Services · The Nlyten audit

Swiggy & Zomato audit for your restaurant

Where your delivery money goes, what is fixable, and what it is worth. Written from your own numbers.

1 outletLast 3 monthsSwiggy + Zomato45-minute walkthrough

From a real auditQ1 2026 · Mumbai

Share of Zomato orders bought through ads

92.7%Bad

Pause ads tomorrow and roughly 9 of every 10 orders go with them. A healthy share is nearer 35%.

ROAS
4.06×
Repeat
23.2%
Rating
4.10

What ₹10,000 gets you

A written audit of one outlet across Swiggy and Zomato, and a walkthrough of every finding

01

Payout and take-home read

Every rupee from your own payout files, from food sales to your bank: commission, fees, GST, discounts, ads and deductions.

02

Competitor analysis

How the restaurants around you price, discount, rate and present the same dishes.

03

Menu and add-on performance

Which dishes make you money, which only sell, which nobody orders, and how often customers add extras. Needs item and add-on reports from your billing system (PetPooja or similar).

04

Ad spend audit

What your ads cost against the orders they really brought in, and how much of your business depends on them.

05

Discount strategy

Which offers you fund, what they cost, and which are worth keeping.

06

Platform health

Ratings, complaints, kitchen prep time, repeat customers and outlets that have gone quiet.

The Nlyten scorecard

Your outlet scored Bad, Regular or Best on eight control metrics we hold every restaurant to, so you see at a glance where you stand.

An 8-week action plan

Week by week, every fix ranked Critical, High or Quick win, with the number behind it and what it is worth.

45 minutes with Surpreet

We go through the findings together. The written audit is yours to keep, whether or not you work with us.

Inside a real audit

This is what the audit actually shows you

Excerpts from audits we have delivered to Mumbai restaurants, with the names and locations removed. Every number below is real.

01 · The scorecard

A North Indian restaurant · Q1 2026 · Zomato
Ad dependencyBad
92.7%

Share of orders bought through ads. Healthy is nearer 35%.

ROASRegular
4.06×

The ads pay back; nothing else is bringing orders in.

Repeat usersBad
23.2%

Short of the 40% a healthy delivery brand holds.

New user shareBad
66%

Two-thirds first-timers: every order is paid for twice.

RDGMVBad
10.6%

Discount you fund ÷ gross sales. Above the 9% target, on top of a heavy ad load.

Kitchen prep timeBad
17.6 min

Above the 12-minute ceiling; it drags the rating down.

Menu to orderRegular
11.0%

Workable, but a 540-item menu holds conversion back.

Complaint rateBest
1.2%

25 in 2,093 orders, mostly kitchen consistency.

02 · The neighbourhood

Same restaurant · 4 competitors in its delivery area · names removed
RestaurantFormatRatingReviewsPriceMenu items
This restaurantFull menu4.108,630₹700 for two540
Competitor AFull menu, premium4.503,609₹2,500 for two88
Competitor BFull menu, premium4.40966₹1,800 for two254
Competitor CDelivery only4.101,387₹250 an order496
Competitor DDelivery only4.10549₹100 an order34

An asset

8,630 reviews, 2.4× the area's best-rated rival

Once the rating crosses 4.30, that depth of reviews is hard for anyone nearby to catch.

A gap

₹700 for two sits in no-man's-land

Premium rivals charge ₹1,800–2,500 for two; delivery-only kitchens bill ₹100–250 an order. It reads as neither.

Signature dishes are priced below the market

Dal khichdi−16%
This restaurant₹279Area average₹333
Tandoori chicken−21%
This restaurant₹423Area average₹535

03 · Your menu and add-ons

Same restaurant · from its billing system's item and add-on reports

Which dishes earn money, which only sell, which nobody orders, and how often customers add extras to their order, including the extras you give away free.

Dishes on the menu
540

Sold at least once in the quarter, across both platforms.

Top 10 dishes
21.9%

Of all item sales, ₹2.9L of ₹13.3L, from 10 of 540 dishes.

