Square is the least expensive subscription in this comparison, and the platform we would point a shop at if it wants to run its own site. Its restaurant plans are $0, $49 and $149 a month per location, and the branded ordering page is included even on Free. So the honest question is not the price alone — it is whether you want to build and maintain that page yourself, on a subscription that starts again every month.
Square publishes all of it, per location, and at $49 it is the least expensive subscription on this site. Three plans — and the branded online ordering page is on every one of them, including the free plan:
The plans are month to month: Square runs a 30-day trial on the paid tiers and says you can cancel or switch at any time. The hardware is sold separately — a reader for a phone, a register for a counter — and the POS app runs on a phone or tablet you already own.
Two things are worth pinning down before you compare a Square bill with ours. First, Square is the processor: the rates above are Square's, and they are part of the same account. Second, if you have read $60 a month for Square for Restaurants Plus and $29 for Square Online Plus, that was an older pair of separate subscriptions. The current restaurant page sells one plan set with the ordering page included. If your account is still on the old pair, your bill is not this table — ask Square which plan set you are on.
It would be silly to hide this: Square is cheap, it already includes an ordering page at $49, and $1,565 over three years is not the cliff that Toast or Owner.com is. What the $1,764 buys is a subscription that starts again every month, for a page you build and maintain yourself in Square's editor — and a page that is designed to take orders, not to be the thing a guest reads at the door.
The larger line is processing, and it is on both sides. At $40,000 a month in card sales, 2.5% + 15¢ on Plus is about $1,000 plus 15¢ a payment — roughly $1,150 a month at 1,000 payments. We do not process payments, so that money stays wherever it is today; if it is with Square, it stays with Square whether or not you buy a page from us.
Same job, two products: putting your hours, your menu and your phone number where a customer looks.
| Square for Restaurants | ShopLaunch | |
|---|---|---|
| List price today | $0 / $49 / $149 a month, per location | $49 / $199 / $499, once |
| What you pay in year 2 | $588 at Plus · $1,788 at Premium | $0 |
| Card rates | 2.6% / 2.5% / 2.4% + 15¢ in person; 3.3% / 2.9% / 2.9% + 30¢ online | Not touched — we do not process payments |
| Minimum term | Month to month; Square offers a 30-day trial on the paid plans | No contract |
| Hardware | Square readers and registers sold separately; the POS app runs on a phone or tablet | None. Your phone and your printer |
| The website | A site builder and a branded ordering page you set up and maintain yourself | One page built for you, from a five-minute form |
| Menu and QR | Menu in Square; table QR codes you generate and print | Digital menu with one QR per table, print-ready |
| Print collateral | Not included — templates sit in Square's marketing tools | 3 posters and 5 Instagram posts in the pack |
| Time to live | Same day, if you build it the same day | 24 hours from a completed form |
| Online ordering with payment | Yes — commission-free, on your Square account | No. We do not take payments |
| Point of sale | A real POS, free plan included | No POS, ever |
Square figures are its published restaurant plans and processing rates, per location, read 11 November 2026. Add-on app fees are per device. Square Pro is a custom quote for restaurants processing over $250,000 a year and is not part of this comparison.
Square is a good product at a fair price, and for a shop that wants to build and run its own site it is often the right purchase. The split, as plainly as we can put it:
The two work together: keep Square for payments and ordering, and use the page for the door, the table QR and the link in the Instagram bio. Nothing in our pack needs Square to change, and nothing in Square's account needs ours.
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.
The page and the menu are the Local Pack. Nothing here is a subscription, and nothing renews.
One page, one business day.
The one most shops order.
Everything, plus 30 days of us on call.
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.
For the page and the menu, yes. For the register, the card processing and the online ordering, no — Square does those and we do not. A shop that needs a POS should buy Square's, and a shop that needs a page can buy ours; the two products sit next to each other on the same counter.
Because $49 a month is $588 a year and $1,764 over three years, and the page you get for it is one you build yourself in Square's editor. If you enjoy that and the template fits your shop, keep it — it is the cheapest route in this comparison. If you would rather someone else built the page, wrote the menu and printed the QR codes, that is the $199 one-time pack.
Yes. It is a static page on its own URL — no integration to fail — so you can link it from your Square ordering page, your Google listing and your Instagram bio. Guests who want to order go to Square; guests who want to see the menu and your hours read the page.
Both were, at different times. Square for Restaurants Plus at $60 and Square Online Plus at $29 were two separate subscriptions; Square's current restaurant page sells one plan set — Free, Plus at $49 and Premium at $149 per location — with the branded ordering page included. Ask Square which plan set your account is on before comparing quotes, because the older pair is not the same bill.
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.
The plan ladder, the three-year arithmetic and the questions to ask Square, on one printable page.
Want all eleven on one page? The 2026 cost comparison puts them side by side.
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.