What is Frontburner?
Frontburner is your own food truck website and ordering app.
Menu, schedule, flyers, and push alerts are on every plan. Catering, a card reader for catering, POS, and the kitchen display screen are on the paid plans. You run it from the operator dashboard on the phone you already have.
How much does it cost?
Free is $0 forever; Light (No-POS) is $79/mo and Full is $149/mo once live in spring; Winter Mode is $39/mo on Light and Full only; setup is $750 for Light and $1,250 for Full, each with a 50% deposit ($375 and $625).
Sign up by Oct 31: first month free on Light or Full. Founding trucks: the first 3 to sign up get free white-glove setup. Everyone else: $250 off Full setup if you sign within a week. Monthly plans: cancel anytime.
What's the difference between Free, Light and Full?
Free is the menu, schedule, and your page, with no catering tools, POS, or online orders; Light (No-POS) has no POS, no online checkout, and no kitchen display screen; Full adds online orders, a window POS on your phone or tablet, and a kitchen display screen.
All plans
- Website and menu editor
- Schedule and locations page
- Flyer and social post maker, with a QR code
- One-tap sold out
- Installable customer app
- Push alerts to followers
Free
- Connect your own domain for $50 through Oct 31. You pay for the domain.
Light and Full
- Catering quotes, deposits, and receipts
- Card reader for catering
- Food cost for each dish
- Ingredient-level 86
Full only
- Online ordering and preorders. Zero commission.
- Window POS
- Kitchen display screen
How do I get started?
Sign up and James sets you up personally, usually within a day.
Can I use my own domain?
Yes. On Free, connect your own domain for $50 through Oct 31, and you pay for the domain itself; Light and Full include a custom domain.
Otherwise the Free page lives at yourtruck.getfrontburner.com.
What is Winter Mode?
Winter Mode, $39/mo: your site, menu and schedule stay up, and catering quotes and card-reader payments for catering keep working. POS and online orders pause until spring.
It applies to Light (No-POS) and Full only. Free stays $0.
Do I need special hardware?
No. Frontburner runs on the phone you already have. Want a window POS or kitchen screen later? Buy your own tablet and printer, roughly $400 to $850 total. See the hardware list on pricing.
Do you take a commission on orders?
No. Frontburner does not take a percentage of your sales, and does not add a fee on top of your prices.
Online ordering and preorders on Full are zero commission. You still pay the published setup and monthly price.
Who owns my data?
Your menu, customers, and shop data are yours to export; Frontburner owns the software, and you don't own the platform.
How do I contact you?
Email James at james@getfrontburner.com.