Custom apps for restaurants
Keepport builds order-ahead, loyalty and pickup apps for independent restaurants and small groups, under your own brand instead of a marketplace's. A typical restaurant app costs about $5,000, launches in six to eight weeks on iPhone and Android, and is maintained for $299 a month on a care plan. You keep the customer data and skip the 15 to 30 percent commission.
Features restaurant owners ask for
Every item below is in the template we start from. You pick what your customers need; we build the rest into the price we agree before starting.
- Order ahead for pickup with pickup-time slots
- Menu with modifiers, photos and 86'd items synced from your POS
- Apple Pay, Google Pay and saved cards
- Points, stamp cards and birthday rewards
- Push notifications for slow days and new items
- Order status and "your order is ready" alerts
- Catering and large-order requests
- Multiple locations with location-specific menus
- Table reservations or waitlist
- Admin dashboard for menu, orders and customers
Your own app vs DoorDash, Toast or Owner.com
Rented software is fine until the fees, the branding and the data lock-in add up. This is what changes when the app is yours.
| DoorDash, Toast or Owner.com | Keepport app | |
|---|---|---|
| Commission per order | 15–30% on marketplaces | 0% |
| Your brand in the App Store | Marketplace's brand | Your name, your icon |
| Customer data | Marketplace keeps it | Yours, exportable |
| Push to your customers | Not available | Included |
| Monthly cost | $249–$499 plus fees | $299 Care Plan, no per-order fee |
| Ownership | You rent it | You own the code |
Third-party delivery marketplaces charge restaurants commissions of 15 to 30 percent per order, which is why 52 percent of US small businesses that built their own app spent under $30,000 and reported being satisfied.
What it costs
Scoped and quoted before we start. Includes iPhone and Android, design in your brand, one integration, store submission and the first 60 days of care.
Launches in 6–8 weeks. Care starts the same day, Care Essential at $299 a month, or Growth at $749 when the app changes often. Billed monthly or annually.
- Scope and price in writing within 2 business days of the first call
- 40% at signing, 30% at design approval, 30% at store submission
- You own the code, the store accounts and the customer data
- Every app we build is on a Care Plan: three-month minimum, cancellable after that; first 14 days refundable
Questions business owners ask us
If yours is not here, call. It is faster than a form.
How much does a restaurant app cost?
Can the app connect to my POS?
How long until it is in the App Store?
Do I still need DoorDash?
Who owns the code and the customer data?
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