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BentoBox is Clover only now. Here is the field, Zayos included.

Published July 2026 · Updated October 4, 2026

Quick answer

BentoBox no longer sells to restaurants that are not on Clover. Its own pricing page states products are available only to Clover POS customers, and it shows no prices. If you run another POS your options are Popmenu, ChowNow, Owner.com, Square or Zayos, priced below.

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Do you actually need to leave BentoBox?

Most alternatives pages start with features. This one starts with eligibility, because for BentoBox in 2026 eligibility is the deciding fact and it is published on their own pricing page.

If you are on Clover

You probably should not leave.

BentoBox is still the best looking restaurant website product in this category, and the Clover integration is now the point of it rather than an afterthought. Fiserv bought BentoBox in November 2021 and has since relaunched it as Clover Hospitality by BentoBox, so if your register is Clover, the two halves are moving toward each other and you are on the intended path. Ask Clover what the diner pays at checkout on an online order before you decide, because BentoBox shows no price list of its own.

If you are not on Clover

You have a POS decision, not a website decision.

BentoBox's pricing page states plainly that its products and services are available only to Clover POS customers, and directs new customers to learn about Clover instead. So the real question is no longer "which website vendor", it is "am I willing to move my register to Clover to keep this website". If the answer is no, everything below is your field. If the answer is maybe, price the register change first, because that is the expensive half.

One sentence worth keeping: since November 2021 BentoBox has been owned by Fiserv, the company behind Clover, and its restaurant product now ships as Clover Hospitality by BentoBox. Your website vendor and your register are the same decision now.

The field

What are the real BentoBox alternatives?

Six options, including staying and switching your register. Every price is the one the company lists on its own pricing page, read 4 Oct 2026. Where a company shows no price, the card says so.

01

Move to Clover and keep BentoBox

No price shown. Quoted through Clover

Best for design led restaurants whose website is the brand asset.

Listed first because for some restaurants it is the right answer and no competitor page will tell you that. If your website is genuinely doing the selling, if you photograph your food properly, if private events and gift cards matter to your revenue, BentoBox earns its keep and switching to Clover to keep it is a defensible trade. BentoBox itself shows no prices, so treat any number you see elsewhere as a guess and ask Clover for a written quote for your location.

02

Popmenu

$159 / $269 / $449 per month prepaid annually, ordering a quoted add-on

Best when the website is really a demand problem in disguise.

Popmenu is the closest philosophical match to BentoBox: the site is a marketing engine, not a menu in a frame. Interactive menus, review aggregation, campaign automation. Popmenu lists Starter at $159, Essentials at $269 and Premier at $449 a month, prepaid annually. Online ordering and catering is an add-on at every tier with no price shown, so the ordering half of the bill still comes in a quote, and that is a fair criticism of this option.

03

ChowNow

$249 / $349 / $449 per month, $229 / $319 / $409 annual, setup $119 to $499

Best when you want ordering solved and you already have a site you like.

ChowNow is the narrow, published, no surprises option. Its pricing page lists Launch at $249 monthly or $229 annually, Grow at $349 or $319 and Elevate at $449 or $409, with a $119 to $499 setup fee, processing at 2.95% + $0.29, $99 a year for the Apple developer account if you run the branded app, $7.98 per order for Flex Delivery, and marketing contacts capped at 500, 2,000 and 5,000 by tier. It takes no percentage of food revenue. It also does not pretend to be a design house, so if BentoBox was carrying your brand, this is a step down in that specific dimension.

04

Owner.com

$249/mo + 5% restaurant fee per order, or $499/mo flat, guests pay 5% at checkout

Best when you want the site, the SEO and the marketing built for you.

Owner.com is the most complete done for you replacement: website, SEO pages, branded app, loyalty and automated marketing in one bundle. Its pricing page lists Flexible at $249 a month plus a 5% restaurant fee on every order, and Flat Rate at $499 a month with no additional restaurant fee. Guests pay a 5% order support fee on both plans. The percentage grows with your ticket, which is exactly the shape of cost BentoBox operators usually left to avoid.

05

Square

Free $0 / Plus $49 / Premium $149 per month

Best for the smallest operators who need a floor, not a flagship.

