Take orders on your own website. Pay no commission on any of them.
Online ordering built into your restaurant or takeaway website - collection and delivery, South African payment gateways, and a kitchen flow that keeps up on a Friday night. No per-order fees, ever.
From R30,000
for a new site with ordering built in
From R9,500
to add ordering to the site you have
once-off, scoped and priced before we start
A same-day answer from the person who builds it - not a salesperson. Prefer to type? Send a quick enquiry.
The commission problem, in plain numbers
Say your takeaway does 500 online orders a month at an average of R180 an order. That's R90,000 in turnover. On a delivery marketplace charging a typical 20-30% commission, between R18,000 and R27,000 of that goes to the platform - every month, on margins that are already tight. The marketplaces are good at what they do, and they may still have a place in your mix. But when a regular customer who already knows you orders through an app, you're paying a finder's fee for someone who was already found. Ordering on your own website costs once, and then every order is yours.
Do the maths
Your commission bill, in your numbers
The worked example above is someone else's takeaway. Drag the sliders to match yours and see what the commission actually costs you - and how quickly your own ordering pays for itself.
Marketplaces and delivery apps typically charge 20-35%.
On your own website, this pays for itself in
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After that, a month stays in your business instead of going out in commission ( a year).
The build is From R30,000, paid once. No percentage of anything, ever.
Do the real numbers with usIllustrative only - commission rates vary by platform and plan. We will work through your actual numbers on the call.
What we build
An ordering system built into your own website, designed around how a real kitchen works. Customers order from their phones in a few taps - collection or delivery, or both. Orders land on a kitchen display that queues and throttles itself at peak so the kitchen never drowns. Payment happens online through South African gateways, settled in rand to your account. And because it's your website, the customer data, the reviews, and the repeat business all belong to you.
Collection and delivery flows
Collection windows, delivery zones and fees, or both side by side - configured around how your kitchen and your customers actually work, not forced into someone else's template.
Built for the Friday-night rush
Orders land on a kitchen board that queues and throttles itself at peak. The kitchen sees what to make and when; the front desk stops playing telephone operator.
Your customers stay yours
Every order comes with the customer's details, on your own system. Build repeat business with people who already love your food, instead of renting them back from a platform.
Proof
Eat Out the Box, Cape Town
Their old site was slow, hard to use on a phone, and online ordering was clunky. Today, orders land on a kitchen board that throttles itself at peak, the front desk runs with one person, and the till talks to the website talks to the kitchen - with no per-order commission on any of it.
From R30,000, once-off, scoped and priced before we start
What R30,000 gets you
- Online ordering built into your own website
- Collection and delivery flows, configured for your kitchen
- South African payment gateways - PayFast, Yoco, iKhokha, SnapScan, Zapper
- Kitchen order display with peak-time throttling
- Mobile-friendly menu and checkout
- Menu setup and training so your team manages it day to day
Not included
Professional food photography, menu copywriting, POS or till integrations beyond standard scope (scoped and quoted separately), ongoing maintenance after launch (covered by an optional Care Plan from R600/month).
Why not just take the cheapest ordering option?
There are cheaper ways to get online orders - a bargain website with an ordering plugin, or a widget that bolts onto whatever you have. Some restaurants get by on them. But an ordering system earns its keep on a Friday night, not on a quiet Tuesday, and that's exactly when the cheap version falls over.
What the bargain setup usually gets you
- An ordering plugin switched on with default settings, never configured for a real kitchen
- No capacity control - when the kitchen is slammed, orders keep piling in
- A checkout that fights customers on mobile, where nearly all food orders happen
- Commission "solved" by a widget that charges its own monthly and per-order fees
- Customer details locked in someone else's system
- Nobody to call when it falls over mid-service
What the Moducraft base gives you
- Ordering designed around your kitchen - queueing, timing, and peak-time throttling
- Collection and delivery flows configured for how you actually operate
- A phone-first menu and checkout your customers get through in a few taps
- PayFast, Yoco, iKhokha, SnapScan, and Zapper, settled in rand, with no per-order cut to us
- Every customer record in your own system, ready for repeat business
- Built on staging, tested through a full mock service, then launched
And if your volumes are too small for this to pay for itself yet, we'll tell you that on the call and suggest what to do in the meantime. We'd rather be believed than paid once.
Who this is for
Restaurants, takeaways, delis, and coffee shops across the Western Cape that want online orders without giving away a slice of every one. If your regulars are ordering through an app because your website can't take an order, this is for you.
Sound like you? Send a quick enquiryQuestions about online ordering
A new website with ordering built in starts at R30,000 once-off. If your current website works and just needs ordering added, that starts at R9,500. We scope and price before we start - the number we agree is the number you pay.
No. Once the system is live, we take nothing per order. The only per-transaction cost is the payment gateway's standard processing fee, which goes to the gateway, not to us.
Not necessarily. Many of our clients keep a marketplace listing for discovery - new customers who don't know them yet - and move their regulars to ordering directly on their own site, where there's no commission. You choose the mix; the point is that you're no longer dependent on it.
That's exactly what the system is designed for. Orders land on a kitchen board that queues them, and you can throttle incoming orders at peak so the kitchen never takes on more than it can make. Eat Out the Box runs their whole service this way.
You do, or a courier you choose - the system handles delivery zones, fees, and time slots, and works just as well for collection only. We'll set it up around whatever delivery arrangement fits your business.
You do. The website, the ordering system, the domain, the hosting, and every customer record - all in your name from day one.
Ready to take your own orders?
Book a 20-minute call. No obligation, no sales pitch - we'll look at your menu, your volumes, and tell you honestly what it takes.
From R30,000, once-off, scoped and priced before we start.
A same-day answer from the person who builds it - not a salesperson.
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