Your guests order and pay in the app
- Your menu, your prices, your bars, in the DrinkLync app on iPhone and Android.
- Paid in the app before the ticket reaches the bar. Pickup by code.
Flat pricing
One number a month.
Zero cut of your sales.
A flat monthly fee, the same on your biggest Saturday as on a quiet Tuesday. DrinkLync takes no share of anything you sell.
You pay us three things and nothing else: the flat Core fee, $199 a month for each extra station, and Insights if you want it. Card processing is separate — your guests pay into your own Stripe account, and Stripe charges you its standard card fees on those payments exactly as it would on any card you take today. We never touch that and never mark it up.
Yearly agreement
No share of your sales
Card processing is separate, paid to Stripe
Guests pay nothing to DrinkLync
Your drink money lands in your own Stripe
MOST VENUES
Core
$699 /mo
+ $500 one-time setup · includes 1 station
- Guest ordering from the DrinkLync app, paid and tipped in the app
- Sequenced queue per station, on venue-bound iPads
- QR-verified pickup and the ready wall
- Venue dashboard plus a nightly recap, waiting there the morning after
- No share of your sales — card processing is separate, paid to your own Stripe
Event / Pop-up
$299 /night
+ $500 setup · 2-night minimum
- The full Core system, deployed for your dates
- Festivals, pop-ups, stadium event nights
- Fast standup, clean teardown
- Same deal: no share of your sales
Enterprise / Stadium
$6,000 /mo
Annual contract · stadiums, arenas and multi-venue groups
- Your entire building outfitted: every floor, bar and concourse
- Custom station topology and a rollout team that has done it
- Dedicated support, onboarding and event-day coverage
- One yearly agreement, one flat number
What DrinkLync bills you, in full.
Three recurring lines and one setup fee. There is no fifth line, and not one of them is a percentage of what you sell.
| What you pay DrinkLync | How much | When |
|---|---|---|
| Core platform fee | $699 / month | Every month. One station included. |
| Each extra station | $199 / month | Only for the stations you actually set up beyond the one Core includes, plus $199 setup each, charged at sign-up. |
| Insights add-on | $199 / month | Optional. Free for your first 30 days, then $199 a month only if you choose to keep it. It is never charged automatically. |
| Setup | $500 once | One time, at onboarding. Covers the stations you start with. |
| A share of your sales | $0 | There is no percentage, no per-order cut and no revenue share. What the bar rings up is the bar's. |
Card processing is separate, and it is not ours. Guests pay into your own Stripe account, and Stripe bills you its standard card fees on those payments at whatever rate your account is on — the same fees you already pay on any card you take today. DrinkLync is software, not your payment processor: we never hold that money, never set that rate, never mark it up and receive no part of it. When you compare the two, compare DrinkLync's flat fee against the extra rounds, and leave your card fees where they already are.
Only two add-ons. That is the whole list.
Extra station
$199 /mo each
Another rail, a rooftop station, a VIP well. Core includes one station; each additional station is $199 a month, plus $199 setup per station, charged at sign-up like any setup.
Insights
$199 /mo
First 30 days free for every venue. Per-bar, per-bartender, per-drink and per-gatekeeper breakdowns, best-times, Lync recommendations in your portal, demand forecasting, and marketing built from your own demand.
What $699 a month gets you
Everything a busy night needs, for one flat number.
Here is what is in Core, what it takes to get live, and the terms. Nothing below costs extra unless it says so.
A live queue on each station iPad
- Tickets routed to the bar they were ordered from, in order.
- Accept, make, ready. The guest is told when it is ready.
Verified pickup and a ready wall
- One scan per hand-off. Used codes are refused.
- Every hand-off logged with the time and who made it.
The dashboard and the recap
- The live night in your manager dashboard, any browser.
- Menu, prices and 86s yours to change mid-service.
- Staff invited by email, signed in by PIN.
Setup, $500 once
- A guided setup in your manager dashboard: venue, bars, payments, menu, team, iPads, then a final run-through.
- Pair iPads you already own with a QR code, or tell us how many stations you run and we ship them set up for your bar.
- Ordering stays off until every required go-live check passes.
- No share of your sales, no per-order cut and no cut of a tip.
- Your drink money lands in your own Stripe account. You are the merchant of record; Stripe pays out to your bank on your schedule.
