2026 comparison · Owner.com prices read 12 October 2026

Owner.com vs ShopLaunch

Owner.com is the most complete direct-ordering platform in this market, and its price is not hidden: $249 a month plus 5% of orders, or $499 a month flat — and on both plans your guests pay a 5% order-support fee. Run the three-year arithmetic before you sign, because the subscription is only half of it.

Owner: $249 + 5% or $499Guest fee: 5%Term: month to monthShopLaunch: $199 once
The three-year total
Software and hardware only, before card processing, before tax.
Owner, 3 years on Flexible
$17,964
$249/mo + 5% of orders, at
$5,000/mo in online sales
Owner, 3 years on Flat Rate
$17,964
$499/mo × 36, no restaurant fee
Guests still pay their 5%
ShopLaunch, once
$199
Page, menu, QR, posters.
No ordering. No subscription.

What Owner.com publishes

Owner.com is unusually clear about its price, and worth quoting exactly. As of October 2026 its pricing page lists two plans, both with the same feature set:

Flexibleplus a 5% restaurant fee on every order — cheaper below $5,000/mo of online sales
$249/mo
Flat Rateno restaurant fee — Owner says it is best at $5,000/mo and above
$499/mo
Guest feean order-support fee your guests pay on both plans, not the restaurant
5%
Card processingOwner's own blog table lists 2.9% + $0.30 a transaction
not published

Both plans include an AI-optimised website, online ordering, a branded mobile app, automated SEO pages, loyalty and rewards, email and SMS marketing, catering orders, migration with a specialist, chargeback protection and 24/7 support. The term is month to month with no cancellation fee — genuinely the friendliest term of the four platforms on this page. There is also an Owner POS now, sold separately at a price Owner does not publish.

None of that is a trick. The question is whether a shop needs a growth platform, and what three years of one costs.

Three years, at three sizes of online order book

$2,000/mo orders: $249 + 5% ($100) × 36$12,564
$5,000/mo orders: $249 + 5% ($250) × 36$17,964
$10,000/mo orders: $249 + 5% ($500) × 36$26,964
Flat Rate, any volume$17,964
ShopLaunch Local Pack, paid once$199
Difference at $5,000/mo of orders$17,765

The two plans cross at $5,000 a month in online sales, which is exactly where Owner.com says Flat Rate starts to make sense. Card processing is extra on both, and the 5% your guests pay is on top of whatever the restaurant pays — at $5,000 a month that is another $250 a month out of your customers' pockets, $9,000 over three years.

If that order book exists and the platform is what produces it, this is not an expensive number: 5% of $5,000 is $250, and Owner's own pitch is that the site earns more than it costs. If your orders arrive at the counter and by phone, then the same $17,964 is buying a website you will use and an ordering system you will not.

Side by side

Owner.comShopLaunch
Subscription$249/mo + 5% of orders, or $499/mo flat$49 / $199 / $499, once
Fee on each order5% to Owner on Flexible; guests pay a 5% order-support fee on both plansNone
ContractMonth to month, no early-exit fee — the most flexible term in this comparisonNo contract
What it includesWebsite, online ordering, branded app, SEO pages, loyalty, email/SMS marketing, cateringWebsite, menu, QR, posters, posts
HardwareA kitchen tablet is on their site; the price is not publishedNone
Time to liveGuided migration with a specialist; no published timeline24 hours
If online ordering is your businessThis is the product for thatWe do not take orders or payments
Year 1 at $5,000/mo in orders$5,988 on Flexible$199
What you keepYour site inside their platformFiles and links you own

Owner.com figures are its published pricing page, read 12 October 2026, with the arithmetic shown. ShopLaunch prices are the ones on this site, in US dollars, before tax.

When Owner.com is the right answer

More often than a page like this would like to admit. Owner.com is the most complete direct-ordering product in this market.

Pay the $249–$499 if

  • Online pickup and delivery orders are a real share of your revenue
  • You want those orders commission-free on your own site, not through an app
  • You want a branded app your regulars reorder from
  • You want SEO pages and email/SMS campaigns written for you
  • You want one team to migrate everything and answer at 2am

Pay $199 once if

  • Your orders come at the counter and on the phone
  • You need the menu, the hours and the phone number to be right — nothing more
  • You do not want another software line in a slow month
  • You want the page live tomorrow, written in your shop's words
  • You want the files, with no platform in between

A useful test: if Owner.com's ordering brought you $5,000 a month you did not have, it pays for itself twice over. If it would host the same orders you already take, you are renting a growth engine to do a menu's job.

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 Owner.com worth $249 a month?

At $5,000 a month in online orders, Flexible costs $499 a month all in — $5,988 in year one — and Owner's pitch is that the ordering and SEO pages earn more than that. Below about $2,000 a month in online orders it is a $349-a-month website, and that is the case worth comparing with a one-time page.

Does Owner.com charge a commission?

It does not use the word commission, but Flexible carries a 5% restaurant fee on each order, and on both plans your guests pay a 5% order-support fee that Owner says covers fulfilment and customer service. Flat Rate has no restaurant fee. Compare the total on both sides of the transaction, not the label.

Can I buy only the website from Owner.com?

Owner.com lists one feature set included on both plans, so there is no website-only SKU published. If you want their website, you are on a $249 or $499 plan.

Do I need online ordering at all?

That is the real question, and only your order book answers it. A page with your menu, hours and a phone number covers the customer who is deciding where to eat; ordering software covers the one who has already decided. Most independent shops need the first and are sold the second.

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 two plans, the three-year totals at three order volumes, and the test to apply before you sign.

Download the PDF
Where the numbers come from. Owner.com plans, fees, contract terms and the 5% guest fee: owner.com/pricing, read 12 October 2026; the $2,000/$5,000/$10,000 monthly arithmetic follows the same page's own guidance. Card rate 2.9% + $0.30: Owner.com's own comparison table, "How much does a restaurant website cost", 28 October 2026. Owner POS and multi-location pricing are not published. 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.

The other three, on the same terms

Want all four on one page? The 2026 cost comparison puts them side by side.

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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