If the honest situation is that the BentoBox bill stopped making sense at your volume, Square is the credible floor. Square lists Square Free at $0, Plus at $49 and Premium at $149 per location a month, with online processing at 3.3% + $0.30 on Free and 2.9% + $0.30 on Plus and Premium, and in person at 2.6% + $0.15, 2.5% + $0.15 and 2.4% + $0.15 respectively. What you give up is design depth and restaurant specific storytelling, which was the reason you were on BentoBox.

06

Zayos

$399 Operator, $499 Operator + Tablet, $599 Concierge, per location, no setup fee

Best when the site, the ordering and the marketplace tablets all need to be one thing.

Ours, so read it with that in mind. Zayos replaces the website and the ordering flow together, on your own domain, with the schema and page structure built in rather than bolted on. Pricing is published and flat: $399, $499 or $599 per location per month, month to month, no setup fee, and it is POS agnostic, so it does not tie your website to your register the way the Clover requirement now does. The diner pays a small flat service fee at checkout, $0.99 pickup, $0.99 delivery, $0 dine in, 10% on catering, and the restaurant keeps 100% of food revenue, and 100% of tips on pickup and dine in. On delivery the tip goes to the driver. The $499 Operator + Tablet plan lands Uber Eats, DoorDash and Grubhub orders on the same tablet as direct orders through Otter. Honest counterweights: our monthly is higher than Square or ChowNow Launch, we are the newest platform here, and Naya Grill in Pompano Beach is one of the restaurants live and taking orders on Zayos today. Farooj Abo Alabed, also live on Zayos, is on pace for $40k+ a year in commission not paid to a marketplace: its direct food sales after discounts from 10 Aug to 3 Oct 2026 (55 days), annualized at a 35% blended marketplace cost. Eight more storefronts are live and taking direct orders.

Sources for the prices and rates in this section: Popmenu pricing; ChowNow pricing; Owner.com pricing; Square pricing and plans, read 4 Oct 2026. A company can change them; its own page is what counts.

Side by side

Website and ordering vendors, compared.

Platform Entry price Per-order economics Who can buy it Best for
BentoBox No price shown. Quoted through Clover Not shown Clover POS customers only Design led restaurants already on Clover
Popmenu $159 / $269 / $449 per month, prepaid annually Not shown. Online ordering is a quoted add-on Any POS Marketing led single locations
ChowNow $249/mo ($229 annual) plus $119 to $499 setup No platform fee; 2.95% + $0.29; $7.98 Flex Delivery Any POS Published, narrow, no surprises
Owner.com $249/mo + 5%, or $499/mo flat Guest pays 5% order support fee Any POS Done for you website and marketing
Square $0 / $49 / $149 per month 3.3% + $0.30 online on Free, 2.9% + $0.30 on paid Square payments Lowest fixed cost
Zayos $399 / $499 / $599 per location, no setup fee Diner pays $0.99 pickup, $0.99 delivery, $0 dine in Clover, Square, Shift4, or Toast Site, ordering and marketplace tickets as one system

One vendor on this table shows no price at all and another quotes its ordering add-on, which is itself a comparison point.

Sources for the prices and rates in this section: Popmenu pricing; ChowNow pricing; Owner.com pricing; Square pricing and plans, read 4 Oct 2026. A company can change them; its own page is what counts.

Before you switch

How do you move off a hosted website without losing your traffic?

A website move is not a design project, it is a plumbing project. Five questions to answer in writing before you give notice to any vendor, BentoBox included. Every one of them has cost a restaurant real traffic when skipped.

01

Who owns the domain name?

Check the registrar before you give notice. If the vendor registered your domain, get it transferred into an account you control first. A website you can rebuild in a week is not the same as a domain you may have to argue for.

02

Do the old URLs still resolve?

Write down every page that currently ranks or gets linked, especially /menu, /order, /catering, /private-events and any location pages. Keep the same paths on the new site, or map each one to a 301 redirect. Silent 404s on a menu URL are the single most common way a redesign loses traffic it took years to earn.

03

Is your menu still readable as structured data?

BentoBox emits menu and restaurant schema for you. If the replacement does not, Google and the answer engines lose the machine readable version of your menu on cutover day. Ask any vendor to show you the JSON-LD on a live customer page before you sign, not a slide about SEO.

