{"id":942257,"date":"2025-06-30T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T02:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=942257"},"modified":"2025-06-30T08:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T02:35:10","slug":"quick-commerce-apps-stack-up-extra-fees-to-curb-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/30\/quick-commerce-apps-stack-up-extra-fees-to-curb-losses\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick commerce apps stack up extra fees to curb losses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quick commerce companies have begun adding a range of fees \u2014 from platform and handling charges to convenience, small-cart and rain levies \u2014 to customer orders in an attempt to shore up their unit economics, or earnings from each transaction, according to industry executives and analysts. <\/p>\n<p>A check across the top five quick commerce apps shows these charges, which come on top of the standard delivery fees and vary across cities and platforms, range between 6 and 30 per order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick commerce companies have begun adding a range of fees \u2014 from platform and handling charges to convenience, small-cart and rain levies \u2014 to customer orders in an attempt to shore up their unit economics, or earnings from each transaction, according to industry executives and analysts. A check across the top five quick commerce apps shows these charges, which come on top of the standard delivery fees and vary across cities and platforms, range between 6 and 30 per order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-942257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}