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Delivery Fee Split Calculator

The $45 sushi pays more fees than the $15 salad.

Each Person's Order

Shared Costs

Proportional: the bigger order absorbs more of the fees.

Each Person Pays

  • Person 1 Order $0.00 · Fees $0.00 $0.00
  • Person 2 Order $0.00 · Fees $0.00 $0.00
Orders
$0.00
Fees
$0.00
Order Total
$0.00

Add orders to see who pays what

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How the Math Works

The three shared costs — delivery fee, service fee, and tip — are pooled into one amount and split across the group in whole cents:

By order size (proportional): your share of the fees matches your share of the food. Order 60% of the total and you pay 60% of the fees.

Evenly: the fee pool divides by head count, same for everyone, whatever they ordered.

Either way, largest-remainder rounding guarantees the fee shares sum to the exact fee total — pooled once, so rounding cents can't stack up across three separate fees. The comparison line under the results shows how much money the toggle actually moves, and to whom.

A Worked Example

$60.00 of food · $12.00 in fees and tip
PersonOrderProportionalEven
Sam (sushi)$45.00+$9.00 → $54.00+$6.00 → $51.00
Riley (salad)$15.00+$3.00 → $18.00+$6.00 → $21.00
Both ways sum to$60.00$72.00$72.00

The toggle moves $3.00 from Riley to Sam. On a $15.00 salad, that's a 20% swing — the quiet reason group orders breed resentment when fees get "split evenly real quick." The same dynamic shows up across every platform's fee stack; see every DoorDash fee, added up and what delivery fees actually pay for for what you're splitting in the first place.

Questions

Should delivery fees split evenly or proportionally?
Both are defensible — that's why this calculator shows the toggle instead of hiding an opinion. The delivery fee is arguably per-trip (the driver drives once, however much you ordered), which favors an even split. But service fees and tips usually scale with the order, and in practice most groups find proportional the least arguable: the $45 sushi order absorbs more of the fees than the $15 salad. Try both and look at where the difference lands.
Who pays the fees on a DoorDash group order?
It depends on how the group order was set up. If the creator pays for everyone, their payment covers every item plus the delivery fee, service fee, and tip, and those shared costs are what this calculator divides afterward. Under "Everyone Pays Separately" (Split Billing), DoorDash's Business FAQ says the delivery fee is split evenly, service fees are split by order size, and each participant adds their own tip. Details in how DoorDash group orders actually charge.
Why enter the tip here instead of tipping in the app?
Enter whatever tip you set in the app — this calculator doesn't change the tip, it just splits it. When one person pays for the whole order, the tip is one of the shared costs they front, so it belongs in the same pool as the delivery and service fees when you divide things up.
What about splitting the food itself?
If each person's order is their own (the usual group-order case), just enter each subtotal and you're done. If you shared items — a group appetizer, a pack of drinks — use the bill split calculator, which splits individual items among the people who shared them.

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