Zomato Rain Fee for Gold Members from 16th May! All Details
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Zomato has announced on its app that starting May 16th, 2025, the platform will start charging a rain fee for gold members too. Until now, Zomato has been offering full discounts for Gold members on the rain fee, delivery fee (under 7km) and surge fee (during high demand & festive time). Do keep in mind, a platform fee of Rs.10 is charged for all members including Gold. Starting May 16th, 2025, Gold members now will also need to pay for rain fees.
In India, Monsoon has almost arrived and food delivery partners are often found charging an additional “rain surcharge fee” during this time which ranges anywhere from Rs.15 to Rs.35 or even more.
(On a side note, if you constantly order from Zomato, be sure to use Zomato coupon codes & Axis Neo credit card if you’ve to get a 40% discount on your order)
As per the latest announcement from Zomato on its app, it seems ordering food online is only going to get expensive even for Gold member users.
Swiggy is no different either. Zomato’s perhaps biggest rival, Swiggy backed by Softbank also charges an additional rain fee during monsoon.
Explaining the removal of benefits for Gold members, Zomato says “this fee helps us compensate better for our delivery partners” but are users willing to accept this proposal? Lack of transparency of how this fee is used to compensate delivery partners is a question several users on the internet have.
Nevertheless, it is not only Zomato which is now turning back to its premium subscribers. The other day, we informed you about how Prime Video subscribers now need to pay extra for ads-free experience.
What’s your view on this? Do share.
only use it for food delivery in train
Next stop:
Free delivery will not be part of ur benefits😄
Zomato has announced on its app that starting May 16th, 2025, the platform will start charging a rain fee for gold members too. Until now, Zomato has been offering full discounts for Gold members on the rain fee, delivery fee (under 7km) and surge fee (during high demand & festive time). Do keep in mind, a platform fee of Rs.10 is charged for all members including Gold. Starting May 16th, 2025, Gold members now will also need to pay for rain fees.
In India, Monsoon has almost arrived and food delivery partners are often found charging an additional “rain surcharge fee” during this time which ranges anywhere from Rs.15 to Rs.35 or even more.
(On a side note, if you constantly order from Zomato, be sure to use Zomato coupon codes & Axis Neo credit card if you’ve to get a 40% discount on your order)
As per the latest announcement from Zomato on its app, it seems ordering food online is only going to get expensive even for Gold member users.
Swiggy is no different either. Zomato’s perhaps biggest rival, Swiggy backed by Softbank also charges an additional rain fee during monsoon.
Explaining the removal of benefits for Gold members, Zomato says “this fee helps us compensate better for our delivery partners” but are users willing to accept this proposal? Lack of transparency of how this fee is used to compensate delivery partners is a question several users on the internet have.
Nevertheless, it is not only Zomato which is now turning back to its premium subscribers. The other day, we informed you about how Prime Video subscribers now need to pay extra for ads-free experience.
What’s your view on this? Do share.