What’s Groupon’s Take?

Quick Tips — By Poornima Vijayashanker on July 20, 2010 at 6:00 am

We wrote a detailed article about some Groupon best practices but we still get the simple question:

How much does Groupon take?

Groupon takes (on average) 50% of the total revenue generated from running a promotion. You can negotiate a little, like 5%, but not much.

Poornima is a software engineer and entrepreneur. She was one of the first engineers at Mint.com, a startup, which was acquired by Intuit. She graduated from Duke University with double major in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science. Poornima has been a devoted yogini for the past 6 years and competes in Bikram Yoga. Through consulting with local studios looking to improve their management practices, she decided to create BizeeBee. Learn more about BizeeBee