A Clover Online Ordering Alternative Without the Monthly Stack
Clover is a POS system with online ordering added through its app market. Like Toast, the ordering is tied to Clover's hardware and monthly plans, and getting the setup you want often means stacking paid apps on top. If you want online ordering that isn't chained to a POS and its monthly stack, an owned site is simpler and cheaper over time.
Updated August 31, 2026
What Clover actually charges
Clover's online ordering depends on your plan and the apps you add from its marketplace - each with its own monthly fee - plus payment processing and, usually, Clover hardware. It works, but the real cost is the sum of the plan, the add-on apps, and the hardware you're locked into.
The honest gap
Your ordering is only as portable as the Clover ecosystem allows. Change POS and the online ordering, and the customer data behind it, don't come with you - they were part of Clover, not part of your business.
The owned alternative
Starvega builds the same thing a different way: a fast website with its own online ordering and a dashboard you log into, for a one-time price. Ordering runs on your own site independent of any POS or hardware, so it's yours to keep whatever else you change. There's no commission on orders and no monthly platform fee to keep it running - once it's live, the site, the ordering, and the customer data are yours.
That's the whole difference: you pay once for something you own, instead of renting it (or paying per order) for as long as you're in business.