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2026 comparison · Clover restaurant bundles checked 11 November 2026

Clover restaurant POS vs ShopLaunch

Clover sells a system, not a website: the counter hardware, a software plan and card processing, priced as a 36-month subscription with the equipment inside it — $179 a month for the full-service Starter, $135 for quick-service, up to $354 for the Advanced. The subscription is non-cancelable, the hardware is Clover's, and a designed site means BentoBox, which Clover now sells only to Clover POS customers.

Clover: $179–$354/moTerm: 36 monthsCards: 2.3% + 10¢ShopLaunch: no register
The three-year total
Software and hardware only, before card processing, before tax.
Clover, 3 years full-service Starter
$6,444
$179/mo × 36, hardware included
Non-cancelable subscription
Clover, same bundle bought out
$5,037
$1,799 upfront + $89.95/mo
× 36 for the software plan
ShopLaunch, once
$199
A page and a menu.
No register required.

What Clover's restaurant bundle is

Clover does not sell a website with a register on the side. It sells a system: the counter hardware, a software plan and card processing, priced as a 36-month subscription with the equipment inside it. Its restaurant page lists six bundles, three for full service and three for quick service:

Full-service Starter36 months — Station Solo, cash drawer, receipt printer; Restaurant Growth plan
$179/mo
Full-service Standardadds the Flex handheld; tableside ordering and firing
$239/mo
Full-service Advancedadds Station Duo with an 8-inch customer screen
$354/mo
Quick-service StarterMini with a built-in printer; cash drawer is an add-on
$135/mo
Card presentthe lowest published card-present rate in this comparison; 3.5% + 10¢ typed in
2.3% + 10¢

Every bundle can also be bought the other way: pay for the hardware up front and keep paying a software fee. Full-service Starter is $1,799 + $89.95 a month; Standard is $2,548 + $109.90; Advanced is $4,447 + $129.85. Over 36 months the subscription costs more ($6,444 against $5,037) and carries the fuller warranty while it runs.

The term is the part to read twice. Clover's own FAQ says the subscription is non-cancelable and ineligible for refunds — you can pay it off or upgrade, not walk away. At the end of 36 months you buy the equipment or return it, and if you do neither the subscription continues at the same monthly charge; Clover asks for 30 days' notice before the term ends. The prices on that page are available on clover.com only — bought through a bank or reseller, the rates and terms are the seller's.

Three years, and what the register does to the math

Full-service Starter subscription: 36 × $179$6,444
The same bundle with the hardware bought: $1,799 + 36 × $89.95$5,037
Quick-service Starter subscription: 36 × $135$4,860
ShopLaunch Local Pack, paid once$199
Difference at full-service Starter$6,245

Two things stand out. Clover's card-present rate — 2.3% + 10¢ — is the lowest any platform on this site publishes, and on $40,000 a month of card sales it is worth roughly $600 a year less than a 2.45% + 15¢ rate, which is not nothing. Against that, the subscription is a 36-month commitment with no exit, and the equipment is Clover's.

And the website is not in the box in any finished form. The bundle includes a menu page and no-fee online ordering, which you populate from the POS; a designed restaurant site is BentoBox, which now sells only to Clover POS customers. So for a shop not already on Clover, the route to a Clover website starts with replacing the register.

Side by side

CloverShopLaunch
What it costs$179–$354 a month for 36 months (full-service), or $1,799–$4,447 upfront + $89.95–$129.85 a month$49 / $199 / $499, once
Minimum term36 months, non-cancelable and ineligible for refundsNo contract
HardwareClover's own: Station Solo, cash drawer, receipt printer. At the end of the term you buy it or return itNone. Any phone and your printer
Card rates2.3% + 10¢ tapped, swiped or inserted; 3.5% + 10¢ typed in. Processing is separateWe do not process payments
The websiteA menu page and no-fee online ordering included; a built site means BentoBox, sold to Clover customers onlyOne page, built for you, no POS attached
Table QRContactless QR order-and-pay inside the POS — an ordering flow, not a printed menuA printed QR menu, one code per table
Who builds itYou set the menu up in CloverWe do, from one five-minute form
Time to liveHardware ships; install and menu setup are yours24 hours
Changing POS laterBuy out the term; the hardware goes back or is boughtThe page does not know what your register is
Online ordering with paymentIncluded, with no per-order feeNot offered — we take no payments

Clover bundle prices, the outright-purchase prices, the 2.3% + 10¢ / 3.5% + 10¢ rates and the non-cancelable term are from clover.com/pricing/restaurant and its pricing FAQ, read 11 November 2026. Reseller and bank pricing differs. ShopLaunch prices are the ones on this site, before tax.

