Toast Online Ordering Alternatives
Keep Toast POS — Compare Online Ordering Alternatives
You do not have to leave Toast to grow online ordering. The Chowly Platform is a Toast partner that runs on top of your Toast POS, adding branded ordering, managed Google Ads, loyalty, and dynamic pricing — run by eight AI agents. Compare it with four more alternatives below.
83.8%
Of online sales shifted to direct orders on the Chowly Platform (with Toast POS)
Nora Restaurant & Bar · Chicago, IL
Read the full story →Why compare Toast Online Ordering alternatives?
Toast Online Ordering is the ordering storefront built into Toast POS — and for taking orders, it does the job. What operators usually go looking for is the layer around it: managed Google Ads, loyalty redeemed at the register, automated email, dynamic pricing on marketplace orders, and SEO that gets you cited in Google AI Overviews. Those are growth functions, not ordering functions.
The good news is you do not have to switch anything. Chowly keeps everything good about Toast and adds the platform around it. One Chicago operator running Toast POS shifted 83.8% of online sales to direct orders and saw 100% order success after layering the Chowly Platform on top.
5 Best Toast Online Ordering Alternatives for Restaurants
1. Chowly Platform — the keep-your-POS option. Chowly is a Toast partner and POS-native with Toast: branded ordering on your own domain, managed Google Ads tracked to confirmed POS orders, loyalty, email, and dynamic pricing, run by eight AI agents — with a money-back promise if first-party sales do not grow in six months.
2. ChowNow — commission-free ordering for independents, with website ordering plus an optional branded mobile app, for operators who want a direct channel.
3. Owner.com — a restaurant website, online ordering, branded app, and email/text marketing platform for independent restaurants.
4. Popmenu — bundles a restaurant website, interactive menus, online ordering, and marketing automation into one subscription; popular with single-location independents.
5. Olo — an enterprise digital ordering and delivery platform with 400+ integrations, built for large multi-location restaurant brands.
Do I have to leave Toast to use Chowly?
No — and this is the point. Chowly is a Toast partner and is POS-native with Toast. You keep your Toast POS, your kitchen tickets, and your front-of-house workflow. Chowly adds branded ordering on your own domain, managed Google Ads tracked to confirmed orders, email, loyalty redeemed at the register, and dynamic pricing — all in one dashboard.
What does Chowly add on top of Toast?
Eight AI agents that do the work. The SEO Agent gets you found, the Ads Agent tracks every ad click to a confirmed POS order and dollar amount, the Pricing Agent recovers margin on 3rd-party marketplace orders, and the Review Agent protects your rating. None of that is part of Toast Online Ordering — and the Ads and Pricing agents have no competitor analog at all.
Guaranteed Growth puts a refund behind the result: six months to grow your first-party sales, or your money comes back.
What Chowly adds on top of Toast Online Ordering
| Feature | Chowly Platform (on Toast) | Toast Online Ordering |
|---|---|---|
| Works with Toast POS | Yes — Toast partner, POS-native | Yes — built into Toast |
| Scope | Adds ads, loyalty, email, pricing, and SEO on top of ordering | Ordering storefront included with Toast POS |
| Managed Google Ads | Included — tracked click-to-confirmed-order | Not part of Toast Online Ordering |
| Dynamic pricing on marketplace orders | Included — recovers commission margin | Not part of Toast Online Ordering |
| AI agents | 8 AI agents running around the clock | Not part of Toast Online Ordering |
| Growth guarantee | Money back if first-party sales don't grow in 6 months | Not offered |
Real Customers · Real Results
Operators growing on Chowly with Toast
“This is our busiest week so far based on our numbers on Toast. Chowly is moving in the right direction every month — we're growing into it.”
“We had every delivery app on a separate tablet. Switching to Chowly cut about 6 hours a week of work for my GM. That's a real number.”
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