Toast online ordering without the POS

You cannot use Toast online ordering without Toast POS. Toast's ordering is a module of its POS platform: to run it you adopt Toast as your point of sale, Toast hardware, and Toast payment processing. If you like your current POS, or run without one, and just want ordering on your own website, you need a standalone system. Delitero is one: a hosted ordering page and an embeddable widget, payments into your own Stripe account, at 5% per order with no monthly fee.

What Toast is

Toast is one of the leading restaurant POS platforms. Its online ordering is deeply integrated with the rest of the stack: menus, order flow, and payments live in one system, on purpose-built hardware, with a large ecosystem of modules (payroll, marketing, loyalty, delivery services). For a restaurant that wants one vendor to run the whole operation, that integration is the point, and nothing standalone can match it.

What Toast costs

Verified 2026-07-11 from third-party sources; Toast prices much of its offering by custom quote.

• POS plans: Starter Kit $0 per month · Point of Sale $69 per month · Build Your Own at custom pricing
• Online ordering is sold as the Digital Storefront Essentials suite, reported at roughly $75 per month across 2026 sources; on the Starter Kit it is bundled rather than a separate fee
• Payment processing: reported around 3.5% + $0.15 on online orders across 2026 sources; actual rates are per-merchant and set in your Toast quote (Toast's own support docs confirm the quote-based structure)
• Hardware is required and purchased from Toast (handhelds and terminals run roughly $494 to $944 per device, per the source above)
• Toast takes no percentage of direct online orders; the costs are the subscription, processing, and hardware

The full percentage-versus-subscription math, with assumptions stated, is in what online ordering actually costs; how the wider field compares is in the best online ordering systems.

Where Delitero differs

• No POS required, and none replaced. Delitero runs alongside whatever you use today. Orders arrive on Delitero's kitchen display app.
• Your own Stripe account. Payments settle directly into your Stripe account through Stripe Connect. Delitero never holds your money.
• Your own site. Embed the ordering widget on the website you already have, or use the hosted ordering page.
• Pay only when you sell. 5% per order, only when you sell. No subscription, no setup fee, no contract. Nothing else. Card processing is Stripe's standard rate (2.9% + $0.30, varies by card), paid to Stripe, not us.
• Self-serve setup in an afternoon, no hardware purchase, no quote process.

Be clear about the flip side: Delitero has no POS integration at all. Orders live on the kitchen display and in the admin portal; if your workflow needs every online order inside your POS, Delitero does not do that, and Toast's integrated approach wins.

Who should pick Toast

• Restaurants ready to run their whole operation on one platform: POS, payments, ordering, payroll, marketing
• High-volume operations where integrated order flow into the kitchen and POS reporting matters more than per-order cost
• Anyone who wants hardware, onboarding, and support from a single large vendor

Who should pick Delitero

• Restaurants that want to keep their current POS (or none) and only need direct online ordering
• Owners who do not want a POS migration, a hardware purchase, or a sales quote just to take orders on their own website
• Restaurants that want payments in their own Stripe account rather than locked to a platform's processing
• Low or seasonal volume, where a fee that is zero in a zero-sales month beats a fixed stack cost

Side by side

Pricing above was verified on 2026-07-11 from third-party sources. Toast publishes no fetchable price list; figures are multi-source 2026 consensus, and Toast prices by quote and changes packaging, so confirm current terms with Toast. Delitero is not affiliated with Toast.