SpotOn alternatives, sorted by what you are actually replacing. Zayos included.

Toast is the default landing spot for a restaurant leaving SpotOn, because it is the same shape of company: POS, payments, kitchen screens, payroll and ordering under one roof, with third-party delivery integrations built in. Toast’s own pricing page lists a Starter Kit from $0 a month and a Point of Sale plan from $69 a month, sells online ordering as an add-on with no price shown, and lists no processing rate, so the full cost arrives in a quote. Honest read: you are trading one bundled POS and payments relationship for another. Get the rate, the hardware cost and the contract term in writing, and do it because the product is better for your floor, not because you expect more freedom.

Square is the lowest-commitment way out of a bundled POS contract. There is a free plan, no long-term term, and the hardware is cheap and widely available. Square publishes in person processing at 2.6% + 15 cents on Free, 2.5% + 15 cents on Plus and 2.4% + 15 cents on Premium, online at 3.3% + 30 cents on Free and 2.9% + 30 cents on paid plans, and manual entry at 3.5% + 15 cents. Honest read: notice that Square’s Free in-person rate of 2.6% + 15 cents is very close to SpotOn All-In’s 2.79% + $0.20, so this is not automatically cheaper. It is simply not a two year commitment, which for many operators is the point.

Lightspeed is the option for a full-service restaurant with a serious floor plan, inventory depth and a wine list, especially in a group. We do not restate its plan prices here, because we could not confirm them on its own page on the day this list was checked, and it does not publish processing rates or contract terms. Honest read: you cannot compare total cost against SpotOn without a quote. Get the plan price, the processing rate and the term in writing before you decide.

If the register is fine and the ordering page is the problem, ChowNow is the least disruptive change on this page: you keep SpotOn on the floor and bolt a commission-free ordering channel on top. Its own pricing page lists Launch $249, Grow $349, Elevate $449 per month, or $229/$319/$409 billed annually, with a $119 to $499 setup fee, 2.95% + $0.29 per transaction, $7.98 per order on Flex Delivery and a $99 annual Apple developer fee for a branded app. ChowNow takes no percentage of your food revenue on any plan. Honest read: it is direct ordering only, so your marketplace tablets stay exactly where they are.

Owner.com is the pick when the ordering page works and nobody uses it. It is a demand-generation stack: AI-built website, SEO pages, branded app, loyalty and automated marketing. Its own pricing page lists $249/month Flexible with a 5% restaurant fee per order, or $499/month Flat Rate "with no additional restaurant fees", both "month-to-month with no long-term contracts", with a 5% guest order support fee at checkout on both plans. Setup and processing rates are not published. Honest read: if you are leaving SpotOn because too much of the bill scales with volume, read those two percentage lines twice.

Our platform, so read it with that in mind, and start with what it is not: Zayos is not a point of sale. If your register is the thing that has to go, we are the wrong answer and Toast, Square or Lightspeed are the right ones. What Zayos replaces is the ordering side: a branded ordering site on your own domain with SEO schema, a customer list you own, and on the $499 Operator + Tablet plan, the kitchen tablet plus Otter ingestion so Uber Eats, DoorDash and Grubhub orders land on the same screen as your direct orders. Pricing is flat and published, $399, $499 or $599 per location per month, no setup fee, month to month, priced per location rather than per station, so adding a terminal does not raise the bill. The per-order economics are flat too: the diner pays $0.99 pickup, $0.99 delivery, $0 dine-in and 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. Honest counterweights: it costs more per month than a POS subscription, and Naya Grill (Pompano Beach, FL) is one of the restaurants live and taking orders on it today.