Auckland is where the flat white was argued into existence and where a café will lose its regulars over a fifty-cent change in the espresso price, so the menu is not decoration here — it is the product. It is also a market of 1.7 million people that restaurant software treats as an afterthought: the vendors show an NZ visitor an Australian price in Australian dollars, or an American one, and the bill moves with a rate nobody at the counter set. We build the page and the table QR menu for NZ$79 to NZ$319, once, priced here and printed here.
Three things come up in almost every conversation we have with Auckland owners. None of them is a design problem.
Lightspeed's New Zealand visitors are served its Australian page, in A$; the American platforms quote in US$. Either way the number on your statement depends on a rate that moved overnight, and the GST question gets answered by whoever is holding the invoice. We price in NZ$ and print the US$ the card is charged, so the arithmetic is on the page.
Auckland's specialty bars turn over beans, milk and prices far more often than they turn over a website, and a menu PDF from last summer is the fastest way to look closed. The QR on the counter and on each table opens the menu as it stands today — changed by you from your phone in a minute, with no reprint run and no designer.
Auckland is a third of New Zealand's population and effectively all of its arrival hall. The visitor deciding between Ponsonby and the Viaduct, the local deciding between three brunch rooms in Kingsland, and the office ordering twelve coffees all search the same way: on a phone, in a hurry. One page answers all three, and the map pin closes it.
Not a template you fill in. We take your hours, prices and photos, build each piece, and hand back a live link that works for a commuter at Britomart at seven and a table of four on Ponsonby Road at eight.
One form, five minutes. Delivery target is one business day from the moment we have your details, hours, menu and photos.
The fastest way to judge this is to open one. This is a sample built from a public listing, so the phone, address and hours are the shop's own.
Not a customer site. See the standard layout we deliver →
Ponsonby and Grey Lynn rooms, the Britomart and Viaduct waterfront, Kingsland and Mount Eden cafés, Parnell and Newmarket, K' Road and Karangahape's late trade, Takapuna and Devonport across the harbour, and the West Coast beaches at the end of the road.
Not on the list? It does not matter — everything is built remotely and delivered as a link and files, so the suburb changes the words, not the price.
Software and hardware only, before card processing and GST. Most of these vendors publish no New Zealand list — Spotify-style local pricing is not how restaurant software works here — so each line is the vendor's own US list converted at about NZ$1 = US$0.56, read 11 November 2026. Run your own volume through the calculator if the per-order fees matter more than the subscription.
| Platform | What it costs | 3 years (≈ NZ$) |
|---|---|---|
| Toast POS + Web | $219/mo at Core, plus a $1,153 countertop kit, on a 2-year agreement | $9,037≈ NZ$16,086 |
| Square for Restaurants | $0 / $49 / $149 a month per location | $1,764≈ NZ$3,140 |
| BentoBox | Quote only since the Clover fold-in; last list $149–$249/mo | $6,364≈ NZ$11,328 |
| Owner.com | $249/mo + 5% of orders, or $499/mo flat | $17,964≈ NZ$31,976 |
| ChowNow | $229–$409/mo on annual billing, plus $119–$499 setup | $8,743≈ NZ$15,563 |
| Clover | $179–$354/mo for 36 months, hardware inside, non-cancelable | $6,444≈ NZ$11,470 |
| SpotOn | $0 or $55 a station, on a two-year term | $7,410≈ NZ$13,190 |
| Popmenu | $179–$499/mo, plus $1.00 on every online order | $6,444–$17,964≈ NZ$11,470–NZ$31,976 |
| Slice | $39/mo + $3.00 on every card order (600 orders a month) | $47,764–$66,204≈ NZ$85,020–NZ$117,843 |
| TouchBistro | $69/mo for the POS, $119 with the bundle, hardware extra | $4,284≈ NZ$7,626 |
| Lightspeed Restaurant | $69 / $189 / $399 a month, $30 a kitchen screen | $6,804≈ NZ$12,111 |
| ShopLaunch Studio | One page, one menu, one payment — no subscription, no commission, no hardware | NZ$79–NZ$319 |
Toast: US list on its Starter Kit checkout, $219/mo plus a $1,153 countertop kit on a two-year term. Lightspeed: no NZ price list — an NZ visitor is served its Australian page, A$79 Starter / A$179 Essential / A$359 Premium ex GST. BentoBox: no published price since the Clover fold-in, so the last list it printed is used. Owner.com: published pricing at $5,000/mo of online orders. Slice: 600 orders a month, a busy pizzeria's volume, because that is what decides the per-order fee. Every NZ$ figure here is a US list converted at NZ$1 = US$0.56 for comparison, not a New Zealand quote, and GST plus card processing sit on top of whichever contract you sign. We take no orders and process nothing.
