Vancouver has the most expensive commercial rent in the country, so a room here has to earn its square feet twice: once from the customer at the door and once from the one who found you on a phone and did not walk in. The guest at Cordova and Carrall is comparing three of you on the same screen — price, hours, whether the kitchen is still open — and the platform page most small rooms get answers none of those in the first screen. We build the page that makes the comparison come out yours, once, for C$69 to C$279.
Three things come up in almost every conversation we have with Vancouver owners. None of them is a design problem.
Commercial rent is the line that decides whether a café survives, and a monthly software fee is paid out of the same till as the lease. C$279 once is roughly what one table takes on a Friday night; a subscription is every month, forever, including the slow ones.
Nearly every platform on the table below prices in US dollars, so your statement moves with the exchange rate and your card adds its own 2.5% on top. Our price is one US$199 charge; the C$ figure on this page is a conversion, at a rate we print rather than hide.
A Cantonese seafood room on Alexandra Road, a specialty café in Mount Pleasant and a Gastown pub have three different customers, three different searches and three different reasons to open a phone. We write the page for the block you are on, in the language your customers read first.
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 standing on a wet corner comparing three cafés on one screen.
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 →
Gastown pubs, Chinatown and Richmond kitchens, Commercial Drive espresso bars, Mount Pleasant bakeries and the sushi counters that outnumber the traffic lights.
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. Vendors publish in US dollars, so each line carries the US list with the C$ conversion underneath at C$1 = US$0.71, read 11 November 2026. Run your own volume through the calculator if the per-order fees matter more than the subscription.
| Platform | What it costs | 3 years (≈ C$) |
|---|---|---|
| Toast POS + Web | $219/mo at Core, plus a $1,153 countertop kit, on a 2-year agreement | $9,037≈ C$12,652 |
| Square for Restaurants | $0 / $49 / $149 a month per location | $1,764≈ C$2,470 |
| BentoBox | Quote only since the Clover fold-in; last list $149–$249/mo | $6,364≈ C$8,910 |
| Owner.com | $249/mo + 5% of orders, or $499/mo flat | $17,964≈ C$25,150 |
| ChowNow | $229–$409/mo on annual billing, plus $119–$499 setup | $8,743≈ C$12,240 |
| Clover | $179–$354/mo for 36 months, hardware inside, non-cancelable | $6,444≈ C$9,022 |
| SpotOn | $0 or $55 a station, on a two-year term | $7,410≈ C$10,374 |
| Popmenu | $179–$499/mo, plus $1.00 on every online order | $6,444–$17,964≈ C$9,022–C$25,150 |
| Slice | $39/mo + $3.00 on every card order (600 orders a month) | $47,764–$66,204≈ C$66,870–C$92,686 |
| TouchBistro | $69/mo for the POS, $119 with the bundle, hardware extra | $4,284≈ C$5,998 |
| Lightspeed Restaurant | $69 / $189 / $399 a month, $30 a kitchen screen | $6,804≈ C$9,526 |
| ShopLaunch Studio | One page, one menu, one payment — no subscription, no commission, no hardware | C$69–C$279 |
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, BentoBox's last printed list since the Clover fold-in, Owner.com at $5,000/mo of online orders, Slice at 600 orders a month. The C$ figure under it is that number converted at C$1 = US$0.71 for comparison, not a Canadian quote: where a vendor sells locally it may publish a different C$ price, and GST plus BC PST sit on top of whichever one 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 C$ figures are the same prices converted at about C$1 = US$0.71 and move with the rate; your bank may add its own conversion fee. GST and BC PST are calculated for your 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.
Our payments run through Polar Software, Inc., our merchant of record, in US dollars. C$69, C$279 and C$699 are the same prices converted at about C$1 = US$0.71; the card is charged US$49, US$199 or US$499, and your bank may add its own conversion fee.
No — the prices on this page are before tax. Polar calculates the tax for your billing address and shows it on the checkout page before you pay, and you get a receipt for the business.
Yes. Richmond's kitchens and Surrey's food courts serve customers who read the menu in another script first, and a translated menu is the first thing that makes a room feel foreign. We build the second language with someone who speaks it — same prices, one link, and the QR codes on the tables keep working.
Nothing. There is no subscription to pause, no seat count and no monthly minimum. The page stays up saying you are away and when you are back, and the only future charge is one you choose to make.
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. C$69, C$279 or C$699 — US$49, US$199 or US$499, charged once. The C$ figure is a conversion at C$1 = US$0.71 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.