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Toast is a powerful restaurant POS, but gift cards, loyalty, email marketing and table reservations are each a separate paid add-on whose price Toast does not publish. On Shopolo, gift cards, online ordering, reservations and the QR menu are free core, with loyalty and email campaigns on the optional Plus addon.
Toast publishes $69/month for its point of sale but no monthly rate for the gift card, loyalty or email add-ons, so none is quoted here. Third-party delivery commissions are the marketplaces' own published rates. Subject to change.
Toast Gift Cards is a separate paid add-on rather than part of the POS, and Toast does not publish what it costs — you get the number from a sales call. On Shopolo, digital gift cards are free core: no monthly fee, no per-card fee, and a flat 1.9% platform fee on the sale.
Toast Loyalty is billed separately and per location, so the cost compounds with every site you open; Toast does not publish the rate. On Shopolo, loyalty stamp cards are the Plus addon — one optional addon rather than a per-location line item, and it sits in the same dashboard as everything else.
Toast publishes $69/month for the point of sale and a starter kit from $0, but gift cards, loyalty and email marketing are separate add-ons sold through Toast Shop with no public monthly rate — what it does publish for them are one-time onboarding fees: $100 to convert gift cards, $200 to convert loyalty, $125 to set up online ordering. So the monthly cost of matching Shopolo's feature set is not something you can work out before you talk to sales. On Shopolo the same ground is covered by free core features — gift cards, ordering, reservations, booking and the QR menu — with loyalty and email campaigns on the optional Plus addon.
Toast is a great fit for larger restaurants that need a full POS — kitchen display systems, table management, split checks, staff management, and deep integrations. For large restaurant groups with complex operations, Toast's depth is worth the cost. Shopolo is the better choice if you just want gift cards, online ordering and reservations without buying into a full POS stack — those are free core, with loyalty on the Plus addon.
Toast does not publish monthly prices for them — gift cards, loyalty, email marketing and Toast Tables are each separate add-ons sold through a sales call, with published one-time onboarding fees ($100 to convert gift cards, $200 for loyalty, $125 for online ordering setup). On Shopolo, gift cards, ordering, reservations and the QR menu are free core, with loyalty and email on the Plus addon at a published price.
Yes — Shopolo runs entirely in the browser with no hardware, no monthly POS subscription and no add-on per feature. The flat 1.9% platform fee plus Stripe processing applies to payments you take online, and nothing else is charged until you choose the Plus addon.
When you need a full restaurant POS: kitchen display systems, table management, split checks, staff management and deep integrations. For large or complex operations that depth is worth the cost. Shopolo is the better fit when what you actually want is gift cards, direct ordering and reservations without buying into the POS stack.
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