Every drink with its sizes, its milk options and its decaf note. Today's single origin. The bread that comes out at 8am. Your hours, a tap-to-call button, one-tap directions, your Instagram and your ordering link — on one page you own. No subscription. No commission on a drink you sold. A register with online ordering runs $219 a month at Toast; a café selling $6 lattes can do the arithmetic faster than anyone.
All three also take card processing on every payment, and none of them removes it. The line this page is about is the subscription — the part a café pays in a bad month and a good one. The three-year math →
If you are looking for a Toast or Square alternative for a coffee shop, the honest split is this: those are registers, and you may well need one. The page a customer reads at 7am — what the filter is today, whether the oat milk is extra, whether the bread is out — is a different thing, and it is the part a café keeps renting by the month.
| For one café | Monthly | 3 years | What the money buys |
|---|---|---|---|
| Toast Basic — Traditional, plus $1,153 kit | $69 | $3,637 | Register, reports, no online ordering, no website |
| Toast Core — adds online ordering, plus kit | $219 | $9,037 | Online ordering and the DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub integrations |
| Toast Growth — first pack with a website | $578 | $21,961 | Website, gift cards, loyalty, SMS and email marketing |
| Toast Core on Pay-as-you-Go — $0 software, $0 kit | $0 | $0 | Then 3.39% + 15¢ on every card payment instead; 3.69% on Growth |
| Square Free — ordering page included | $0 | $0 | Register, online ordering page, 2.6% + 15¢ in person |
| Square Plus — per location | $49 | $1,764 | Inventory, close-of-day reporting, ordering page; KDS app $30 |
| Square Premium — per location | $149 | $5,364 | Coursing, seat management, 24/7 phone support |
| BentoBox Essentials — last list, 2023 | $149 | $6,364 | Website plus $1,000 setup, and only if you already run Clover |
| ShopLaunch Local Pack — the page, the menu, the QR stands | $0$199 once | $199 | The menu page itself, built for you, paid once. No register, no card processing, no commission |
Three years of the subscription only, at the vendor's own November 2026 price, before tax and before card processing. Square's ordering page and Toast's website arrive at different tiers, which is why both rows are shown. Square Pro is a custom quote above $250,000 a year in processing and is not compared here.
A restaurant can hide a $219 subscription inside a $90 table. A café cannot. Take a $6.00 drink with about 30% in milk, cup and beans — roughly $4.20 left per drink before rent and wages:
The 30% cost of goods is an assumption, not a published figure — substitute your own and the shape does not change. On $8 tickets or a 25% cost of goods the drink count falls; on a $5 ticket it rises. Card processing is excluded on both sides because it is paid either way.
This is the line café owners notice after the fact. Marketplaces charge 15–30% of the ticket, and a $6 drink has no room in it:
No page removes a delivery commission, and this one does not pretend to. What it does is give the customer a direct way to find you, read the menu and walk in or call — the channel where nobody takes a percentage. If delivery is a real part of your week, keep the app and price the drink for it.
Toast charges per pack and ties you to two years; Square is cheap and wants you in its editor; BentoBox is no longer sold without a Clover register. Each has its own page with that vendor's 2026 prices and an honest answer on what to keep.
Each page has a one-page A4 PDF of the same numbers, for the counter conversation.
A register knows how many flat whites you sold. It does not know that the person outside is deciding between you and the place two blocks on, and that the answer is the oat milk, the decaf and whether the bread is out.
We are not asking you to change how you take money, and there is nothing to migrate. The page is the front door; the register stays the till.
Square Online, Toast, Clover, your loyalty app, or simply “call us”. One line in the form — or none, if you would rather people just walked in.
If you have an ordering link, the button says Order and lands there. If you do not, the buttons are Call and Directions, which is what a café customer uses anyway.
The customer who only wanted to know whether the oat milk is extra never has to ask you at the counter with four people behind them.
