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Reward repeat visits, take commission-free orders and reservations, and sell gift cards — all from one link. No hardware. No app. Money goes directly into your Stripe account.
Digital stamp cards — the coffee shop model for any restaurant. Customers earn rewards every visit, right on their phone.
Sell $25–$200 gift cards from your storefront link. Customers buy in 60 seconds, no account needed. Stripe pays you immediately.
Commission-free online ordering. Build your menu, accept pickup and delivery orders. No 15–30% cut to third-party apps.
Let guests book a table directly from your storefront. Set party size limits, time slots, and confirmation messages.
One-click campaigns to your customer list. Announce specials, promote gift cards, invite regulars back.
Every gift card buyer and loyalty member is stored in your customer list. See lifetime spend, last visit, and notes.
Restaurant software is rarely one bill. It is a POS with add-ons, a marketplace taking a cut of every delivery order, a reservations platform with a per-cover fee, and a loyalty product priced per location. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Online ordering | Toast publishes $69/mo for the POS; Online Ordering, Gift Cards, Loyalty and Email are paid add-ons whose prices it does not publish | Free coreOrdering from your own QR menu, paid at the counter or by card. Flat 1.9% platform fee, no marketplace cut. |
| Delivery marketplace | 7% pickup, 15% self-delivery, 20–30% on marketplace delivery | Free coreNo commission and no marketplace — and no delivery fleet either. These are orders your own customers place through your link. |
| Delivery marketplace | 15%, 25% or 30% on marketplace delivery by plan; 6% on pickup; 0% on its own direct ordering | Free coreCustomer name, email and order history stay yours from the first order. |
| A branded ordering site | $229–$449/mo per location, plus a $119–$499 setup fee | Free coreA branded storefront link at no monthly fee and no setup fee. |
| Table reservations | $1–$1.50 per network cover, $0.25 on your own site, on top of monthly tiers | Free coreReservations with tables, capacity and slot duration, free core, no per-cover fee. No floor-plan editor. |
| Table reservations | $289/mo, or $459/mo per venue — but no per-cover fee | Free coreNo monthly fee. Also no marketplace: diners reach you through your own link. |
| Loyalty | From US$45/mo per location, banded by monthly loyalty visits | Plus addonDigital stamp cards stamped at the counter, with the threshold set by you. |
| Marketing email | Free to 250 contacts, then priced by contact count | Plus addonSingle sends to opted-in diners, up to 5,000 a month. No automations, no open tracking. |
Uber Eats’ 30% is the top of its published marketplace band and includes delivery by its own couriers and card processing; Resy and Square figures are their published entry prices. The Shopolo figure is the flat 1.9% platform fee ($228) plus Stripe’s own 2.9% + 30¢ (about $348 on $12,000, plus 30¢ per order) plus the $19 Plus addon — Stripe bills you directly and Shopolo never holds the money. This is deliberately not like for like: Shopolo has no delivery fleet and no marketplace, so these are orders your own customers place through your own link, not orders a marketplace 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 new table costs a marketing spend to win. A regular costs a reason to come back — a loyalty stamp that's one visit from a reward, a gift card sitting in someone's inbox, a reorder link in last week's takeout bag. The numbers below are why that matters more than most restaurants treat it.
A 2024 Bankrate/YouGov survey of 2,373 US adults found 43% were holding at least one unused gift card, worth $244 each on average.
First Data's 2018 Prepaid Consumer Insights study of 2,000+ US consumers found recipients spend $59 above the card's value when they redeem it.
Unlike Uber Eats and DoorDash, Shopolo takes no cut of your orders. Your margin stays yours.
Customers click your storefront link, pick an amount, pay with Apple Pay or card, done. No app required.
Restaurant gift card software lets you sell digital gift cards directly from your own storefront link instead of a third-party kiosk or your POS's add-on module. Shopolo's version includes loyalty stamps and online ordering on the same link, so a gift card buyer and a repeat customer end up in the same customer list.
Yes. Shopolo runs independently of whatever POS you already use for in-person payments — gift cards, loyalty, and online ordering are all web-based and sold through your storefront link, not through your register. Redeeming a gift card at the counter is a lookup in the Shopolo dashboard, not a POS plugin.
The QR menu, storefront, gift cards, online ordering and table reservations are all free, forever, no card needed to start. Loyalty stamps need the Plus addon, from $19/month.
Yes, and most independent restaurants should — third-party platforms are genuinely useful for new-customer discovery. The strategy that works best: keep the marketplace for first orders, and move repeat customers to your own commission-free link. More in our guide to commission-free ordering.
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.
Your menu, storefront, ordering, reservations and gift cards are all free, forever — no subscription, no setup fees, no hardware. Connect a free Stripe account when you're ready to take payments.
Start free →Free forever: QR menu, storefront, ordering, reservations, gift cards · Plus addon: loyalty, campaigns, reports