BentoBox pricing in 2026: what it costs now it is Clover

BentoBox publishes no plan prices. Its pricing page now says “BentoBox is now Clover” and that new customers can only get BentoBox if they run a Clover POS, which starts at $135 a month on a 36-month subscription. BentoBox’s help center lists a 99¢ service fee on each standard online order (3% on group orders), which the restaurant pays or passes to guests. On 300 orders a month that is $297, on top of Clover’s card fees and whatever BentoBox charges for its plan, which it does not publish.

What does BentoBox cost in 2026?

These are the costs BentoBox and Clover publish, read on November 11, 2026.

BentoBox’s help center says the 99¢ covers “support, email/SMS, and hosting.” Clover Hospitality by BentoBox collects it, and on Clover’s recommended payout setting it comes out of the deposit along with the card fees.

BentoBox’s pricing page lists no plan names or prices today.

Why do you need Clover to use BentoBox?

BentoBox now sells as part of Clover. The pricing page’s FAQ answers the new-customer question in one line: “Currently, BentoBox products/services are only available to Clover POS customers.” The “Restaurant Websites” link in BentoBox’s own menu goes to Clover’s full-service POS page, and “Online Ordering” goes to Clover’s online ordering page.

For a new restaurant, then, the starting price is a Clover bundle:

Clover’s FAQ says subscriptions are non-cancelable and not refundable, though you can pay one off or upgrade. Card processing is billed on top. Clover also sells through banks and more than 3,000 other financial institutions, and its FAQ says contract terms and termination fees vary by provider.

Do guests see the 99¢ fee?

We built a cart at Grill & Go Deli in Raleigh, North Carolina, which takes orders on BentoBox, and stopped at checkout without paying. Two orders of curly fries came to $11.98. The checkout showed one line, “Taxes & Fees,” of $1.98. Only the help icon beside it split that into $0.99 of tax and a $0.99 service fee. The 15% tip was filled in at $1.80, for a total of $15.76.

That restaurant passes the fee to guests, and on its $11.98 order the fee was 8.3% of the food. The fee is flat, so it weighs more on small orders: 3.3% of a $30 order and 2% of a $50 one. We checked one restaurant. Others may pay the fee themselves, since BentoBox lets each one choose.

What does a month of BentoBox orders cost?

Say a restaurant on Clover’s quick-service Starter takes 300 online pickup orders a month at $30, or $9,000. We assume Clover’s typed-in rate of 3.5% + 10¢ applies, and we leave tax and tip out of the order total to keep the numbers simple, although card rates apply to the whole payment. The BentoBox publishes no plan price, so its plan is not in the table. We also leave out any card fee on the 99¢ itself.

Clover’s own online ordering, which comes with every quick-service Clover bundle, would cost the same restaurant $480 a month for those orders. Clover’s pricing tables list it as “No-fee online ordering,” so there is no 99¢ line. Our Clover online ordering costs post works through it in detail.

Is BentoBox worth it?

If you already run Clover and want a designed restaurant website with ordering built in, BentoBox was made for that, and it now belongs to the same company as your POS. Ask for the plan price in writing, and ask whether the 99¢ fee is yours or your guests’.

If you only need online ordering, Clover’s own ordering takes pickup and delivery orders on Clover without the 99¢ fee. On 300 orders a month that saves $297, whoever pays it.

If you are not on Clover, BentoBox means changing your POS first, and Clover’s subscriptions cannot be canceled, which is a lot to take on for a website. Our Owner.com pricing post covers a website-and-ordering product with published prices, and our Square vs Clover comparison and Toast vs Clover comparison price a month on each POS if you are choosing one anyway.

Where Expresso fits

Expresso builds no website, and it is not a POS. If you want BentoBox for a designed website, Expresso does not replace it.

Expresso gives you an ordering link for pickup, curbside, scheduled and table orders, which you can put on any website, your Google profile or a QR code, and orders ring on a kitchen tablet of its own ($149 once). There is no monthly fee and no contract. The restaurant pays card processing of 3.2% + 30¢ on the order total, and guests pay a 2.5% convenience fee on the food subtotal, shown at checkout with the tax. On the same 300 orders at $30, before tax and tip, that is about $385 a month to the restaurant and $225 in guest fees.

For a restaurant that would buy Clover only to get BentoBox, with guests paying the 99¢, Expresso’s $385 is about $95 a month less than the $480 above, and its guests pay $72 less. That leaves out BentoBox’s own plan, which has no published price, and Expresso’s $149 tablet, paid once. On orders under $39.60, Expresso’s 2.5% is smaller than BentoBox’s flat 99¢; above that it is larger. Expresso has promo codes but no loyalty program and no delivery. Our comparison of online ordering systems prices the other options.