Margins are tight. Your processor doesn't help.
Restaurants run on 5–10% margins on a good month. A processor that's taking 2.7% of every sale is taking a third of your margin — and giving you nothing back. Dough's interchange-plus pricing usually saves restaurants 30 to 50% on processing, plus the Boost program funds the website with online ordering, the monthly social, and the custom AI most spots keep meaning to set up.
See what your spot would save
Send us your last statement and we'll show you exactly what your monthly bill would be on Dough — plus which Boost tier your volume qualifies for.
The fee on every $14 sandwich adds up to a line cook.
Restaurant margins are already thin. The processor taking 2.7% off the top isn't just an annoyance — it's eating real labour hours by the end of the month.
2.7% on every sale = 30% of margin
On 5% margins, a 2.7% processing fee is more than half your profit on every card sale. Cut the fee in half and you've effectively given the kitchen a raise.
Funds held when volume spikes
Have a big Saturday, run a tasting menu event, host a private function — Square's algorithm flags the day and your money sits while you're trying to make rent.
Online ordering you don't have
Square charges extra for online ordering. Uber Eats and DoorDash take 25–30%. Most spots end up with neither, missing the takeout demand entirely.
Social you keep forgetting
You meant to post Tuesday's special. Then service started. Now it's Thursday and you forgot. The processor gets paid every day. The Instagram stays empty.
Three reasons restaurants and cafés switch and stay.
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Interchange-plus shaves real labour hours off your fees.
On a $40K/mo café, switching from Square's 2.7% to interchange-plus usually means $400 to $500 a month back. That's a part-time barista shift every week — for the whole year — funded by paying less to your processor.
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Boost is the bigger pitch — free website, free social, free AI for the kitchen.
Most restaurants don't have time to build a website, write social posts, or set up an AI to answer "are you open Christmas Eve" for the hundredth time. Boost handles all three. You'd pay processing fees anyway. Now you get that work for free.
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The Clover Station Duo replaces your existing POS without retraining staff.
Tip prompts, table management, menu modifiers, customer-facing display, end-of-day reports — same workflow as Square or Moneris terminals your servers already know. The only thing that changes is what shows up on your statement.
$40K/mo café on Square, switching to IC+
Estimate based on a typical café card mix and average ticket. Real savings depend on your card type breakdown and average bill size. Send your last statement and we'll show you the exact math.
The POS that handles the rush.
Same speed as Square or Moneris, lower fees per swipe.
Clover Station Duo
Full POS with customer-facing display. Tip prompts, table management, menu modifiers, end-of-day reports. Plays nicely with kitchen display systems and 7shifts. Built for the speed of a real service.
- Customer-facing display
- Table & seat management
- Menu modifiers and combos
- Tip prompts (15/18/20% or custom)
- Free if your spot qualifies
Clover Mini
Compact countertop unit for counter-service cafés, juice bars, and bakeries. Same Clover features in a smaller footprint.
Clover Flex
Wireless handheld for tableside ordering, food trucks, and pop-ups. Walks out to the customer with a built-in receipt printer.
Online ordering
Built into the Pro tier of Boost. Customers order from your website, orders print to the kitchen, you don't pay 30% to a delivery app.
Authorize.Net
For private events, catering deposits, and gift card sales. Hosted payment links via email, virtual terminal for phone orders.
Terminal pricing depends on which contract you sign — month-to-month or four-year term with a free terminal. See all our terminal options →
What a typical $40K/mo café looks like after switching from Square.
"The Clover sits where the Square stand used to. The team didn't even notice the swap. My statements dropped about $400 a month and Dough built me a website with online ordering — so I'm not paying Uber Eats for my own takeout customers anymore."
A typical Canadian café — anonymized example, $40K/mo card volume
Most cafés look like this — between $30K and $60K a month in card sales, average tickets in the $8 to $25 range, on Square because it was easy to set up. Switching to interchange-plus pricing shaves 30 to 50% off the monthly bill. The Pro tier of the Boost program kicks in around $30K/mo and includes a five-page website with basic online ordering.
Typical café numbers
Built for the spots that don't have time for marketing.
Most restaurants and cafés are too busy running service to update a website or post on Instagram. Boost handles it — funded by processing fees you'd be paying anyway.
Restaurant website with online ordering
Five to seven pages. Menu, hours, location, reservations form, online ordering for takeout. Hosted free at the Pro and Premium tiers.
Monthly Instagram + Facebook content
Posts every month — graphics and captions for daily specials, new menu items, hours updates. Up to 12 posts a month at the Premium tier.
Custom AI for the kitchen
A GPT trained on your menu, allergens, hours, and FAQs. Lives on your site. Answers "are you open Christmas Eve" for the hundredth time so you don't have to.
Google review card
Free at every tier. A tap-to-review NFC card for the host stand. Customers tap their phone on the way out, land on your Google review form.
From counter to white tablecloth.
Doesn't matter what you serve — if you take a card, we'll process it.
Quick answers, no fluff.
The questions every restaurant asks before switching. If yours isn't here, call us at (647) 691-9085.
We usually put restaurants on interchange-plus instead — same lower bill, no customer-facing fee on the receipt.
Tips are tracked separately in your end-of-day reports for tip-out reconciliation.
For counter-service or smaller cafés, the Clover Mini is the smaller-footprint alternative. For pop-ups and food trucks, the Clover Flex goes wireless wherever you set up. See all terminal options →
Hosted free at Pro and Premium tiers. See the full Boost tiers →
Most restaurants win the majority of disputes when their POS records are tight.
Make more dough from every cover.
Send us your last statement. We'll show you exactly what your spot would save and which Boost tier you'd qualify for. No commitment, no pushy reps.