Toast vs Slice (2026): $9,037 Against $66,204 — and the $3.00 on Every Pizza

Q: Can I use Toast and Slice at the same time?

Yes, and a great many pizzerias do — Toast for the kitchen and the till, Slice for the online orders and the site. It costs $75,241 over three years at 600 orders a month, and the part to be clear about is that you are buying a website twice: Toast's is in Growth at $578 a month, and Slice's is included in both memberships. Ask in writing whether the Toast menu feeds the Slice site; Slice's integration line is about pulling third-party orders into one system, which is not the same promise.

Q: Is Slice really taking $3.00 off every pizza?

Not off the pizza's price, but off your month. On Online Growth it is $3.00 on every credit-card order, with no fee on online orders under $10, and on Complete Growth it is $2.00 on every online or phone order plus a $1,000 implementation fee. At 600 orders a month that is $1,800 a month, $21,600 a year and $64,800 over three years on the cheaper membership — before the $39 monthly fee and before 2.90% + 30¢ card processing. On a $25 ticket the fee is 12%; on a $15 lunch order it is 20%.

Q: Which takes less per online order, Toast or Slice?

Toast, by $3.00, on an order you already had. Toast's online ordering is inside Core at 3.50% + 15¢, so a $25 order costs $1.03 in card fees and nothing else. Slice charges $1.03 in card fees — the lines cross at exactly $25 — plus the $3.00, so the same order is $4.03. What the $3.00 buys is the Slice app and the marketplace listings, which Toast does not sell. Against DoorDash's 25% on a $25 basket ($6.25) the Slice fee is the cheaper way to buy a customer who did not know you; against your own regular phoning in, it is $3.00 for nothing.

What each one charges in 2026

Toast, on Traditional

BasicRegister, reports, 24/7 support — no online ordering

$69/mo

CoreAdds online ordering, delivery, DoorDash / Uber Eats / Grubhub

$219/mo

GrowthAdds the Toast website, gift cards, loyalty, SMS and email

$578/mo

Pay-as-You-GoNo software fee: 3.09% (Basic) to 3.69% (Growth) + 15¢ a card

$0/mo

Slice, two memberships

Online GrowthWebsite, online ordering, Slice app, marketplace listings — online orders only

$39/mo + $3

Complete GrowthAdds phone ordering, a POS and the hardware: kitchen printer, terminal, cash drawer

$99/mo + $2

ImplementationComplete Growth only; Online Growth has none

$1,000once

Per-order feeCredit-card orders on Online Growth; online and phone on Complete. Nothing under $10

$2-$3/order

Card processingOn every membership and every order

2.90%+ 30¢

Add-onsOrdering kiosk $59/mo · Flex Delivery from $6.90 an order · local marketing quoted

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The countertop starter kit is $1,153 up front on Traditional (Toast Flex terminal, Tap card reader, router) or $0 on Pay-as-You-Go, and it is yours, not leased. The checkout states a 2-year software agreement that then renews a year at a time unless either side gives 30 days' written notice. Leaving early costs the software fees left in the term, or $150 for each month left on Pay-as-You-Go — fourteen months left is $3,066 on Core, or $2,100 on the $0 plan.

Slice sells two memberships and both are month to month. Online Growth is $39 a month plus $3.00 on every credit-card order; Complete Growth is $99 a month plus $2.00 on every online or phone order with a $1,000 implementation fee, and it adds phone ordering, a POS and the hardware — dual tablet display, payment terminal, cash drawer, receipt printer, kitchen printer and network kit. Both include a branded website, online ordering, the Slice app, marketplace listings, menu setup, loyalty marketing and 24/7 support. Neither charges the fee on an online order under $10, and card processing is 2.90% + 30¢ on both.

The $3.00 is not a processing fee and it is not a commission on a marketplace order — it is the price of the system. It buys a website built and maintained by Slice's menu team, menu setup, loyalty marketing, and a listing in the Slice app and on Apple, TripAdvisor and Barstool One Bite with Google listing optimisation, which is demand a one-time page cannot manufacture and we are not going to pretend otherwise. What it is charged on is the thing to read twice: every credit-card order in the month, including the Friday regular who used to phone.

Toast on the other side of the same shop is a register with ordering attached, and its ladder is shaped differently: Core at $219 is the first pack with online ordering, Growth at $578 is the first with a marketing website, and the website on its own is not sold outside it. A pizza shop that wants a kitchen display buys a 14-inch screen at $749 plus $35 a month on top of Core. What Toast's price list does not sell, at any price, is a consumer marketplace: its ordering runs on a link you promote yourself, which is why the two are bought together so often and why that combination is the most expensive line on this page.

