An alternative to DotPe and LimeTray
Direct-ordering platforms all promise the same headline — your own store, no aggregator commission. The differences are in the details, and the details are where the money is.
Here is what to check before you sign anything, including with us.
Is the price really fixed?
Several direct-ordering products are free or cheap monthly and take a percentage of online payments instead. That is a commission with a different name.
Ask for the all-in cost on ₹5,00,000 of monthly sales. The answer separates a fixed price from a percentage very quickly.
Who holds the money?
If the platform collects the payment, your money arrives on their settlement cycle, and a dispute over your account is a dispute over your cash.
Waplo never touches the money. The customer pays you — cash, your own UPI, your own gateway. There is nothing to settle and nothing to withhold.
Who owns the customer list?
This is the asset. Ask whether you can export every phone number and order, today, without asking anyone.
Waplo publishes a data export route and a data deletion route, and both are yours to use.
Is WhatsApp actually ordering, or just a notification?
Many products send a WhatsApp message after an order was placed somewhere else. That is a notification, not a channel.
Ordering in WhatsApp means the customer can message and get somewhere — see the menu, repeat their last order, ask what is in a dish, be answered in their own language.
What happens between orders?
An ordering page that only works when someone visits it does nothing on a quiet Tuesday.
Waplo also runs the things that fill quiet days: party and kitty bookings, offers, win-back messages to customers who have not been in for a while — sent only to people who agreed to receive them.
Common questions
Does Waplo take a cut of online payments?
No. Waplo never handles a customer payment at all, so there is nothing to take a cut of.
Can I move my menu across?
You can rebuild it from a photograph of your printed menu in minutes rather than typing it in.
Do I need my own payment gateway?
Only if you want online prepayment. Many restaurants show their own UPI QR or take payment at the counter, which costs nothing.
Fixed price, your money, your customers
No commission, no per-order fee, and nothing of yours passing through us.