Updated October 2, 2026 · 12 min
The best online ordering system for a restaurant is the one that keeps the most of each order and the guest relationship with you, without making your team re-key tickets. Below are the main options in 2026, compared on what they cost and what they include. We make Servestack, so it's listed first; every competitor price comes from that company's own pricing page, checked October 2, 2026, and linked from each comparison page.
How to compare online ordering systems
- Price model: a flat monthly fee, a per-order fee, or a percentage commission. Per-order costs grow with your sales; flat fees don't.
- Fees on the guest: some systems add a service or support fee to the guest's order. Guests notice.
- Setup: who imports your menu and builds the site, and whether there's a setup fee.
- POS fit: does it fire orders into the POS you have, or does it require its own hardware?
- Guest data: do you get every guest's name, phone and order history to market to?
- Marketing: are SMS, email and loyalty included, or add-ons?
1. Servestack: flat price, website and marketing included
Servestack is a commission-free online ordering system with a restaurant website on your own domain, two-way POS sync (Toast, Square, Clover, Lightspeed, Revel, SpotOn), SMS and email automation, loyalty, and an AI marketing studio that makes posts, ads and print menus from your own photos and menu. Starter is $179 a month and Scale is $499 a month ($149 and $399 billed annually). There's no per-order commission: the only per-order cost is card processing through Stripe. Our team sets it up and migrates your menu; most restaurants are live in about two weeks.
Best for: independent restaurants that want ordering, website and marketing in one flat price and want to keep their POS.
2. ChowNow: established commission-free ordering
ChowNow plans start at $229, $319 and $409 a month billed annually ($249, $349 and $449 monthly), plus a $119–$499 setup fee and 2.95% + $0.29 card processing. It includes commission-free ordering, a website, its own diner marketplace, and on higher plans a branded app, SMS and loyalty.
Best for: restaurants that want a branded app and ChowNow's discovery listings.
3. Owner.com: all-in-one with per-order fees on one plan
Owner.com's Flexible plan is $249 a month plus a 5% restaurant fee per order; the Flat Rate plan is $499 a month with no restaurant fee. On both, guests pay a 5% order support fee. Every plan includes a website, ordering, branded app, SEO pages, loyalty and AI marketing.
Best for: restaurants comfortable with a guest fee in exchange for an all-in-one bundle.
4. Menufy: flat fee, simple
Menufy is $149 a month on a 12-month agreement or $179 month-to-month, with no per-order commissions. Ordering, a branded site, email and text marketing, and loyalty are included. It's owned by POS company HungerRush.
Best for: restaurants that want a simple flat-fee ordering system.
5. Popmenu: website and marketing first
Popmenu plans are $179, $299 and $499 a month. Online ordering is an add-on on every plan, with a flat $1.00 per online order that can be passed to the guest. Its strengths are the SEO website, interactive menu and reputation tools.
Best for: restaurants that care most about the website and reviews, with ordering second.
6. Toast, Square, Clover and Upserve: ordering built into a POS
If you buy a POS, it probably comes with online ordering. Toast says its online ordering has no commissions, sold as a Digital Storefront add-on without a published price. Square for Restaurants has a $0 plan with a branded ordering page; online orders pay 2.9%–3.3% + 30¢. Clover's online ordering page has no setup or subscription fee but needs Clover hardware. Upserve includes online ordering on its custom Pro plan and sells it as an add-on on Go and Core.
Best for: restaurants that want one vendor for POS and ordering and don't mind tying the two together.
7. Slice: built for pizzerias
Slice charges a membership plus a per-order fee: $399 a month plus $2 per order on Family (with a $1,000 implementation fee), or $39 a month plus $3 per order on Online. Orders under $10 have no per-order fee. It includes listing in the Slice consumer app.
Best for: pizzerias that want Slice's app audience and its POS.
Marketplace ordering sites and GloriaFood
DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub each offer a commission-free ordering site for your own website (DoorDash Online Ordering, Uber Eats Webshop, Grubhub Direct), with processing fees. They're tied to the marketplace account, and the marketplaces themselves charge 5% to 30% per order.
GloriaFood, Oracle's free ordering widget, reaches end of life on April 30, 2027, so it's not a choice for a new setup.
What per-order fees cost in a real month
Take a restaurant doing $20,000 a month in online orders at a $30 average ticket, about 667 orders. A 5% per-order fee is $1,000 a month. A $2 per-order fee is about $1,333. A $1 per-order fee is about $667. A flat monthly plan doesn't grow with your order count. Card processing applies on every system, so compare it too. Plug your own numbers into our commission savings calculator before you choose.
