E-commerce & Cross-border Stack Exchange · 2024-09-21

An open-source food-delivery platform — small cities hate the 30% cut

找开源外卖/配送平台：小城市不想给平台抽成 30%

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WhoStack Exchange · 2024-09-21 · 1 replies
The askAn open-source food-delivery platform — small cities hate the 30% cut
The openingAn open-source white-label delivery stack (ordering/courier dispatch/payments) with per-district managed hosting.

What was actually said

“A local restaurant coalition wants its own ordering+delivery system to escape platform commissions. No well-maintained open-source option exists.”
— Stack Exchange · 2024-09-21 · softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/91201/looki…

Background and pain

The pain

Resentment of platform commissions among small merchants is a real market: white-label delivery systems sold to local business associations have clear payers.

A buildable angle

The opening

An open-source white-label delivery stack (ordering/courier dispatch/payments) with per-district managed hosting.

How to validate it

Read the whole thread and note the recurring scenarios — repetition is the density of the need.
Search existing tools around "food delivery / open source" and check which single step they actually cover.
Put up a one-line landing page, share it back to Stack Exchange, and see whether anyone asks about pricing.

Existing options

自建大平台

From the thread · top comments

You may want to look at Erpnext . It will require customization but it is appropriate to the scaling of a franchise. Here's the code: https://github.com/frappe/erpnext

— Ventolinmono · ▲ 1

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