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Square Online alternatives · 2026
Square Online has a free plan, with paid plans from $49/mo. Menuthere gives your restaurant its own ordering website, QR menu and table ordering with 0% commission, free to start and $9 a month on Lite.
Menuthere vs Square Online
Square Online is Square's ordering website and online store builder: a restaurant gets an ordering page (in the US called an online ordering profile) whose orders go straight into Square POS, the kitchen printer or Square KDS. It is for restaurants, cafés, bakeries and food trucks that use Square payments in the 8 countries Square serves. The Free plan has no monthly fee and no commission, only Square's card processing fee per order; paid plans (in the US, Square Plus from $49 a month per location) add QR table ordering, loyalty and email marketing, and in the US a lower online card rate.
Price
Square Online: Free plan · from $49/mo
Menuthere: Free plan · from $9/mo
Commission per order
Square Online: 0%
Menuthere: 0%
Contract
Square Online: No locked-in contract; cancel or switch plans anytime (US pricing page and General Terms). Outside the US, paid Square Online plans are priced per month billed annually, with a different price if paid monthly, and plans can be switched at any time.
Menuthere: Month to month
Setup fee
Square Online: None (Square: no monthly fees or startup costs on the free ordering profile)
Menuthere: None
Side by side
“—” means the company doesn't publish it. Menuthere's plan for each feature is shown next to it.
| Menuthere | Square Online | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free plan · from $9/mo | Free plan · from $49/mo |
| Commission per order | 0% | 0% |
| Contract | Month to month; 7-day free trial on Lite and Pro | No locked-in contract; cancel or switch plans anytime (US pricing page and General Terms). Outside the US, paid Square Online plans are priced per month billed annually, with a different price if paid monthly, and plans can be switched at any time. |
| Own ordering website | Yes | Yes |
| QR table ordering | Yes | Yes |
| Pickup | Yes | Yes |
| Delivery orders | Yes | Yes |
| Your own drivers | Yes · Pro | Yes |
| Scheduled orders | Yes · Lite | Yes |
| Online payments | No | Yes |
| POS | No | Yes |
| Loyalty | Yes · Pro | Yes |
| Marketing tools | Yes · Lite | Yes |
| WhatsApp ordering or updates | Yes | Not published |
| Branded app | Yes · Enterprise | Not published |
| Delivery-app integration | No | Yes |
| Multiple locations | Yes · Pro | Yes |
| Menu translation | Yes · Lite | Not published |
| Reservations | Yes · Lite | Yes |
Menuthere's online payments work in India today; elsewhere customers pay cash, on delivery or at pickup while card payments are being added.
Why restaurants look elsewhere
Recurring points from reviews, forums and the press, each from a source listed at the foot of the page.
Be fair to it
And Menuthere's limits
Other alternatives
| Menuthere | Lightspeed Restaurant | Toast | Flipdish | SumUp Order & Pay | Storekit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Free plan · from $9/mo | From $69/mo | From $69/mo | From €49/mo | From €49/mo | Free plan · from £82/mo |
| Commission per order | 0% | 0% | 0% | Not published: Flipdish takes its own fees on each online and cash order (its help centre calls them Flipdish fees and commission), at the rate set in each restaurant's agreement | 0% | 0% |
| Contract | Month to month; 7-day free trial on Lite and Pro | Not stated on the US or Australian pricing pages; the Norwegian price list says its price applies to a 12-month contract period | Toast's 10-K says contracts for its software generally run 12 to 36 months. NerdWallet reports contracts of two to three years. | 12-month initial term that renews automatically for 12 months unless cancelled in writing at least 3 months before the end; leaving early means paying the average of the last 6 months' fees for each month left in the term (Terms 5.1 and 5.4). The subscription can be billed monthly or annually. | POS Plus: 30-day free trial, then billed monthly on a 12-month contract; cancel before the trial ends or once the 12 months end (SumUp help centre, UK, Ireland, Germany, France, Spain). | Basic, Grow and Pro are rolling monthly, cancel any time; Enterprise runs on an agreed term (pricing page). The fee docs also describe a 'monthly' billing type that is a 12-month commitment with a lower transaction rate. |
| Own ordering website | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| QR table ordering | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Pickup | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Delivery orders | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not published | Yes |
| Your own drivers | Yes · Pro | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not published | Yes |
| Scheduled orders | Yes · Lite | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Online payments | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| POS | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Loyalty | Yes · Pro | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Marketing tools | Yes · Lite | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| WhatsApp ordering or updates | Yes | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| Branded app | Yes · Enterprise | Not published | Yes | Yes | Not published | Yes |
| Delivery-app integration | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not published | Yes |
| Multiple locations | Yes · Pro | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not published | Yes |
| Menu translation | Yes · Lite | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | Yes |
| Reservations | Yes · Lite | Yes | Yes | Not published | Not published | No |
Full-service and multi-location restaurants that want POS, online ordering and QR order-and-pay in one sales-led package.
From $69/mo
Lightspeed Restaurant alternativesRestaurants in the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland or Australia that want POS, online ordering and table QR ordering from one vendor and can sign a multi-year contract.
From $69/mo
Toast alternativesTakeaways and chains in Ireland, the UK, Spain or the US that want a branded website, app, kiosks and POS from one supplier and are happy with an annual contract.
From €49/mo
Flipdish alternativesCafés, bars and takeaways in the UK and western Europe already on SumUp POS that want QR table ordering and order-ahead pickup paid by phone.
From €49/mo
SumUp Order & Pay alternativesUK restaurants and groups that want commission-free pickup, delivery and catering ordering under their own brand, with QR order & pay and pay-at-table on the Pro plan.
Free plan · from £82/mo
Storekit alternativesQuestions
How Square Online ranks: Australia · Canada · France · Ireland · Japan · Spain · UK · US
Sources · checked 2026-09-26
Menuthere gives your restaurant an ordering website, QR menu and table ordering. Free to start, live in minutes.