Four answers: your POS, your ordering channel, your monthly orders and your average ticket. Out comes the three-year bill at each vendor's own published price, a grade for how hard it is to leave, and what a page paid for once would actually change.
Nothing is submitted: no cookie, no email, no server call. If you copy the link at the end, your four answers travel in the address — that is the only way they leave this page.
Over three years: $55,205 that stays with the shop. That assumes the orders you send through a metered channel come to you directly instead — by phone, at the counter, through your own link. We do not take orders or payments, so the first line is the firm part and the second is the work.
We build the page, the menu, the QR codes and the posters. We take no orders and no payments. If you need card-paid online ordering that prints a kitchen ticket, that platform is a real product and we are not it.
The grade is not about how expensive a platform is — the number above already says that. It measures the exit: what you would still have, and what you would have to rebuild, on the day you cancel. We sell A, which is why all five definitions are printed here rather than only the bad ones.
| Grade | What it means | Who is graded there |
|---|---|---|
| A | Nothing is held. The files, the link and the menu are yours; cancelling costs nothing.Own the lot: page, menu PDF, QR posters, photos. | ShopLaunch, after delivery |
| B | Nothing to escape. No platform stands between you and your menu — the only cost is the subscription itself.A site you pay for and control, or no online ordering at all. | An independent site · phone-and-walk-in |
| C | Month to month, but the site lives inside their system. No exit fee — a rebuild instead.Ask what survives cancellation, and who owns the domain. | Square · TouchBistro · Slice |
| D | A term or a bundle. Leaving costs hardware, a module, or the rest of a contract.Get the early-termination formula in writing before you sign. | SpotOn restaurant plans |
| F | The website is the lock. Cancel and the site, the menu, and sometimes the customer list go with it — while the software term runs for years.This is the grade worth doing something about before the next renewal. | Toast · Clover · BentoBox · DoorDash Storefront |
Three years, at each vendor's published 2026 price. "A page replaces" is the website-and-menu subscription plus the order fees a shop stops paying when the order arrives direct instead.
| The stack | 36-month bill | A page replaces | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Toast Core + Slice | $64,441 | $55,404 | F |
| Toast Core + DoorDash Storefront (25%) | $144,037 | $135,000 | F |
| Toast Core + BentoBox Essentials | $15,401 | $6,364 | F |
| Clover full-service (36 mo) + BentoBox | $12,808 | $6,364 | F |
| SpotOn Essentials + Slice | $58,134 | $55,404 | D |
| Square Plus + a $65 site | $4,104 | $2,340 | C |
| No POS + a $65 site | $2,340 | $2,340 | B |
Bill = POS subscription and hardware + website/menu/ordering subscription and setup + per-order fees the shop itself pays. Card processing is excluded on both sides. DoorDash Storefront is counted at 25%, the midpoint of its published 15%–30% range, on every order — slide the order count to the share that actually arrives online and the figure becomes the real one.
An audit that only flatters the thing it sells is a brochure. Three things this one does not know, and says so.
One slider counts all your orders. Most shops split them between walk-in, phone, the counter and delivery apps. Set the slider to the number that actually arrives online and every figure gets smaller and truer.
The term, the early-termination formula, the price-increase clause and who owns the domain are in a document none of these pages will show you. The PDF below has the ten questions to put in writing.
If your customers order and pay online and expect a kitchen ticket, a page is not that. The honest version of this decision: keep the ordering engine, move the page and the menu off it, and stop paying rent on a menu.
Ten questions for a vendor in writing, the exit checklist for a contract you have already signed, the three-year table at 500 orders and a $30 ticket, and where to write your own four numbers. No email, no account.
These are the three packages — the whole catalogue, not an upsell ladder. Every one is delivered in one business day and comes with the files: the page, the menu PDF, the QR posters. Payment is taken by Polar Software, our merchant of record, on their checkout page.
Prices in US dollars, before tax; tax is shown at checkout. The $199 comparison above is one Local Pack, which is what most shops need to replace a menu the platform was hosting. By ordering you agree to our terms and refund policy. If the audit says a page would cost you more than it saves, believe it — write to chonnom61482@gmail.com and we will say the same thing in an email.
No. The four answers stay in your browser: no cookie, no form post, no email, no analytics event tied to them. If you copy the link, your four answers travel in the address so you can send it to a partner or your accountant — that is the only way they leave this page, and it is your click.
Each vendor's own published price, read on 11 November 2026: Toast Core $219 a month with a $1,153 kit, Square Plus $49, Clover full-service Starter $179 a month over 36 months with the hardware inside, SpotOn POS Essentials $55 a month per station with $750–$995 of hardware, TouchBistro $119 a month for the POS with online ordering, Slice Online Growth $39 a month plus $3.00 an order, BentoBox Essentials $149 a month plus $1,000 setup on its last printed list, because BentoBox is now sold only to Clover customers. Every figure matches the vendor's page on our /vs comparisons.
One thing: how much of your business walks out of the door with a cancellation. F is a stack where the website, the menu or the customer list is the lock — the software term runs for years, or the site lives inside the vendor's system and does not survive leaving. C is month to month with no exit fee, where cancelling costs you a rebuild rather than a penalty. A is a stack you own outright: files, link, menu. We sell A, which is why the definitions are printed on the page instead of only in the score.
No, and the audit does not claim it can. We build the page, the menu, the QR codes and the posters, and we take no orders and no payments. The terminal stays — it is where the money is taken. What a page replaces is the website-and-menu line of the bill, plus the fees you stop paying on the orders a guest would have placed by phone anyway. If you need card-paid online ordering that prints a kitchen ticket, that platform is a real product and we are not it.
Because it is a percentage, and the audit counts every order you type in at the midpoint of DoorDash's published 15%–30% Storefront range — 25%. That is the ceiling, not a forecast: at 500 orders and a $30 ticket it is $135,000 over three years. Move the order slider down to the number that actually arrives online and the figure becomes the real one. The same rule applies to every channel here.
No, on either side. Every platform charges card processing through its own processor — 2.3% to 3.5% plus a fixed fee depending on the vendor — and moving the website off a platform does not remove it. It is left out of the bill, out of what a page replaces, and out of the comparison, so nothing here is inflated by a fee you pay either way.
No. The one-page checklist downloads straight from this page as a PDF, with no email and no account: the ten questions to put to a vendor in writing, the exit checklist for a contract you already signed, and the three-year table at 500 orders and a $30 ticket.
Sources, read 11 November 2026: Toast (toasttab.com/pricing — Core $219/mo, online ordering included, kit $1,153), Square (squareup.com/us/en/pricing — Plus $49/mo per location, Free $0), Clover (clover.com/pricing — full-service Starter $179/mo over 36 months, hardware included, non-cancelable), SpotOn (spoton.com/pricing — POS Essentials $55/mo per station, $750–$995 hardware), TouchBistro (touchbistro.com/pricing — POS $69/mo, POS + Online Ordering $119/mo, hardware separate), Slice (slice.com/pricing — Online Growth $39/mo + $3.00 a card order, month to month), BentoBox (last printed list, 2023 — Essentials $149/mo + $1,000 setup; the product is now sold only to Clover customers), DoorDash Storefront (published 15%–30% commission range; the audit uses 25%). Card processing, taxes and tips are excluded on both sides. Not a financial or legal opinion: contracts differ, and the only figure that counts is the one in yours.