$94 DoorDash. $18 delivery fee. 6 people.
You ordered a $12 burrito. You paid $19. Group delivery orders have hidden fees that make 'fair' splitting complicated. Someone always ends up subsidizing.
The scenario
Six coworkers order lunch through DoorDash. You get a $12 burrito. Others order $15-20 entrees. The subtotal is $94. Then come the fees: $4 delivery fee, $8 service charge, $6 tip. Total: $112.
Split six ways? Everyone pays $18.67. But your $12 burrito just became a $19 meal—a 58% markup. Meanwhile, your colleague's $20 pad thai only increased to $19—a 5% discount, effectively.
The fees are proportionally larger on smaller orders. When those fees get split equally, small orders subsidize large ones. It's the salad-vs-steak problem, delivered.
- DoorDash for 6 $112
- Split evenly $18.67
- splitty — what you owe $12 burrito + your fees $14.50
- $4.17 that never leaves your pocket
- 58% markup on small orders when split evenly
- $234 lost per year on weekly group orders
- 30s to split delivery orders fairly
The solution
splitty reads DoorDash receipts. Every item gets assigned to whoever ordered it. Fees and tip distribute proportionally: your $12 burrito carries less of the $18 in fees than your colleague's $20 pad thai.
Your actual share: $14.50 (your burrito + proportional fees). Not $19. That's $4.50 saved on a single lunch order. Over a year of weekly group orders, that's $234 you would have lost to 'even' splitting.
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