Pricing

One plan. No setup fee. No commission on your orders — ever.

FoodChat

R590/month

No setup fee: your first month is paid when you apply and covers your full setup · Cancel with 2 months’ notice

  • Full ordering, payments & driver system
  • Loyalty club + Google-rating engine
  • Specials broadcast every 2 months, designed for you
  • Nightly recon + support
  • Menu, photos, WhatsApp and PayFast set up for you

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Counter device (optional)

R4,600 once-off

Feitian F100 with built-in ticket printer · yours from day one
Or use your own Android tablet, phone or PC

  • Configured Order Station, delivered & installed
  • Ticket printing out of the box
  • Wi-Fi and 4G, so orders keep coming if the Wi-Fi drops
  • Add it to your application, or later

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No development fee. No setup fee.

Nobody’s charging you R10,000 to build it.

Ask around for a WhatsApp ordering system and the usual answer is a development quote — commonly around R10,000 — to build yours from scratch. Then you wait, then you test, then you pay again whenever something needs changing.

FoodChat is already built and already running. Your first month’s R590 covers configuring it for your store: menu loaded with photos and prices, your choices and upsells, your PayFast account connected, your driver rules, your loyalty settings — plus the WhatsApp Business and PayFast approvals handled on your behalf. You’re usually live in about ten days.

Changes afterwards aren’t a development ticket either. Your menu and prices live in a spreadsheet you edit yourself, and updates go live in minutes.

Built from scratch
  • ±R10,000 development fee
  • Weeks or months to build
  • Changes go back to the developer
  • Approvals are your problem
FoodChat
  • No setup or development fee: first month R590
  • Live in about 10 days
  • You edit your own menu and prices
  • We handle the approvals

WHAT YOU’RE ACTUALLY BUYING

A customer list you own — and can reach for R1.50.

The monthly fee buys you a system. What it builds you is a database. Every order — delivery, collection, walk-in by cellphone number — adds a real customer with a name, a number, an order history and an opt-in. After a year of trading that’s hundreds of people who have already bought from you and already said yes to hearing from you.

That list is the difference between advertising and marketing. A radio spot or a boosted post goes to strangers and hopes. A broadcast goes to people who know your food, have your address in their phone, and are one tap from ordering again.

And it costs about R1.50 a message. Send tonight’s special to 300 regulars for around R450. If even thirty of them order at an average of R180, that’s R5,400 in the till from a R450 spend — and you’ll know exactly which thirty, because they’re on your list, not somebody else’s platform. Illustrative example; results vary.

The honesty box. Ordering messages between you and your customers cost R0 from Meta — those are free, forever, and we don’t mark them up either. Marketing broadcasts do cost money: Meta charges roughly R1.50 per message and we pass that through at cost with no margin on top. Every broadcast screen shows you the reach and the exact rand cost before you send, and a PIN authorises the spend like a card machine. We charge visibly for value, never invisibly for passage.
Add-ons
Extra broadcast campaigns — R450–R750 each, designed and sent for you.
Multi-store and franchise groups — per-store pricing with head-office visibility. Talk to us.

Broadcast rates are set by Meta and can change. Figures shown are estimates based on current South African rates.