Ordering on your own domain

Start with your own payout statement

We are not going to quote you a commission rate, because it depends on your agreement and we do not know it. Go and look at your last marketplace payout instead. Gross orders at the top, what actually landed in your account at the bottom.

Work out what that gap is per month, then per year. For most independents that annual figure is the most interesting number in the business, and almost nobody has calculated it. Margins in independent hospitality are thin enough that it usually lands somewhere uncomfortable.

The cost that is not on the statement

Commission is the visible charge. The structural one is that the diner belongs to the marketplace. You do not get their number or their email. You cannot tell them you have added a special or opened a second branch. If they open the app next Friday, your competitor is one scroll away.

You are paying to rent access to people who have already eaten your food and liked it.

The counter full of tablets

There is an operational cost too. Separate tablets for separate apps, with someone re-typing those orders into the till so that stock and takings stay right. It slows service, it creates mistakes, and it irritates the kitchen.

What your own ordering page gives you

   Order placed on your site  -->  lands in your till  -->  your own driver
        (Bizzfo Online)              (Bizzfo POS)          (Bizzfo Delivery)

Your domain, your brand. The menu lives on your own site, not in a listing between two competitors.

No commission on the order. You keep what you sell. Card processing costs what your gateway charges — PayFast, AddPay — and nothing on top of it.

One kitchen flow. Online orders drop straight into Bizzfo POS, print in the kitchen and move stock. No tablet, no re-typing.

The customer is yours. Order history sits in your loyalty and customer records, so you can actually bring them back.

Your own drivers, if you have them. Bizzfo Delivery handles dispatch and the driver, and the customer gets a live tracking link on WhatsApp through Bizzfo Connect.

The honest version

Marketplaces are discovery. They put you in front of people who have never heard of you, and that is worth something real.

Most restaurants that do this well do not switch the apps off on day one. They run their own ordering page alongside, put the address on the receipt, the window, the packaging and every WhatsApp reply, and move their regulars across. The regulars are the ones ordering most often — and the ones you are paying commission on every single week.

Let the app keep finding you new customers. Stop paying it for the ones who already know where you are.

Getting the menu in

You do not need to type the menu out. Photograph the printed one, upload a spreadsheet, or give us the address of your current ordering page — the AI reads it and builds the items, prices and modifiers for you to approve. See AI POS for how that works.

Cloud POS, online ordering, table bookings and driver tracking start at R450 per branch per month, VAT inclusive, with 15 days free on every new branch.