Free tool
Delivery fee split calculator
Everyone added their own food to the cart — then the delivery fee, service fee, and tip landed on one person. Enter each order and the fees, and see both ways to split them: proportional to order size, or evenly per head.
Proportional: the bigger order absorbs more of the fees.
All the math happens in your browser. Nothing you type leaves this page — no account, no sign-up, no server.
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
| Person | Order | Proportional | Even |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
FAQ
Delivery Fee Split Calculator questions
01 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.
02 Who pays the fees on a DoorDash group order?
By default, the host. Even when everyone "pays separately" through the app, DoorDash routes the delivery fee, service fee, and tip to the person who created the group order — on a six-person order that's typically $10–15 one person silently absorbs. The fix is to split those shared costs after the fact, which is what this calculator is for. Details in how DoorDash group orders actually charge.
03 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. Tips on delivery orders are one of the shared costs the host fronts, so they belong in the same pool as the delivery and service fees when you divide things up.
04 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.
splitty does this from a photo of the receipt
Same math — shared items among sharers, tax and tip proportional — without typing a single line item. Point your phone at the check; 30 seconds, done.
