White Label Food Delivery App Cost: $2,799, Fixed
The ordering screen is the cheap part of a delivery marketplace. The cost sits behind it: three apps and a storefront that must agree, a settlement layer that has to be right on the first payout, and thirteen payment rails. Most offers you will find are monthly rentals, some are boxed scripts and a few are custom builds. This page lays the routes side by side and sets a one-time price against a recurring fee, which is the comparison that actually matters.
Get a Fixed Quote →See FeaturesFive Routes to a Branded Delivery Marketplace
Each route has a price, and each also has a term: how long it takes, who owns the result and what happens when the payments stop.
| Route | Typical cost | What you end up with |
|---|---|---|
| Rented white-label platform | A monthly rental, with no figures published on the offers we reviewed | A hosted service under your logo, which stops when the payments stop |
| One-time script | Roughly $250 to $1,500, with code-marketplace listings from under $10 up to around $600 | Ordering and a map, often web-view apps on the cheaper tiers, and with some vendors no source code in any published tier |
| Miracuves platform | $2,799 fixed | The settlement machinery finished, three native apps and the full source, in six working days |
| Freelance team | $25,000 - $80,000 | The screens you specified, with the commission often read live because that was quicker to build |
| Custom agency build | $80,000 - $250,000 | A bespoke platform, and a schedule counted in quarters before the first order |
Figures other than ours are market observations for comparable scope, not quotes. A rental often bundles hosting, a content network and licensing, so its monthly fee buys things ours leaves to you. We compare one-time software cost against a recurring fee and do not claim a lower total cost of launching. Anything that outgrows a ready-made platform is custom work, priced against your scope at our food delivery app development service.
What the Price Includes
All of it changes hands. On a delivery marketplace one part matters more than the others, because the commission rules, payout schedule and tax logic are your commercial model.
Nothing is charged per restaurant, per rider or per order. Nobody upstream can lift your commission rate, alter your delivery pricing or claim a share of a settlement.
What Moves the Number
The price shifts only when you add integration or delivery work, and on this platform that list is short and specific.
A fourteenth payment rail
The thirteen that ship are Stripe, PayPal, Razorpay, Paystack, Flutterwave, Paytm, PayTabs, MercadoPago, Paymob, SenangPay, SSLCommerz, LiqPay and bKash. A regional wallet or a bank rail beyond them is integration work against your own merchant account, so confirm your market's main rail is on the list first.
An outsourced fleet
The rider app assumes you employ or contract your own riders. If deliveries will go to an external logistics provider, connecting it to dispatch is a scoped integration, and its size depends on the interface that provider publishes.
Operator two-factor sign-in
Console and panel accounts use a password today. A console that can move payouts, reassign live orders and change commission deserves a second factor, and most enterprise reviews will ask for one. It is ordinary engineering, not a rearchitecture.
An external search engine
Discovery uses index-hinted database scopes and eager loading, a sound trade until a catalogue becomes very large. An external engine can be wired at the documented extension point, and what triggers it is catalogue size, not your launch date.
The pre-launch hardening pass
API origins need narrowing to your domains, browser hardening headers need adding at the web server, and session cookies need their same-site attribute set. The platform must also run in live mode. We do this with you before the public arrives, as quoted work.
iOS releases and data feeds
The Flutter source builds for iOS, but signing, store listings and release management depend on your developer identity and on a review nobody controls. Shaping the ERP read API and exports into a warehouse feed for your own reporting is likewise scoped separately.
Anything beyond the base is quoted in writing before work starts. Larger custom work usually runs two to eight weeks, depending on scope.
The Six-Day Path to Live
What happens across the six working days, in the order it happens.
Draw the launch zone and open the queues
Decide where you deliver, what you charge inside it and the cash limit. The zone is the closest thing here to a tenant boundary, so it is the most valuable hour of the engagement. On the same day your side starts the slow items: gateway merchant approval, SMS and push credentials, maps keys and developer accounts.
Your brand on every surface
Name, logo, colors and invoice layout go onto the storefront, the three apps and the console theme. Because theme, logo and invoice layout are settings rows, later changes do not need a redeploy.
Install it and connect your accounts
The Laravel application is installed on servers you control with the migrations run in order, and storage points to local disk or your own S3-compatible bucket. Your gateway credentials, push project and maps key go in, and you hold every one of them.
Write the commercial rules
Choose commission, subscription plans or both, decide the discount split, price delivery for each zone and enter the tax rules. Payout cadence, minimum amount, waiting period and week start are fixed, and staff accounts get module permissions that match their jobs.
