberately excludes payment processing, because you pay card fees either way and they go to the processor, not to us. It also excludes delivery-driver costs and per-order "service" charges, which most marketplaces add on top of the headline rate — so if anything the real gap is wider than the number above.
Why a percentage hurts more than it looks
A commission is not a fee, it is a share of your business. It scales with your success, so a good December costs you more than a slow February — and none of that extra spend buys you anything new. A flat fee is the opposite: the better you do, the smaller it is as a share of revenue.
The second cost is not on the invoice. On a marketplace the guest belongs to the platform. You cannot email them, you cannot see who is a regular, and if you leave you start from zero. On your own ordering link, that list is yours and it is exportable.
What to do with the number
If the gap is meaningful, the practical move is not to switch off the marketplace overnight — it is to give your regulars a direct link and a reason to use it. Most restaurants keep the marketplace for discovery and move repeat customers to their own page, which is where the margin actually is.
If you are on GloriaFood today you are already commission-free — the issue there is the 30 April 2027 retirement date, not the fees. The shutdown guide covers that.