DoorDash's marketplace is their business. Your platform is yours.
We build custom food delivery platforms — consumer-facing ordering apps, restaurant partner portals, courier dispatch systems, and the real-time order routing engine that runs the operation. Fixed scope, fixed price.
You're paying DoorDash 25–30% per order to run your customers through their brand. A white-label delivery platform brings those customers back to you, running on your data, with your economics.
Third-party delivery marketplaces solve the discovery problem and the logistics problem for restaurants that need delivery volume without the infrastructure. For operators building a delivery business, they create the opposite problem: 25–30% commission, no customer data, no brand control, and no ability to build the customer relationships that drive repeat orders without going through the marketplace's communications layer.
The unit economics of restaurant delivery are marginal to begin with. At 30% commission, most restaurants break even or lose money on marketplace orders — they participate because the alternative is no delivery revenue. But a restaurant group or delivery-first brand with its own platform retains those economics and, more importantly, owns the customer data that makes retention marketing possible.
The technology barrier is real. A food delivery platform requires simultaneous real-time coordination between three parties: the consumer placing the order, the restaurant receiving and preparing it, and the courier picking it up and delivering it. The system needs to handle order state transitions in real time, courier location tracking, ETA calculation, delay notifications, and the exception flow (restaurant unable to fulfil, courier cancels, order arrives wrong) that happens on a non-trivial percentage of every day's orders.
A complete food delivery platform: consumer ordering app (web + mobile), restaurant dashboard, courier dispatch with live tracking, and the operations console that manages the whole thing — owned by you, not rented.
Consumer ordering app (React Native — iOS + Android + web)
Menu browsing with restaurant and cuisine filters, real-time availability, customisable item configuration, cart with tip and fee display, Stripe checkout, and live order tracking with courier map.
Restaurant partner dashboard
Incoming orders displayed with prep time countdown. Estimated pickup time set by the restaurant and communicated to the consumer and courier. Menu management (items, availability, pricing). Daily order history and revenue reporting.
Courier dispatch and mobile app
Order assignment to available couriers based on proximity and current load. Courier receives pickup and delivery details in mobile app. Turn-by-turn navigation. Delivery confirmation with photo proof.
Real-time order state engine
Order state machine: placed → accepted → preparing → ready → picked up → delivered. All state transitions trigger real-time updates to the consumer app, restaurant dashboard, and courier app simultaneously via WebSocket.
Operations console
Live map view of all active orders and couriers. Exception management for orders requiring intervention. Restaurant and courier performance metrics. Payout calculation and settlement. Built on React Native for consumer and courier mobile apps, Next.js for restaurant dashboard and operations console, Convex or Supabase for real-time state, Stripe Connect for payments and restaurant payouts, and Google Maps for routing.
One honest number to start.
Fixed-scope, fixed-price. The number below is the starting point — final scope is built from your brief.
A complete food delivery platform: consumer ordering app (web + mobile), restaurant dashboard, courier dispatch with live tracking, and the operations console that manages the whole thing — owned by you, not rented.
Three steps, every time.
The same repeatable engagement on every project. No surprises, no mystery, no billable ambiguity.
Brief & discovery.
We send you questions, then get on a call. Output: a written scope with every step, feature, and integration listed.
Build & ship.
Fixed schedule, weekly reviews. No scope creep unless you change the scope — and if you do, we reprice it transparently.
Warranty & retainer.
30-day warranty on every launch. Most clients stay on a monthly retainer for ongoing features and maintenance.
Why Fixed-Price Matters Here
Food delivery platforms require simultaneous delivery of four interconnected applications. A time-and-materials engagement on a project with this many moving parts is a budget risk. Fixed scope — with each of the four surfaces fully specified — and fixed price is how you build a delivery platform without a cost overrun that kills the business before it launches.
Related engagements.
Questions, answered.
We implement proximity-based assignment with configurable fallback. The system finds the nearest available courier within a radius, assigns the order, and waits for acceptance within a configurable timeout. If not accepted, it falls back to the next nearest. Manual assignment is available from the ops console for edge cases.
Both configurations are supported. Multi-restaurant marketplace configuration includes a discovery layer, per-restaurant menus, and separate payout tracking. Single-restaurant or restaurant-group configuration is a simpler setup without the marketplace discovery layer.
Courier location is pushed to the server every 5–10 seconds from the courier app. The consumer app subscribes to their order's courier location and renders it on a Google Maps embed with a polyline showing the route. ETA is recalculated on each location update.
Consumer ordering app, restaurant dashboard, courier app, real-time order engine, and operations console typically runs $65k–$120k. Geographic complexity (multi-city launch), restaurant onboarding tooling, and marketing site add scope. Fixed-price.
16 to 22 weeks for a production delivery platform across all four surfaces with real-time order coordination.
Tell Ryel about your project.
Describe what you’re building and what outcome you need. You’ll have a written, fixed-price scope within the week.