Online ordering for halal restaurants, the Zayos shortlist.
Published July 2026 · Updated October 4, 2026
Halal restaurants sell big platter and catering tickets, so flat fees beat percentages. Zayos fits platter and catering volume at $399 to $599 a month. Menufy and Square Online are cheaper for small takeout shops. ChowNow handles Ramadan and Friday capacity best of any published system.
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What does a halal restaurant need that a generic ordering platform misses?
Six patterns that break software designed around an 11am to 10pm Tuesday-to-Sunday default. Judge every demo on these, not on the feature list.
The ticket is bigger, so a percentage hurts more
A family platter, a tray of chicken over rice, or a mixed grill for six is a $60 to $200 order, not a $22 one. Percentage fees take their largest bite out of exactly the orders you want more of. A 5% guest fee on a $120 platter is $6.00. A flat $0.99 delivery fee is $0.99, whatever the ticket does.
Ramadan compresses a whole day into ninety minutes
For thirty nights, most of your revenue lands in the window between maghrib and about an hour after. Hours flip: closed through the fasting day, open from sundown into suhoor. If your ordering system cannot open a pre-order window in the morning, close it before sundown, and hold the kitchen to a capacity it can actually cook, the software will happily sell you a night you cannot deliver.
Friday is a second dinner rush at lunchtime
Jummah prayer releases around 1pm and a mosque-adjacent halal restaurant gets a spike that behaves like a Saturday night, once a week, every week. Capacity control matters more than menu design here.
Halal status is the first thing a diner checks
Zabiha or not, shared fryer or not, which certifying body, whether alcohol is served. That answer belongs on the item and in the menu structure, not buried three clicks deep on an About page. Every platform on this list can do it with item descriptions and section names, and none of them ships a dedicated halal-certification field, so it is on you to write it clearly.
Catering is not a side business
Eid, nikah, aqiqah, mosque iftars, graduation parties and corporate lunches. A platform that treats catering as a contact form is leaving your largest tickets on the phone, where they get taken down wrong.
Your diners read more than one language
Many halal restaurants serve a community that reads Arabic, Urdu, Bengali or Somali more comfortably than English, and answers the phone the same way. Plain menu language and clear photography do more here than any marketing automation.
Longer version, written for operators rather than buyers: Zayos for halal restaurants. Arabic edition: مطاعم حلال.
Which platform fits a halal restaurant best?
We build the platform at number one, so it carries the longest set of caveats on the page, including when two competitors are cheaper. Every competitor price is one the vendor lists on its own pricing page, read 4 Oct 2026.
Zayos
Our pick, and we build itA halal restaurant with real platter and catering volume that wants one flat bill instead of a percentage on its biggest tickets. Zayos publishes halal-specific behaviour rather than treating it as a config problem: certification and zabiha flags surfaced on the item, a Ramadan hours mode with an iftar pre-order window, Jummah rush handling, and a catering builder with lead-time gates by headcount. On the $499 Operator + Tablet plan, DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub tickets land on the same kitchen tablet through Otter.
$399/month Operator, $499/month Operator + Tablet, $599/month Concierge, per location, month to month, no setup fee. 0% commission: 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 diner pays a flat service fee at checkout, $0.99 pickup, $0.99 delivery, $0 dine-in, and 10% on catering. Payments run through Stripe, so confirm card processing in your quote.
Disclosure first: we build Zayos, which is why this entry carries the longest list of caveats on the page. It is the youngest platform here. Naya Grill, a Lebanese fast-casual in Pompano Beach, is live and taking orders today; eight more storefronts are live and taking direct orders. And the 10% catering service fee is a percentage, so a $2,000 Eid order carries $200 for the customer. If your online volume is low, Menufy or Square Online below will cost you less, and we would rather you knew that now.
The Halal App
The community discovery playA halal restaurant that wants to be found by Muslim diners who are already searching for halal specifically, not sifting a general delivery app. It publishes free online ordering with no commission and sells an optional restaurant package that includes native app listings and voice ordering. As a second listing alongside your own site, the cost of trying it is close to nothing.
The Halal App describes free online ordering with no commission and sells an optional restaurant package and hardware. Its site could not be read on 4 Oct 2026, so no price is restated here. Ask for the package price, the card processing rate and the service area in writing.
It is a niche marketplace, not a restaurant operating system, and its reach depends entirely on how many diners near you have the app. Check that before you invest any menu-building time. It also does not publish coverage areas or processing rates, which are the two things you would want in writing.
ChowNow
Best kitchen capacity controlA mosque-adjacent restaurant that gets crushed on Fridays and during Ramadan. ChowNow publishes Order Throttling, which hands out 15-minute capacity slots and hides the full ones, so the storefront forms a virtual line instead of dropping forty tickets on a four-person kitchen at 8:15pm. For the halal calendar specifically, that is the most useful documented feature on this list.
Listed by ChowNow, read 4 Oct 2026, each as a starting price. Launch $229/month on annual billing or $249 month-to-month, Grow $319/$349, Elevate $409/$449, plus a one-time setup fee of $119 to $499 and payment processing of 2.95% + 29 cents. Branded mobile apps add Apple’s $99 annual developer fee. Flex Delivery orders are $7.98 each. 0% commission on direct orders.
