How Much Do You Charge For Delivery Outside City Limits
Business By DALIG Updated 23 Jul 2011 , 1:15am by AmysCakesNCandies
I live in a very small city surrounded for some relatively bigger ones and when the new law comes in effect i might get clients from those cities and if they want it delivered i have no problem with that but how much do you guys usually charge or how (per mile i guess) I know that the law said that you have to make the sale on your house but i read that they can mail the money to your house and than its ok that you deliver it, i will be delivering to them my self so i see no problem, right? so what do you guys think? i was thinking about $.50 per mile, would that be good.
thank you
We charge $1/minute based on the Google Maps travel time estimate.
$1/minute is round trip, minimum $20. We intentionally price delivery high to try to encourage pickups instead (except for multi-tier cakes, which are always delivered).
I do $.55 per mile. I used the IRS mileage reimbursement rate, which is $.51, and then rounded it up to $.55 for my time (although it's definately worth more than four cents a mile! lol)
Here are a couple of other threads with recommendations:
http://cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-713491-milage.html+mileage
and
http://cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-719155-milage.html+mileage
My basic advice is that you don't confuse what the IRS reimburses you compared to what you decide to charge for a delivery service. Those are two different things & the IRS rate is not a delivery rate 'limit', as I explain in both of the above links.
I do $25 per hr round trip, based on mapquest.
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