Sales were booming, so they had to take some points.
Cooperation was cooperation, but they had to fight for the benefits.
No matter how legendary Monster Industries was, it was parallel to the takeout platform. It could not affect Meiyu.
Of course, he would not say that out loud when he was negotiating with Mr. Ye. Instead, he would put it in a nicer way.
President Zhang of Meiyu suggested signing a cooperation agreement first. If the number of customers who bought elven maids was less than 100,000, Meiyu would provide additional technical maintenance services for free.
If the number of customers exceeded 100,000, the technical maintenance costs of Meiyu's platform would exceed what they could afford. They would have no choice but to charge a certain percentage of maintenance fees.
President Zhang explained that the maintenance fees were flexible.
Their maintenance costs and the growth rate of customers did not increase at the same rate.
In theory, the more customers who opened the elven maid's takeout account, the lower the maintenance costs would be. Therefore, the service fees charged would be lower.
6% from 100,000 to 1 million was the first tier.
4% from 1 million to 5 million was the second tier.
3% from 5 million to 12 million was the third tier.
If it exceeded 12 million, only 2% of the maintenance fee would be charged.
The maintenance fee would be charged for every transaction.
That was to say, if there was an elven maid user, the elven maid could order ingredients from Meiyu's platform according to the dishes they ordered.
Then, for every transaction, Meiyu's platform would take a maintenance fee from the merchant.
The fee fluctuated from 6% to 2%.
Although it was called maintenance fee, it was actually the platform's fee.
President Zhang thought that this plan was already very generous. For ordinary third-party cooperation, Meiyu's platform would open up the cooperation channel. When users spent money, they would take much more than this.
Besides, wool comes from sheep, and Monster Industries would pay for the fee.
？
？？
After listening to President Zhang's explanation of the cooperation plan, Ye Qing frowned imperceptibly. His heart was filled with question marks.
It was clearly a win-win project.
He had the idea of supporting the development of the domestic Internet. He did not intend to ask Meiyu's platform for a fee based on the volume. He was kind enough to let them earn more.
Why was the topic not over yet …
Meiyu's platform had taken the initiative to take a percentage from Monster Industries?
They had even set four benchmark points for Monster Industries, from 6% to 2%.
Noticing that Mr. Ye's smile was gradually disappearing, President Zhang and the two executives quickly explained that they really didn't want to make money from Monster Industries.
Instead, it was a matter of setting up accounts for smart robots. Not to mention that they had never done such a thing before, this was the first time they had seen such a thing in the global internet industry.
In this process, in addition to the software engineers having to solve the problem of developing specialized background programs, they also had to bear a lot of unexpected additional risks.
For example, if there was a bug in the elven maid's program, or if the network was unstable.
Clearly, the user only needed to order 100 yuan of fresh ingredients, but the elven maid kept on ordering until the user's balance was completely used up.
Or perhaps they had ordered cabbages, but the program had a bug and they had ordered a bunch of radishes.
One had to know that when a user placed an order on their mobile phone, they would have to choose and then confirm the payment. There would be a delay of more than ten minutes.
However, if the program placed orders from the background, the speed was only measured in milliseconds. It was normal to place orders thousands of times in a second.
There were too many unpredictable risks in this. Once there was a problem, the first thing the user would do was to look for the Meiyu platform and ask their customer service to manually correct the wrong order.
"Mr. Ye, Monster Industries is not only a great technology company, but also a legendary internet company."
President Zhang of Meiyu stood up from his chair and explained, "Monster Industries created the virtual world. Mr. Ye, you must also understand how much effort our engineers and technicians have to put in to make it easier for users to experience our products in the back corners that can't be seen by these internet users."
"This maintenance fee is not for Meiyu, but for the thousands of technicians and nearly three million riders on our platform."
After President Zhang finished speaking, the two executives next to him also quickly stood up to help explain.
They said that this maintenance fee ratio was really the lowest.
The maintenance fee charged by third parties who connected to their platform, such as scenic spots, hotel stays, and medical drugs, was more than twice that of Monster Industries.
