{"id":395251,"date":"2026-04-16T13:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/395251\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T13:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:27:10","slug":"small-habits-big-bills-why-convenience-costs-more-than-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/395251\/","title":{"rendered":"Small habits, big bills: Why convenience costs more than you think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming back to platform fees, the escalation across Zomato and Swiggy shows a steady rise from 2023 to 2026. \u201cSwiggy first introduced a  \u20b92 fee in April-August 2023, followed by Zomato in August\u2013December 2023. By 2024, fees increased gradually to  \u20b93-7 across both platforms, before jumping to  \u20b910 during the October 2024 festive season. In 2025, repeated hikes pushed fees to  \u20b912-15, and by March 2026, both platforms converged at  \u20b917.58 (incl. GST), driven by rising costs and competitive parity,&#8221; said Deepali Gotadke, e-commerce consultant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coming back to platform fees, the escalation across Zomato and Swiggy shows a steady rise from 2023 to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[187768,114,187764,187758,187754,268,187765,187759,187750,187752,187766,85,187769,46,187760,187767,187751,187762,266,187756,267,187753,187755,187761,187757,187763],"class_list":{"0":"post-395251","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-budget-management-apps","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-consumer-spending-trends","11":"tag-cost-creep-explanation","12":"tag-digital-subscription-expenses","13":"tag-finance","14":"tag-financial-discipline-tips","15":"tag-financial-leakage-india","16":"tag-food-delivery-costs","17":"tag-hidden-app-fees","18":"tag-how-convenience-costs","19":"tag-il","20":"tag-india-financial-news","21":"tag-israel","22":"tag-managing-app-spending","23":"tag-online-order-charges","24":"tag-online-spending-habits","25":"tag-ott-subscription-costs","26":"tag-personal-finance","27":"tag-personal-finance-budget","28":"tag-personalfinance","29":"tag-platform-fees-zomato-swiggy","30":"tag-quick-commerce-charges","31":"tag-reduce-food-delivery-bills","32":"tag-save-money-online","33":"tag-unexpected-expenses-apps"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}