QuickSites vs Toast
Looking for a Toast alternative for online ordering? Here is the honest version — including the volume at which you should keep Toast.
A full restaurant POS — terminals, kitchen screens, payroll — with online ordering as an add-on. Built for a restaurant that wants one vendor for everything.
The short version: these are different products. Toast is a restaurant point-of-sale with online ordering. QuickSites is a website with ordering on it and no point-of-sale at all. They overlap on exactly one thing — taking an order from a phone — so that is the only thing this page compares. If Toast already runs your counter, keep it. This page is for the restaurant that takes no online orders today.
You keep 92% of every order. A floor of 60¢ on very small tickets. Card processing is included in the fee. No contract, no hardware, nothing to install.
Starter at $0/mo; Point of Sale at $69/mo; a bundle at $69/mo plus $9 per employee. Hardware and implementation, which vary by package; 0% financing by application. The page does not state a figure.
Toast’s pricing page does not publish its card-processing rate, the price of the online-ordering add-on, or the per-order fee charged to the guest. The figures below are what independent guides report as of October 2026; treat them as a starting point and ask Toast for your actual quote.
- Online orders: 3.50% + 15¢ each
- In person: 2.49% + 15¢ (Starter 3.09% + 15¢)
- Online-ordering add-on: about $75/mo
- Guest fee on each online order: 49¢ to 99¢, paid by the guest
- Contract: 2–3 years, per the guides
What each costs the restaurant per month
Online channel only. QuickSites is the fee above and nothing else. Toast is the reported online rate on every order plus the reported add-on, on the $0 Starter plan; the guest fee is shown separately because the guest pays it. Each row is one average ticket size.
| Avg ticket | Orders / mo | QuickSites | Toast (restaurant) | + guest fees |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $15 | 25 | $30 | $92 | $12 |
| 50 | $60 | $109 | $25 | |
| 100 | $120 | $142 | $49 | |
| 200 | $240 | $209 | $98 | |
| 400 | $480 | $343 | $196 | |
| $25 | 25 | $50 | $101 | $12 |
| 50 | $100 | $126 | $25 | |
| 100 | $200 | $177 | $49 | |
| 200 | $400 | $279 | $98 | |
| 400 | $800 | $483 | $196 | |
| $40 | 25 | $80 | $114 | $12 |
| 50 | $160 | $153 | $25 | |
| 100 | $320 | $230 | $49 | |
| 200 | $640 | $385 | $98 | |
| 400 | $1,280 | $695 | $196 |
Below that, QuickSites costs the restaurant less. Above it, Toast does — its per-order rate is lower once the fixed costs are covered.
Below that, QuickSites costs the restaurant less. Above it, Toast does — its per-order rate is lower once the fixed costs are covered.
Below that, QuickSites costs the restaurant less. Above it, Toast does — its per-order rate is lower once the fixed costs are covered.
Green marks the lower restaurant-paid cost in each row. The Point of Sale plan adds $69/mo to Toast’s column and moves the break-even up. Hardware is not in either column.
What Toast does well
- One vendor for the whole restaurant: terminals, kitchen display, handhelds, payroll, and online ordering that posts straight to the kitchen.
- Online orders land in the same system as walk-in orders — no second tablet, no re-keying.
- Delivery dispatch and a loyalty programme exist as add-ons when you want them.
- A $0-a-month entry plan, so the software line can start at zero.
Where QuickSites is the better fit
- No monthly, no contract, no hardware. You pay 8% of each online order (at least 60¢), and card processing is inside that number, not on top of it.
- Nothing to install. The ordering page is built from the menu you already have, and you confirm the prices before it goes live.
- Orders are pickup or call-ahead by default; you are never asked to run a delivery fleet.
- If you sell nothing online in a month, you pay nothing that month.
Pick Toast if…
- You already run Toast at the counter. Keep it — adding a second ordering system to save a few dollars a month is more work than it is worth.
- You take more online orders a month than the break-even below. Past that point Toast’s lower per-order rate wins even after its fixed costs.
- You want delivery dispatch, loyalty, and reporting in one place.
Pick QuickSites if…
- You take no online orders today and want to start without a monthly bill or a multi-year commitment.
- Your online volume is small or seasonal, so a percentage with no fixed cost beats a subscription.
- You want a website with ordering on it, not a point-of-sale — your counter stays however it is.
On Toast, but with no website of your own?
Some restaurants have a Toast ordering page and nothing else — no site for the name, the hours, the story. You do not have to change how you take orders to fix that. A QuickSites site can carry your menu and link straight to your existing Toast ordering page. The site is free to host; the ordering stays where it is.
See your menu as an ordering site
Paste your current site or your Google listing. It builds the ordering site from your own menu; you confirm the prices before anything goes live. Free to host.
Build it — freeToast’s plan prices are from its public pricing page as read in October 2026; its processing rates, add-on price and guest fee are third-party reports as of the same month, because Toast does not publish them. All of it changes over time — ask Toast for a quote. Sources: Toast pricing (vendor), Toast online ordering (vendor), Merchant Insiders — Toast fees (Feb 2026), POS USA — Toast pricing.