Where Clover is the better buy

If you need a register, Clover is a legitimate answer and its processing rate is the sharpest of the platforms here. The question this page asks is narrower.

Buy the Clover system if

  • You need a register with a cash drawer, a printer and table maps
  • You want a handheld for tableside ordering
  • You value the 2.3% + 10¢ card-present rate over a lower monthly fee
  • You want online ordering that fires straight to the kitchen
  • You are willing to commit 36 months to get the hardware without money down

A one-time page wins when you

  • Already have a register you are happy with
  • Want a menu that a guest reads, not an ordering flow they must complete
  • Need it printed and on the table tomorrow
  • Do not want a 36-month term attached to your menu
  • Want the page to survive changing POS, or closing for a season

A shop can hold both: Clover at the counter for payments and kitchen tickets, a static page for the door, the table QR and the hours. Nothing in the Clover bundle has to change for that, and nothing in the page depends on Clover.

What the $199 actually is

Not a template you fill in. We take your hours, prices and photos, build each piece, and hand back files and a live link.

One form, five minutes. Live the next business day. No app for you or your guests, no monthly fee, and no cut of anything you sell.

Which package does this job?

The page and the menu are the Local Pack. Nothing here is a subscription, and nothing renews.

Starter The link
One page, one QR, done.
$49one-time
Delivered in 1 business day
  • One-page mobile website — hours, prices, photos, call button
  • QR poster PDF that opens the page
  • Your own edit key for later price changes
Start — $49

One page, one business day.

Local Pack This comparison
Website, menu and QR for every table.
$199one-time
Website + menu + posters + posts
  • Everything in Starter
  • Digital menu + one QR per table, print-ready
  • 3 print-ready posters — window hours, counter QR, menu board
  • 5 Instagram posts (1080×1080) with captions
  • Search title and description, plus a share card
  • One round of edits included
Get the Local Pack — $199

The one most shops order.

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.

Questions this comparison raises

Is Clover cheaper than Toast?

On the published numbers, yes at the entry: Clover's full-service Starter is $179 a month for 36 months with the hardware inside, against Toast's $219 a month plus a $1,153 terminal kit on a 2-year agreement. Clover's card-present rate (2.3% + 10¢) is also lower than Toast's 2.49% + 15¢. The trade is the term: 36 months non-cancelable against Toast's 24.

Can I get a BentoBox website without Clover?

Not according to BentoBox's own pricing page, which now reads "BentoBox is now Clover" and states that its products and services are only available to Clover POS customers. If you want that site, price the Clover hardware, the Clover software plan, the processing and the BentoBox modules as four lines. Our BentoBox page walks through it.

What happens at the end of the 36 months?

You buy the equipment or return it. If you do neither, the subscription continues at the same monthly charge, and Clover asks for 30 days' notice before the term ends. Ask in writing what the buy-out price is on your bundle — the pricing page does not state it.

The Clover price I was quoted is different. Why?

Because Clover is sold through banks and resellers who set their own prices and terms, and the prices on clover.com are stated to be available only there. If your quote came from your bank, compare it line by line with the clover.com card: bundle, software plan, processing rate, term and the buy-out at the end.

Who takes the payment, and is my card safe?

Polar Software, Inc., our merchant of record, takes it on their checkout page. Your card details are entered there, never on this site, and they handle the receipt and the tax. We never see your card number.

One page, printable, for the person who signs

The six bundles, the buy-or-return terms and the three-year arithmetic, on one printable page.

Download the PDF
Where the numbers come from. Clover restaurant bundles, the outright-purchase prices, the 2.3% + 10¢ and 3.5% + 10¢ rates, and the non-cancelable subscription terms: clover.com/pricing/restaurant and clover.com/pricing (FAQ), read 11 November 2026. The 30-days'-notice and buy-or-return terms, and a worked monthly cost: maple.inc/blog/clover-pos-pricing, 25 September 2026. The quick-service range: restaurantposcost.com, 25 October 2026. BentoBox's Clover-only wording: getbento.com/pricing, read 4 October 2026. Prices are US list prices, before tax, read from the vendor's own page or the most recent public report where no price is published; vendors change them, so check before you sign. ShopLaunch does not sell POS hardware, card processing, reservations or online ordering with payment, and we do not process your orders or your guests' payments. Where a figure is a third party's report rather than the vendor's own page we write reported. Last checked 11 November 2026. Something out of date? Tell us and we will correct it with the source.

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Your menu, live by tomorrow.

Send your shop once. 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.

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