Walk one order, then hand over
We take a single order through the storefront, the restaurant, the rider and the delivery code in front of your team. Then we open it in the console to read the commission fixed against it, change the rate and show that the finished order stayed where it was.
The support window
Sixty days of launch guidance, six months of priority bug fixes and twelve months of updates. The hardening pass, operator two-factor, extra gateways and iOS release work usually run in this window on their own scoped schedule.
Six working days cover branding, configuration, your credentials and the Android builds. They exclude store review and third-party approvals, which nobody controls, and they exclude the restaurants and riders, which nobody can sell you.
Regional Development Rates
We do not publish a dollar figure for a from-scratch build, because the honest measure is time: a twelve to eighteen month programme with a senior team. Here are the rates that let you size that yourself.
| Region | Senior engineer, blended hourly | What a 12-18 month programme implies |
|---|---|---|
| North America | $120 - $220 | The high end of any build-versus-buy comparison, and the reason most operators in this bracket buy |
| Western Europe | $90 - $170 | Comparable once employer costs and notice periods are counted, with no shorter timeline |
| Gulf and Middle East | $60 - $130 | Often the market being sold into, which makes local hiring attractive and the schedule no faster |
| Eastern Europe | $45 - $95 | The common outsourcing choice, where risk shifts from cost to specification quality |
| Latin America | $40 - $85 | Time-zone overlap with North America is the usual reason, not the rate |
| South and Southeast Asia | $25 - $60 | The lowest rate, and where a great deal of the Laravel and Flutter experience actually sits |
Why we show a rate and not a total
Any total would rest on your team size, your region and how well you specify the settlement layer before a line is written. Every estimate prices the ordering screen. The parts that take the time are the unglamorous ones: a commission fixed at settlement, payout runs that cannot repeat, split payments stored as legs, tax worked out per order, cash limits per rider, and one API keeping four clients consistent. Printing one number would mean inventing assumptions and returning them to you as a finding.
Rates are indicative blended figures for marketplace engineering, not quotes. They are here so you can do the arithmetic instead of trusting ours.
Why the Price Is Fixed, Not "Starting At"
What a fixed number commits us to
The scope is the demo. What you can open today, across the storefront, the three apps and the console, is what ships. No discovery phase can find the price was optimistic, because the platform already runs on live infrastructure.
No share of what you earn. Commission, delivery margin, plan fees and advertising rates are numbers you set, and none is routed back to us. We do not sit between you and a restaurant, and we cannot see your rates.
No per-restaurant or per-rider licence. Your thousandth restaurant costs the same as your first. A marketplace grows by adding supply, so that is the wrong thing to meter.
The limits are stated before you buy. Open API origins, missing browser hardening headers, same-site unset on cookies, no operator two-factor, database-backed search, no outside fleet integration and iOS store releases as extras are all listed here and on the hub.
Franchise networks, multi-city operators and white-label resellers with heavier needs get a custom quote against final scope instead of a listed price.
Hidden Costs Most Quotes Leave Out
None of these are ours to charge. All of them are yours to budget, and two arrive in the first month.
The first two decide whether the model works. The rest are ordinary running costs, and supply on both sides is what separates a marketplace from an app with a search box.
Who supplies the platform changes what the number means
The delivery steps, the questions to put to any bidder, the warning signs and the Flyereats custom build we delivered in 2025, all on the Provider page.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does a white label food delivery app cost?
Is a monthly rental cheaper than buying?
What is not included in the price?
How long does setup take?
Why is there no from-scratch dollar figure here?
What happens if I change my commission later?
One price, and every rupee or dollar you earn stays yours
Tell us the first city and the restaurants you already know. We will confirm the figure in writing before you commit to anything.
Explore the White Label Food Delivery App
$2,799 once. Six days. The settlement layer included.
Four applications on one backend, installed on your infrastructure and branded for you, with commission freezing, scheduled payouts and per-order tax handed over alongside them.
Talk to Us →Miracuves is an independent software development company. We are not affiliated with, connected to, sponsored by, or endorsed by Uber Eats, Talabat, Zomato, Grubhub, ChowNow, Goldbelly, or any other food delivery or restaurant ordering service.
“White label food delivery app” describes a category of product, not any one company. Brand names appear elsewhere on this site only to describe the kind of platform being built and the terms buyers search for.
The entire design and codebase is built by our own team. The product contains no code, design, graphics, or content originating from any third-party food delivery website or application.
No restaurants, menus, riders or delivery fleet are supplied with the platform. Onboarding and verifying restaurants, food safety and allergen accuracy, rider classification and insurance, and the tax and consumer rules for delivery in every market you operate in are your responsibility. All third-party names and marks are the property of their respective owners.
