Melbourne's best cafés are down an alley with a sign the size of a postcard, which makes the phone the only map most people have. Someone standing on Flinders Lane with a flat white in mind searches, taps, and needs three things in one second: which laneway, what is on the board today, and whether there is a table.
Three things come up in almost every conversation we have with Melbourne owners. None of them is a design problem.
A café on a lane off Flinders Lane is invisible from the street, so a wrong pin costs a table. Your page carries the pin, a walking note — “between Flinders Lane and Collins, look for the green door” — and a directions button that opens in the guest's own map.
A kitchen that changes the board daily cannot keep a printed menu true, and a photo of the board is unreadable on a phone. The digital menu with your edit key is the version that is always today's.
Card surcharges ended across Australia on 1 October 2026, so the menu price is now the paid price — while weekend and public holiday surcharges are still allowed. One page shows all of it, plainly, before the guest sits down.
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 someone at the top of a lane wondering whether the door at the end is the one.
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 →
Laneway espresso bars, brunch rooms in Fitzroy, Italian kitchens in Carlton, banh mi in Footscray and the bakeries that sell out by eleven.
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 tax. Australian prices are the vendors' own A$ list, read 11 November 2026; US-published lines are converted at A$1 = US$0.69. Run your own volume through the calculator if the per-order fees matter more than the subscription.
| Platform | What it costs | 3 years (A$) |
|---|---|---|
| Square for Restaurants | A$0 / A$129 per location a month (A$50 mobile POS) | A$4,644 |
| Lightspeed Restaurant | A$79 / A$179 / A$359 a month ex GST, A$39 an extra register | A$6,444 |
| Toast POS + Web | US$219/mo at Core + a US$1,153 kit — US-published | A$13,100 |
| BentoBox | Quote only since the Clover fold-in; last list US$149–$249/mo | A$9,228 |
| Owner.com | US$249/mo + 5% of orders, or US$499 flat — US-published | A$26,048 |
| ChowNow | US$229–$409/mo + US$119–$499 setup — US-published | A$12,677 |
| Clover | US$179–$354/mo for 36 months — US-published | A$9,344 |
| SpotOn | US$0 or US$55 a station — US-published | A$10,745 |
| Popmenu | US$179–$499/mo + US$1.00 an order — US-published | A$9,344–A$26,048 |
| Slice | US$39/mo + US$3.00 a card order — US-published | A$69,258–A$95,996 |
| TouchBistro | US$69/mo for the POS, hardware extra — US-published | A$6,212 |
| ShopLaunch Studio | One page, one menu, one payment — no subscription, no commission, no hardware | A$71–A$289 |
Square: squareup.com/au restaurant plans, A$129 a month per location for Plus, A$0 for the Free plan, 1.6% per tap or insert in person. Lightspeed: lightspeedhq.com/au restaurant plans, A$79 Starter / A$179 Essential / A$359 Premium ex GST, A$39 an extra register — its Australian entry plan roughly doubled in September 2026, from the A$40 stored plan to the A$79 public one. Lines marked US-published are the vendor's US list converted for comparison; they are a benchmark of what the same software costs elsewhere, not an Australian offer. GST and card processing are on top of every line here; we take no orders and process nothing.
Nothing here is a subscription, and nothing renews. Pick the link if that is all you need; pick the Local Pack if customers keep asking for the menu.
One page, one business day.
The one most shops order.
Everything, plus 30 days of us on call.
Prices are in US dollars, charged by Polar Software, Inc. at checkout. The A$ figures are the same prices converted at about A$1 = US$0.69 and move with the rate; your bank may add its own conversion fee. GST is calculated 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.
Our payments run through Polar Software, Inc., our merchant of record, and they charge in US dollars. A$71, A$289 and A$724 are the same prices converted at about A$1 = US$0.69; the card is charged US$49, US$199 or US$499, and your bank may add its own conversion fee.
Yes — the pin, a sentence telling people what to look for, and a directions button. If the entrance is off a lane, we write the lane, not the street number nobody can see.
Nothing. The digital menu is edited with your key and the QR codes keep pointing at the same address. Reprinting is only for the paper you choose to put in a window.
No — the prices on this page are before tax. Polar calculates any GST for your billing country and shows it on the checkout page before you pay.
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. A$71, A$289 or A$724 — US$49, US$199 or US$499 — is the whole price, charged once. 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.
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.