◆ Zay-OS vs Owner.com

Owner.com charges $499/month for their flat plan. So do we — and we never take a cut of your food revenue.

Same headline price. No commission tier. Deeper Otter integration. Florida-tuned SEO. Month-to-month, no annual contract. The diner-paid $2.99 per-order fee is published on the pricing page so there are no surprises at checkout.

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Side by side

The line-by-line difference.

Owner.com
Zay-OS
Headline flat-plan price
$499/month for their flat-fee plan.
$499/month for Operator. Same flat price, fully transparent on /pricing.
Commission tier exists?
Yes. Lower-priced plan takes 5% commission on direct orders.
No commission tier. Zay-OS never takes a cut of food revenue at any plan.
Diner-paid fee transparency
Service fees show at checkout but the pricing page does not detail the diner-paid component.
Pricing page states it: $2.99 per order, or 10% over a $29.99 subtotal. Diner pays it, restaurant keeps 100%.
Marketplace ingestion (Uber Eats / DoorDash / Grubhub)
Direct ordering only. Marketplaces handled separately on their own tablets.
Otter ingests every marketplace order into the same kitchen tablet as your direct orders. One screen, one ticket flow.
POS depth
Toast, Square, Clover, a few others.
Otter-deep: 25+ POS including Toast, Lightspeed U, Square, Clover, Revel, Aloha, Brink, HungerRush, Oracle Micros, Par Brink, NCR.
Geographic focus
US-wide, no specific regional focus.
Florida-first. SEO + GEO tuned for all 40 Florida metros (Miami, Tampa, Orlando, Jacksonville, Hialeah, Fort Lauderdale, Cape Coral, every population center).
Customer data ownership
Restaurant owns the customer list, exportable.
Same — restaurant owns the customer list, exportable. CRM included on every tier.
Sales-tax handling
Not bundled — restaurant handles separately.
DAVO bundled: daily sales-tax set-aside on every direct order. All 50 states.
Contract
Annual contract standard.
Month-to-month. Cancel any time.
Common ground

What is the same in both.

Commission-free direct ordering

Both Owner and Zay-OS put a branded direct-ordering site on your domain so the restaurant keeps 100% of the food revenue instead of paying the marketplaces 25-35%. The category framing is the same.

$499/month flat-fee plan

Both publish a flat $499 monthly rate for their core plan. We do not undercut Owner on price because that is what the bundle costs to deliver well. We pull ahead on what is in the bundle.

Customer data is yours

Both vendors give the restaurant full ownership of the customer list — name, email, phone, order history. Exportable. This is the structural difference vs marketplaces, and we both honor it.

CRM + reorder messaging

Both bundle a CRM with reorder messaging via SMS and email. The diner stays a diner of yours, not a tile in a marketplace.

Where we pull ahead

What is better with Zay-OS at the same price.

Florida-first

Schema, llms.txt, Google Business setup, and content are all tuned for all 40 Florida metros — Miami, Tampa, Orlando, Jacksonville, Fort Lauderdale, Cape Coral, Hialeah, every population center. Owner.com is geographically neutral; we are Florida-deep.

Otter-deep marketplace ingestion

On Operator + Marketplace ($599) and Concierge ($699), Otter pulls every Uber Eats, DoorDash, and Grubhub order into the same kitchen tablet as your direct orders. Owner stops at direct ordering — operators still juggle marketplace tablets.

Transparent diner-paid fee

We publish on /pricing that the diner pays $2.99 per order at checkout, or 10% when the subtotal is over $29.99. No mystery surcharge buried in checkout. The restaurant always keeps 100% of food revenue.

No annual contract

Every Zay-OS plan is month-to-month with full data export. Cancel any time. We never ransom your customer list or your domain.

Straight answers

Owner.com comparison questions.

Why is Zay-OS the same flat price as Owner.com?
Because $499/month is what a fair flat fee for commission-free direct ordering looks like once you bundle the branded site, kitchen tablet, CRM, DAVO, and POS integration. We are not trying to undercut Owner on price — we are matching the headline number and pulling ahead on Florida focus, Otter depth, contract flexibility, and pricing transparency.
Does Owner.com really take 5% on their cheaper plan?
Owner offers a lower-priced plan that takes a 5% cut of direct orders. Their $499/month flat plan removes the cut. We do not have the cut at any plan — Operator at $499/month is the floor and there is no commission tier above or below it.
Who pays the per-order fee on Zay-OS?
The diner pays a $2.99 per-order fee at checkout, or 10% when the subtotal is over $29.99. The restaurant keeps 100% of the food revenue. We publish this on the /pricing page so there is no surprise when the operator or the diner looks for it.
What does "Otter-deep" mean and why does it matter vs Owner?
Otter is the ingestion layer that lets one kitchen tablet handle direct orders, Uber Eats, DoorDash, Grubhub, and your POS in one ticket flow. Zay-OS is built around it on the Operator + Marketplace and Concierge tiers ($599 and $699). Owner is direct-ordering-first and does not pull marketplace orders into the same tablet — operators still juggle separate marketplace devices.
Why does the Florida focus matter if I am a restaurant outside Florida?
Today we are Florida-first because that is where Zay Revenue Group operates and where our live partner (Naya Grill) is. The product itself works in any US market. If you are out-of-state and want to onboard, talk to us via the /contact page — we evaluate case-by-case.
Can I see Zay-OS live before signing?
Yes. Naya Grill in Pompano Beach and West Palm Beach is live on Zay-OS today. Run the free grader at grader.zay-os.com first — it will show you, in your numbers, what direct ordering would have saved you last month vs paying DoorDash and Uber Eats.
Keep reading
Zay-OS vs DoorDash →
Marketplace commission math broken out per volume tier.
Florida ordering →
Why Florida operators specifically need this.
Full pricing →
$499 / $599 / $699 flat. Diner pays $2.99 per order.
Also: how it works · integrations

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