TouchBistro publishes $69 a month for its point of sale — with hardware required and processing on top — and lists online ordering, reservations, loyalty and the kitchen display as add-ons without prices. Put online ordering in at the reported $50 a month and the subscription is $119 a month: $4,284 over three years, before an iPad, a printer and a single card fee. ShopLaunch's page and QR menu is $199, once, and needs none of it.
TouchBistro is a restaurant point of sale built on an iPad, sold as a $69-a-month subscription with the hardware required, or as a $119 Essentials Bundle with the hardware and integrated payments inside. The functions a table-service restaurant needs beyond that — online ordering, reservations, loyalty, a kitchen display — are add-ons, and its pricing page lists them without a price.
Two things are worth separating. The $119 Essentials Bundle is not the $69 plan plus online ordering: it is software, hardware and payments in one monthly figure, and online ordering is still an add-on on top. And the card rate is not published at all — TouchBistro says your processor is your choice, so the number that decides your month is quoted, not printed.
Nothing above includes the iPad, the stand, the receipt printer, the cash drawer, the card reader or a cent of processing. It also leaves out every add-on but online ordering: with reservations at the reported $229 a month, the same three years is $12,528 of subscription before hardware, and a restaurant with loyalty and gift cards on top is past $16,000.
Our $199 does not replace any of that system. It replaces the line item you bought for the menu — the page in the Instagram bio, the QR at the table, the hours that are wrong on Google. Those are the things a shop pays a platform a year for, and they are the things a static page does better and once.
| TouchBistro | ShopLaunch | |
|---|---|---|
| What it costs | $69/mo with hardware required; $119/mo for the Essentials Bundle; add-ons on top | $199, once |
| Hardware | Required — iPads, stand, printer, cash drawer, reader. Financed for two or more terminals | None; the page runs on any phone |
| Card processing | Not published — your processor, your rate | We process nothing |
| Online ordering | An add-on, commission-free, reported at $50/mo | Not offered — we do not take orders |
| Reservations, loyalty, gift cards, KDS | Add-ons, quoted or reported per month | None of that |
| Contract | Not stated on its pricing page — ask for the term and the exit price in writing | No contract |
| Who builds it | You set the menu up; they show you how | We do, from one five-minute form |
| Time to live | Install, hardware delivery, menu build | 24 hours |
| Table QR menu | Ordering and payment at the table on some setups | A printed QR that opens your menu — no ordering |
| What you keep | A system you rent, on hardware you buy | The page, the PDFs, the PNGs |
TouchBistro figures from touchbistro.com/pricing, read 11 November 2026: Point of Sale $69/month with hardware required and payment processing and additional fees applying; Essentials Bundle $119/month with hardware and integrated payments, processing and additional fees applying; add-ons listed without prices; its FAQ states no commission on TouchBistro Online Ordering. The $50 online ordering, $229 reservations, $99 loyalty and $25 gift card figures are third-party price lists, marked reported. ShopLaunch prices are the ones on this site, in US dollars, before tax.
If the question is "what should my restaurant run on", TouchBistro is a serious answer, and this page is not.
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.
Its pricing page lists Point of Sale at $69 a month with hardware required, and an Essentials Bundle at $119 a month with restaurant-grade hardware and integrated payments inside. Add-ons — online ordering, reservations, loyalty, marketing, gift cards, kitchen display, inventory, labour — are listed without prices on that page. Third-party price lists put online ordering at $50 a month, reservations at $229, loyalty at $99 and gift cards at $25; those are reported figures, not TouchBistro's own published prices, so ask for a quote with the lines you need.
TouchBistro's page says hardware is required and its bundle includes restaurant-grade hardware; the software runs on iPads, with a stand, a receipt printer, a cash drawer and a card reader around them. Hardware financing is offered for venues with two or more terminals. The $69 plan does not include any of it, so the hardware is a separate purchase or a monthly instalment on top of the $69.
Its FAQ says no: TouchBistro Online Ordering is commission-free, which is more honest than most marketplaces. The trade is the add-on fee instead — reported at $50 a month — plus card processing, which TouchBistro does not publish as a number because it depends on the processor you choose.
TouchBistro does not sell that on its own: the online ordering add-on sits on top of the POS, and the POS needs hardware. If the thing you are missing is a link with your hours and prices and a QR menu for the tables, that is the $199 Local Pack, and it works with whatever register you already have — including theirs.
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 add-ons, the three-year arithmetic and what the subscription does not include, 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.