Just a moment…
You do not have an address, so the fixed thing customers need is a link — one page with today's menu, your hours and where you are parked. Put the QR code on the window and in your bio.
Free plan, no credit card, no Stripe account. Connect Stripe later if you want order-ahead.
A storefront page at shopolo.app/your-business that stays the same whether you are at a brewery, a market or an office park.
Sold out of the special? Mark it from your phone between orders. The queue sees it before they reach the window.
A photo per item. People decide faster in a queue when they can see what they are choosing, and the line moves.
On a paid plan, customers order and pay before they arrive. Fewer people standing around, more orders per hour of service.
Payments run through Stripe Checkout to your own account. We never hold your takings — the platform fee comes out of settlement.
Email your list on the morning of a pitch. Regulars who follow a truck are the ones most likely to come and find it.
A truck changes location and menu constantly, which is exactly what the usual software is worst at. The branded ordering products charge a monthly fee plus setup; the marketplaces charge a percentage of every order. 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 branded ordering page | $229–$449/mo per location, plus a $119–$499 setup fee | Free coreA branded storefront link, free core — no monthly fee, no setup fee, and no per-location charge for a truck that moves. |
| Order-ahead through a marketplace | 7% pickup, 15% self-delivery, 20–30% on marketplace delivery | Free coreFlat 1.9% platform fee on what you process, no commission — and no delivery fleet, so this is pickup and order-ahead only. |
| Order-ahead through a marketplace | 6% on pickup, 15–30% on marketplace delivery by plan | Free coreCustomer name, email and order history are yours from the first order. |
| POS with online ordering | 2.9% + 30¢ all-in, with Square as the processor | Free coreNo terminal to carry. Stripe processes at its own 2.9% + 30¢ and the platform fee is a flat 1.9% on top. |
| A menu that changes daily | Paid monthly tiers, published on its own site | Free coreQR digital menu, free core. Sold out of the special? Change it from your phone between services. |
| Gift cards | No monthly fee — a per-transaction percentage instead | Free coreDigital gift cards free core, settled straight to your own Stripe account. |
| Loyalty for regulars | $49/mo Lite, $79/mo Pro, per business | Plus addonStamp cards stamped at the window, no app for the customer to install. |
| Email to regulars | Free to 250 contacts, then priced by contact count | Plus addonSingle sends to opted-in customers, up to 5,000 a month — useful for telling them where you are parked. |
Uber Eats’ 7% is its published pickup rate and ChowNow’s figures are from its own plan pages. The Shopolo figure is the flat 1.9% platform fee ($114) plus Stripe’s own 2.9% + 30¢ (about $174 on $6,000, plus 30¢ per order) — Stripe bills you directly and Shopolo never holds the money. No Plus addon is included because a truck needs none of it to take orders. This is not like for like: Shopolo has no marketplace, so these are customers who already follow you, not customers an app found for you. 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.
A board on the hatch only works once somebody is standing at it. By then they have already walked past three other trucks. The decision happens earlier — on a phone, from a photo somebody posted, from a link in a bio, from a QR code on the side of the truck seen from the queue next door.
That is the whole argument for a page: not that chalk is bad, but that the menu needs to exist somewhere a phone can reach before the customer is in front of you.
No. You get a published storefront page at shopolo.app/your-business with your menu, hours, logo and photos. That link is what goes in your Instagram bio and on the window — it works wherever you park.
Yes. The QR menu and the storefront page are free, forever, with no credit card, no Stripe account and no time limit. Online ordering is free too — connect a free Stripe account when you want to take order-ahead payments, and a flat 1.9% platform fee applies only to orders paid by card.
Yes, on a paid plan. Customers order from their phone while queuing or before they arrive, and pay through Stripe Checkout so the money goes to your account directly rather than through us.
Mark it out of stock from your phone. The menu updates immediately, so the queue stops asking for it and nobody is disappointed at the window.
Make one on the QR code menu generator, see how online ordering works, 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.