Free tool · Venue software cost calculator

What is your software stack really costing you?

Most venue owners can name their rent to the dollar and their software bill to the nearest guess. This calculator fixes that in about two minutes: pick the tools you run, enter your volumes, and see your real monthly software cost next to one flat bill, percentage fees included.

Start adding up ↓About 2 minutes · Free · No email needed for your number
Typical stack, published prices
$5,363/ month
Allvio, card fees included$399 / month

Add Up Your Current Tools

Tick what you pay for today: POS, reservation platform, online ordering or QR app, rostering, payroll, accounting, loyalty, gift cards. Enter roughly what each costs a month. Estimates are fine; the point is seeing them in one column for the first time, because almost nobody ever has.

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Subscriptions

7 tools

Pre-filled with published Australian prices for common tools (checked October 2026). Slide each one to what you actually pay.

Baseline: Square for Restaurants Plus, $129 · per location, incl. GST
Baseline: ResDiary Connect, $127 · $115 + GST, up to 150 bookings
Baseline: Lightspeed online ordering, $69 · from $69/mo
Baseline: Deputy Core, $96 · $8.75/user × 10 staff + GST
Baseline: Deputy Payroll add-on, $55 · $5/user × 10 staff + GST
Baseline: Xero Grow, $78 · incl. GST
Baseline: Square Loyalty, $49 · from $49/mo per location
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Volumes

These drive the percentage and per-unit fees. Leave anything you don’t use at 0.

A venue with these inputs pays approximately $5,363 per month across 7 tools, versus $399 flat.

The invisible half

The Percentage Fees You Forget

The subscriptions are the visible half. The invisible half is everything charged as a percentage or a per-unit clip: card processing on every tap, marketplace commission on every delivery order, per-cover fees on every seated booking, per-order charges on QR. Enter your monthly card sales, marketplace orders and covers, and the calculator turns those quiet percentages into loud dollars.

Card processing premium1.70% − 1.40% = 0.30% × $80,000 card sales$240per month0.30% more than Allvio's 1.40%
Marketplace commission30% × 300 orders × $38$3,420per monthAllvio online ordering: commission-free
Per-cover booking fees600 covers × $1.50$900per monthAllvio: no per-cover fees
QR order fees400 orders × $0.50$200per monthAllvio: no per-order fee

Your Number vs One Flat Bill

The result is two columns: your stack, fully loaded, next to Allvio's flat monthly price with POS, ordering, reservations, payroll and finance included and no percentage of sales. Some venues discover a small gap. Most discover the opposite, because percentage fees compound with success. Either way, you leave with your actual number, which beats guessing. The market context lives in our write-ups of what a POS system costs in Australia and the full monthly budget of running a cafe.

FAQs

Is the calculator free?

Yes. The on-page result is free with no email required, and the emailed PDF breakdown is free too.

How accurate is the result?

As accurate as your inputs. Subscriptions you know from your invoices; for percentage fees the calculator uses your own volumes against standard published rate ranges, and the PDF shows every assumption so you can adjust any of them.