So the two price lists are answering different questions. Toast's $219 is what it costs to run the shop's till and its own ordering link; Slice's $39 + $3.00 is what it costs to rent a website, an ordering system and a place in a marketplace, charged by the order. A shop that needs both buys both, which is why the three-year figure for the pair matters more than either ladder on its own.

The three-year math, with the assumptions written down

Toast Core: 36 × $219$7,884

Toast countertop kit, paid once$1,153

Toast, three years at Core$9,037

Toast Growth, the pack with the website: 36 × $578 + kit$21,961

Toast Core plus a 14-inch kitchen screen: + 36 × $35$10,297

Slice Online Growth: 36 × $39$1,404

Slice per-order fee: 21,600 orders × $3.00$64,800

Slice, three years at Online Growth$66,204

Slice Complete Growth: 36 × $99 + $1,000 + 21,600 × $2.00$47,764

Both, as many pizza shops run them: Toast Core + Slice$75,241

ShopLaunch Local Pack, paid once$199

Still in your account, against running both$75,042

What the 600 is. A worked example, not a vendor figure: 600 online orders a month at a $25 average ticket is $15,000 a month and $540,000 across three years, and the $64,800 of per-order fees is 12% of it, taken a quarter at a time. Put against a shop's kitchen rather than its revenue, $64,800 is also the gross margin on 4,320 pizzas at $15 a pie. That is the sentence to read before signing: three years of the fee equals the margin on 7.2 months of this shop's pies.

Where Slice is cheaper than Toast, honestly. On the software line alone Slice wins below 60 online orders a month — $39 + $3.00 × 60 is $219, the price of Toast Core — and above that Toast's flat fee is cheaper by the order, because it has none. At 600 orders Slice's software and fee come to $1,839 a month against Toast's $219, which is the price of the marketplace rather than a margin. If your online orders are mostly people who already know you, that is a bad trade; if the Slice app is finding you new ones, $3.00 against DoorDash's 25% of a $25 basket ($6.25) is the cheaper way to buy a stranger.

Card processing is a dead heat at $25. Toast charges 3.50% + 15¢ online, Slice 2.90% + 30¢. Set them equal and 0.035x + 0.15 = 0.029x + 0.30 gives x = exactly $25: at that ticket both take $1.03 an order, at 600 orders both take $615 a month and $22,140 across three years. Below $25 Toast is cheaper, above it Slice is, and neither difference touches the $3.00. None of the totals above include processing; adding it changes all three columns equally, which is why we leave it out and say so.

The one combination nobody prices at the start. Toast Core for the kitchen and Slice Online Growth for the phone is the arrangement a great many pizzerias run, and it is $75,241 for three years: two systems, two menus to keep in step, two places a sold-out line has to be typed — and a website bought twice, because Toast's is in Growth and Slice's is included in its membership.

Three things to check before the first order arrives

None of this is hidden, and Slice publishes more of it than most: the fee, the $10 floor and the month-to-month term are all on its pricing page, which cannot be said of every competitor on this site. The questions are about what the fee is charged on and what stays with you.

1. The toll is charged on the orders you already had

Slice's fee is per credit-card order — $3.00 on Online Growth, and $2.00 on every online or phone order on Complete Growth. At 600 orders a month the per-order line is $1,800 a month and $21,600 a year whatever brought the order: a stranger from the app, a neighbour who scanned the box, or the family that has phoned every Friday since 2011. The fee is waived under $10 an order, and that is the whole of the exemption. Get two things in writing: which orders carry the fee, and whether a phone order paid at the counter does.

2. Toast's website is in the pack, not in the plan

The Toast website arrives with Growth at $578 a month, on the same two-year agreement whose exit is the software left in the term — $3,066 at Core and $8,092 at Growth with 14 months to run, or $150 a month on Pay-as-You-Go. Toast's terms restrict its services to approved Toast hardware and nothing on its pages offers the site as a download, so the page a guest opens belongs to the subscription the till runs on.

3. Buying both pays twice for one shop's website

Toast Core plus Slice Online Growth is $75,241, and both sides include a website. Nothing on either pricing page promises the Toast menu feeds the Slice site or the reverse: Slice says it can pull third-party orders into one system, which is a different promise from a shared menu, so ask. Two systems also means two sets of hours, two sold-out lines and two answers to the same question — and the day one of them is cancelled the page built inside it goes with it.

