Best online ordering for pizzerias, ranked by Zayos.
Published July 2026 · Updated July 26, 2026
For most independent pizzerias the best online ordering system is Slice, at $39 a month plus a per-order fee, because it is pizza-native and brings diners with it. Past roughly 150 online orders a month, a flat-fee platform such as Zayos costs less.
Why is a Zayos page ranking a competitor first?
Because for a lot of pizzerias it is the right answer, and a roundup that says otherwise is worthless to you and obvious to everyone. We build Zayos. We put Slice first for pizzerias because pizza is its only product and because it brings demand, which we do not. Then we show the exact monthly order count where our flat fee stops being the more expensive option, so you can check the claim instead of trusting it.
Every price here was read off the vendor’s own pricing page on July 26, 2026, or attributed to a named tracker where the vendor publishes nothing. Card processing is charged separately by every platform on this list and is left out of the comparison table so the software cost is visible on its own.
Which platforms actually fit a pizza shop?
Ranked for an independent one to three location pizzeria. Each entry leads with the shop it genuinely suits, then the verified price, then the part the sales deck leaves out.
Slice
First pick for most pizzeriasThe only platform on this list built for pizza and nothing else, and one of only two here that also brings you diners. Slice runs a consumer pizza app, so the per-order fee is buying demand as well as software. For an independent shop under roughly 150 online card orders a month, it is the cheapest credible way to be online, and the $39 entry point is lower than anything else here.
Published on slice.com/pricing, read 2026-07-26. Online Membership: $39/month plus $3.00 per order on credit card orders, card processing 2.90% + $0.30, month to month. Family Membership: $399/month plus $2.00 per order on online and phone orders with no per-order fee under $10, a $1,000 implementation fee, and hardware included (register, stand, terminal, cash drawer, receipt printer, kitchen printer, network kit). Both plans include the POS, website, ordering, Slice app listing, loyalty and 24/7 support.
The per-order fee is the whole trade. It scales with your best months, and at 400 online orders it turns $39 into $1,239. You are also on a marketplace-shaped platform: the Slice app is where a chunk of your diners meet you, which is discovery you rent rather than own.
Zayos
Once your online volume is realThe pizzeria that already does steady online volume and runs two or three marketplaces it wants on one tablet. Direct orders land on the same Otter kitchen tablet that receives DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub, so the make line watches one queue. The bill does not move when Friday is good.
Published on /pricing: $499/month Operator, $599/month Operator + Marketplace (adds Otter marketplace ingestion), $699/month Concierge, per location, month to month, no setup fee. The restaurant pays $0 per order and keeps 100% of food revenue and tips. The diner pays a flat service fee at checkout: $0.99 pickup, $2.99 delivery, $0 dine-in, 10% on catering.
We build it, which is why it is second and not first. It brings you no diner demand at all: every order is one you already earned. Below about 150 online orders a month the flat fee is worse arithmetic than Slice, and we would rather you read the crossover table than take our word for it. One restaurant is live and taking orders today, Naya Grill in Pompano Beach and West Palm Beach.
Toast Online Ordering
If the shop already runs ToastPizzerias already on Toast POS. One menu, one ticket path, one vendor, no integration to babysit on a Saturday night. If your registers, printers and payroll are already Toast, bolting its ordering on is the least disruptive move available and we would not talk you out of it.
Toast publishes POS plans at $0/month for the Starter Kit and from $69/month for Point of Sale. Merchant Maverick reports the online ordering module at $75/month, and processing at 3.09% to 3.69% + $0.15 on the Starter Kit or 2.49% + $0.15 on the flat-rate Point of Sale option (guide updated June 2025, accessed 2026-07-26). Digital ordering sits inside the quote-based Build Your Own plan.
You cannot buy it without Toast POS, its hardware and its processing. Buying a POS to get an ordering page is backwards if you are happy with the registers you own.
Owner.com
Best marketing bundleThe pizzeria whose problem is that nobody knows the direct site exists. Owner bundles the website, a branded app, automated email and text campaigns and loyalty into one subscription, and among the general-purpose direct platforms that package is the one to beat when you are trying to build a reorder habit.
Published on owner.com/pricing, read 2026-07-26: $249/month Flexible plus a 5% restaurant fee per order, or $499/month Flat Rate with no restaurant fee. On both plans the guest pays a 5% order support fee. Month to month, no cancellation fee, migration included. Owner notes special rates for multi-location without publishing them.
The guest-side 5% is a percentage, so it climbs with a $90 family order where a flat fee does not. It is a direct-channel product, so your marketplace tickets keep arriving on their own separate tablets.
