Ele.me vs Meituan Waimai vs Uber Eats Manager

Ele.me (饿了么) is a Chinese food delivery marketplace that was rebranded in 2025 as Taobao Shangou (淘宝闪购), Alibaba's instant-retail service. Meituan is a Chinese local-services company whose Meituan Waimai app is a food delivery marketplace. Uber Eats Manager is the merchant dashboard for Uber Eats, the delivery marketplace. All three are listed under Delivery Marketplace. They differ in audience and platforms.

Key differences

  • audience

    Audience differs between the profiles. Listed by one product alone: Ele.me: Restaurants selling delivery in mainland China; Meituan Waimai: Restaurants in China wanting delivery orders; Uber Eats Manager: Restaurants wanting delivery and pick-up demand from a marketplace.

  • platforms

    Listed platforms: Ele.me: Web; Meituan Waimai: iOS, Android; Uber Eats Manager: Web.

Side by side

Ele.me vs Meituan Waimai vs Uber Eats Manager: side-by-side comparison from published vendor information
FieldEle.meMeituan WaimaiUber Eats Manager
What it isEle.me (饿了么) is a Chinese food delivery marketplace that was rebranded in 2025 as Taobao Shangou (淘宝闪购), Alibaba's instant-retail service.Meituan is a Chinese local-services company whose Meituan Waimai app is a food delivery marketplace.Uber Eats Manager is the merchant dashboard for Uber Eats, the delivery marketplace.
Best forRestaurants selling delivery in mainland China; Restaurant chainsRestaurants in China wanting delivery orders; Restaurants wanting dine-in traffic; Small restaurants that want outsourced operationsRestaurants wanting delivery and pick-up demand from a marketplace; Restaurants with their own website or app; Virtual restaurants
Pricing modelNot publishedPercentage of salesPercentage of sales
Starting priceNot publishedNot publishedNot published
Free planNot publishedNot publishedNot published
Free trialNot publishedNot publishedNot published
ContractNot publishedNot publishedNot published
PlatformsWebiOS, AndroidWeb
CountriesChinaChinaNot published
LanguagesChineseEnglish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional ChineseNot published
Number of integrationsNot published147
CertificationsNot publishedNot publishedNot published
Security practicesNot publishedNot publishedNot published
Founded20082010Not published
HeadquartersShanghai, ChinaNot publishedNot published
OwnerAlibaba (acquired in 2018; joined the Alibaba e-commerce group and rebranded to Taobao Shangou in 2025)Not publishedUber Technologies Inc.
Last reviewed29 September 202629 September 202629 September 2026

Integrations

No partner appears in every list.

Named only by Ele.me

Ele.me does not name any integrations in the material we reviewed.

Named only by Meituan Waimai

  • Dianping

Named only by Uber Eats Manager

  • Adora
  • Andromeda
  • Apitic
  • Checkmate
  • Chowly
  • Clover
  • Cuboh
  • Delicheck
  • Deliverect
  • Doshii
  • Givex
  • Lightspeed
and 35 more
  • Linga ROS
  • MCR Systems
  • Mobi
  • MYR
  • Aloha
  • NovaDine
  • Olo
  • Omnivore
  • Orderlord
  • Ordermark
  • Otter
  • Papu.io
  • Parrot
  • Paytronix
  • PixelPoint by Tecseris
  • Qu POS
  • Redcat
  • Restimo
  • RPOWER
  • SkyTab (Shift4)
  • Slerp
  • Soft Restaurant
  • SpotOn
  • Square
  • Stream
  • SWFast
  • Tacit
  • Toast
  • UEAT
  • Urban Piper
  • Winfood
  • Xenial
  • YourFare
  • Zelty
  • Zonal

Which to choose

Ele.me

Choose Ele.me if your business matches one of the audiences it is listed for: Restaurants selling delivery in mainland China; Restaurant chains.

Meituan Waimai

Choose Meituan Waimai if you fit its listed audience: Restaurants in China wanting delivery orders; Restaurants wanting dine-in traffic; Small restaurants that want outsourced operations.

Uber Eats Manager

Choose Uber Eats Manager if you fit its listed audience: Restaurants wanting delivery and pick-up demand from a marketplace; Restaurants with their own website or app; Virtual restaurants.

What we could not confirm

Ele.me

  • Commission or fee levels for restaurants
  • Merchant app and POS integrations
  • Merchant app store listings
  • Security certifications
  • Employee count
  • Funding rounds

Meituan Waimai

  • Commission rates and delivery fee schedule
  • Contract terms
  • Headquarters city
  • Employee count
  • Merchant app details
  • Third-party integrations
  • Security certifications
  • Countries beyond mainland China

Uber Eats Manager

  • Prices outside the United Kingdom
  • Countries where Uber Eats Manager is available
  • Contract terms
  • App store listings for the Order Manager app
  • Uber Technologies headquarters and size (not stated on the merchant site)

Go further

Ele.me profileMeituan Waimai profileUber Eats Manager profile

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Sources

Facts on this page come from the pages below. Prices and features change, so confirm with each vendor before you buy.

Ele.me, reviewed 29 September 2026

  1. Homepage after redirect from www.ele.me; rebrandhttps://taobaoshangou.ele.me/
  2. Merchant offershttps://taobaoshangou.ele.me/business-cooperation
  3. History, scale, coveragehttps://taobaoshangou.ele.me/about
  4. News list including chain AI systemhttps://taobaoshangou.ele.me/news
  5. Food safety label programmehttps://taobaoshangou.ele.me/news/110
  6. Rider services announcementhttps://taobaoshangou.ele.me/news/109

Meituan Waimai, reviewed 29 September 2026

  1. Home pagehttps://www.meituan.com/
  2. Founding and listinghttps://www.meituan.com/en-US/about-us
  3. Merchant onboarding and systemshttps://www.meituan.com/win-together
  4. Fees and Waimai Managerhttps://www.meituan.com/csr/industry/small-businesses
  5. Rankings and merchant supporthttps://www.meituan.com/csr/industry/market
  6. Time-honoured brand programme and customer quoteshttps://www.meituan.com/csr/industry/time-honored
  7. CatPaw AI agenthttps://www.meituan.com/technology
  8. Merchant ecosystem reportshttps://www.meituan.com/newsroom/merchants-ecology