- Insights is free for your first 30 days, then $199 a month only if you choose to keep it. It is never charged automatically.
- The price on this page is the price every venue pays. No intro rate, no haggling.
- Core is a yearly agreement. You see the full terms before you sign, and you can read our terms of service any time.
Who it helps
Not another cost for your team. Less work for each of them.
Four people touch every order. Here is what changes for each one, and what it costs them.
Control of the night, while it is happening
- Change a price or 86 a drink mid-service, per bar.
- Every order is stamped with the bartender who made it and the person who handed it over.
- The night's recap waits in your manager dashboard the next morning.
What it costs: $699 a month, flat, and no share of what you sell.
A clear queue instead of a shouting crowd
- Tickets reach your station already paid, in order. No cards to run, no orders to shout over.
- Mark it ready and the guest's phone is told, so nobody hovers at the rail.
- Guests are asked to tip after pickup, and the tip is credited to the bartender who made the drink.
- Sign in on the station iPad with your own PIN.
What it costs them: nothing. No app to buy, no phone of their own.
Fast pickup, no arguments over whose drink it is
- Scan the guest's code and the server checks it against the order before the drink goes over.
- A code that was already used is refused, so one drink cannot be collected twice.
- Every hand-off is logged with the time and who handed it over, so a dispute is settled from the record.
What it costs them: nothing. One iPad at the pickup point.
Skip the line
- Order and pay from your phone, from wherever you are in the venue.
- Your phone tells you when it is ready. Walk up, show your code, collect.
- Tip only once the drink is in your hand, and only if you want to.
The bar's menu price. DrinkLync adds no fee for guests.
Pricing questions, answered short
Does DrinkLync take a cut of each order?
No. Core is $699 a month whether you sell 200 drinks or 20,000, and guests pay the bar's menu price plus their tip — DrinkLync takes none of either. Card processing is separate and is not ours: those payments land in your own Stripe account and Stripe charges you its standard card fees on them, the same as any card you take today. We do not collect it, mark it up or receive any part of it.
Why flat?
Every order platform that takes a cut earns the most on the nights you work the hardest. DrinkLync charges the same on your biggest Saturday as on a quiet Tuesday, so 100% of the volume is yours.
Where does the drink money go, and who pays the card fees?
Straight to your own Stripe account. DrinkLync is software; it never holds your guests' money and it is not the merchant of record. Stripe's card fees on those payments are billed by Stripe to you, at whatever rate your Stripe account is on. DrinkLync neither receives nor sets that.
What is in Core?
Guest ordering with in-app payment and tips, the sequenced queue per station, QR-verified pickup and the ready wall, a live dashboard, live-editable menu with instant 86s, staff and station management, the guest ratings feed, and a nightly recap in your dashboard. One station included.
What does Insights add?
Per-bar, per-bartender, per-drink and per-gatekeeper breakdowns, best-times intelligence, Lync recommendations in your portal, demand forecasting, and marketing campaigns built from your own demand and your guests' drink photos and ratings.
Does Insights start billing right away?
No. Every venue gets the first 30 days free. After that it lapses unless you choose to keep it, and then it is $199 a month. It is never charged automatically.
What does the $500 setup cover?
Your venue built out on the platform, station provisioning for the station Core includes, and staff onboarding. Each extra station has its own one-time setup of $199, charged at sign-up with the $500, or when you add it later. The only thing waived at sign-up is Insights' free first month.
How long is the agreement?
Core and Enterprise are yearly. Events and pop-ups are billed per night, $299 a night with a 2-night minimum and a $500 setup. The number on the card is the whole number.
What counts as a station?
One iPad where drinks are made or handed off: a rail, a well, a pickup point. Core includes one; each extra station is $199 a month.
Who supplies the iPads?
Either of us. Pair iPads you already own by scanning a QR from your setup screen, or tell us how many stations you run and where to ship, and we send iPads pre-configured and locked to DrinkLync. Either way each station is one iPad paired to your venue; the staff app is built for iPad, and managers can use any browser.
Do I keep my POS?
Yes. DrinkLync runs the ordering, queue and pickup layer on the iPads paired to your venue, yours or ones we ship. Your POS keeps doing what it does.
Does it pay for itself at your bar?
Put your nights, bartenders and drink price into the calculator. Our real price beside an estimate built only from your inputs, every assumption on the page, with payback in busy nights.