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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Chowly

    Score2 out of 10
    N/AChowly, headquartered in Chicago, integrates 3rd party online ordering apps with restaurant POS applications, providing a consistent ordering system.N/A

    ChowNow

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AChowNow in Playa Vista provides branded online ordering systems for independent restaurants across the US — via restaurants’ own websites, on Facebook and Google pages.

    $119

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    ChowlyChowNow
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    Annual
    $119.00
    Per Annual
    Monthly
    $149.00
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ChowlyChowNow
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Score8 out of 10
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    Score9.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    ChowlyChowNow
    Likelihood to Recommend
    2.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.5
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    User Testimonials
    ChowlyChowNow
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Chowly
    I would not recommend Chowly to any restaurant that is trying to push orders through to their POS from a third party delivery site. Any restaurant would be much better off finding a third party site that integrates directly with their POS. Using Chowly was more of a headache than it needed to be and our company switched to Checkmate (also not great) after a year with Chowly.
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    ChowNow
    The ChowNow platform is rock solid with daily use. It is easy to set up and train new staff. Lower pricing with competitors is the only reason for the 8 of 10
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    Pros
    Chowly
    • Responsive support team
    • Their team's knowledge of Toast POS
    • Their sales team is aggressive and confident in their product
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    ChowNow
    • menu updating
    • receiving customer data
    • adding photos to our menu
    • submitting refunds/adjustments to customers
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    Cons
    Chowly
    • Promises of ways to avoid mapping errors were never followed through on
    • Many mapping errors which required constant attention
    • To use requires multiple hidden modifiers in Toast, clogging up the menu
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    ChowNow
    • Better structure of Pizza menus to ease 86 toppings
    • The new interface could use some work. Smaller fonts make the "tickets" difficult to determine correct information. The system defaults to the last ticket time - The standard system was actually more accurate
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    Chowly
    Chowly was not as good as Checkmate, though I cannot in good faith recommend either. We ended up switching over to Checkmate after a year with Chowly due to our dissatisfaction with the service.
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    ChowNow
    I push customers toward ChowNow instead of the references apps because of a) ChowNow has lower commission costs b) ChowNow gives customer data access c) ChowNow allows me to better issue refunds or adjustments. ChowNow however does not provide as much visibility to "new" potential customers. This is just my guess -- there are less average users on the ChowNow app on a nightly basis vs. the UberEats, DoorDash, Grubhubs of the world.
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    Return on Investment
    Chowly
    • Required a lot of attention from upper management to maintain
    • Enabled orders from Caviar to go through to the POS without staff needing to enter the orders manually, saving on time and labor
    • Due to frequent changes in our menu, Chowly could not handle these and needed to remap every single time there was a menu change.
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    ChowNow
    • Returning guests from the email campaigns
    • Offering easy to use online ordering has increased sales
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