Many small restaurants and food shops in Airdrie already deliver. Some have a family member or a part-time driver who does evening runs. Others don't deliver at all, because hiring a driver feels like too much for a few orders a night. Here is one question for Airdrie shop owners: when you take delivery orders on your own checkout, should your own driver deliver, or should OneShopFront deliver for you? Your shop starts with OneShopFront delivery. If you'd rather use your own driver, OneShopFront switches it for you, so it helps to weigh that with care. You'll also see how to set up an evening delivery menu for a commuter city. ## Why plan Airdrie delivery around the evening? Airdrie is a large city that grew fast. Its 2025 municipal census counted 90,044 people, up 4,239 from 2024 (Airdrie City View, July 2025). It is also a commuter city. The Government of Alberta's regional dashboard shows a net commuter flow of minus 8,310 for Airdrie in 2021, which means about 8,300 more people live in Airdrie than work there. Many of them work in Calgary. For a food shop, that pattern matters. Much of your delivery demand is likely to come after people get home, often between about 5 and 8 PM. Families want dinner without another drive. Your delivery plan should fit that window. ## What are your delivery choices? With your own checkout on OneShopFront, [local delivery](https://oneshopfront.com/local-delivery) works in one of two ways inside the area you set. Your shop starts with OneShopFront delivery. If you'd rather use your own driver, OneShopFront switches it for you. Each shop uses one setup at a time, and you can't switch by day. 1. OneShopFront delivers in your area. For some shops that can be an Uber Direct courier, when OneShopFront turns it on. Uber Direct is a delivery service for businesses, separate from the Uber Eats app. 2. Your own driver delivers. You set a delivery radius in kilometres and a charge of a base fare plus a per-km rate, and you keep the full delivery charge. Customers pick a delivery or pickup date, and a time slot if the shop uses them. If an address is outside your delivery area, the customer can pick up instead, or ship it if you offer shipping. Packaged goods can ship through EasyPost when the shop offers shipping. Shipped orders don't get a time slot. ## Should you ask for your own driver? Because your shop starts with OneShopFront delivery, and only OneShopFront can switch you to your own driver, look at a few numbers from the last month first: - how many delivery orders you get each evening - how long a delivery takes, door to door - how often two orders are ready at the same time - what a driver costs you per evening, compared with what you could collect in delivery charges If those numbers point to your own driver, ask OneShopFront to switch the shop for you. If you don't have a driver, stay on OneShopFront delivery. ## What do delivery apps charge? Uber Eats and DoorDash both say their apps help new customers find your store. Both charge a percentage on each order. These are the published Canadian rates, as of October 25, 2026: - Uber Eats lists marketplace delivery fees of 20%, 25%, or 30% depending on the plan, a 15% fee when your own staff delivers, and a 10% pickup fee with validated in-store pricing, or 15% without (merchants.ubereats.com/ca/en/pricing). - DoorDash lists 20%, 25%, or 29% commission per delivery order depending on the plan, and 8% to 10% on pickup orders (merchants.doordash.com/en-ca/pricing). Your contract is the source of truth, not this list. Uber Eats and DoorDash are trademarks of their owners; OneShopFront is not affiliated with them. ## What does an Airdrie evening delivery setup look like? The shop below is a fictional example. It is not a OneShopFront customer, and the details are made up to show the setup. Picture a small pizza and wings shop in an Airdrie strip mall. The owner's nephew already drives for the shop from 5 to 8 PM, and most orders come from a few nearby neighbourhoods. First, the owner adds the menu as products with variants. Each pizza has a medium and a large variant, and each variant has its own price. Wings have a 10-piece and a 20-piece variant, also priced separately. The order page and packing slip show which one was chosen. Second, the shop starts with OneShopFront delivery. Because the nephew is already on the payroll and the orders are steady, the owner asks OneShopFront to switch the shop to its own driver. Third, the owner sets a delivery radius in kilometres around the parts of Airdrie that the driver can reach and come back from in a short time, and a charge of a base fare plus a per-km rate. The shop keeps the full delivery charge. Customers pick a delivery date and a time slot, so the nephew can plan his runs. If an address is outside the delivery area, the customer can pick up instead. Fourth, the owner sets [pickup with time slots](https://oneshopfront.com/pickup) for commuters, for example 5:30 to 7:30 PM. A customer can order at work and pick up on the drive home. Fifth, the owner creates a coupon for family-size orders. Coupons can be dollar or percent off, and they can be limited by product, minimum spend, and dates. In this example, the coupon takes a few dollars off orders over a set amount for the first two weeks of November. One coupon applies per cart. Every order arrives in one admin with the items, the variants, the payment, and the delivery address or pickup time slot. ## Where does OneShopFront fit? OneShopFront gives an Airdrie food shop these tools: - Your own checkout on your own storefront - [Local delivery](https://oneshopfront.com/local-delivery) in an area you set. Customers pick a date, and a time slot if you use them. Your shop starts with OneShopFront delivery. If you'd rather use your own driver, OneShopFront switches it for you, and you set and keep the charge. - [Pickup](https://oneshopfront.com/pickup), with time slots if you use them - Packaged goods can ship through EasyPost when the shop offers shipping - Product variants, each with its own price, and coupons. The order page and packing slip show which variant was chosen. - Card payments through Stripe or Helcim, or Interac e-Transfer (Canada only, not a card payment) Starter is $20 CAD a month or $200 a year, and Growth is $50 CAD a month or $500 a year. See [plans and prices](https://oneshopfront.com/pricing). A platform fee, currently 1% per sale, applies to the merchandise subtotal after discounts, plus your payment processor's fee. For Stripe and Helcim payments, the platform fee is taken at checkout. For Interac e-Transfer orders, it is added to your monthly invoice. Signing up is free with no card. When you pick a plan, you add a card to start a 7-day free trial, and you aren't charged until it ends. ## What can you do this week? 1. Count last week's delivery orders by evening. 2. Decide the delivery radius your driver can cover in a short round trip. 3. If you'd rather use your own driver, ask OneShopFront to switch you. 4. Add a commuter pickup window. 5. To set up a storefront with delivery and pickup, [register for OneShopFront](https://oneshopfront.com/register). Sources: Airdrie City View, "Airdrie has grown by 4,239 in population since 2024" (July 9, 2025); Government of Alberta Regional Dashboard, Airdrie net commuter flow (2021 data, checked October 25, 2026); Uber Eats Canada merchant pricing, merchants.ubereats.com/ca/en/pricing, and DoorDash Canada merchant pricing, merchants.doordash.com/en-ca/pricing (both checked October 25, 2026).