Processing is restaurant-paid, so your big platter orders cost you more than your small ones: $3.54 plus 29 cents on a $120 ticket. The deeper marketing tools sit on higher tiers, and there is no catering ordering flow built for headcount-to-pan math.
Square Online
Cheapest way to startA new halal restaurant, or one testing whether its regulars will order direct at all. Square Online publishes a $0 plan, its modifier handling is strong enough for build-your-own bowls and platters with rice, protein, sauce and spice-level choices, and it runs on the same account as your register.
Listed by Square, read 4 Oct 2026. Square Free $0, Square Plus $49/month per location, Square Premium $149/month per location. Online card processing is 3.3% + 30 cents on the Free plan and 2.9% + 30 cents on the paid plans.
The percentage is the price, and on a halal ticket that stings: 3.3% + 30 cents is $3.96 plus 30 cents on a $120 platter. Loyalty is not part of the Free plan, and Square publishes nothing about Ramadan hours patterns or catering lead times, so you are building those workarounds yourself.
Owner.com
Deepest marketing packageA halal restaurant whose problem is that not enough people in the neighbourhood know it exists. Owner ships the website, a branded app, automated SEO pages, loyalty, and email and text campaigns in one subscription, and it is the only platform here that openly offers a choice between a percentage plan and a flat plan.
Listed by Owner.com, read 4 Oct 2026. Flexible is $249/month plus a 5% restaurant fee per order. Flat Rate is $499/month with no restaurant fee per order. Guests pay a 5% order support fee at checkout on both plans.
The 5% guest fee is the specific problem for this segment. On a $120 family platter that is $6.00 added at checkout, and on a $2,000 Eid catering order it is $100. Percentage fees and large halal tickets are a poor match, and on the Flexible plan the restaurant pays a second 5% on top.
Sources for the prices and rates in this section: Square pricing and plans; Menufy pricing; ChowNow pricing; Owner.com pricing, read 4 Oct 2026. A company can change them; its own page is what counts.
What does a $120 family platter order cost on each?
The halal ticket is the whole argument. Restaurant-side and diner-side costs are shown separately, because a fee your customer sees at checkout is not free just because you did not pay it.
| Platform | Restaurant pays on $120 | Diner pays on $120 | Commission | Monthly base | Pricing published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zayos | $0 | $0.99 pickup, $0.99 delivery, 10% if booked as catering | 0% | $399 to $599 per location | Yes |
| The Halal App | Not published | Not published | None stated | Free ordering; package price not restated | Partly |
| Menufy | Processing not published | Not published | None | $149 to $179 | Plan only |
| ChowNow | $3.54 + 29 cents processing | None stated | 0% | $229 to $449, plus $119 to $499 setup | Yes |
| Square Online, Free plan | $3.96 + 30 cents processing | None | 0% | $0 to $149 | Yes |
| Owner.com, Flexible | $6.00 (5%) | $6.00 (5%) | 5%, or 0% on Flat Rate | $249 or $499 | Yes |
Restaurant-side figures are each vendor’s listed percentage applied to a $120 subtotal, with the fixed cents per order shown beside it. Menufy, The Halal App and Zayos do not publish an online card processing rate, so treat those rows as a floor and get the rate in writing. Compare all of it against the marketplaces: a 25% blended take on the same $120 order is $30. See what DoorDash charges restaurants.
Sources for the prices and rates in this section: Square pricing and plans; Menufy pricing; ChowNow pricing; Owner.com pricing, read 4 Oct 2026. A company can change them; its own page is what counts.
What halal owners ask us first.
What is the best online ordering system for a halal restaurant?
How do I take iftar and Ramadan pre-orders online?
Do any ordering platforms show halal or zabiha certification on the menu?
Which system is cheapest for large family platter and catering orders?
Should a halal restaurant stay on DoorDash and Uber Eats?
Is a halal-specific ordering app worth listing on?
Sources for the prices and rates in this section: Square pricing and plans; Menufy pricing; ChowNow pricing; Owner.com pricing, read 4 Oct 2026. A company can change them; its own page is what counts.
- The Halal App: described from its own site as read earlier in 2026; the site could not be read on 4 Oct 2026, so no price is restated.
- Menufy pricing page, read 4 Oct 2026: $149/month on an annual agreement, $179/month on a month-to-month basis, no per-order commission.
- ChowNow pricing page and ChowNow support, order throttling: Launch $229/$249 through Elevate $409/$449, $119 to $499 setup, 2.95% + 29 cents processing, $7.98 per Flex Delivery order, and the 15-minute capacity slot behaviour (read 4 Oct 2026).
- Square pricing and plans, read 4 Oct 2026: Square Free $0, Square Plus $49 and Square Premium $149 per location, 3.3% + 30 cents online on Free and 2.9% + 30 cents on Plus and Premium.
- Owner.com pricing page: Flexible $249/month plus a 5% restaurant fee, Flat Rate $499/month, a 5% guest order support fee on both plans (read 4 Oct 2026).
- Zayos pricing and Zayos for halal restaurants: the tiers, the diner-paid flat service fee, and the halal-specific behaviour described above.
Vendors change plans and some publish nothing at all. Where a row says not published, that is a statement about the vendor’s page on the day it was read, not an estimate. Ask for it in writing.
Sources for the prices and rates in this section: Square pricing and plans; Menufy pricing; ChowNow pricing; Owner.com pricing, read 4 Oct 2026. A company can change them; its own page is what counts.
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