Flipdish Alternative: Vino vs Flipdish

Flipdish builds ordering technology for independent restaurants and takeaways, with country sites for Ireland, the UK, Spain, and the US. The Dublin company, founded in 2015, bundles a branded ordering website and app, a POS, self-service kiosks, kitchen screens, delivery integrations, its own payments, and AI agents that answer the phone and run marketing campaigns. If you sell a lot of delivery and collection and want one vendor for all of it, Flipdish deserves a close look.

Vino (vino-smart.com) focuses on the dining room instead: a smart, multilingual QR menu with table service built in, which you can set up yourself today and run next to whatever POS you already have. This page compares the two fairly, including the places where Flipdish is the stronger choice.

A quick note on sourcing: every Flipdish detail below reflects Flipdish's publicly listed pricing, terms of service, and help center as of October 2026. Flipdish quotes several prices through its sales team rather than publishing them, and where a figure is not public we say so. Check Flipdish's own site before you decide.

Pricing

Flipdish publishes starting prices for its online ordering plans. As of October 2026, a branded ordering website starts at €49 a month (£49 in the UK) per site when billed annually, or €69 billed monthly, and a website plus a branded mobile app starts at €79 billed annually. A bundle with the Flipdish POS starts at €99 a month billed annually on its global page and £119 on its UK page. Its FAQ adds that there may be upfront costs for hardware and implementation, and its terms of service describe an initial set-up fee. The QR code order and pay add-on has no published price, and Flipdish handles all card processing itself, at rates its pricing pages do not list. Plans are sold through its sales team.

Vino's pricing is flat and public: Free at $0, Pro at $29 a month, Business at $79, and Studio at $99.90, billed monthly through Paddle. There is no set-up fee, no hardware to buy, no contract, and never a commission or per-order fee, and Vino does not process your payments at all, so your current card rates stay as they are. See Vino pricing for what each plan includes. The fair comparison: Flipdish's price buys an online ordering business, while Vino's buys a dine-in menu and table service, so the better value is the one that matches what you sell.

Contract and commitment

This is the biggest practical difference. Flipdish's terms of service set a 12-month initial term, unless your client agreement says otherwise, which renews automatically for further 12-month periods unless you give written notice at least three months before the term ends. Leaving early means paying the average of your last six months of fees for every remaining month. That structure is not unusual for platforms that install hardware and process payments, and it comes with support by email, WhatsApp, and phone seven days a week. It is still a commitment to plan for.

Vino is month to month. You sign up yourself, cancel from the billing portal whenever you like, and your first paid charge comes with a 14-day refund. Guests use their own phones and you print the QR codes yourself, so there is nothing to send back if you leave, and the same printed codes keep working while you change the menu behind them.

Table ordering, languages, and AI

Flipdish's QR code order and pay lets guests order from their phone at the table through the mobile version of your ordering site. Its help center explains how it works: guests pay upfront for each order unless you allow cash, there is no open tab to settle at the end, table numbers reach the POS as a note, and Flipdish sends 50 free QR stickers. Its websites and online ordering come in 12 languages, it does not advertise automatic menu translation, and its AI agents focus on answering phone orders, checking menu prices and deals against sales, and running marketing.

Vino's table service sits on Pro: per-table QR codes from a floor plan, orders straight to the kitchen, one-tap waiter calls and bill requests, a live service board, and branded kitchen tickets. Guests browse and order in up to 9 languages, including right-to-left Hebrew and Arabic, and Business adds AI translation, AI menu scan from a photo or PDF, menu import from Wolt or a website link, AI food photos, and online reservations. Vino's table service ends with a bill request rather than an upfront payment, and Vino does not run delivery or collection orders, which is exactly where Flipdish is strongest. The features page lists everything Vino includes.

Who should choose which

Choose Flipdish if you run a takeaway or a busy delivery and collection business and want one partner for the ordering website, app, kiosks, POS, payments, and marketing, with a sales team and account support to set it all up. Go in knowing the 12-month term and that card processing runs through Flipdish.

Choose Vino if your guests mostly eat in and you want to start today without a sales call: a free plan, table service on Pro at $29 a month, AI translation and reservations on Business, and no contract, set-up fee, or commission. Vino runs alongside your existing POS and payment setup, so trying it leaves the rest of your setup untouched.