After listening to President Zhang and the two executives' explanation, Ye Qing's serious expression gradually disappeared, and a smile returned to his face.
"Hehe ~"
After laughing, Ye Qing didn't continue to speak. Instead, he focused on enjoying the exquisite dishes cooked by the elven maid in front of him.
President Zhang of Meiyu suspected that the elven maid would have a bug when operating the order. Ye Qing wasn't angry about this.
However, they shouldn't use the virtual world, their thousands of employees, and nearly three million riders as a reason for them to draw points.
President Zhang was right. Monster Industries was also considered half an internet company.
Of course, Ye Qing knew how Meiyu's platform made money and the cost of technical maintenance behind the scenes.
Their way of making money mainly relied on the merchants' draw points. No matter what users bought from Meiyu's platform, the platform would first deduct the draw points before sending the payment to the merchants.
As Meiyu's platform monopoly became more and more stable, their methods of drawing points became more and more ruthless.
Many popular restaurants would rather not do takeout orders because they had too many draw points.
Even if they wanted to do it, they could only set the takeout price higher than the in-store price and let users share the cost.
Food takeout was the same.
Fruit and snacks takeout was the same.
Fresh ingredients takeout was the same.
Right now, they weren't drawing points from fresh ingredients enough. That was because they wanted to rope in vendors and cultivate users' habit of ordering fresh ingredients.
Once the market expanded in the future, they would draw more points than a water pump.
Of course.
How many points they were willing to draw from the merchants was an internal matter of their platform.
Ye Qing wouldn't and had no reason to interfere with them.
However, drawing points from the elven maid — no.
Because the elven maid wasn't a merchant, but a user.
If the elven maid opened a takeout shop in Meiyu and sold takeout to users, it would be understandable for her to draw points.
But now, the elven maid was the one who made the order.
She made the order like a normal user. The only difference was that one made the order at the front and the other at the back.
The payment method was the same.
The delivery method was the same.
If …
If one had to pick out the difference in maintenance cost between the front and back, it would definitely be the back end cost that was lower than the front end cost.
Take the same one million Meiyu users as an example.
If one million front end users logged into Meiyu, then Meiyu would provide all the data transmission services generated when they browsed the products for these one million users.
This data included a series of bytes of data such as the decoration of the takeout shop, food pictures, user ratings, and so on.
It was common for users to generate hundreds of megabytes of data cache after browsing around.
Of course, Meiyu would pay for the transmission costs of these data and the back end server costs.
In the end, users really didn't know what to eat after browsing around, so they simply didn't eat. It accounted for one-third of the number of orders.
What about the elven maid?
The elven maid placed orders through the back end and didn't generate any picture data transmission.
It only took up a few dozen kilobytes of data.
Every time the elven maid logged into the back end, she would definitely make an order and generate profits for the Meiyu platform.
This was also the reason why Ye Qing didn't ask Meiyu to draw points when he had the idea of supporting domestic Internet companies.
Because this back end account didn't need any technical content at all, the traffic cost of the Meiyu platform to maintain the accounts of one million elven maids was only one percent of the traffic cost of one million normal front end users.
Monster Industries brought additional customers to Meiyu and greatly reduced their server operating costs.
Monster Industries didn't take any points, but they found a bunch of excuses to avoid it. Did they want to take it back?
…
President Zhang and the two executives waited for a long time, but Ye Qing was still enjoying his lunch and didn't respond at all.
When Ye Qing raised his glass, he only drank by himself and didn't look at them from the beginning to the end.
President Zhang and the two executives were so embarrassed that they didn't know what to do.
No way, no way, no way ~
The great Mr. Ye, the Monster Industries that was hailed by the media as the most legendary enterprise of the 21st century — Mr. Ye.
He wasn't even willing to give a few points of commission?
Wasn't the special elven maid account a third party that connected to their platform?
Mr. Ye, you can't exploit these small-scale Internet companies just because you have a big business.
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
