WooCommerce for restaurants
WooCommerce for restaurants: free core, paid pieces
WooCommerce is free, with a $0 platform fee, and restaurant plugins such as Orderable add time slots, add-ons and table QR ordering. You pay for hosting, plugin licenses and printing, and you keep it all updated yourself.
Free plan: 50 orders a month, 0% commission, no card needed.
Free plan, 50 orders a month, 0% commission. Paid plans from US$17 a month.
The short answer
Flexible and cheap to start. Yours to maintain.
WooCommerce is a free plugin for WordPress. It charges no platform fee, no revenue share and no extra fee for using another payment gateway. You can build almost any restaurant setup with it.
The restaurant parts are plugins. Orderable is built for restaurants: its Pro license (US$149 a year) adds delivery and pickup time and date selection, add-ons, table ordering with QR codes and tips, and it charges no commission. Kitchen printing, loyalty and delivery-date tools are further plugins, most priced per year.
The hidden cost is time. Hosting, updates, plugin conflicts and backups are your job, or your developer's. That suits a restaurant with a WordPress site and someone who enjoys running it.
- WooCommerce core: free, $0 platform fee, no gateway surcharge
- Restaurant ordering: Orderable Pro, US$149 a year
- Hosting: WooCommerce says US$25 to US$350 a month for most stores
- Updates and fixes: you, or a developer
The restaurant plugin stack
What each piece costs
Prices from each maker's own page, in US dollars, read on 20 October 2026.
| Need | Plugin or service | Price | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| Store | WooCommerce | Free | Products, cart and checkout, $0 platform fee |
| Hosting | WordPress.com Business (plugins allowed) | US$25 a month billed yearly, US$40 monthly | Managed hosting; WooCommerce's own range is US$25 to US$350 a month |
| Restaurant ordering | Orderable Pro | US$149 a year for 1 site | Time and date slots, add-ons, table QR ordering, tips; Free version has lead times |
| Add-ons only | WooCommerce Product Add-Ons | US$79 a year | Extras such as gift wrap or messages, if you don't use Orderable |
| Delivery date and slots only | Order Delivery Date Pro | US$119 a year for 1 site | Time slots per date and order limits per slot |
| Kitchen printing | BizPrint Plus | US$12 a month billed yearly + US$0.025 per print job | Prints orders automatically; its page says thermal printer support is still in progress |
| Loyalty | WooCommerce Points and Rewards | US$179 a year | Points on purchases |
| Card payments | WooPayments | No monthly fee; 2.9% + US$0.30 in the US | Available in 38 countries |
What to plan for
Running a restaurant on WordPress
Updates are yours
WordPress, WooCommerce and each plugin update on their own schedule. A conflict on a Friday night is yours to fix, or your developer's.
Kitchen printing
WooCommerce's Print Invoices & Packing Lists (US$79 a year) prints invoices and packing slips, not kitchen tickets. Cloud printing such as BizPrint charges per print job.
Yearly licenses
Most extensions cost US$29 to US$299 a year each, by WooCommerce's own range, and renew yearly. Add them up before you start.
What WooCommerce does well
No platform fee, no gateway surcharge, full control of your site and data, and a capable restaurant plugin in Orderable.
A worked example
A restaurant with 600 orders a month: the monthly bill
Delivery, takeaway and table QR ordering, a kitchen ticket per order, and points for regulars. Yearly licenses divided by 12; US dollars, before card fees.
| Cost line | WooCommerce setup | Menuthere Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Hosting or plan | WordPress.com Business, monthly: US$40 | US$39 |
| Restaurant ordering | Orderable Pro: US$149 a year = US$12.42 | Included |
| Kitchen tickets | BizPrint Plus: US$12 + 600 jobs × US$0.025 = US$27 | Included |
| Loyalty points | Points and Rewards: US$179 a year = US$14.92 | Included |
| Hosting and updates | Your time or a developer's | Hosted and updated for you |
| Monthly total before card fees | US$94.34 | US$39 |
On WordPress.com Business billed yearly (US$25 a month) the WooCommerce setup comes to US$79.34 a month. Menuthere Lite, US$17, covers everything here except loyalty. Menuthere's yearly billing charges 10 months for 12.
When WooCommerce is the better choice
Keep WordPress if you love running it
You already have a WordPress site with a blog and good search rankings, and someone who maintains it. Adding WooCommerce and Orderable keeps everything on one site.
You want total control of design, data and code, and custom features a hosted system won't build for you.
You ship products: sauces and merch through WooCommerce's shipping. Menuthere doesn't ship parcels.
Use both: keep WordPress for content and link an Order online button to your Menuthere ordering page, with nothing to update.
How to switch or start
Ordering live, no plugins to update
- 1
Create the free page
Go to get started and find your restaurant on Google. No card on Free.
- 2
Upload the menu
A photo or PDF of your menu, then add sizes, add-ons and allergens.
- 3
Set order types and printing
Turn on delivery zones, takeaway and table QR, and choose when kitchen tickets print.
- 4
Link it from WordPress
Add an Order online button to your WordPress menu, or use a subdomain such as order.yourrestaurant.com on Lite.
Questions owners ask
Answered, plainly.
Sources (10) · checked 2026-10-20
- WooCommerce pricing · WooCommerce, read 20 October 2026
- WooPayments · WooCommerce, read 20 October 2026
- WooPayments fees · WooCommerce, read 20 October 2026
- Orderable pricing · Orderable, read 20 October 2026
- Product Add-Ons · WooCommerce Marketplace, read 20 October 2026
- Order Delivery Date Pro for WooCommerce · Tyche Softwares, read 20 October 2026
- Print Invoices & Packing Lists · WooCommerce Marketplace, read 20 October 2026
- BizPrint pricing · BizPrint, read 20 October 2026
- WooCommerce Points and Rewards · WooCommerce Marketplace, read 20 October 2026
- WordPress.com pricing · WordPress.com, read 20 October 2026
Restaurant ordering without the plugin stack
Make your ordering page from a menu photo and link it from WordPress. Free to start, 0% commission.
