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Pricing

Simple pricing. No cut of your orders.

Month-to-month, or own it outright. Either way we never take a commission on an order, and we never add a service fee to your customer's total.

Essentials

A real website with real online ordering, hosted and maintained by us.

$249per month

$500 one-time setup

  • Custom website included
  • Online ordering & checkout included
  • Cash payment on online orders included
  • Menu management included
  • Order tracking included
  • Analytics — basic included
  • Hosting & domain — we cover it included
  • Maintenance & updates included
  • Order tablet & receipt printer — included on loan included
  • Catering orders not included
  • Customer accounts & rewards not included
  • Email marketing not included
  • Contact list & imports not included
  • Google Business Profile management not included
  • Google Ads management — +$299/mo included
  • SEO monitoring not included
  • Per-order commission — none included
  • Customer service fees — none included

Single locations getting off third-party apps.

Start with Essentials
Most popular

Complete

Everything in Essentials, plus the marketing side that brings people back.

$499per month

$500 one-time setup

  • Custom website included
  • Online ordering & checkout included
  • Cash payment on online orders included
  • Menu management included
  • Order tracking included
  • Analytics — full + monthly reports included
  • Hosting & domain — we cover it included
  • Maintenance & updates included
  • Order tablet & receipt printer — included on loan included
  • Catering orders included
  • Customer accounts & rewards included
  • Email marketing — 10,000 emails/mo included included
  • Contact list & imports included
  • Google Business Profile management included
  • Google Ads management included
  • SEO monitoring included
  • Per-order commission — none included
  • Customer service fees — none included

Restaurants that want repeat orders, not just orders.

Start with Complete

Buyout

We build it, hand you the keys, and you own it outright. No monthly fee.

$2,999+one-time

Setup included — scope sets the final number

  • Custom website included
  • Online ordering & checkout included
  • Cash payment on online orders included
  • Menu management included
  • Order tracking included
  • Analytics — yours at handover included
  • Hosting & domain — you own and host it included
  • Maintenance & updates — optional retainer included
  • Order tablet & receipt printer — add-on purchase included
  • Catering orders included
  • Customer accounts & rewards included
  • Email marketing — set up, not run included
  • Contact list & imports included
  • Google Business Profile management not included
  • Google Ads management not included
  • SEO monitoring not included
  • Per-order commission — none included
  • Customer service fees — none included

Owners who'd rather own the asset than rent it.

Talk about a buyout

On every plan, always

Cash orders allowed

Customers can order online and pay cash at pickup or on delivery — on Essentials, Complete and a Buyout alike. An order paid in cash carries no card processing fee at all, so what would have gone to a payment processor stays with you.

0% commission

We never take a cut of an order. Not on Essentials, not on Complete, not ever.

0% customer fees

No service fee bolted onto your customer's total at checkout. The price on the menu is the price they pay.

Your data stays yours

Your customer list, order history and domain belong to you — including if you leave.

Built, not assembled

Hand-built and hand-tuned. No page builder, no plugin stack, no theme licence to renew.

Hardware included

Orders arrive on a screen in your kitchen, and print themselves.

An online order is only worth anything if somebody sees it. Every monthly plan ships with a tablet and a receipt printer, paired and set up before they reach you: the order lands, the tablet shows it, the ticket prints. Nobody has to sit watching an inbox through a dinner rush.

An order tablet showing a paid pickup order, next to a receipt printer on a counter.
What we ship: the order tablet and the receipt printer, paired to each other and ready to plug in.
A restaurant counter with a point of sale terminal and card reader beside the order tablet and receipt printer.
On the counter beside our POS, so online and walk-in orders close out in one place. The POS itself is a separate build, quoted per restaurant.

On Essentials & Complete

The tablet and printer come with your setup at no extra charge — no rental line, no deposit — and stay with you for as long as your ordering site is running with us.

On a buyout

There is no monthly plan carrying the hardware, so the tablet and printer are an add-on you buy outright alongside the build. Everything else about how they work is the same.

Point of Sale

Our own software, running on the counter. Orders rung up at the till and orders placed online land in the same place, so your menu, your prices and your reporting never drift apart.

Basic

Everything a counter needs to take orders and close out the day.

  • Full order entry — counter orders and online orders land in the same place
  • Customer details saved against each order
  • Clock in and clock out, with a time card per employee
  • Employee hours and labour totals
  • Sales reports and customer analytics
  • Cash in and cash out on the same terminal
  • Discounts page for everyday promotions
  • Delivery board — addresses, time elapsed, and orders assigned to your drivers

Premium

Everything in Basic, plus taking card payments on the terminal itself.

