Week 6 Tutorial: Unit economics clinic

Building a single order's cost breakdown by hand from published fee schedules and commission rates

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Before the session#

Pick one order — real or reconstructed from a receipt — and build its full cost breakdown: what the customer paid, what the platform kept as commission, any discount or subsidy applied, and what the rider was paid. Cite a published rate or fee schedule for each figure rather than estimating. Bring your working, not just the total.

In the session#

Working from published commission rates and delivery-fee schedules (Uber Eats’ merchant-facing rate card, or another Australian platform’s public fee terms), the clinic builds an order’s unit economics line by line and compares breakdowns across apps to see where the numbers diverge.

Afterwards#

Keep your breakdown — week 9’s provision-mapping exercise asks which of these cost lines a regulatory minimum standard actually reaches.