Make it official
Move from informal DMs to a branded ordering page that makes your home food business look established and gives customers a clear, trusted way to order.
Your food deserves a proper home online
Turn your home cooking into a business
You already have the food, the photos, and people asking how to order. Beat The Queue gives you a professional ordering page, online payments, collection slots, and automatic customer updates.
Upload your menu and start taking organised orders without building a website or spending your evenings replying to messages.
Start for freeNo setup fees. No monthly fees. No contracts.
Start with what you already have
You do not need to build everything from scratch
If customers already find your food through social media, you are closer than you think. Keep creating and sharing your food. Beat The Queue handles the ordering experience behind the link in your bio.
A professional experience from the first order
Give customers a proper way to order
Instead of asking customers to send their order in a message, send them to a page built around your business.
They can browse your menu, choose their items, select an available collection time, pay, and receive updates from their phone. You get one complete order with everything you need to prepare it.
Create your order pageFrom social page to proper business
Everything you need to start taking organised orders
Start with what you already have
Upload the same menu image you already share on Instagram or Facebook. Beat The Queue automatically turns it into items customers can order.
Get ready to take payments
Take payments through Beat The Queue, or connect your existing Square or SumUp account so customers can pay securely when they order.
Choose when customers can collect
Set the collection dates and times that fit around your life. Customers can only choose from the slots you make available.
Share one link and start selling
Put your ordering link in your social bio. Customers choose, book, and pay without needing to message you first.
Simple, honest pricing
Choose how your order fees are paid
Pass the full order fee to your customer and use Beat The Queue for free, split the cost with them, or absorb the fees yourself.
Split Pricing
Free* for you
Choose how the order fees are shared between you and your customer. You can contribute towards the cost or pass it on in full.
- No setup fee or monthly subscription
- Beat The Queue platform fee is 50p per order
- Your payment provider's processing fee also applies
- You control how much the customer covers
*Free for you when the full payment processing and platform fee is passed to the customer. Square and SumUp apply their own processing rates.
Absorb All Fees
1.4% + 10p* per order
Pay Beat The Queue's platform fee yourself so customers see no additional Beat The Queue charge at checkout.
- No setup fee or monthly subscription
- Unlimited orders, staff, and devices
- Hosting, updates, and support included
- Payments go directly to your connected account
*Beat The Queue platform fee only. Payment processing fees are excluded and vary by provider and the rates you have agreed with them.
Work around your schedule
Set the collection slots that work for you
Choose when customers can collect, control how many orders each slot can hold, and let customers book from the times you make available.
Ready to make your food business official?
Create your ordering page, upload your menu, and give customers a professional way to order from you.
Start for freeNo setup fees. No monthly fees. No contracts.
