WebEatery vs. Toast Online Ordering

Toast is a good point of sale. If you're running it, the pitch for adding Toast's own online ordering is that everything lives in one place—and that's true, as far as it goes. What's worth examining before you say yes is how many separate line items "one place" turns out to mean, and what it costs to leave.

Toast now sells a branded app of its own, so this isn't a comparison about whether you can get a branded app. It's about the total, the terms, and whether your ordering platform should be able to decide your point of sale.

What Toast Costs

Toast doesn't publish its pricing—the pricing page lists "starting at $0/month" and routes to a sales call. Online ordering, the branded mobile app, and email and SMS marketing sit in three separately priced tiers stacked on top of the POS subscription, Toast Payments is required with no option to bring your own processor, and the hardware is Toast's own. Contracts renew in successive one-year terms with 30 days' written notice, and leaving early bills the remainder of the term.

What WebEatery Costs

$165/month for the first location

One number, published, covering the storefront, the iOS and Android apps, rewards, print marketing, and delivery.

Four Line Items to Match One

Getting to what WebEatery includes means assembling it on Toast: the POS subscription, then online ordering, then the separately priced tier that carries the branded app, then the marketing tier for email and SMS. On top of that, Toast Payments is mandatory—you can't bring your own processor—and the hardware is Toast's.

None of those prices are on Toast's website. The pricing page says "starting at $0/month" and routes you to a sales conversation.

That's a legitimate way to sell software. It does mean the only way to compare is to get the all-in monthly quote for your specific setup in writing, then compare that number to $165.

Leaving Costs Something

Toast's contracts renew in successive one-year terms and require 30 days' written notice not to renew. Leaving mid-term bills the remainder.

Every plan is month-to-month with no long-term contract; prepaying a multi-month term is an optional discount, not a commitment.

After the first 30 days, the monthly plan is month-to-month: the current month isn't refunded, but you can cancel any time before your next renewal and won't be charged again, apart from any outstanding fees.

You Shouldn't Have to Replace Your POS

The real cost of a POS-attached ordering platform isn't the monthly fee. It's that the two decisions become one—if you outgrow the ordering, you're relitigating your point of sale, your hardware, and your card processing at the same time.

Native Clover and Square integration with automatic menu import—or a WebEatery order tablet for any other POS. Either way, you start taking orders on day one.

The menu imports from the POS at setup and is maintained separately in WebEatery afterward—staff-facing POS menus and customer-facing app menus are deliberately not auto-synced.

Where Toast is the Better Choice

If you want one vendor for everything—POS, payroll, scheduling, kitchen display, ordering—Toast is the most complete restaurant platform in this comparison, by some distance. Nothing here competes with its back-of-house depth, and for a multi-unit operation that wants one bill and one support number, that consolidation is worth paying for.

If you're already deep in the Toast ecosystem and happy, adding their ordering is the path of least resistance, and least resistance has real value.

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