04

Where does your customer list live?

Export order history with emails and phone numbers while your account is still active, and open the file to confirm it is real. Do this first, not last. A list you cannot export is a list you do not own.

05

What is pointed at your old ordering link?

Your Google Business Profile order button, Instagram link in bio, Yelp, printed QR codes on tables and receipts, and any review site listing. Update the profile the same hour you cut over. Most restaurants remember the website and forget the profile, which is where a large share of order clicks actually start.

Sources
  • BentoBox pricing page. No published prices. States BentoBox products and services are only available to Clover POS customers, points new customers to Clover, and tells existing customers to contact their customer success manager or hello@getbento.com. Accessed 2026-07-26. On 4 Oct 2026 this address redirected to Clover.
  • Fiserv, completion of BentoBox acquisition (November 22, 2021), and Fiserv, launch of Clover Hospitality by BentoBox. Accessed 2026-07-26.
  • Popmenu pricing, read 4 Oct 2026. Starter $159, Essentials $269, Premier $449 a month prepaid annually; online ordering and catering shown as an add-on with no price.
  • ChowNow pricing, read 4 Oct 2026. Launch $249 / $229, Grow $349 / $319, Elevate $449 / $409, setup $119 to $499, processing 2.95% + $0.29, Apple developer fee $99/yr, Flex Delivery $7.98/order.
  • Owner.com pricing, read 4 Oct 2026. Flexible $249/mo + 5% restaurant fee per order, Flat Rate $499/mo with no additional restaurant fee, guests pay a 5% order support fee.
  • Square pricing and plans, read 4 Oct 2026. Square Free $0, Plus $49, Premium $149 per month; online 3.3% + $0.30 on Free and 2.9% + $0.30 on paid; in person 2.6% / 2.5% / 2.4% + $0.15.
  • Zayos pricing. The $399, $499 and $599 per location tiers, no setup fee, and the diner paid service fee referenced above.
Straight answers

BentoBox alternatives, answered.

Is BentoBox really only available to Clover customers now?
Yes, per BentoBox's own pricing page as read on 4 Oct 2026, which stated that BentoBox products and services are available only to Clover POS customers and points new customers to Clover instead. Existing customers are told to contact their customer success manager or hello@getbento.com for add-ons. Fiserv completed its acquisition of BentoBox in November 2021 and has since launched the product as Clover Hospitality by BentoBox, so the eligibility rule is the visible end of a long integration, not a sudden policy.
How much does BentoBox cost?
BentoBox shows no prices of its own, and on 4 Oct 2026 its pricing address redirected to Clover. Any figure you find elsewhere is someone else's report, not a price, so this page does not repeat one. Ask Clover for a written quote for your location, itemised: the monthly plan, any per order fee, what the diner pays at checkout, and card processing.
What is the closest thing to BentoBox for a restaurant that is not on Clover?
On design and brand storytelling, Popmenu is the nearest match, listed from $159 a month prepaid annually with online ordering quoted as an add-on. On published pricing with an equally strong website, Owner.com at $249 plus 5% per order or $499 flat is the most complete done for you option. If you want the website and the ordering to be one system on your own domain with flat published pricing and no POS requirement, that is where Zayos sits at $399 to $599 per location per month.
Will I lose my search rankings if I move off BentoBox?
Only if you break your URLs. Rankings attach to addresses, so a page that moves from /menu to /our-menu without a 301 redirect starts again from zero. Keep the paths, or map every old path to a new one before cutover, keep the menu marked up as structured data, and update your Google Business Profile order link the same hour. Restaurants that do those four things usually see no lasting drop.
Does Zayos require a particular POS or payment processor?
No. Zayos is POS agnostic and does not tie your website to your register, which is the specific constraint the Clover requirement introduces. Direct orders can land on the same Otter tablet the kitchen already uses for Uber Eats, DoorDash and Grubhub on the $499 Operator + Tablet tier, so nothing new has to be learned on the line.

Sources for the prices and rates in this section: Popmenu pricing; Owner.com pricing, read 4 Oct 2026. A company can change them; its own page is what counts.

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