Restaurant website builder with online ordering: 11 options and what they really cost

A restaurant website builder with online ordering gives you a menu site and an Order button in one tool, so diners order for pickup or delivery from your own page instead of an app. The real price is the monthly fee plus whatever it takes from each order, plus any fee it adds to the diner's bill. On a busy month, the fee per order usually matters more than the plan price.

Below: the three kinds of builder, eleven real options with their published prices side by side, what each costs on a month of 100, 300 and 800 orders, what the ordering has to do in a real kitchen, the questions to ask before you sign, and how to switch without losing an order.

1. Three kinds of restaurant website builder

• General site builders (Wix, Squarespace, Shopify, GoDaddy, Hostinger). You design pages yourself from a restaurant template; ordering is an app, a plan feature or a partner. Flexible, but menus with sizes and choices take work, and payments need a paid plan [1] [2].
• Point-of-sale builders (Square Online, and the site tools that come with Toast or Clover). Strong if you already use that till, because orders land on the same system. Weaker if you don't [3].
• Restaurant menu and ordering builders (Menuthere, Menubly, Owner.com, Popmenu, ChowNow, UpMenu, Full Room). Built around a menu: sizes, add-ons, pickup times, kitchen alerts. They range from free plans to $499 a month [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9].

Which fits depends on what you sell and how many orders you take. A counter-service takeout place wants a menu builder; a wine bar selling an atmosphere may prefer a general builder; a place already on Square at the counter should look at Square first.

2. Restaurant website builders with online ordering, with prices

US list prices from each company's own page or a named source, read on the dates in the sources. Card processing is extra wherever diners pay online. Prices change often: check before you buy.

GloriaFood, long the free choice, closes on April 30, 2027 and takes no new sign-ups [11]; see what to do before GloriaFood shuts down.

3. What each costs on a real month

A worked example, not your numbers: pickup orders at $25 each, paid online where the builder needs it, at each service's own listed rates. Monthly plan plus fees per order; guest fees noted separately.

Owner.com's 5% guest fee adds $125, $375 and $1,000 a month to your diners' bills at these volumes [6]; Popmenu's $1 an order adds $100, $300 and $800 [7]. Owner.com's Flex rows leave out card processing, which its page doesn't break out.

Three things stand out. Percentages grow with every order, so a cheap plan with a fee per order gets expensive as you get busy. Card processing alone is about 4% of a $25 order wherever diners pay online. And pay at pickup removes the online card fee entirely: you pay your counter rate, as for any walk-in. The fuller picture, site builders and designers included, is in how much a restaurant website costs.

4. What the ordering has to do in a real kitchen

A demo always looks good. These are the things that go wrong on a Friday night, so test each one:

• Orders that reach you loudly. A ringing phone, a tablet that chimes until someone taps it, or a kitchen printer. An email in the rush is a missed order.
• Menu choices. Sizes, required choices ("pick a sauce"), optional add-ons with prices, half-and-half for pizza, notes per item.
• Ready times you control. A default prep time, and a quick way to push it to 45 minutes when you're slammed.
• Pause and sold out. Turn ordering off for an hour, mark one dish sold out, from your phone.
• Hours and holidays. Orders stop when you close and don't open on a holiday you're shut.
• Pickup or delivery. If you deliver yourself: zones, fees and minimums. If not, pickup only, clearly.
• Payment. Online, at pickup, or both; deposits for big orders.
• The menu on a phone. Readable text, the Order button on the first screen, a short checkout.

The full setup, with five test orders before launch, is in how to set up online ordering for your restaurant.

5. What the website part has to do

The builder still has to make a good restaurant site, not just a cart:

• Open now, Order, Call and Directions at the top of the first screen.
• The menu as text Google can read (why that matters), not a PDF.
• Your own .com, or the option to add it. A builder's sub-address works but looks borrowed.
• A page title and description you can set, for search (SEO for a restaurant website).
• Fast on a weak phone signal: small pages, no video header.

The things every restaurant site should show are in what to put on a restaurant website, and real layouts by kind of place in restaurant website examples.

6. Ten questions to ask before you sign

1. What do I pay a month, and is there a setup or onboarding fee?
2. What do you take from each order, as a percentage and in cents?
3. Do you add any fee to the diner's bill? How much?
4. Who processes cards, at what rate, and when is the money paid out?
5. Is there a contract or a yearly term? How do I cancel, and is it online?
6. Can I use my own domain? If you register it, is it in my name?
7. Can I export my menu and my customer list if I leave?
8. How do orders reach the kitchen, and what happens if my internet drops?
9. Can I take orders at pickup without online payment?
10. Who updates the menu, and how fast can I change a price from my phone?

