Chowly vs. ChowNow

Chowly

Chowly

2 Reviews and Ratings

ChowNow

ChowNow

2 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Chowly	Score 2.0 out of 10	N/A	Chowly, headquartered in Chicago, integrates 3rd party online ordering apps with restaurant POS applications, providing a consistent ordering system.	N/A
ChowNow	Score 8.5 out of 10	N/A	ChowNow in Playa Vista provides branded online ordering systems for independent restaurants across the US — via restaurants’ own websites, on Facebook and Google pages.	$119 Per Annual

Pricing

Chowly

ChowNow

Editions & Modules

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Annual: $119.00
Per Annual
Monthly: $149.00
per month

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Chowly	ChowNow
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Chowly	ChowNow
Considered Both Products	Chowly Verified User Anonymous Chose 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. Incentivized Helpful?	ChowNow Kent Garbers president Chose ChowNow Slice appears to be a lower cost and quite popular in our industry (Pizza) however their tactics to acquire new business are questionable at best! Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose 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" … Incentivized Helpful?

Best Alternatives
	Chowly	ChowNow
Small Businesses	7shifts Score 9.6 out of 10	Ecwid by Lightspeed Score 10.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Jolt Score 9.7 out of 10	Toast Point of Sale Score 8.0 out of 10
Enterprises	No answers on this topic	No answers on this topic
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Chowly	ChowNow
Likelihood to Recommend	2.0 (0 ratings)	8.5 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Chowly	ChowNow
Likelihood to Recommend	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	ChowNow is very well suited for restaurants and cafes. Its a very strong competitor to "3rd party apps" like UberEats, DoorDash, grubhub, etc. so if you use any of those -- look into ChowNow. It may be less appropriate for fine dining establishments were timing (of delivery driver; or customer pickups) is extremely important to preserve food quality. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Responsive support team Their team's knowledge of Toast POS Their sales team is aggressive and confident in their product Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	menu updating receiving customer data adding photos to our menu submitting refunds/adjustments to customers Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	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 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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 Incentivized Kent Garbers president Read full review
Alternatives Considered	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Slice appears to be a lower cost and quite popular in our industry (Pizza) however their tactics to acquire new business are questionable at best! Incentivized Kent Garbers president Read full review
Return on Investment	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Returning guests from the email campaigns Offering easy to use online ordering has increased sales Incentivized Kent Garbers president Read full review
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