ChowNow keeps the subscription low and charges for the volume — 2.95% + $0.29 on every transaction, a setup fee, and a per-order rate on delivery. Supaorder charges one flat price per location and nothing per order, and puts the register, kitchen screen and kiosk in the same subscription.
ChowNow is a US-focused commission-free ordering platform. Restaurants get a branded website, a branded mobile app and a listing in ChowNow's own consumer marketplace, and ChowNow connects to a long list of third-party POS systems. It does not sell a POS, a kitchen display or a kiosk of its own.
How this page is written
Every ChowNow cell below states only what ChowNow publishes on its own website — no review-site figures, no analyst numbers. Where they publish nothing, the cell says not published rather than claiming the feature is missing. The pages we read and the date we read them are at the bottom, so you can check any row yourself in one click.
Checked against ChowNow's own published pages on 21 August 2026.
| Criterion | Supaorder | ChowNow |
|---|---|---|
| Commission on orders | None — no percentage of any order, at any volume | None on direct orders — ChowNow publishes unlimited commission-free direct ordering |
| Per-order or per-transaction fee | None. You connect your own payment processor and pay their rate directly | 2.95% + $0.29 per transaction, published under "Additional Fees" |
| Order limits | Unlimited orders on every plan | Unlimited commission-free direct orders |
| Setup fee | Standard $500, currently waived for early customers | $119 – $499, published under "Additional Fees" |
| Branded iOS & Android apps under your brand | Included on every plan — published to the App Store and Google Play under your brand | Included, built and published by their team, plus a $99 annual Apple Developer fee listed as an additional fee |
| POS register | Included — multi-tender register, tables and tabs, till sessions with X/Z reports | Not published — ChowNow integrates with POS rather than selling one |
| Kitchen display | Included — per-item check-off across kitchen stations | Not published — receipt printers are sold instead |
| Self-order kiosk | Included — your menu and prices, rewards sign-in, tips, printed pickup code | Not published — QR code ordering is offered instead |
| Driver app & auto-dispatch | Included — driver app with live GPS, plus distance/load/vehicle auto-dispatch | Flex Delivery, charged per order — $7.98/order on the pricing page 1 |
| On-demand delivery networks | DoorDash Drive, Uber Direct, Shipday and Nash | Not published — the network behind Flex Delivery is not named |
| POS integrations | Two-way sync with Clover, Square and Toast | 20+ systems including Clover, Square, Toast, Revel, Lightspeed, Brink and Lavu |
| Reporting | 75+ built-in reports with CSV export | Reporting is included; no report count is published |
| Markets & currencies | 100+ countries, 17 published local currencies | Not published. Pricing is quoted in USD only and support is a US number |
| Pricing published publicly | Yes — every tier and currency is on /pricing | Yes — plans and additional fees are on their pricing page |
Scorecard: 8 to Supaorder, 1 to ChowNow, 5 level — by our own reading of the 14 criteria above. Read the rows, not the tally.
We would rather you buy the right thing than buy ours. These are the cases where that is not us.
ChowNow runs its own diner-facing app and discovery network, and lists your restaurant in it. Supaorder deliberately has no marketplace — we only build your own channel — so if you want a second source of demand alongside your own app, that is a real thing ChowNow gives you and we do not.
If you run Revel, Lightspeed, Brink, PAR, Lavu or another system on their list, ChowNow connects to it today. We sync two-way with Clover, Square and Toast, and nothing else. That is the clearest reason to choose them over us.
Per-transaction pricing is cheaper than a flat fee below a certain order count. If you do a few thousand dollars a month online, do the arithmetic — a percentage of a small number is a small number.
ChowNow is ordering software that talks to your POS. Supaorder includes the POS register, kitchen display, self-order kiosk and in-store loyalty tablet in the same subscription, so there is one menu, one support contact and one bill.
2.95% + $0.29 scales with your success. A flat per-location fee does not. The crossover point is the number worth calculating before you sign anything.
We publish local pricing in 17 currencies and operate in 100+ countries. ChowNow publishes USD pricing and a US support line.
On direct orders, yes — ChowNow publishes unlimited commission-free direct ordering, and that part is genuine. The cost sits elsewhere: 2.95% + $0.29 per transaction, a $119–$499 setup fee, a $99 annual Apple Developer fee, and a per-order charge on Flex Delivery orders. "Commission-free" and "no percentage of your revenue" are not the same sentence.
Yes. Send us your current menu — a link to your ChowNow ordering page is enough — and we rebuild items, modifiers, photos and delivery zones for you. Your Supaorder store can run in parallel while you switch links, QR codes and app downloads over, so there is no dark day.
No, and that is deliberate. Supaorder builds your own ordering channel under your own brand — there is no Supaorder consumer app your restaurant appears in, and no competitor listed beside you. If marketplace discovery matters to you, that is a genuine point in ChowNow’s favour.
The ChowNow column was read from these pages on 21 August 2026. Vendors change their pricing without announcing it — if you find a row that no longer matches what ChowNow publishes, tell us at [email protected] and we will correct it.
ChowNow is a trademark of its respective owner. This comparison is published by Supaorder and reflects our reading of publicly available information; it is not endorsed by ChowNow.
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