Cashless tips that reach couriers the through a coordinated payout workflow.

Customer tips are ring-fenced and passed through to couriers in full. Roots sets up digital tip collection and fast distribution to couriers, provided through our licensed banking and money-transmission partners. Each tip is recorded so it can be reported on the right information return.
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Payment solutions for food delivery platforms

How each solution supports food delivery platforms

See what each option adds to the way your business takes and tracks payments.

Gig Worker Payouts

For food delivery platforms: Pay couriers and delivery drivers from approved jobs or service records, with earnings and transfer status tracked together. Delivery fees and tips post to the courier's balance at drop-off. Roots builds an earnings ledger and payout flow for your courier and merchant apps, provided through our licensed banking and money-transmission partners. Workers can cash out on a schedule or on demand, and you get the tax data you need at year end.
  • Design payout timing and fee rules around your unit economics
  • Integrate job-completion events with the payout API
  • Set risk thresholds (tenure, dispute rate) for faster payout eligibility
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Instant Payouts

For food delivery platforms: Plan faster disbursements to couriers and delivery drivers, matching each transfer to approved earnings or completed work. Couriers can cash out after the dinner rush. Roots enables fast payouts through card networks and the RTP and FedNow real-time rails, provided through our licensed banking and money-transmission partners. Funds usually arrive within minutes, depending on the receiving bank.
  • Choose card-push versus real-time bank rails for your payee base
  • Set pricing and disclosure copy for any fast-payout fee
  • Implement eligibility and fraud thresholds
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Split Payments

For food delivery platforms: Allocate customer payments between couriers and delivery drivers and platform fees, using a defined rule for each transaction. Each order splits among the restaurant, the courier and the platform automatically. Roots configures rules that split each incoming payment among the parties who earned it, provided through our licensed banking and money-transmission partners. There's no manual math and no end-of-month spreadsheet.
  • Model your split rules and edge cases
  • Build split logic into your order or settlement events
  • Reconcile each party's share against bank settlement
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Tip Payouts

For food delivery platforms: Route customer gratuities to couriers and delivery drivers, with tip amounts and recipient allocations recorded separately. Customer tips are ring-fenced and passed through to couriers in full. Roots sets up digital tip collection and fast distribution to couriers, provided through our licensed banking and money-transmission partners. Each tip is recorded so it can be reported on the right information return.
  • Configure tip flows and pooling rules
  • Integrate with scheduling or time-tracking data
  • Set up reporting for payroll or

Custom Payment Integration

For food delivery platforms: Connect the payment flow for delivery charges, courier jobs and order fees with your software and the operational records behind delivery references, courier earnings and order totals. Order, dispatch and payout events share one ledger. When off-the-shelf tools don't fit, Roots' team designs and builds the integration, connecting your platform, partner APIs, ledger and accounting.
  • Discovery and funds-flow workshop
  • Build and test in sandbox
  • Launch and hypercare
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Tip Payouts questions

Questions delivery platform teams ask about payouts.
Roots helps map tip records, allocation rules and approved recipient payments. A payout partner handles the money movement.
We plan shift or earning-period references so payroll and operations staff can match the approved tip amount to each payout.
Bring your tip-allocation rules, shift records and payment approval process. Roots uses these details to plan the workflow for food delivery platforms and prepare a clear setup scope.
Request a quote for your business and the setup you need. We review the scope and costs with you before you proceed. Consultations and payment reviews are free.

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