  • Everything in Basic
  • Card payments taken on the POS — on hardware you already own if it supports it, or hardware from us
  • No separate card terminal sitting beside it with its own monthly maintenance
  • Scheduled discounts — promotions that only run in the windows you set
  • Finer control over how and when a discount applies

What it costs

Priced per restaurant rather than per plan. The software can be rented monthly or bought outright, and the hardware can be yours or ours — so what it costs depends on what you already run and which features you need. Tell us your setup and we'll quote it.

We quote the POS. Cash registers, receipt printers and cash drawers are not included — most kitchens already have them, and anything missing can be bought alongside. The order tablet and receipt printer that come with a website plan are a different thing, and they are included with the plan.

Talk to us about a POS

Add-ons

  • Business email on your domain (per mailbox)
  • Extra email volume beyond your monthly allowance
  • Additional admin users
  • Order tablet and receipt printer — included on Essentials and Complete, bought outright with a buyout
  • Google Ads management — optional on Essentials at $299/mo, included with Complete; you fund the ad budget directly
  • Point of Sale — software to rent or buy, with or without hardware; quoted per restaurant

Anything without a price above is quoted per account — ask us.

Where the money actually goes

Most ordering platforms charge you per order. Marketplaces charge you and your customer. We charge neither.

Commission taken from each order
With NerdCatNone, on every plan
Owner.com5% on the $249 plan; none on the $499 plan
Marketplace appsA percentage of every order
Fee added to your customer's total
With NerdCatNone
Owner.com5% guest fee — on both plans
Marketplace appsService and delivery fees
Who owns the customer list
With NerdCatYou
Owner.comThe platform
Marketplace appsThe marketplace
Who owns the website
With NerdCatYou, on a Buyout
Owner.comThe platform
Marketplace appsNo website
Hosting & domain
With NerdCatIncluded
Owner.comIncluded
Marketplace appsNot applicable

Owner.com figures quoted from their published pricing page on 13 October 2026, where their FAQ states “On both plans, guests pay a 5% order support fee.” Marketplace apps vary by platform, region and contract. Pricing changes — check the current source before relying on any of it. owner.com/pricing

What that looks like for a real restaurant

$5,000+monthly catering orders, direct
“Catering has been bringing in $5,000 or more a month, ordered directly through our own site.”
Bona Pizza Catering— client since 2026
10%+increase in online sales
“We've seen our online sales go up by more than 10% since the new site went live.”
Bona Pizza— client since 2026

What we stand for

Three things we build around

Khalid A·Founder, NerdCat Studios

  1. You should keep what you earn.

    A percentage of every order, forever, isn't a software fee — it's a tax on your growth. We charge for the work and stop there.

  2. Fast beats fancy.

    A hungry person on a phone with two bars of signal doesn't care about your animation. They care that the menu loaded. We optimise for that person.

  3. You should own your own customers.

    If your orders, your list and your domain live on someone else's platform, you're renting your own business. Everything we build hands that back to you.

Your top questions, answered.

Do you take a percentage of my orders?

No. On every plan you keep 100% of every order. We also don't add a service fee to your customer's total, which is where marketplace apps quietly make a second margin.

What's the $500 setup fee for?

Building the site, migrating your menu, wiring up payments and getting you live. It's charged once on Essentials and Complete. The Buyout includes its setup in the $2,999.

What happens after a Buyout?

You own the site outright and host it yourself, so there's no monthly fee. There's also no monitoring, maintenance or email sending from us — if you want those, we can add an optional retainer.

Can I switch plans later?

Yes. Move between Essentials and Complete whenever you like; the change applies from your next billing month.

Am I locked into a contract?

No. Essentials and Complete are month-to-month.

Who pays for hosting and the domain?

We cover hosting and your domain on Essentials and Complete. Business email on your domain is not included on any plan — it is a paid add-on, because mailbox hosting is a real per-seat cost we would otherwise be absorbing. On a Buyout, hosting and the domain move to you at handover.

What does the email allowance on Complete cover?

10,000 marketing emails a month, written and sent from your dashboard to your own contact list — we carry the sending cost. That is campaign email. A mailbox on your domain for day-to-day replies is a separate add-on. If you need more than 10,000 in a month, we quote the extra volume.

Pick a plan, or ask us which one fits.

Tell us how you take orders today and we'll tell you honestly which tier you need — including if it's the cheap one.

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