StoreKit Alternative: The Best StoreKit Alternatives for Restaurants
What Is StoreKit?
StoreKit is a UK ordering and payments platform for hospitality. It does QR code ordering at the table, self-checkout kiosks, handheld ordering devices and integrated payments. Most of the venues using it are cafés, pubs and casual dining restaurants that want guests ordering for themselves so they need fewer people on the floor.
For ordering inside the venue, it works. The gaps show up when an operator wants online ordering, a branded app, loyalty, marketing, AI tools or proper multi-site management. StoreKit doesn't really go beyond the four walls.
Why Restaurants Look for StoreKit Alternatives
Usually it's one of these:
- They want direct online ordering, not just QR codes on the tables
- They want their own branded app for pre-orders and loyalty
- They're opening more sites and need to run them from one place
- They need a full POS, not just payments
- They want AI phone ordering or marketing that runs itself
None of that is what StoreKit was built for.
Best StoreKit Alternatives for Restaurants
1. Flipdish - Best Full-Stack Alternative to StoreKit
Flipdish does what StoreKit does - kiosks and in-venue digital ordering - and then the rest of it: online ordering, branded apps, POS, AI phone ordering, loyalty and marketing.
| Feature | StoreKit | Flipdish |
|---|---|---|
| QR code ordering | ✓ | ✓ |
| Self-service kiosks | ✓ | ✓ |
| Table ordering | ✓ | ✓ |
| POS system | Limited | ✓ |
| Online ordering | ✗ | ✓ |
| Branded mobile app | ✗ | ✓ |
| Loyalty programme | ✗ | ✓ |
| AI phone ordering | ✗ | ✓ |
| AI marketing | ✗ | ✓ |
| Multi-location management | Limited | ✓ |
| Kitchen display system | ✗ | ✓ |
The table hides the main difference, which is where the orders end up. StoreKit is built around the venue. With Flipdish, a kiosk order and a web order land in the same system, so the customer's data, loyalty and marketing follow them whether they ordered at the table or from their sofa.
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2. Vita Mojo
Vita Mojo is a UK platform for QSR and fast casual brands, covering ordering, kitchen management and POS. It's aimed at big enterprise chains and QSR groups, and the pricing and setup are pitched at that level. It has fewer AI tools than Flipdish.
3. Slerp
Slerp does direct web ordering for UK restaurants, and does it well for single-site operators. There's no POS, no kiosks and no in-venue ordering. It's pretty much StoreKit flipped: strong online, absent in the venue.
4. Lightspeed
Lightspeed is POS and payments, with table management for in-venue service. No native kiosk hardware. None of the AI or marketing tools that people leaving StoreKit tend to be looking for either.
5. Square for Restaurants
Square is cheap to start with and aimed at smaller operators. It doesn't have native self-service kiosks, branded apps or AI features.
How to Choose a StoreKit Alternative
If all you need is digital ordering inside the venue, StoreKit does the job. Start looking elsewhere once you want those orders connected to a loyalty scheme, a POS or an online channel.
If you sell in the venue and online, you need one platform for both. That's what Flipdish is built for. Kiosk orders and web orders share the same data model, the same customer profiles and the same kitchen queue.
More than one site changes things. Menus managed centrally, reporting per location and a single customer database stop being nice-to-haves, and StoreKit's multi-site features are limited next to Flipdish's.
AI is the clearest gap. StoreKit has nothing like Flipdish's AI phone ordering or AI marketing. If a good chunk of your orders come in by phone, or you want campaigns that bring lapsed customers back without someone setting each one up, that's a real difference.
Key Questions Before Switching
Answer these before you pick anything:
- Do your customers order online as well as in the venue?
- Do you take phone orders that could be automated?
- Do you have a loyalty programme, or want one?
- Do you run more than one site?
- Do you want one platform or several tools wired together?
Mostly yes? Then you've outgrown an in-venue ordering tool and need a full-stack platform.
Switching from StoreKit to Flipdish
Roughly how it goes:
- Export your menu data and customer records
- Set up Flipdish POS and the kitchen display
- Set up online ordering (web and app)
- Install the kiosk hardware and configure the kiosk screens
- Set up loyalty and customer engagement rules
- Run both side by side for a short while, then cut over
Flipdish's onboarding team runs this, hardware installation and software setup included.
StoreKit does one job well, and that job is in-venue digital ordering. If you now need online ordering, loyalty, a POS, AI tools or multi-site management on top, it's not the right platform for where you're going. Flipdish puts all of that in one place.
