Perth is the most isolated city of its size on earth, which makes it the easiest place in Australia to overpay for software. The vendors quote in US dollars from a head office in another hemisphere, the terminal comes with a rental, the register comes with a subscription, and by the time the whole stack is priced a twenty-five-cover room in Leederville is paying more for software than it pays for its coffee machine. Meanwhile the customer on Scarborough Beach Road is deciding on a phone, at seven, between three places that all look the same in a photo. One page, A$71 to A$289, paid once, answers it.
Three things come up in almost every conversation we have with Perth owners. None of them is a design problem.
A WA quote for a small bar usually arrives as three lines: the EFTPOS terminal rented per month, the POS subscription per seat, and the transaction rate on top. None of them is the page, and all of them keep billing in a quiet February. A$289 once buys the page and the menu outright, and the terminal you already rent keeps working untouched.
Since 1 October 2026 card surcharges are gone on Visa, Mastercard, eftpos and Amex, so the amount you used to recover at the till has to be inside the menu price. Weekend and public holiday surcharges are still yours to charge. The page prints the price the customer pays, without a line at the bottom that needs explaining.
Cottesloe, Scarborough, City Beach, Fremantle: the trade is a sunset, and the customer is choosing between three venues while walking to one of them. Hours, whether the kitchen is still serving, and where the door is — on the first screen, in the order a person actually asks. That is the whole of what decides it.
Not a template you fill in. We take your hours, prices and photos, build each piece, and hand back a live link that works for a swimmer with wet hands at Cottesloe and a booking of eight in Subiaco.
One form, five minutes. Delivery target is one business day from the moment we have your details, hours, menu and photos.
The fastest way to judge this is to open one. This is a sample built from a public listing, so the phone, address and hours are the shop's own.
Not a customer site. See the standard layout we deliver →
Scarborough and Cottesloe beach bars, Fremantle's cappuccino strip, Northbridge small bars, Mount Lawley and Leederville rooms, Subiaco and Claremont dining, Victoria Park's Asian kitchens and the Swan Valley cellar doors.
Not on the list? It does not matter — everything is built remotely and delivered as a link and files, so the suburb changes the words, not the price.
Software and hardware only, before card processing and GST. Australian prices are the vendors' own A$ 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$39 an extra register. Lines marked US-published are the vendor's US list converted for comparison; they are a benchmark of what the same software costs elsewhere, not an Australian offer. GST and card processing are on top of every line here; we take no orders and process nothing.
Nothing here is a subscription, and nothing renews. Pick the link if that is all you need; pick the Local Pack if customers keep asking for the menu.
One page, one business day.
The one most shops order.
Everything, plus 30 days of us on call.
Prices are charged in US dollars by Polar Software, Inc. at checkout. The A$ 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 of 10% is added for an Australian billing address and shown on the checkout page 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.
It does the one thing a sunset cannot: it answers the question before the drive. A customer at 5.40 on a Friday weighing Cottesloe against Scarborough needs your hours, whether the kitchen is open and where to park, on one screen. The page carries those, and a dated line at the top covers the night you are closed for a private function.
No. Nothing here is a register, a card processor or an ordering system — the page and the menu live on their own link and the terminal stays exactly as it is. If the POS subscription already includes a website, this is the line you can compare it against before you renew.
The prices we set are A$71, A$289 and A$724, and they are before GST. The card is charged in US dollars by Polar Software, Inc., our merchant of record, at US$49, US$199 or US$499; 10% GST for an Australian billing address is calculated and shown on the checkout page before you pay.
Same price. Everything is built and delivered remotely, so the address and the map pin change and the A$ figure does not. The page is written for the town you trade in, not for a Perth template with the name swapped.
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. GST is calculated for your billing address at checkout. 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.