The domain is the tell again. Either vendor will point a domain you own at a site you rent, and the domain stays yours; what does not come with you is the page behind it. A shop that changes ordering — and over ten years most do — pays for the website twice: once inside the subscription, once in the rebuild. A one-time page removes that class of problem, because the deliverable is the file, and the ordering you already have keeps working through its own link.

Where Slice is the better buy

You want the Slice app and its marketplace listings finding you orders
You want a site designed and maintained for you, with a menu team behind it
You want phone orders, a POS and the hardware in one monthly bill (Complete Growth)
You would rather pay per order than a monthly fee, and 600 orders is not your volume
You want a month-to-month term with no exit fee

A one-time page wins when you

Already take orders on Toast, Square or a free DoorDash page
Want the Friday phone regulars to stay free
Need the menu printed, on the tables and on the box lid, tomorrow
Want the files, the domain and the page in your own name
Would rather not have a fee on order 21,601

Side by side

Same shop, two different jobs — a till with an ordering link against an ordering system that brings a marketplace — and the part that survives whichever you stop paying.

	Toast (Core / Growth)	Slice (Online / Complete)	ShopLaunch
List price today	$69 / $219 / $578 a month, plus a $1,153 kit	$39 + $3.00 an order · $99 + $2.00 and a $1,000 setup	$49 / $199 / $499, once
What the per-order fee is	None. Ordering is inside Core; the card rate is 3.50% + 15¢	$3.00 on every credit-card order; $2.00 on online and phone; nothing under $10	We take no orders
What you pay in year 2	$2,628 at Core · $6,936 at Growth	$22,068 at 600 orders · $15,588 on Complete	$0
The website	In Growth at $578/mo, or a Digital Storefront add-on with no published price	In both memberships, built and hosted by Slice	Built for you in 24 hours
Who maintains it	You, inside Toast's editor	Slice's menu team, inside Slice's system	You, with an edit key — one page, no system
Can the site leave with you	No — it stops with the subscription	Ask in writing: built and hosted inside Slice, and no export is offered on its pricing page	Yes — the HTML, the CSS and the images are the deliverable
Contract	2 years, then a year at a time	Month to month	None
Leaving early	Software left in the term: $3,066 at Core with 14 months to run; $150 a month on Pay-as-You-Go	Nothing — cancel any month, no exit fee	Nothing to cancel
A register for the kitchen	Yes: floor plans, coursing, KDS ($749 + $35/mo for a 14-inch screen), delivery-app integrations	Complete Growth only, with phone ordering and the hardware in the fee	No POS, ever
Online ordering with payment	Yes, from Core ($219), at 3.50% + 15¢	Yes, in both memberships, at 2.90% + 30¢	No. We do not take orders or payments
Demand it brings	None of its own — the ordering link is yours to promote	The Slice app, listings on Apple, TripAdvisor and Barstool One Bite, Google listing optimisation	None. We build the page, not the audience
Card processing	2.49% + 15¢ in person · 3.50% + 15¢ online	2.90% + 30¢ on every order	We process nothing
Three years at 600 orders a month	$9,037 at Core · $21,961 at Growth	$66,204 at Online Growth · $47,764 at Complete	$199

Slice: slice.com/pricing read 11 November 2026 — Online Growth $39 a month plus $3.00 a credit-card order, Complete Growth $99 a month plus $2.00 an online or phone order with a $1,000 implementation fee, no per-order fee on online orders under $10, 2.90% + 30¢ card processing on every membership, month-to-month, a branded website and marketplace listings included; the kiosk is $59 a month, Flex Delivery from $6.90 an order, local marketing quoted. Toast: pos.toasttab.com/pricing for the approved-hardware wording and the two-year agreement, read 11 November 2026; the Traditional Starter Kit prices — $69 Basic, $219 Core, $578 Growth, the $1,153 countertop kit, 2.49% + 15¢ in person and 3.50% + 15¢ online, the 14-inch kitchen screen at $749 + $35 a month, and websites arriving in Growth — from Toast's checkout as read and published on 7 November 2026 by expresso.io/blog/toast-pricing; the early-termination formula from Toast's Merchant Agreement (last updated 10 September 2025) as summarised by Orbix POS on 21 October 2026. The 600 orders, the $25 ticket and the $15 a pie margin are our worked examples, not vendor figures. Prices are US list, before tax.

What the $199 actually is

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

A mobile page on a real URL — hours, prices, photos, tap-to-call, directions. One link for your Instagram bio, Google listing and texts.
A digital menu with one QR per table — print-ready PDF, no app for the guest, no waiting for a printed card.
Three print-ready posters — window hours, counter QR, menu board. A4 and A3.
Five Instagram posts (1080×1080) with the captions written.
The files themselves — the HTML, the stylesheet and the images, in a folder you can hand to any host or any printer.

