Selling direct, and what each route to the sale actually costs. Restaurant online ordering on your own site →
Whether voucher VAT falls at sale or at redemption turns on a two-limb statutory test. Guess wrong and an unused voucher can leave tax paid with nothing to reclaim.
The collection or eat-in toggle records a tax fact, not a delivery preference. Most order pages keep no record of what the guest did next, and the risk sits with the restaurant.
Your order screen takes a postcode and a card but never records a time the guest agreed to. When the kitchen runs ninety minutes late, the law fills that silence and your staff absorb the cost.
A restaurant can budget card payments from a single headline percentage, then meet premium, international, conversion and dispute charges that were never in the sum.
A promotional POS bundle headline covers hardware. The recurring licences, payment contract terms and the work to connect a restaurant website arrive later.
A late-night ordering window can accept a hot-food order that cannot be supplied in time, creating guest disputes, staff rework and licensing risk.
Compare a marketplace order with a direct order on the restaurant's own site, using each platform's current first-party pages and your own contract — then make the repeat order yours with TableSpark Full at £69 a month excluding VAT.