Sold once or never again
236

Dishes that sold exactly once in three months; 342 sold three or fewer.

Add-on attach rate
48.7%

1,139 add-ons on 2,338 orders, and 199 of them billed at ₹0. Our healthy band is 60–90%.

One change: charge ₹40 for the free add-on customers pick most. Even if 15% stop adding it, that is about ₹5,900 more a quarter, from one item.

+₹5,882

04 · What the offers really earn

1,249 of 2,093 orders carried an offer. Stack the discount, commission and ads against the same sales:

Offer sales₹6.6L
Discount you funded−₹70K
Commission−₹1.5L
Ads−₹2.7L
Reached the kitchen₹1.7L

26% of offer sales reached the kitchen.

05 · The payout read

One month of a Zomato settlement, 1,288 delivered orders, from sales to the bank:

Food sales₹10,54,806
Packaging, paid by customers+₹33,302
Discounts you funded−₹1,04,799
Commission, fees and GST on them−₹2,54,611
Ads−₹94,422
Taxes, complaints, cancellations (net)+₹1,694
Net payout to the bank₹6,35,969
58.4%take-home, inside the healthy 55–62% band. Discounts 9.6%, close to the ~10% ceiling.

06 · The 8-week plan, in order

High

Weeks 1–4: add three combos to lift order value

Customers spend ₹558 an order against a ₹700 price for two: they buy down the menu. Combos at ₹699, ₹999 and ₹1,249 pull it back up without a price rise.

Critical

Weeks 1–8: lift the rating from 4.10 to 4.30

18 of 25 complaints were quality and missing items. Fix packaging and the top-15 dishes, then push rated orders.

High

Weeks 3–8: taper ad dependency from 92.7% towards 60%

Step spend down only as the rating crosses 4.20 and 4.30. The audit estimates ₹80K–₹1.1L a month freed for repeat customers and Swiggy.

How it works

Four steps, five working days

  1. 01

    A quick call

    30 minutes, no charge. We look at your Swiggy and Zomato together and agree whether an audit is worth doing.

  2. 02

    You share your numbers

    Three months of reports from Swiggy, Zomato and your billing system, plus a few details only you know. The full list is below.

  3. 03

    We write it up

    Scorecard, findings and an 8-week action plan, every claim tied to a number from your own data.

  4. 04

    The walkthrough

    Within five working days of receiving everything. 45 minutes going through it with you; the written audit is yours to keep.

What we need from you

The same 3 months on every file. We send you this list on WhatsApp, with where to find each report.

Swiggy

Business metrics reportItems performance reportWeekly payout annexuresAds and offers screenshots

Zomato

Business reportSettlement reportsAds and offers screenshots

Billing system

Item-wise sales reportItem-wise add-on report

From you

Menu with pricesCompetitors to compare againstRestaurant IDs and commission ratesSignature dishesFood cost per dish, if you have it

Billing system means PetPooja or similar. Without one, the menu review is limited to what Swiggy and Zomato show, and we tell you before you pay.

The audit

₹10,000

One outlet, the last 3 months, Swiggy and Zomato. Each extra outlet: ₹5,000.

Comes back if you sign

Sign a 6-month plan and the ₹10,000 comes back to you

Sign within 30 days of the walkthrough and it comes off your first six monthly invoices, ₹1,667 each. If you would rather run the fixes yourself, the audit is still yours to keep.

Free tools or the audit?

Free · do it yourself

The payout checker and calculators

  • One payout file at a time
  • Your take-home, discounts and ads against the ceiling
  • Tells you something is off, not why or what to do
Try the payout checker

₹10,000 · done with you

The Nlyten audit

  • Three months, both platforms, read together
  • Competitors' prices, ratings and menus next to yours
  • Menu, ads, discounts, ratings and payouts
  • Why it is happening, what it costs, and an 8-week plan to fix it

Audit questions

₹10,000 for one outlet, covering the last 3 months on both platforms. The first 30-minute call is free; the audit itself is paid.

Find out where your Swiggy and Zomato money goes

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