Nothing here is a subscription, and nothing renews. Pick the link if that is all you need; pick the Local Pack if customers keep asking for the menu.
One page, one business day.
The one most shops order.
Everything, plus 30 days of us on call.
Prices are charged in US dollars by Polar Software, Inc. at checkout. NZ$79, NZ$319 and NZ$799 are the prices we set for New Zealand — a little below a straight conversion of US$49, US$199 and US$499 at the mid-market rate of about NZ$1 = US$0.56 in November 2026 — and the card is charged those US dollars. GST of 15% is added for a New Zealand billing address and shown before you pay.
Payment is taken by Polar Software, Inc., our merchant of record, on their checkout page — we never see your card. By ordering you agree to our terms and refund policy. One round of edits is included; the files are yours to keep and reprint.
Each of the eleven has its own page, with its own price ladder, contract terms and three-year arithmetic.
NZ$79, NZ$319 and NZ$799 are the prices we set for New Zealand, before GST. They sit a little below a straight conversion of US$49, US$199 and US$499 at the mid-market rate of about NZ$1 = US$0.56 — the card is charged those US dollars by Polar Software, Inc., our merchant of record — and 15% GST for an NZ billing address is calculated and shown on the checkout page before you pay.
Because the vendors do not publish a New Zealand list to quote. Lightspeed serves NZ visitors its Australian page in A$, and the American platforms quote in US$. The NZ$ column is that US list converted at the rate printed on this page for comparison — a benchmark, not an NZ offer. If you want a vendor's real local number, ask them for a written quote, and compare it against NZ$319 once.
Yes: beans, brew methods, the retail bags and the food menu are separate blocks on the one link, each with its own prices, and the kitchen's hours can differ from the bar's. You edit any of it from your phone in about a minute.
Same price. Everything is built and delivered remotely, so the address and the map pin change and the NZ$ figure does not — the page is written for the city you trade in.
The Local Pack: a mobile website on its own link, a digital menu with one QR code per table, three print-ready posters, five Instagram posts with captions, and one round of edits. The files are yours and there is no subscription.
No. NZ$79, NZ$319 or NZ$799 — the card is charged US$49, US$199 or US$499, once. The local figures are the prices we set for this market, a little below a straight conversion at NZ$1 = US$0.56, and the checkout page shows the exact US$ amount before you pay. Domain registration, printing and advertising are yours to pay if you want them, and we do not take a cut of anything you sell.
Yes. You get an edit key for the page, so a price, a closing time or a sold-out dish is a change you make in a minute. The QR codes already on the tables keep working because the address never changes.
Polar Software, Inc., our merchant of record, on their checkout page. Your card details are entered there and never on this site; they issue the receipt and handle any refund.
The packages, what is delivered, and the three-year maths — on one A4 page you can hand over or pin up.
Local pages for the shops that make each city worth walking through. All 42, grouped by country, with a PDF for each →
Send your hours, your menu and a few photos. We build the page, the QR menu, the posters and the posts, and hand it back the next business day. If you already pay a platform for a page like this, this is the line you can take off the bill.