A Manchester pub does not need a booking engine. It needs the four things a customer checks on a Friday at six: what is on, what it costs, whether the kitchen is still serving, and which of three doors on the same street is yours. The big hospitality platforms sell a hundred pounds a month of modules a twenty-cover room will never open twice, and the website is always the one nobody logs into. We build the four things, once, for £39 to £159.
Three things come up in almost every conversation we have with Manchester operators. None of them is a design problem.
A UK hospitality EPOS quote arrives as a page of modules — till, kitchen screen, booking widget, loyalty, website — and the website is the one nobody opens after launch week. £159 once, and there is no renewal meeting to sit through.
Unlike the American habit of adding tax at the till, a UK menu price is the number that leaves the customer's account. Your page carries the price exactly as it is written on the board, and we do not bolt a service line onto the end of it.
UK law stopped card surcharges in January 2018, and the tips legislation that came in during 2024 made the discretionary service charge a thing customers ask about out loud. A page that states plainly whether 10% goes on tables of six is a page that does not get argued with at the door.
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 customer choosing between three doors on a wet Friday.
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 →
Northern Quarter bars, Ancoats coffee rooms, Castlefield terraces, Chorlton delis, Rusholme curry houses and the Sunday-roast pubs that fill the 12:30 sitting.
Not on the list? It does not matter — everything is built remotely and delivered as a link and files, so the postcode changes the words, not the price.
Software and hardware only, before card processing and VAT. Vendors publish in US dollars, so each line carries the US list with the £ conversion underneath at £1 = US$1.26, 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 |
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, Lightspeed Essential at $189/mo with $30 a kitchen screen, BentoBox's last printed list since the Clover fold-in. The £ figure under it is that number converted at £1 = US$1.26 for comparison, not a UK quote: UK vendors publish their own £ list, often with a different module split, and VAT is on top of whichever contract you sign. Card processing is on top of every line, and we take no orders.
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 the same prices converted at about £1 = US$1.26 and move with the rate; your bank may add its own conversion fee. VAT is 20% for a UK billing address and is added there, so the Local Pack comes to £190.80 with VAT (the £ figures here are before VAT).
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.
No. Those are before VAT; Polar Software, Inc., our merchant of record, adds 20% for a UK billing address at checkout, so the Local Pack comes to £190.80 including VAT and the Starter to £46.80. The receipt is a VAT receipt in Polar's name.
A British one. Small plates, a pie of the day, a Sunday roast with a vegetarian option, halves as well as pints, a kitchen that closes before the bar and a last-orders line. We write it in British English — aubergine, courgette, jacket potato — because a translated American menu is what makes a customer doubt the kitchen.
Then the page carries the drinks instead — cask lines, what is on keg, the gin list, and quiz night. The Local Pack is a page and a QR per table; what sits on them is your call, and a drinks list that is actually current is worth more than a menu you cannot serve.
Yes, and it is the single most useful thing on a pub page. “Bar until 12, kitchen until 9, roasts from 12” is one line that stops the most common phone call a Sunday pub gets.
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 — US$49, US$199 or US$499, charged once. The £ figure is a conversion at £1 = US$1.26 and moves 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.