Since 1 October 2026 a Sydney café can no longer add a card surcharge at the counter, so the price on the menu is the price the guest pays — and a menu that still says “+1.5% card” is now the thing the argument is about. Weekend and public holiday surcharges are still allowed, and guests compare those on a phone before they pick a table. We build the page that shows the real, all-in number before anyone sits down.
Three things come up in almost every conversation we have with Sydney owners. None of them is a design problem.
eftpos, Visa, Mastercard and Amex stopped allowing card surcharges in Australia on 1 October 2026, so the price you display has to be the price that is paid. A menu that still carries last year's surcharge line is the fastest way to be told you are misleading people.
The rule change did not touch weekend, public holiday or service surcharges. A guest deciding between two cafés on a Sunday wants to know which one adds 10%, and a dated banner on your page answers it before they arrive.
A flat white is one price at a table and another at the counter, and most Sydney menus only publish one of them. Your page can show both, so the guest is not surprised at the till.
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 walking from Bondi to the bus stop 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 →
Beach cafés, pubs with a kitchen that closes at nine, Italian rooms that have been there forty years, and the bakeries that open before the first ferry.
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.
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, and you get a receipt for the business.
Yes. A dated banner at the top — “10% public holiday surcharge today” — that you switch on for the day and off again. It sits above the menu, so the guest sees it before the price.
Flat white, long black, halloumi, a chicken schnitzel, a kids' menu, a Sunday surcharge and a kitchen that closes before the bar does. We write the page in your words, not in American ones.
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.