Just a moment…
A keg blows on a Friday and the menu on the table is wrong until somebody reprints it. Put a QR code on the table instead: edit the item, and every table is right again in seconds.
The QR drinks menu is free — a plan, not a trial. No credit card, no Stripe account.
Rotate a guest tap, change a price, mark a keg empty. Live on every table immediately, and the printed code never changes.
Phone camera, scan, done. Opens in the browser on any iPhone or Android — no download, no account, no password.
Sell gift cards from a link in your Instagram bio or Google listing. Customer pays, card arrives by email, money lands in your account.
A digital stamp card for regulars — nothing to keep in a wallet, nothing to lose, and you can see who actually comes back.
Take bookings for the snug, the back room or quiz night, with your own tables and time slots rather than a generic grid.
One email to your customer list when a cask lands or a band is booked. The list is yours, not a platform’s.
A bar with a rotating tap list and a booked-out Friday usually ends up paying three vendors: one for a menu it can edit, one for reservations with a fee on every cover, and one for a loyalty card. Here is what each of those is priced at on its own, against the same job on Shopolo.
| What you need | Bought separately | On Shopolo |
|---|---|---|
| A drinks menu you can edit | Paid monthly tiers, published on its own site | Free coreQR digital menu, free core. Change a tap list from your phone and it is live immediately — no reprinting. |
| POS with an online menu | 2.9% + 30¢ all-in, with Square as the processor | Free coreNo POS to buy. Flat 1.9% platform fee on top of Stripe’s own 2.9% + 30¢, settled to your account. |
| Reservations | $1–$1.50 per network cover, $0.25 on your own site, on top of monthly tiers | Free coreTables, capacity and slot duration, free core, no per-cover fee. The booked time and party size cannot be edited after the fact, and there is no floor-plan editor. |
| Reservations | $289/mo, or $459/mo per venue — but no per-cover fee | Free coreNo monthly fee — and no marketplace, so no diners discovering you through an app. |
| Reservations with prepayment | Now sold via Resy at $289 or $459/mo, plus 2–3% on prepayments | Free coreReservations free core; where you take a deposit, the flat 1.9% platform fee applies. |
| Reservations, enterprise | No published price — all three tiers are quote-only | Free coreA published price you can read before you talk to anyone: nothing for reservations. |
| Loyalty | $49/mo Lite, $79/mo Pro, per business | Plus addonStamp cards stamped at the bar, no app to install. Set the threshold and the reward yourself. |
| Gift cards | Toast Gift Cards is a paid add-on; Toast does not publish its price | Free coreDigital gift cards free core, settled straight to your own Stripe account. |
Resy, OpenTable and Stamp Me figures are the ones published on their own pages; the two reservations lines are alternatives to each other rather than a bill a single venue would pay twice, so read the total as the range a venue lands in. What the $968 buys that Shopolo does not: marketplace discovery — diners finding you inside the OpenTable or Resy app — and a full floor-plan and shift-management product. Shopolo’s reservations are a booking list against tables you define. Subject to change.
Every competitor figure on this page is the one carried on the comparison page it links to, where the source is named. Prices change and vary by country — check the vendor’s own pricing page before you decide.
It is the weeks in between. A bar that changes four taps a week and reprints monthly is serving a wrong menu most of the time — crossed-out lines, a price that no longer holds, a beer that ran out on Saturday. Staff answer the same three questions all night instead of pouring.
A QR menu moves that cost to zero, because the only thing you ever print is the code — and the code does not care what is on tap. Everything behind it is edited from a phone in the time it takes to change the keg.
Edit the item in your dashboard and it is live on every table immediately. The QR code never changes, so nothing needs reprinting when a keg blows or a guest tap rotates.
Yes. The QR menu and a published storefront page are free, forever — no credit card, no Stripe account, no time limit. Gift cards and reservations are free too; connect a free Stripe account when you're ready to sell gift cards or take deposits. Loyalty needs the Plus addon, from $19/month.
Yes. Mark an item out of stock and it shows as unavailable rather than disappearing, so regulars can see it is coming back rather than assuming you dropped it.
Yes. Use separate categories for food and drink on the same menu, so one code covers both. Many pubs keep a printed food menu and use the QR code for the drinks list, which is the part that changes.
Set one up on the QR code menu generator, read more about the QR menu, or compare plans on pricing.
Each comparison carries the vendor’s published pricing, the features Shopolo does not have, and the cases where the other platform is the better buy.