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What Toast, Square and BentoBox cost one café over three years — with the $6-drink arithmetic and the five questions to ask before you renew.
Prices in US dollars, before tax. Pay by card on Polar's checkout page. If you are not sure, start at $49 — it is a real deliverable, not a trial.
Two months of Toast Basic. Yours forever.
Page + menu + QR stands + posts.
Everything, plus 30 days of us on call.
Not sure which one? Write to chonnom61482@gmail.com and tell us your shop and how many drinks are on the board. We will say which package you actually need — even if it is the $49 one. By ordering you agree to our terms and refund policy.
Only if you want the page built rather than built by you. Square for Restaurants includes an ordering page on every tier, including Free, and Square is the cheapest subscription on this page — we are not going to argue otherwise. What it does not include is someone writing your menu, laying out the milk options and handing you a print-ready QR stand tomorrow. If you are happy in Square's editor, keep it; the $49 Starter is for the shop that is not.
Yes, if you want card payments, online ordering or a till. The page has no register, no card payment and no order flow. It is the menu a customer reads before they order — and its Order button opens the ordering link you already have: Square Online, Toast, Clover, or your own phone number. Nothing is migrated and no order passes through us.
Yes, and this is the difference between a coffee menu and a restaurant menu. Each drink carries its milk options and the upcharge (whole, oat, lactose-free, +$0.75), its decaf note, its size prices and a short line on the beans. Anything that changes daily — the single origin, sold-out pastries, today's loaf — is a one-minute edit with your own key, not a new order to us.
Toast's starter-kit checkout lists three software packs on its Traditional plan: Basic $69, Core $219 and Growth $578 a month, plus a $1,153 countertop kit up front, on a two-year agreement. Core is the first pack with online ordering and delivery integrations; Growth is the first with a website. On Pay-as-you-Go the software and kit are $0 and the card rate is 3.09%–3.69% + 15¢, so the cost moves into every payment instead — worth doing the arithmetic for your own ticket size before you assume one is cheaper.
For Square for Restaurants, yes: Free, Plus $49 and Premium $149 a month per location, each with a branded ordering page. Card rates are 2.6% / 2.5% / 2.4% + 15¢ in person and 3.3% / 2.9% / 2.9% + 30¢ online. Kiosk and kitchen display are add-ons ($30–$99). Square's published prices change less often than most, but read its own page before you sign — and note that the cheap tier is paid for in the card rate, not hidden.
No. No page fixes a marketplace commission, and we will not pretend otherwise: a $6 drink sold through an app that charges 30% leaves about $4.20 before the milk, the cup and the beans. What the page does is give the customer a direct way to find you, see the menu and call or walk in — the channel where nobody takes a percentage. It is not a delivery platform and it does not replace one you need.
One business day from the moment your form is complete. The form asks for the shop name, phone, address, hours, your menu with prices and the milk and decaf options, your Instagram and any ordering link, and a photo or two. If you would rather not type it, paste your Instagram or your Google listing and we pull what we can, then confirm the rest by email.
No. The page goes live on an address we give you, and that link goes in your Instagram bio, your Google Business Profile and the QR stand on the counter. If you already own a domain, we tell you how to point it at the page; the domain itself is paid to a registrar, not to us.
No. $49, $199 or $499 is the whole price, charged once. The page stays live, the files are yours, and you pay again only when you order new work. We take no percentage of a drink you sold, and we collect no customer data at all.
You see a preview before we call it finished, and every package includes at least one round of edits. If we have not started building, you get a full refund. If we delivered and something on the list is missing or wrong, tell us within 7 days and we fix it or refund that part. Details: refund policy.
Polar Software, Inc., our merchant of record, takes it on their checkout page. Your card details are entered there, never on this site, and they handle the receipt and the tax. We never see your card number.
Pick the $49 Starter if you just need the link. Pick the Local Pack if the board is out of date and the counter still gets asked about oat milk. Either way, one form, one payment, and no monthly bill to forget about.