Seven and a Half Million Prepaid HabitsNarrow moat

Allegro (ALE) — moat facet

The only contract anywhere in this business is with the buyer, it costs very little, and it lapses if they do nothing.

Everything else about Allegro is uncommitted. Smart! is the exception, and it is why the company can talk about loyalty at all.

Smart! in Poland7,5m+subscribers83relational NPS~1 in 3of the buyer base+14,4ppof deliverycost growthFY2025 — the evidence it works and the invoice for it working
A third of the buyer base has prepaid for the habit, and every order they place costs Allegro a courier fee.

The programme passed 7,5 million users in Poland1, against 20,4 million active buyers group-wide2 — so roughly a third of the base has paid, in advance, for the privilege of shopping. The behavioural effect is the point: a subscriber who has already bought delivery treats a second visit as free, which is how GMV per active buyer reached 3 492,4 złoty and grew 10,4%3 while the buyer count did not move at all.

Allegro reports a relational net promoter score of 83 and calls it among the best in global e-commerce4. That is a company measuring the thing it most needs to be true.

The subscription also explains the shape of the cost base. Smart! parcel volume alone accounted for 14,4 percentage points of the 25,9% increase in Polish delivery costs5 — the members are using it, which is simultaneously the evidence that it works and the invoice for it working.

What Smart! is not is expensive to leave. It renews annually and costs little, so the switching cost it creates is a season long rather than structural.

Grade this on members against delivery cost per parcel. Members rising while the unit cost falls is a subscription getting cheaper to honour. Members rising while unit costs rise is a company buying its own loyalty at an increasing price.

Moat trajectory: Widening

Roughly a third of the buyer base has now prepaid for the habit, and spend per buyer is rising faster than the group's volume.

The number that tests this moat
Reported
Smart! users in Poland
more than 7,5 million

Roughly a third of the buyer base has prepaid for the habit, at a relational net promoter score of 83. Allegro does not disclose the renewal rate, which is the number that would separate a programme retaining members from one replacing them.

Source: Allegro.eu Annual Consolidated Report 2025 ↗
⚠ Threats to the moat
⚠ THREAT 01
A Subscription Anyone Can Simply Not Renew
Smart! is bought most eagerly by the customers who needed the least persuading, and Allegro does not disclose the renewal rate.
References
  1. ReportedThe programme passed 7,5 million users in Poland, against 20,4 million active buyers group-wide — so roughly a third of the base has paid, in advance, for the privilege of shopping.
    Allegro.eu selected historical consolidated financial information for Q1 2026 - the operating KPI table (active buyers of 20,4 million with Poland at 15,5 million and the international segment down 7,5% to 4,9 million, GMV per active buyer of 3 492,4 złoty, GMV of 17 293,3m, 378,0 million items sold, a take rate of 12,43% unchanged year on year, and adjusted EBITDA of 931,8m) — Q1 2026 · publ. May 2026 · source ↗
  2. ReportedThe programme passed 7,5 million users in Poland, against 20,4 million active buyers group-wide — so roughly a third of the base has paid, in advance, for the privilege of shopping.
    Allegro.eu selected historical consolidated financial information for Q1 2026 - the operating KPI table (active buyers of 20,4 million with Poland at 15,5 million and the international segment down 7,5% to 4,9 million, GMV per active buyer of 3 492,4 złoty, GMV of 17 293,3m, 378,0 million items sold, a take rate of 12,43% unchanged year on year, and adjusted EBITDA of 931,8m) — Q1 2026 · publ. May 2026 · source ↗
  3. ReportedThe behavioural effect is the point: a subscriber who has already bought delivery treats a second visit as free, which is how GMV per active buyer reached 3 492,4 złoty and grew 10,4% while the buyer count did not move at all.
    Allegro.eu selected historical consolidated financial information for Q1 2026 - the operating KPI table (active buyers of 20,4 million with Poland at 15,5 million and the international segment down 7,5% to 4,9 million, GMV per active buyer of 3 492,4 złoty, GMV of 17 293,3m, 378,0 million items sold, a take rate of 12,43% unchanged year on year, and adjusted EBITDA of 931,8m) — Q1 2026 · publ. May 2026 · source ↗
  4. ReportedAllegro reports a relational net promoter score of 83 and calls it among the best in global e-commerce.
    Allegro.eu Annual Consolidated Report 2025 - management report, business and operations (69 163,1m złoty of gross merchandise value with 68 282,4m third-party, 20,4 million active buyers, the Smart! programme past 7,5 million users in Poland at a relational net promoter score of 83, Allegro Pay financing 15,4% of purchases, Allegro One Box lockers, Ceneo and the PKO Bank Polski partnership) — FY2025 · publ. March 2026 · source ↗
  5. Reportedparcel volume alone accounted for 14,4 percentage points of the 25,9% increase in Polish delivery costs — the members are using it, which is simultaneously the evidence that it works and the invoice for it working.
    Allegro.eu Annual Consolidated Report 2025 - management report, business and operations (69 163,1m złoty of gross merchandise value with 68 282,4m third-party, 20,4 million active buyers, the Smart! programme past 7,5 million users in Poland at a relational net promoter score of 83, Allegro Pay financing 15,4% of purchases, Allegro One Box lockers, Ceneo and the PKO Bank Polski partnership) — FY2025 · publ. March 2026 · source ↗
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