For three and a half weeks in August, Edinburgh's population swells by hundreds of thousands and every table on the Royal Mile is spoken for; by September the same street is quiet and the regulars come back. A monthly platform is paid for twelve months to serve a spike in one of them. The page has to hold both — the festival menu and the ordinary week, on one address, paid for once — and in the UK the price a customer sees has VAT in it, so we print both figures instead of pretending otherwise.
Three things come up in almost every conversation we have with Edinburgh owners. None of them is a design problem.
Festival footfall is the year's margin for a room near the Mile, and it is over before the leaves turn. A page with a festival menu, festival hours and a booking line earns that month; a monthly subscription charges you for the quiet ones as well.
A pub on the Royal Mile sells to a visitor who will not return; a restaurant in Leith sells to people who live four streets away and will be back in February. The page is written for the customer you actually have, and the address on it is the one that gets them to the door.
Premises licences, opening hours and the rules on promoting alcohol are set in Scotland, not in Westminster, and the page has to match what your licence and your board say. We set the wording you give us and change it the day it changes; we do not write licensing advice.
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 visitor standing on the Royal Mile in the rain with a phone in one hand.
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 →
Old Town and Grassmarket pubs, Leith's dining rooms, Stockbridge and Bruntsfield cafés, the Southside lunch trade and the beachfront at Portobello.
Not on the list? It does not matter — everything is built remotely and delivered as a link and files, so the neighbourhood changes the words, not the price.
Software and hardware only, before card processing and tax. Every figure is the vendor's own published 2026 price, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Toast POS + Web | $219/mo at Core, plus a $1,153 countertop kit, on a 2-year agreement | $9,037≈ £7,139 |
| Square for Restaurants | $0 / $49 / $149 a month per location | $1,764≈ £1,394 |
| BentoBox | Quote only since the Clover fold-in; last list $149–$249/mo | $6,364≈ £5,028 |
| Owner.com | $249/mo + 5% of orders, or $499/mo flat | $17,964≈ £14,192 |
| ChowNow | $229–$409/mo on annual billing, plus $119–$499 setup | $8,743≈ £6,907 |
| Clover | $179–$354/mo for 36 months, hardware inside, non-cancelable | $6,444≈ £5,091 |
| SpotOn | $0 or $55 a station, on a two-year term | $7,410≈ £5,854 |
| Popmenu | $179–$499/mo, plus $1.00 on every online order | $6,444–$17,964≈ £5,091–£14,192 |
| Slice | $39/mo + $3.00 on every card order (600 orders a month) | $47,764–$66,204≈ £37,734–£52,301 |
| TouchBistro | $69/mo for the POS, $119 with the bundle, hardware extra | $4,284≈ £3,384 |
| Lightspeed Restaurant | $69 / $189 / $399 a month, $30 a kitchen screen | $6,804≈ £5,375 |
| ShopLaunch Studio | One page, one menu, one payment — no subscription, no commission, no hardware | £39–£159 |
Toast: Traditional list on its Starter Kit checkout, single location, first terminal (read 7 November 2026). 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. Card processing is on top of every line here; 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. The £ figures are converted at about £1 = US$1.26 (£0.79 to the dollar) and move with the rate; your bank may add its own conversion fee. UK prices are normally quoted with VAT already in them, so both are printed: £159 before VAT, and £190.80 with the 20% that a UK billing address pays at checkout.
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.
Both figures are printed. £39, £159 and £399 are the prices before VAT; a UK billing address pays 20% VAT at checkout, so the Local Pack comes to £190.80 including VAT. The card itself is charged US$49, US$199 or US$499, and the £ figures are converted at £1 = US$1.26.
Yes — a second menu you switch on in July and off in September, on the same link, with its own prices and its own hours. The QR codes on the tables do not change, so nothing has to be reprinted for the Fringe.
No. Leith, Portobello, Morningside, Musselburgh — everything is built and delivered remotely, so the address changes and the price does not.
No, and we will not pretend to. The page carries the hours and the wording you give us, and we change it the day your licence or your board's conditions change. Anything about what you may sell, when, or how you may price it stays with you and your licensing solicitor.
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. £39, £159 or £399 is the whole price, charged once — before VAT. A UK billing address pays 20% VAT at checkout, so the card is charged US$49, US$199 or US$499, and the Local Pack comes to £190.80 including VAT. The £ figures are a conversion at £1 = US$1.26 and move with the rate. 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 23, 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.