Write the answers down. If a salesperson won't put the fee per order in writing, treat that as the answer.

7. How to pick in one afternoon

1. Get last month's numbers: online orders, average order size, and what you paid the apps.
2. Shortlist three from the table: one free, one flat-priced, one with the features you're sure you need.
3. Price each on your own numbers, as in section 3, guest fees included.
4. Load your real menu into the free plan or trial of each. A builder that reads a menu photo or your old site saves the retyping.
5. Place three test orders from your phone with the screen locked: one simple, one with choices, one at a busy time setting. Time how long each takes to reach you.
6. Open the site on your phone on mobile data and look at the first screen.
7. Pick the one that cost least on your numbers and passed every test.

8. Switching builders without losing orders

• Run the new one next to the old one for a week. Don't cancel first.
• Copy your menu over and check every price, size and add-on against the paper menu.
• Move the links in this order: your Google profile's website and order links [13], your social bios, your QR codes, then your domain.
• If your QR codes point at the old builder's address, reprint them or point your own domain at the new site, so the codes keep working.
• Cancel the old one only once a week has passed with no orders arriving there.

9. Do you need a builder at all, or just ordering?

If you have a website you like, you may only need an ordering button for it. Some services sell ordering on its own, and DoorDash offers online ordering for your own site with no monthly or commission fee and 2.9% + 30¢ card processing per order [12]. If you have no site, or your site has a PDF menu, a builder that does both saves running two tools. For a takeout place, the menu is the website, so one tool usually wins. Free routes are in how to make a restaurant website for free.

Common mistakes

• Comparing monthly prices only, and missing the fee per order or the guest fee.
• Signing a year before a test month. Ask how to cancel before you pay.
• A domain registered in the vendor's name. Leaving then means losing the address your QR codes and Google point to.
• Orders by email. Nobody reads email during service.
• Two menus that drift apart: one on the builder, another on the apps and Google. Keep one and link to it.
• Paying for an app, loyalty and texts before the basic site and ordering are right.

Questions

What is the best restaurant website builder with online ordering?

The one that costs least on your own order numbers and passes a locked-phone test order. For few orders, a free or cheap plan with no fee per order; for many, a flat price; if you use Square at the counter, Square Online.

Is there a free restaurant website builder with online ordering?

Yes, with limits: Menuthere's free plan takes up to 50 orders a month with pay on collection [4], Menubly and Square Online have free plans [5] [3], and Full Room's free plan takes up to 50 orders a month. Check the order cap, the badge and the card fee.

Does Wix have online ordering for restaurants?

Yes, through its restaurant ordering app; taking payments online needs a paid plan [1] [2].

Does Squarespace do restaurant ordering?

Through a partner: ChowNow on Core and higher plans, paid to ChowNow [10].

What's the difference between a website builder and an ordering system?

A builder makes the pages; an ordering system takes the order and sends it to the kitchen. Restaurant builders do both; general builders add ordering through an app or partner.

Commission or flat fee: which is better?

A percentage is cheaper at low volume and costs more as you grow. On Owner.com's prices, Flex costs more than Flat once you pass 200 orders of $25, which matches Owner.com's own advice to take the flat plan past about $5,000 a month in online sales [6].

If you'd like to see your own menu as a site before comparing, build it free from a photo of your menu: pickup orders ring your phone, diners pay at the counter, and there's no card to go live. More comparisons are in all our guides for restaurant owners.

Sources

1. Wix plans, Wix, read Oct 22, 2026.
2. Best restaurant website builders, Website Builder Expert, updated May 30, 2025, read Nov 3, 2026.
3. Square Online plans, Square, read Oct 22, 2026.
4. Menuthere pricing, Menuthere, read Oct 23, 2026.
5. Menubly pricing, Menubly, read Oct 23, 2026.
6. Owner.com pricing, Owner, read Oct 23, 2026.
7. Popmenu pricing guide, Restolabs, updated Aug 21, 2026, read Oct 23, 2026 (reported, not Popmenu's own list).
8. ChowNow pricing, ChowNow, read Oct 22, 2026.
9. UpMenu pricing, UpMenu, read Oct 22, 2026.
10. Squarespace pricing, Squarespace, read Oct 22, 2026.
11. GloriaFood is shutting down, our guide with GloriaFood's notice, read Oct 23, 2026.
12. DoorDash commission rates and pricing and online ordering, DoorDash, read Oct 23 and Nov 1, 2026 (as listed in search).
13. Food ordering links on your Business Profile, Google Business Profile Help, read Oct 22, 2026.