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 — for a shop that already pays a fee on every order. On a pizzeria it also includes the print-ready 4×4 in QR sticker for the box lid, so the box that leaves the shop comes back as a phone order. Keep the ordering you have; take the website off a bill that charges per pie.

Starter The link

One page, one QR, done.

$49one-time

Delivered in 1 business day

One-page mobile site — hours, prices, photos, address, tap-to-call
Call and directions buttons, pinned to the screen
QR poster PDF for the counter and the window
Your own edit key, so a price change is a minute of your time

Start — $49

Five months of Slice's membership, or 66 orders' worth of its fee, paid once.

Local Pack This comparison

The page, the menu and the print pieces.

$199one-time

Website + menu + posters + posts

Everything in Starter
Full menu or service list — up to 30 items, grouped, priced, descriptions written
3 print pieces — window hours, counter QR, menu board
5 Instagram posts (1080×1080) with captions
Google Business Profile text — category, hours, description
Search title and description, plus a share card that looks right in a text
One round of edits included

Get the Local Pack — $199

The one most shops order.

Full Launch Everything

A real menu, built and written.

$499one-time

For a menu of up to 60 items

Everything in Local Pack
Up to 60 items, every one described
A photo gallery laid out as a scroll, not a grid of squares
10 Instagram posts + A3 posters + table tents
Google Business Profile setup text — categories, services, hours
A one-page look at 3 nearby shops' prices and online presence
30 days of small updates — 5 changes

Get Full Launch — $499

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. The files are yours to keep and reprint.

Questions this comparison raises

Is Toast or Slice cheaper for a pizzeria?

It depends which job you are pricing, and the numbers are far apart. Three years of Toast Core is $9,037 — a till, card processing and an online ordering link, on a two-year term, with no marketing website until Growth at $578 ($21,961 over three years). Three years of Slice's Online Growth at 600 orders a month is $66,204, of which $64,800 is the $3.00 per-order fee. Slice is cheaper than Toast only below about 60 online orders a month; above that the flat fee wins by the order and the $3.00 is what you pay for a website, a menu team and a place in the Slice app.

Can I use Toast and Slice at the same time?

Yes, and a great many pizzerias do — Toast for the kitchen and the till, Slice for the online orders and the site. It costs $75,241 over three years at 600 orders a month, and the part to be clear about is that you are buying a website twice: Toast's is in Growth at $578 a month, and Slice's is included in both memberships. Ask in writing whether the Toast menu feeds the Slice site; Slice's integration line is about pulling third-party orders into one system, which is not the same promise.

Is Slice really taking $3.00 off every pizza?

Not off the pizza's price, but off your month. On Online Growth it is $3.00 on every credit-card order, with no fee on online orders under $10, and on Complete Growth it is $2.00 on every online or phone order plus a $1,000 implementation fee. At 600 orders a month that is $1,800 a month, $21,600 a year and $64,800 over three years on the cheaper membership — before the $39 monthly fee and before 2.90% + 30¢ card processing. On a $25 ticket the fee is 12%; on a $15 lunch order it is 20%.

Which takes less per online order, Toast or Slice?

Toast, by $3.00, on an order you already had. Toast's online ordering is inside Core at 3.50% + 15¢, so a $25 order costs $1.03 in card fees and nothing else. Slice charges $1.03 in card fees — the lines cross at exactly $25 — plus the $3.00, so the same order is $4.03. What the $3.00 buys is the Slice app and the marketplace listings, which Toast does not sell. Against DoorDash's 25% on a $25 basket ($6.25) the Slice fee is the cheaper way to buy a customer who did not know you; against your own regular phoning in, it is $3.00 for nothing.

Do I need Toast's website if I already pay Slice for one?

No, and that is the clearest $578 a month on this page. If Slice is building and hosting the site guests actually see, Toast is doing the till: Core at $219 rather than Growth at $578, and $12,924 back over three years. The only thing to settle first is which page the Google listing, the box-lid QR and the Instagram bio point at — one of them, not both.

If I leave Slice, do I keep the website?

Ask Slice that in writing, and ask it before you sign: the site is built by its menu team and hosted inside its system, its pricing page offers no export, and its terms refer to "any Slice fees" without an amount. The questions that settle it are: does the site survive a cancellation, who owns the domain, and can the menu come out as a file. What you keep regardless is your words, your photos and your menu — the rebuild from them is the hidden line.

Do I need either one to have a page?

