VolioQR code ordering system cost: fees and who pays
A QR ordering system costs a monthly plan, a card fee and often a fee per bill. What each vendor publishes, and who ends up paying it.
QR ordering, where guests order and pay at the table from a code, costs three things: a monthly plan, a card fee on every payment, and often a fee per order or per bill that either you or the guest pays. In the price lists read for this post in October 2026, the lowest monthly plan is £39 (SumUp, UK) and the highest is $299 (sunday, US), and one vendor lists no monthly price and charges on each payment. Add the three lines for your own month before you compare two systems. The ordering system cost calculator adds them up for your tables, screens and takings.
The three lines on the bill
The monthly plan. A fixed price, usually per location. Some vendors add a price per kitchen screen, per kiosk or per printed QR code.
The card fee. A percentage plus a fixed amount on each payment. It goes to whoever processes the card. With Square, SumUp and Flipdish that is the vendor itself.
The fee per order or per bill. A flat amount or a percentage that the ordering system takes on top of the card fee. Some vendors charge the venue and some show it to the guest at checkout. In the table below, two vendors put a number on it.
If the terms are new, what order and pay means sorts them out.
What vendors publish
Each cell is from the vendor’s own page, linked under Sources, as of October 2026. Prices are in the currency published and are not converted.
| System | Monthly plan | Card fee | Fee per order or bill |
|---|---|---|---|
| Qerko (Czech prices, ex. VAT) | None listed; one-off starter pack starting at CZK 2,890 | 1.35% per transaction | CZK 2.90 per Qerko payment |
| Square (US) | Plus $49 or Premium $149 per location; the plan chart shows QR code ordering on these two, not on Square Free | Online: 2.9% + 30¢ | None listed |
| Storekit (UK, ex. VAT) | Pro £199 per location, the first plan with QR order and pay; setup “From £199 per location” | “Even lower rates”; no figure | “A flat per-order rate”; amount not published |
| SumUp Order & Pay (UK) | £39, with POS Plus | 2.50% “Transaction fee”, the one fee on the page | None listed separately |
| sunday | US: $199 or $299, plus $5 per QR code. UK: £149 or £199 | Not published | Not published |
| Toast Mobile Order & Pay | Listed as an add-on to Toast POS; price not published | Not published | Not published |
| me&u | Venue pricing not published | Not published | Guest platform fee at venues in Australia: $0.20 to $2.90 per order, unless the venue covers it |
| qlub | Not published | Not published | Not published |
“Not published” is not a way of saying expensive. It means the number comes from a salesperson, so ask for it in writing. sunday’s list is read line by line in sunday app alternatives.
Who pays the fee per bill: the guest or the venue
In May 2024 The Caterer reported a £2.99 “Sunday checkout fee” on a bill at a Big Mamma Group restaurant in the UK. The group, whose founders created sunday, answered that paying by QR code was optional and that “more than 60% of our clients pay by using a credit card terminal or cash, with no fee incurred”. It described the charge as “a small fee between 0.5% and 2% (capped for big checks)”.
In July 2023 Toast added a 99-cent fee to guests’ online orders of $10 or more. Restaurant Business reported that restaurants objected to their own customers being charged with no way to waive the fee, and days later Toast said it would remove it. “We made the wrong decision,” its CEO said.
me&u publishes its guest fee. At venues in Australia its help centre lists a “me&u platform fee” per order: $0.20 on orders from $0.01 to $24.99, rising in steps to $2.90 on orders of $150 and over. It is a separate line in the cart before the guest pays, and “some venues choose to cover this fee for their guests”.
Big Mamma added its fee and stood by it. Toast set its fee for every restaurant, and that was the complaint. me&u sets the amount and leaves the venue the choice of covering it. So before you sign, ask who switches a guest fee on, whether you can pay it yourself instead, and whether the guest sees it before paying or only on the receipt.
A worked month for a 15-table café
Take 600 bills paid by phone in a month, 20 each in the vendor’s own currency. The rows are not converted, so read each one on its own.
| System | Fixed | On 600 bills of 20 | Month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Square Plus (US) | $49 | 600 × (58¢ + 30¢) = $528 | $577 |
| SumUp POS Plus (UK) | £39 | 2.50% of £12,000 = £300 | £339 |
| sunday Standard (US) | $199, and 15 × $5 = $75 once for codes | Card rate not published | Cannot be added up |
| Storekit Pro (UK) | £199, and setup starting at £199 once | Per-order rate not published | Cannot be added up |
| Volio | 30 days of Pro free, then a plan: see pricing | A small fee, shown before paying; the amount is not quoted in this post | Not added up here |
The Square row uses its online card rate, which its pricing page applies to “card payments made online”, and 58¢ is 2.9% of $20. Card fees do not start with the QR code. The same 600 bills on a card reader would cost 600 × (50¢ + 15¢) = $390 at Square’s in-person rate on Plus (2.5% + 15¢), so what QR ordering adds is the $138 difference and the plan. How a counter queue and table orders fit together is in QR code ordering for cafés.
What is not in the monthly price
- The contract. Flipdish’s terms run 12 months, renew for 12 more and need written notice three months before the end. Storekit’s plans are “Rolling monthly, cancel any time”. Square says you can cancel or switch plans anytime. sunday’s pricing pages give no term.
- Hardware. Toast says its upfront costs are “hardware and implementation”, and its services run only on approved Toast hardware.
- Where the money lands. Ask whether payments go straight to your own account or are collected by the vendor and paid out later.
The systems are side by side in QR code ordering systems compared. If you are pricing a whole till, what a restaurant POS system costs has the rest of the bill.
What Volio charges
Volio’s plans are per venue, per month, with order and pay at the table in every one: see the plans and prices. Tables, staff, phones, screens and QR codes are unlimited on every plan. Every plan starts with 30 days of Pro, free, and a venue that cancels keeps its QR menu online, free.
Payments go to your own account with the payment provider, then to your bank. Volio takes a small fee on a bill paid by phone. Guests see it before they pay, or you switch to covering it. Nothing is taken when a guest pays cash or the waiter.
This post prints other vendors’ fees to the cent and does not print Volio’s. The guest sees the amount on the bill before paying. An owner comparing quotes needs it sooner, so ask for it in writing, as you would from any vendor above.
Volio launched in October 2026.
Sources
Pages read on 12 October 2026.
- Qerko pricing: qerko.com/eng/pricing
- Square for Restaurants pricing: squareup.com/us/en/point-of-sale/restaurants/pricing
- Square QR code ordering: squareup.com/us/en/online-ordering/qr-code-ordering
- Storekit pricing: storekit.com/pricing
- SumUp Order & Pay: sumup.com/en-gb/order-and-pay
- sunday pricing, US: sundayapp.com/pricing
- sunday pricing, UK: sundayapp.com/en-gb/pricing
- Toast pricing: pos.toasttab.com/pricing
- me&u: meandu.com and, for the guest fee, Understanding the me&u platform fee
- qlub: qlub.io/ae/en
- Flipdish, card processing and terms: flipdish.com/ie/pricing-online-ordering, flipdish.com/ie/docs-inner/tac-2
- The Caterer, 3 May 2024: Big Mamma Group responds to criticism over ‘checkout fee’ on its app
- Restaurant Business, 19 July 2023: Toast to remove 99-cent fee after widespread backlash
