1. Menubly
Small cafés, home bakers, food trucks and takeaways anywhere that want a low-cost menu link, QR menu and pickup or delivery ordering sent to WhatsApp or a simple dashboard.
Menubly is a menu, QR-code menu and one-page mini-website builder with commission-free ordering, and its profile names bakeries, ghost kitchens and caterers among who it suits. It has a free-forever plan; Pro is $9.99 a month or $95.99 a year, the lowest published price on this list.
- Price
- Free plan · from $9.99/mo
- Commission
- 0%
- Online payments
- Online payments go through Stripe. The restaurant connects its own Stripe account (Stripe Connect) and diners pay by card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Cash App Pay and other methods Stripe supports in that country. There are separate help guides for businesses in the US and the UK. Restaurants can also collect payment manually (cash on delivery, bank transfer or a payment QR code) and send an invoice link from the order dashboard.
Includes: Own ordering website · Pickup · Delivery orders · Online payments · WhatsApp ordering or updates · Multiple locations
- Published prices: a free forever plan that lists online ordering for pickup and delivery, and Pro at $9.99 a month or $95.99 a year. The FAQ says there is a 30-day free trial with no credit card needed (menubly.com pricing page).
- No commission on orders. Menubly says it adds no fees on top of Stripe's card charges and charges nothing for manual payments such as cash on delivery or bank transfer (menubly.com pricing FAQ; help centre article on collecting payment).
- Diners can pay online by card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Cash App Pay and other methods through the restaurant's own Stripe account. Orders can also be sent to the restaurant's WhatsApp as a pre-filled message with items, total, customer name and phone, and the restaurant gets a WhatsApp message for each new order (help centre: Stripe, WhatsApp ordering and order management articles).
- Dine-in QR ordering is limited. Menubly's guide says diners build a cart and show their phone to a waiter to place the order, one QR code serves every table with no table numbers, and each menu can use only one ordering mode at a time, dine-in or online (help centre: dine-in ordering with QR codes).
- Order handling is basic. Orders are listed in a web dashboard where staff update order and payment status by hand. You can search orders but the help centre offers no filter by date or status, orders cannot be edited, and printing uses the browser's print function. Delivery is arranged by the restaurant, which copies the address into Google Maps or a delivery app (help centre: managing orders).
- The pricing pages contradict each other. The plan table lists a free forever plan with online ordering, but the FAQ says that after the 30-day trial it costs $9.99 a month to keep all features, including online ordering. Pro includes only 1 online menu and 1 QR code menu; each extra menu, for example for another branch, costs $9.99 and is added by emailing or messaging Menubly (menubly.com pricing and online menu pages; help centre: creating an online menu).