ChowNow
Commission-free plus a small networkPizzerias that want flat commission-free ordering with a modest discovery bump on the side. ChowNow runs its own diner app, so it behaves a little like Slice without taking a percentage of the ticket.
Published on get.chownow.com/pricing, read 2026-07-26: Launch $229/month billed annually or $249 month to month, Grow $319/$349, Elevate $409/$449. Plus a one-time setup fee of $119 to $499, processing at 2.95% + $0.29, a $99 annual Apple developer fee for a branded app, and printers at $250 to $420. Commission on direct orders is 0%.
The setup fee and per-transaction processing sit on top of the subscription, and the network is a bonus rather than pizza-scale demand. Nothing about the ordering flow is built for pizza specifically.
Square Online
Cheapest way to open a doorA brand new slice counter that needs an ordering page this week and cannot justify a subscription yet. Square Online takes direct orders at $0/month with only card processing to pay, and no other platform here matches that entry point.
Free $0, Plus $49/month, Premium $149/month per location, with online processing at 3.3% + 30 cents on Free and 2.9% + 30 cents on the paid plans, following Square's October 2025 pricing overhaul (POS USA, updated June 2026, accessed 2026-07-26).
Processing is the real invoice. At $18,000 a month in online pizza sales the percentage alone runs about $520 to $590 every month, and the pizza-specific depth (build flows, per-tray inventory, zone rules) is not there.
How many online orders before flat pricing wins?
Software cost only, at three monthly online order counts. Card processing is billed separately on every platform here and is excluded so the subscriptions are comparable. Owner.com Flexible is modeled at a $30 average pizza ticket.
| Plan | How it bills | 100 orders | 300 orders | 700 orders |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Slice, Online Membership | $39/mo + $3.00/order | $339 | $939 | $2,139 |
| Slice, Family Membership | $399/mo + $2.00/order, $1,000 implementation | $599 | $999 | $1,799 |
| Zayos Operator | $499/mo flat, $0 restaurant per-order | $499 | $499 | $499 |
| Zayos Operator + Marketplace | $599/mo flat, $0 restaurant per-order | $599 | $599 | $599 |
| Owner.com Flexible | $249/mo + 5% of order value | $399 | $699 | $1,299 |
| Owner.com Flat Rate | $499/mo flat | $499 | $499 | $499 |
| ChowNow Launch | $229/mo annual billing | $229 | $229 | $229 |
| Toast Online Ordering | reported $75/mo module on a $0 to $69/mo POS plan | $75 to $144 | $75 to $144 | $75 to $144 |
| Square Online Free | $0/mo, processing only | $0 | $0 | $0 |
Read the table honestly and three things fall out. ChowNow Launch and Toast are the cheapest software line at every volume, and neither one is pizza-native. Slice is the cheapest total answer at 100 orders and the most expensive at 700. Flat plans do not move.
None of that decides it on its own, because Slice is also selling you diners and Toast is only available if you bought the POS. What it does tell you is which question to ask your own numbers: how many online orders did the shop take last month, and is the per-order fee buying you customers you would not otherwise have? If the answer is no and the count is above 150, you are paying rent on a channel you already own. Model it on your own tickets with the free AI report or the commission calculator.
Pizzeria ordering, answered.
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Sources
- Slice pricing page. Online Membership $39/month + $3.00/order, Family Membership $399/month + $2.00/order, 2.90% + $0.30 processing, $1,000 implementation fee on Family, month to month, no per-order fee under $10 (accessed July 26, 2026).
- Owner.com pricing page. $249 Flexible + 5% restaurant fee, $499 Flat Rate, 5% guest order support fee on both, month to month, multi-location rates unpublished (accessed July 26, 2026).
- ChowNow pricing page. Launch $229/$249, Grow $319/$349, Elevate $409/$449, $119 to $499 setup, 2.95% + $0.29 processing, $99 Apple developer fee, printers $250 to $420 (accessed July 26, 2026).
- Merchant Maverick, Toast pricing guide. $0 Starter Kit, Point of Sale from $69/month, online ordering module reported at $75/month, processing 3.09% to 3.69% + $0.15 or 2.49% + $0.15 (guide updated June 2025, accessed July 26, 2026).
- POS USA, Square fees and pricing. Free $0, Plus $49, Premium $149 per location, online processing 3.3% + 30 cents on Free and 2.9% + 30 cents on paid plans after the October 2025 overhaul (page updated June 13, 2026, accessed July 26, 2026).
- Zayos pricing. The $499, $599 and $699 per location tiers, no setup fee, and the diner-paid $0.99 pickup and $2.99 delivery service fee used throughout.
Vendors change plans. Figures marked as reported were not published by the vendor as of July 26, 2026 and are attributed rather than presented as official. Confirm current terms before you sign anything.
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