No. A page with your hours, your pies, your prices and your phone number needs no terminal, no account and no ordering system behind it — ours is one HTML file and a stylesheet, with nothing between the guest and your hours. If you want orders to land in a kitchen printer with nobody answering the phone, that is Slice, Toast or Square, and we are not it: we build the page and the print pieces, and we take no orders and no cut.

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

Both ladders, the three-year totals at 600 orders, the $3.00 per order and the 4,320 pizzas it equals, on one printable A4 page.

Download the PDF

Where the numbers come from. Slice: slice.com/pricing read 11 November 2026 — Online Growth $39 a month plus $3.00 a credit-card order, Complete Growth $99 a month plus $2.00 an online or phone order with a $1,000 implementation fee, no per-order fee on online orders under $10, 2.90% + 30¢ card processing, month-to-month, a branded website, the Slice app and marketplace listings (Apple, TripAdvisor, Barstool One Bite) in both memberships; the kiosk at $59 a month, Flex Delivery from $6.90 an order and local marketing on the same page. Toast: pos.toasttab.com/pricing for the approved-hardware wording and the two-year agreement, read 11 November 2026; the Traditional Starter Kit prices — $69 Basic, $219 Core, $578 Growth, the $1,153 countertop kit, 2.49% + 15¢ in person, 3.50% + 15¢ online, websites in Growth, and the 14-inch kitchen screen at $749 + $35 a month — from Toast's checkout as read and published on 7 November 2026 by expresso.io/blog/toast-pricing; the early-termination formula from Toast's Merchant Agreement (last updated 10 September 2025) as summarised by Orbix POS on 21 October 2026. DoorDash's 25% marketplace commission, used for scale, is from DoorDash's published marketplace plans. The 600 online orders a month, the $25 ticket and the $15 a pie margin are our worked examples, not vendor figures — at 600 orders and $3.00 the fee is $21,600 a year, and $64,800 is the margin on 4,320 pies at $15. The guest-side Slice fee is not published; its terms refer to "any Slice fees" without an amount, so this page puts no number on it. ShopLaunch does not sell POS hardware, card processing or online ordering with payment. Prices are US list, before tax; vendors change them, so check before you sign. Last checked 11 November 2026. Something out of date? Tell us and we will correct it with the source.

The other head-to-heads

Head to headClover vs Square$6,444 against $1,764 over three years — and 36 months you cannot cancel.Head to headToast vs SpotOn$21,961 against $10,100 for the same job — and SpotOn owns the domain while you stay.Head to headToast vs Clover$9,037 against $6,444 over three years — 24 months against 36, one shared trap.Head to headToast vs TouchBistro$9,037 against $6,084 over three years — a $119 floor that becomes $472, and no website in either.Head to headToast vs Square$9,037 against $1,764 over three years — and the website neither lets you keep.Head to headToast vs BentoBoxThe website with a register, or no website without one: $6,444 to $21,961.

Every competitor, on the same terms

Sixteen more, each priced over three years from the vendor's own page — restaurant POS, ordering, booking apps and the DIY builders.

POS + websiteToast vs ShopLaunch$219-$578/mo on a 2-year term, plus a $1,153 kit.POS + websiteSquare for Restaurants vs ShopLaunch$0-$149/mo, ordering included.restaurant websitesBentoBox vs ShopLaunchNow sold only with Clover POS, no price published.POS + hardwareClover vs ShopLaunch$179-$354/mo for 36 months, non-cancelable.direct orderingChowNow vs ShopLaunch$229-$409/mo plus a $119-$499 setup.POS + orderingSpotOn vs ShopLaunch$0-$55 a station, plus $65/mo for the site.direct orderingOwner.com vs ShopLaunch$249-$499/mo, plus 5% of orders.menu + marketingPopmenu vs ShopLaunch$179-$499/mo, plus $1 an order.pizza orderingSlice vs ShopLaunch$2-$3 on every pizza: $47,764-$66,204.POS + orderingTouchBistro vs ShopLaunch$119/mo for POS + online ordering.POS platformLightspeed Restaurant vs ShopLaunch$69-$399/mo, plus $30 a screen.booking appSquire vs ShopLaunch$30-$250/mo per shop, plus $25/mo for the page.booking appBooksy vs ShopLaunch$29.99/mo + $20 a barber, and the 30% Boost cut.booking appFresha vs ShopLaunchNo free plan since 2026, and a 20% marketplace fee.DIY builderWix vs ShopLaunch$29-$39/mo on a yearly plan, and no export.DIY builderSquarespace vs ShopLaunchCore $29/mo, and the design never exports.

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