How much does Slice cost? Zayos does the math
Published July 2026 · Updated July 26, 2026
Slice publishes two rate cards. Online Membership is $39 a month plus $3.00 per credit card order; Family Membership is $399 a month plus $2.00 per order with a $1,000 implementation fee and hardware included. Card processing is 2.90% plus $0.30 on both, month to month.
What does Slice charge, line by line?
Slice is one of the few platforms in this category that prints the whole rate card in public: both memberships, both per-order fees, the processing rate, the setup fee and the contract term. Everything below is quoted from slice.com/pricing as it read on 26 July 2026.
| Cost item | Amount | Detail + attribution |
|---|---|---|
| Online Membership | $39/mo + $3.00/order | Slice's ordering-only plan. The $3.00 per-order fee applies to credit card orders only. Includes the website, online ordering, the Slice app listing, Google listing management, loyalty rewards, automated marketing, integrations, 24/7 support and the owner's portal. Published on slice.com/pricing. |
| Family Membership | $399/mo + $2.00/order | The full package: point of sale plus everything in Online Membership, plus phone ordering, flex delivery, a dedicated account manager and supplies access. The $2.00 per-order fee applies to online and phone orders. Published on slice.com/pricing. |
| Implementation fee | $1,000 one-time (Family) | Listed against Family Membership on the pricing page. Slice does not publish an implementation or setup fee for Online Membership. |
| Card processing | 2.90% + $0.30 | Published on the rate card for both memberships, and separate from the per-order fee. On a $30 ticket that is another $1.17, so the two lines have to be read together. |
| Small-order relief | No per-order fee under $10 | Stated on the pricing page and applied to both memberships. A genuinely operator-friendly rule, and one worth crediting: a flat per-order fee hurts most on small tickets, and Slice removes it exactly there. |
| Hardware (Family) | Included, not itemised | Family Membership lists a register, stand, payment terminal, cash drawer, receipt printer, kitchen printer and network kit as included. Slice does not publish individual hardware prices or a buy-out price if you leave. |
| Contract | Month to month | The pricing page states "Month-to-Month" for both memberships and "Zero locked-in contracts" in the page header. Slice also says elsewhere on its site: "No long-term contracts. Cancel anytime." |
| Diner-paid fees on the Slice app | Not published | Slice runs a consumer marketplace app as well as your own site. What a diner pays in service or delivery fees inside that app is not published on the restaurant pricing page. Ask, because it shapes how your menu prices land. |
What does $3.00 an order actually cost me?
A flat per-order fee is not flat in the way that matters. It is a percentage that moves inversely with your average ticket, and pizzerias have small tickets. Here is Slice’s own published fee expressed as a share of the order, which is the way your profit and loss will feel it.
| Average ticket | Online ($3.00/order) | Family ($2.00/order) |
|---|---|---|
| $20 | 15.0% | 10.0% |
| $25 | 12.0% | 8.0% |
| $30 | 10.0% | 6.7% |
| $40 | 7.5% | 5.0% |
| $60 | 5.0% | 3.3% |
Slice tells operators it charges "as little as 5% per order, compared to 20 to 30% on third-party apps," and that is a fair statement rather than a trick. Five per cent is exactly what $3.00 works out to on a $60 order. The phrase to hold on to is "as little as." Run the division on your own average ticket, not on your biggest party order, and you will know your real rate in ten seconds.
Even at the small end, the comparison Slice is making holds up. A 15% effective rate on a $20 order is still well under the 20% to 30% base commission the marketplaces charge, and far under the 25% to 35% those channels cost once delivery, in-app marketing and processing are stacked on top. Slice is genuinely cheaper than DoorDash. The question this page is answering is a narrower one: is it cheaper than a flat monthly fee at your volume.
Which Slice membership is cheaper for my shop?
Two honest caveats on that 360-order figure. It ignores the one-time $1,000 implementation fee, which pushes the Family break-even further out in year one. And it treats a point of sale as free, which it is not: Family Membership includes a register, stand, payment terminal, cash drawer, receipt printer, kitchen printer and network kit. If you were going to buy a POS anyway, the honest comparison is Family against your current POS bill plus your current ordering bill, and the crossover arrives a lot sooner than 360 orders.
The structural point is simple. On a per-order plan, a good month raises your software bill. On a flat monthly plan, it does not. That is the entire argument between the two models, and it does not have a universally correct answer, only a correct answer for your volume.
Is Slice the right buy for my pizzeria?
If you run a pizzeria, Slice deserves a serious look, and this page will say so plainly. The whole product is shaped for one cuisine, from the consumer app to the box supply programme, and software that matches your workflow is worth real money. The rate card is public, the contract is month to month, the per-order fee is waived under $10, and Slice runs a demand channel of its own that sends orders you would not otherwise get.
Two things to check before signing. First, what a diner pays inside the Slice consumer app is not published on the restaurant pricing page, and it affects how your prices look next to the shop down the road. Ask for it in writing. Second, the marketplace listing is Slice’s asset, not yours, in the same way a marketplace listing always is. The customer record that comes from your own website is the one you keep.
If you do not sell pizza, the fit falls apart fast. There is nothing wrong with a specialist; it just means a Mediterranean grill, a taqueria or a cafe should be reading a general online ordering comparison instead, or our pizzeria ordering page if you are still weighing the category.
How does Zayos compare on price?
Slice bills per order. Zayos bills flat. Neither is automatically better, and the crossover is easy to compute.
Zayos Operator is $499 per location per month, flat. Slice Online Membership reaches $499 at ($499 minus $39) divided by $3.00, which is roughly 154 online card orders a month. Under that, Slice costs less. Over it, the flat fee does, and it stays flat at 400 orders or 4,000.
On Zayos the diner pays the service fee at checkout, $0.99 pickup, $2.99 delivery, $0 dine-in and 10% on catering. The restaurant never pays it and keeps 100% of food revenue and 100% of tips. On Slice the per-order fee is a restaurant-side line on the published rate card.
Zayos is not pizza-specific. At $599 the Otter connection lands Uber Eats, DoorDash and Grubhub tickets on the same kitchen tablet as direct orders, so the kitchen works one queue. There is no setup fee on any tier and no contract, and most operators are live in under two weeks.
A low-volume pizzeria that wants a real website, a marketplace listing and marketing for $39 a month is getting something Zayos does not offer at that price, and Family Membership bundles a full POS with hardware that Zayos does not sell at all. If your online volume is under roughly 150 orders a month and you sell pizza, Slice is very likely the cheaper correct answer.
- Slice official pricing page · Family Membership "$399/month + $2.00/order" with a "$1,000 implementation fee", Online Membership "$39/month + $3.00/order", card processing "2.90% + $0.30", "No per-order fee under $10", "Month-to-Month", "Zero locked-in contracts", and the Family hardware list (accessed 26 July 2026).
- Slice, online ordering product page · "$39/month", "$3.00/order (credit card orders only)", "Slice is commission-free. Unlike DoorDash, we don’t take 20 to 30% of your orders", and the included website, Google listing, app listing, 24/7 support and marketing allowance (accessed 26 July 2026).
- Slice, Why Slice · "as little as 5% per order, compared to 20 to 30% on third-party apps" and "No long-term contracts. Cancel anytime" (accessed 26 July 2026).
- Zayos pricing · the $499 / $599 / $699 per location tiers, no setup fee, and the diner-paid service fee quoted above.
Percentages in the ticket table are straight arithmetic on Slice’s published per-order fees, rounded to one decimal. Where a figure is marked unpublished, Slice’s pricing page did not state it as of 26 July 2026 and this page does not estimate it.
Slice cost questions, answered.
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