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Appetier vs Toast
What Toast charges next to Appetier: no commission, and a flat monthly fee capped at $199. Every figure comes from a public page.
Appetier and Toast at a glance
Toast is a POS company. It sells hardware, software, and payments together, and online ordering is a module on the Toast account. Appetier POS and the kiosk are included in Growth and run on tablets you already own, with no commission and no lock-in. Appetier writes to its own POS in full, so menu, prices, and orders stay in step. A restaurant that keeps Toast gets a read only connection, with Appetier as the system of record for direct orders.[7][8][2][6]
Appetier is best for
Owners who want the counter, the menu, and the orders in one system Appetier can write to, with a fee that stops at a set amount.
Toast is best for
Restaurants that want Toast's own hardware, support line, and payments, and will run the whole counter on Toast.
Pricing and fees
Pricing and fees as each vendor publishes them. Confirm current terms with each vendor.
| Feature | Appetier | Toast | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plan | Growth | Starter Kit | Point of Sale |
| Monthly price | No subscription and no commission. Growth is nothing under $500 of monthly direct sales and never more than $199 a location. | At least $0 a month | At least $69 a month |
| Per-order fee | None. Growth takes no share of any order. | None | None |
| Guest fee | None. Appetier charges guests no service fee. | Not listed | Not listed |
| Card rate | Appetier Pay at 2.9% + 30¢ online, or keep the processor you already have. | Not published | Not published |
| Source and check date | Appetier pricing | pos.toasttab.com | pos.toasttab.com |
Feature
Appetier
Toast
Setup and onboarding
No setup fee. Upload a logo and a photo of the menu, and a first location goes live in minutes.Appetier pricing
Hardware and implementation vary by package. 0% interest financing is available by application, and a Pay-as-You-Go option lowers upfront cost through an all-in-one rate.Toast restaurant POS pricing
Contract terms
Month to month, with no minimum term.Appetier pricingAppetier terms of service
Not published on the pricing page. Toast says its services run only on devices it approves.Toast restaurant POS pricing
Notes
A month with no direct orders costs nothing. DoorDash and Uber Eats orders carry no Appetier commission or markup.Appetier pricing
A kitchen display is priced by quote, based on kitchen layout and order volume.Toast kitchen display
How the features compare
Feature
Appetier
Toast
Direct ordering
Ordering on your own domain and branded apps, with catering. No commission on direct orders and no fee on the guest's bill. Cards run on Appetier Pay at 2.9% + 30¢ online, or on any PCI compliant processor you keep. Marketplace orders are never charged, and Uber Direct couriers deliver with no markup.[1][11]
Online Ordering is a Toast module with no commission and flat delivery fees. No price is printed, and it needs a Toast POS device.[8]
Website and local SEO
Guests find you on Google and land on your checkout. Location pages and Google Business updates publish on a schedule. A weekly check keeps Apple Maps, Yelp, and Facebook matched, and Sous replies to Google reviews while low ratings go to you.[12][13]
Toast sells online ordering, websites, and a branded app as Digital Storefront packages, and prints no price for them.[8]
Loyalty and CRM
You keep your guests' contact details and order history. Loyalty and gift cards sit inside checkout, and winback and birthday campaigns run inside limits you set. Each location includes 1,500 marketing texts and 10,000 marketing emails a month.[1][14]
Loyalty, gift cards, and email marketing are separate Toast modules, and no price is printed for them.[7]
POS sync
Appetier POS gets full write access to its own menu, prices, hours, stock, and orders, so nothing is re-keyed. Keep your own POS and Appetier works at the access it gives. Read and write access sends each order in as a ticket. With read access alone, Appetier is the system of record. Appetier Pay takes cards in person on readers bought from Appetier, or you keep your provider's readers if they connect.[2][5]
Twenty features, side by side
The same table as the comparisons page, for Appetier and Toast.
| Feature | Appetier | Toast |
|---|---|---|
| Ordering on your own site | Included | Costs extra or on a separate plan |
| Branded iOS and Android apps | Included | Costs extra or on a separate plan |
| POS menu sync | Included | Included |
| Marketplace orders in one queue | Not offered or not listed | Included |
| Loyalty | Included | Costs extra or on a separate plan |
| Gift cards | Included | Costs extra or on a separate plan |
| Text and email campaigns | Included | Costs extra or on a separate plan |
| An AI agent that does the work | Included | Not offered or not listed |
| AI phone ordering | Included | Not offered or not listed |
| Google Business listing upkeep | Included | Included |
| Review replies | Included | Not offered or not listed |
| Search-ready menu pages | Included | Costs extra or on a separate plan |
| Catering orders | Included | Costs extra or on a separate plan |
| Reservations and waitlist | Included | Costs extra or on a separate plan |
| Kitchen display | Included | Costs extra or on a separate plan |
| QR table ordering | Included | Costs extra or on a separate plan |
| Delivery dispatch | Included | Included |
| Restaurant website | Included | Costs extra or on a separate plan |
| Free website audit | Included | Not offered or not listed |
| Setup from your site or a menu photo | Included | Included |
- Included
- Costs extra or on a separate plan
- Not offered or not listed
Where Toast is stronger
What Toast's public pages show it does better than Appetier. Each line links the page it comes from.
Choosing between Appetier and Toast
Find the row that sounds like your restaurant.
Restaurant type
Better fit
Why
A restaurant that wants one vendor for hardware, software, and payments
Toast
Toast sells all three, and its support line is open every day.[7]
An owner who wants the POS and ordering to share one menu with nothing mirrored
Appetier
Appetier POS writes to the menu, prices, and orders itself, so nothing is read back from another system.[2]
An owner who already has tablets
Appetier
Comparison FAQs
How much does Toast cost for a restaurant?
Toast's pricing page lists Starter Kit from $0 a month and Point of Sale from $69 a month for new single locations, with the first terminal included. Build Your Own is custom. Extra devices, add-ons, and card processing cost more.[7]
What card rate does Toast charge?
Toast does not publish one. Its payments page says its payment team builds a rate for your business.[9]
Can I use my own hardware with Toast?
Can I keep Toast and use Appetier?
How this page is built
- Public pages only. Every figure and feature comes from the company's own pages, linked above.
- Each plan shows the day we checked it, and we check again every 14 days.
- Reported means the figure comes from a third party's page or a dated one, not the company's current page.
- A feature we could only read from such a page shows as not listed.
Restaurant online ordering systems compared, side by side
Each page lines up direct ordering, SEO, loyalty, POS sync, and fees, and lists the public sources behind it.
Sources
- [1]Appetier pricingPricing
- [2]Appetier POS systemProduct page
- [3]Appetier POS hardwareProduct page
- [4]Appetier AI phone orderingProduct page
- [5]Appetier POS syncProduct page
- [6]Appetier Toast integrationProduct page
- [7]Toast restaurant POS pricingPricing
- [8]Toast online orderingProduct page
- [9]Toast paymentsPricing
- [10]Toast kitchen displayProduct page
- [11]Appetier cateringProduct page
- [12]Appetier product overviewProduct page
- [13]Sous, Appetier's AI agentProduct page
- [14]Appetier restaurant marketingProduct page
About these comparisons
- All trademarks, product names, and logos belong to their owners.
- Appetier is not affiliated with Toast. Toast is a trademark of its owner.
- Information is based on publicly available sources and may change. Confirm details directly with each vendor before purchasing.
- Pricing and fees can vary by plan, region, payment processor, order volume, and contract terms. Always verify current pricing with the vendor.
- Last verifiedOct 23, 2026
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