The Owner.com alternative built for Square
Owner.com bundles ordering into an agency package from $249/month and adds 5% to what your guests pay. Gegsy is Square-native ordering from $69/month per location, with no percentage on either side.
What Owner.com charges for
Owner.com sells a bundle — website, SEO pages, email and SMS campaigns, loyalty, ordering — at agency pricing: $249/month plus a 5% restaurant fee on every order, or $499/month flat. On both plans your guests pay a further 5% order support fee at checkout.
That is the part worth sitting with. A restaurant on the $249 plan doing $20,000 a month online pays about $1,249, and its customers pay 5% more for the privilege of ordering direct — from the channel that exists to be cheaper than the marketplaces.
Why Square restaurants pick Gegsy
Gegsy is built only for Square, and priced as software rather than as an agency retainer:
- Square is our native integration — Clover is theirs. Owner.com describes a native integration with Clover and "connects to" Toast, Square, and Lightspeed. Gegsy syncs the Square catalog in real time: items, prices, modifiers with their min/max rules, categories, multi-location menus, hours, plus Square Loyalty and Gift Cards.
- Nobody pays a percentage. Owner.com's $249/month plan adds a 5% restaurant fee per order, and on both of their plans guests pay a 5% order support fee. Gegsy charges a flat per-order fee — $0.40 pickup / $1.25 delivery on Starter — and your customers are never surcharged a percentage for ordering direct.
- Price. Gegsy is $69 or $119 a month per location, listed publicly on the pricing page. Owner.com is $249/month plus 5%, or $499/month flat.
- Delivery is dispatched, not resold. Orders go to Nash or DoorDash Drive couriers with live tracking, and catering and group orders are built in. The courier quotes each delivery; nothing Gegsy adds is a percentage of the ticket.
Side by side
| Feature | Owner.com | Gegsy (recommended) |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | $249 + 5% per order, or $499 flat | $69 or $119 per location |
| Fee charged to your guests | 5% order support fee, both plans | None |
| Additional locations | Discounts on request | Same rate as the first |
| Branded iOS & Android app | Yes | Yes, published under your name |
| Ordering website | Yes — AI-built, SEO-optimized | Yes, on your domain |
| Square integration | Connects to Square (Clover is native) | Square-only, real-time catalog sync |
| Square Loyalty & Gift Cards | Own loyalty program | Fully integrated, app & web |
| Marketing automation | Email + SMS, AI campaigns | Push, win-back, birthday (Pro) |
| Courier delivery | Via integrations | Nash + DoorDash Drive, live tracking |
| Catering & group orders | Catering supported | Both built in |
| Contract | Month-to-month | Month-to-month |
What the difference costs you
Take a restaurant doing $20,000 a month online. On Owner.com's $249 plan that is roughly $1,249 a month, and its guests pay about $1,000 more across those orders in support fees. The same volume on Gegsy Pro is around $150, with nothing added at the guest's checkout.
That is close to $13,000 a year kept in the business, before counting what a 5% surcharge does to repeat ordering — the whole point of a direct channel is that ordering from you costs the customer less than ordering from a marketplace, and a percentage on top works against it.
You keep the marketing tools either way: push notifications, win-back and birthday automations, referrals, and promo codes tied to Square Loyalty are on Gegsy Pro at $119/month per location.
New to taking orders on Square? Start with online ordering for Square restaurants. Comparing the Square-native options? See Gegsy vs Per Diem and Gegsy vs ChowNow, every comparison, or the three-way comparison.
Common questions
Owner.com publishes two month-to-month plans: $249/month plus a 5% restaurant fee on every order, or $499/month with no restaurant fee. On both plans, guests pay a separate 5% order support fee. Setup and migration are included. Gegsy is $69/month (Starter) or $119/month (Pro) per location, with flat per-order fees and no percentage charged to you or your customers.
It connects to Square, along with Toast and Lightspeed — but Owner.com describes Clover as its native integration. Gegsy is built for Square exclusively, which is why the sync covers modifiers with their min/max rules, per-location menus and hours, Square Loyalty, and Square Gift Cards rather than menu items alone.
With Owner.com, yes — a 5% order support fee is charged to the guest on both plans. With Gegsy, no. Your prices come from your Square catalog, and there's no percentage added at checkout for ordering from you directly.
Push notifications, loyalty and campaigns — straight to the home screen, with win-back and birthday automations and promo codes tied to Square Loyalty, all on the Pro plan at $119/month per location, running off the customer data your own app collects. Owner.com sells email and SMS campaigns as part of a $249–$499/month package.
Gegsy. It is purpose-built for Square, so your menu, modifiers, locations, hours, loyalty, and gift cards flow from the account you already manage — and it costs a fraction of the alternative without adding a percentage to what your customers pay. Owner.com is the heavier commitment: a bundled agency package priced from $249/month, whose native POS integration is Clover.
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