Calgary earns its year in ten days and its winters in the chinooks. The Stampede fills every table from the Beltline to Inglewood, then the city goes quiet and the platform invoices keep arriving — the same $219 a month in February as in July. Meanwhile the customer deciding between two steakhouses on Stephen Avenue is doing it on a phone, in a jacket, at nine at night. One page that answers what is on, what it costs and whether the kitchen is open is C$269, once, and it does not send a bill in the quiet months.
Three things come up in almost every conversation we have with Calgary owners. None of them is a design problem.
For ten days in July the city is a queue, and a room that cannot answer a phone or a search at 11 p.m. loses covers it will not get back until next July. For the other fifty weeks the same platform bills in software. C$269 once is a fixed cost in a business that has a season, a lease escalation and a currency to manage already.
Alberta is the only province with a sales tax as low as the federal 5% GST, and no PST at all. A menu page that states its prices plainly, with the tax line explained once, reads as honest to a customer who has just come from British Columbia, where the same lunch carries a provincial tax on top.
Calgary's weather opens and closes patios in the same week, and the customer watches the forecast before choosing where to go. A dated line at the top of the page — patio open today, kitchen until nine, closed for a private event — is the single most useful thing you can put in front of that customer, and you change it from your phone.
Not a template you fill in. We take your hours, prices and photos, build each piece, and hand back a live link that works for a table of eight in town for the rodeo and a regular who has eaten the same breakfast since 2019.
One form, five minutes. Delivery target is one business day from the moment we have your details, hours, menu and photos.
The fastest way to judge this is to open one. This is a sample built from a public listing, so the phone, address and hours are the shop's own.
Not a customer site. See the standard layout we deliver →
Stephen Avenue and the Beltline steakhouse rooms, 17th Avenue's patios, Kensington and Inglewood cafés, Mission and Marda Loop dining, Bridgeland and East Village kitchens, the breweries of the Barley Belt and the foothills towns at the end of the highway.
Not on the list? It does not matter — everything is built remotely and delivered as a link and files, so the suburb changes the words, not the price.
Software and hardware only, before card processing and GST. Vendors publish in US dollars, so each line carries the US list with the C$ conversion underneath at C$1 = US$0.71, read 11 November 2026. Run your own volume through the calculator if the per-order fees matter more than the subscription.
| Platform | What it costs | 3 years (≈ C$) |
|---|---|---|
| Toast POS + Web | $219/mo at Core, plus a $1,153 countertop kit, on a 2-year agreement | $9,037≈ C$12,652 |
| Square for Restaurants | $0 / $49 / $149 a month per location | $1,764≈ C$2,470 |
| BentoBox | Quote only since the Clover fold-in; last list $149–$249/mo | $6,364≈ C$8,910 |
| Owner.com | $249/mo + 5% of orders, or $499/mo flat | $17,964≈ C$25,150 |
| ChowNow | $229–$409/mo on annual billing, plus $119–$499 setup | $8,743≈ C$12,240 |
| Clover | $179–$354/mo for 36 months, hardware inside, non-cancelable | $6,444≈ C$9,022 |
| SpotOn | $0 or $55 a station, on a two-year term | $7,410≈ C$10,374 |
| Popmenu | $179–$499/mo, plus $1.00 on every online order | $6,444–$17,964≈ C$9,022–C$25,150 |
| Slice | $39/mo + $3.00 on every card order (600 orders a month) | $47,764–$66,204≈ C$66,870–C$92,686 |
| TouchBistro | $69/mo for the POS, $119 with the bundle, hardware extra | $4,284≈ C$5,998 |
| Lightspeed Restaurant | $69 / $189 / $399 a month, $30 a kitchen screen | $6,804≈ C$9,526 |
| ShopLaunch Studio | One page, one menu, one payment — no subscription, no commission, no hardware | C$69–C$269 |
The bold figure is the vendor's own published US list — Toast Core at $219/mo plus a $1,153 kit on a two-year term, BentoBox's last printed list since the Clover fold-in, Owner.com at $5,000/mo of online orders, Slice at 600 orders a month. The C$ figure under it is that number converted at C$1 = US$0.71 for comparison, not a Canadian quote: where a vendor sells locally it may publish a different C$ price. Alberta charges 5% GST and no PST, and card processing is on top of every line regardless. 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. C$69, C$269 and C$674 are the prices we set for Alberta — a little below a straight conversion of US$49, US$199 and US$499 at C$1 = US$0.71 — and the card is charged those US dollars. Alberta has no PST: only the 5% federal GST is added for an Alberta 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.
Our payments run through Polar Software, Inc., our merchant of record, in US dollars. C$69, C$269 and C$674 are the prices we set for Alberta — a little below a straight conversion of US$49, US$199 and US$499 at about C$1 = US$0.71 — and the card is charged those US dollars. Your bank may add its own conversion fee.
Yes. Alberta charges the federal GST of 5% and no provincial sales tax, so the tax on your purchase is calculated for your Alberta billing address and shown on the checkout page before you pay. The C$ figures on this page are before that GST.
It helps before the queue, which is where the work is. A page carrying the Stampede menu, the extended hours, the reservation phone number and a dated line for sold-out sittings takes the search that happens at 11 p.m. in a hotel room — and you change any of it from your phone between services.
Same price. Everything is built and delivered remotely, so the address and the map pin change and the C$ figure does not.
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. C$69, C$269 or C$674 — 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 C$1 = US$0.71, and the checkout page shows the exact US$ 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.