Places 360 compared with Flipdish.
Flipdish quotes from £119 a month for one site. If you run one café or a handful, this page sets that beside what a smaller operation actually uses in a week.
This page sets Flipdish’s published Essential pricing beside the three Places 360 plans: price, what it is charged per, how a stamp gets collected and what else is included. Every Flipdish figure below comes from their own public pricing page as it read on 13 September 2026. We wrote this page and we sell one of the two products, so read it with that in mind. Pricing changes; check their page before you commit.
| Flipdish | Places 360 | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Essential from £119 a month billed annually per site, £139 billed monthly, ex VAT. | Free £0. Regulars £19 + VAT (£22.80 inc. VAT). Growth £59 + VAT (£70.80 inc. VAT); Branded app £99 + VAT (£118.80 inc. VAT). |
| Price basis | Per site. | Per business, covering every location. A second café is not a second subscription. |
| How a stamp is collected | Not stated on their page. | The customer taps a Places 360 tag on your counter, validated server-side. Staff scan a QR with a PIN as the fallback. |
| Menu and ordering | Ordering is the product. Kiosks, KDS and printers are add-ons and are not priced on the page. | Menu builder with modifiers and VAT rates; collection, eat-in, delivery and advance orders; real card payments; Epson printing; Square POS integration. |
| Your own page | Not published. | A branded page in the app and on the web: logo, colour, hours, menus, blocks you edit; custom domains from Regulars. |
| Team and time clock | Not published. | Owner, manager and staff roles with email invites and PIN seats. The time clock, with NFC check-in and timesheets, is an add-on. |
| Contract | Not published. The £119 figure is the annually billed price; monthly billing is £139. | No contract, no setup fee on the Free plan, which runs at £0 with no time limit. Cancel any time. |
| Look at this closely | What kiosks, screens and printers add to the quote, and what the annual price commits you to. | Card costs are from 1.75% + 15p + VAT (2.10% + 18p inc. VAT) per online card payment on UK debit cards on a paid plan; other cards cost their real rate. One tag comes free with every paid plan; further tags are £9 + VAT each. |
Where Flipdish wins.
Hardware. Kiosks, kitchen display screens and printers sit in their range, so a site that wants a screen in the kitchen and a kiosk by the door buys it all from one supplier. Our printing stops at supported Epson printers.
A person before you sign. Flipdish sells by demo, so you get a walkthrough before you commit and someone answerable at the other end. Plenty of owners would rather be shown than left to it.
Ordering is the whole product there, not a module beside something else. If ordering at volume is your problem, a company built around it has thought about more of the edges than we have.
What is different about Places 360.
The tap. A customer holds their phone to a tag on the counter and the stamp lands, with cooldowns, daily caps and optional geofencing behind it. Quicker than a phone number at the till, and nobody spells out an email.
The flat price. £19 + VAT (£22.80 inc. VAT) a month is the price at fifty orders a week or five hundred, and charged per business, so five sites cost what one does. Nothing in the bill moves because the card worked.
No till dependency. It sits beside whatever till you use, or none. Change your till next year and your stamps, menus, page and team come with you, because they were never inside it.
One vendor for the lot. Loyalty, menus, ordering with real payments, your branded page and domain, offers, team roles, a time clock and accountant exports, at one flat price per business covering every location. The same backend runs your page now and your own app on the Branded app plan.
What Places 360 does not do.
Bookings, reservations and subscriptions are coming soon, not here yet, so for now a business that runs on a diary keeps its booking tool. No full customer-list export, though transactions, menu and timesheet CSVs export, and on Branded app so do the customers who said yes to your marketing emails.
Set against Flipdish specifically, here is what you would not get from us: no kiosks, no kitchen display screens, no hardware beyond Epson receipt printing, and no salesperson to build your first menu with you.
Who should pick which.
If ordering is the whole job, the sites are busy and kiosks and kitchen screens are in the plan, Flipdish is built for that and we are not; take their demo. If you run one to five sites, want the stamp card, the menu and your page from one place, and cannot justify £119 a month per site for ordering alone, start on the Free plan at £0 and move up when it earns it.
Flipdish figures from their own public pricing page, last checked 13 September 2026. Not affiliated with Flipdish; the name is used to identify the product.
Try it beside what you use now.
Start on the Free plan at £0. No contract and no setup fee, so you can keep your current tools running until you are sure.
Free to start · No contract · Cancel any time