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What is the app pile actually costing you?

Put in your real numbers. This adds up a year of per-order fees and monthly subscriptions and puts it next to a flat plan. No email required, nothing gets sent anywhere.

Your numbers

Only the orders that come through a platform. Walk-up cash does not count.
Percentages are those platforms' own published rates, checked July 2026. Card processing is left out on purpose: you pay that either way.
Monthly tools you pay for

Those are the middle of each tool's published range. Change any number above to your real bill.

A year, added up
Your pre-order salesWhat goes through the platform in twelve months $42,240
Per-order fees5% + 55¢ on 1,920 orders, paid at checkout $3,168
Monthly subscriptionsEmail, website $612
What the pile costs a yearFees plus subscriptions $3,780
Batch, flat$75/mo Basic, one system, zero percentage of your sales $900
You come out ahead, year oneAfter the one-time $1,500 setup $1,380
You come out ahead, every year afterNo setup, just the flat plan $2,880
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The honest part

On a drop platform, that percentage is usually charged to your customer at checkout, not billed to you. So it is not money leaving your account. It is money leaving the table: you can keep your prices where they are and your regulars pay less, or keep the checkout total the same and that margin becomes yours instead of the platform's. Either way you get a choice you do not have right now.

And if all you need is an order form, a ten-dollar app is genuinely fine and you should use one. Batch is for when the orders stopped being the hard part and the running of the thing is what is eating your evenings.

Why one system beats four logins

The bill is the easy part to see. The expensive part is that your tools are strangers to each other, and every gap between them gets filled with your own time.

Sold out at 9am

The waitlist already knows who missed out, so the people who wanted it hear first when it comes back. No exporting, no copy and paste.

The prep list writes itself

Orders become a bake sheet with totals per item, and a pickup manifest for the counter. You stop rebuilding it in a spreadsheet at 11pm.

Regulars get noticed

Customer records build themselves off real paid orders, so a regular who has not been in for a month can get a nudge without you tracking it.

Your list is yours

Emails, orders, and customers export clean whenever you want them. If you ever leave, your business walks out with you.

Want to see it running on your menu?

Batch is built and taking real orders in Greenville. If you sell by pre-order and pickup, there is a founding spot with your name on it. Tell us what you make and we will show you the real thing, not a slide deck.

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