Talabat alternative in Iraq and Jordan: your own ordering at 0%
Talabat’s marketplace is worth keeping in Iraq and Jordan for diners who have never heard of you. For the ones who already know your name, ala.menu gives you your own menu and checkout at 0% commission, with delivery priced by area, cash on delivery or a transfer to the bank or wallet you name, and every customer in your own list.
Yoki Sushi, a Baghdad cloud kitchen, takes its orders on ala.menu: 127 priced Baghdad areas, cash in whole dinars, an Arabic-first menu.
For the diner who already knows you, ala.menu is the better place to order: 0% commission and the customer stays yours. For the stranger who has never heard of you, Talabat is where they look.
Plus $49 a location a month, 0% commission.
What ordering direct gives a restaurant in Iraq or Jordan
Keep Talabat for discovery
A marketplace puts you in front of someone who has never heard of you. That is worth paying for. The regular who already knows your name does not need it.
Your own link at 0%
Orders on ala.menu/yourname or in your WhatsApp, with nothing taken off any order on any plan, including Free.
Delivery priced by Baghdad area
Pick your areas from a ready list of about 15,000 towns and neighbourhoods in Iraq, each already drawn on the map, with a fee and a minimum per area. Yoki Sushi prices 127 Baghdad areas this way. On Plus.
Cash, or a transfer to the bank or wallet you name
Cash on delivery, or a transfer to the bank or wallet you name: the diner sends, you confirm, and the order is only paid when you say so.
Whole dinars, and JOD to three decimals
Iraqi prices print whole, 15,000 and not 15,000.000. Jordanian dinars carry three decimals, 0.800 or 2.100, as fils are written.
The customer comes with the order
Name, phone, what they ordered and what they spent, in a customer list on Plus that you can export on Pro.
An AI waiter that speaks Iraqi
It answers diners in the language they write in, and in Arabic in the dialect of your country, so Iraqi in Baghdad, then adds the dishes to the cart. On Plus.
Live in three steps
1. Send the menu you have
A PDF, a photo of the printed menu, or a list. The AI builder types it up, free.
2. Turn on ordering
WhatsApp ordering on the free plan, or a checkout on your own page with delivery priced by area on Plus.
3. Put your link where Talabat is not
The QR on the table, the link in your bio, a card in the bag that went out through the app.
What you get
Ordering
- Website ordering with delivery zonesPlus
- WhatsApp orderingFree
- Order board with statusesPlus
- Live order tracking for dinersPlus
Customers and marketing
- Loyalty stamps with Apple Wallet and Google Wallet passesPro
- Offers and promo codesPlus
- Review collectionPlus
- Customer listPlus
- Customer CSV exportPro
- Order and sales analyticsPlus
Design and menu
- More than 20 templatesFree
- 11 item card layoutsFree
- 53 fontsFree
- QR designer, 4 dot patternsPlus
- Arabic menus, right to leftFree
- AI translation, 21 languagesPlus
- AI menu builder from a PDF or photoFree
Brand and domains
- Custom domainPro
- White label, no "Powered by" badgeBusiness
- Branches, priced per locationPlus
Team and integrations
- Team rolesPro
- POS sync and APIBusiness
- AI waiterPlus
Talabat and your own menu, spelled out
- Talabat
- A delivery marketplace with its own app, running in Iraq and in Jordan.
- What platforms take
- Talabat publishes no merchant rate card. In Iraq, the Iraqi Restaurants Association put platform commissions at up to 27% of order value, the grievance behind the Baghdad restaurant strike of 30 April 2026. In Jordan, menuviel’s blog reports 15 to 25% for the Egypt and Jordan band. Your own statement is the number that counts.
- Our commission
- 0% per order, on Free, Plus and Pro alike.
- Payment rails you can switch on
- Cash on delivery, and a transfer to the bank or wallet you name, where the diner sends and you confirm. In Jordan, cards through CyberSource with any bank that resells it, or a Mastercard gateway, on Plus. No card gateway is wired for the Iraqi dinar.
- Price
- Plus $49 a location a month, Pro $99, Free to start; 0% commission on every plan.
A delivery app keeps your customer. Here the customer is yours.
On an aggregator the guest belongs to the app. The number, the name and the order history sit in their account, and reaching that same guest again means paying for them again. On a menu you own, all of it stays with you.
Customers
Every order writes a customer row: name, phone, how many orders, what they spent, when they last ordered. Open one and the full order history is there, with a phone number you can actually call. On Plus.
CSV export
Export the whole list, or only the customers who agreed to hear from you, with orders, spend, and first and last order dates. It is your list, in a file, whenever you want it. On Pro.
Promo codes
Bring a guest back with a code you set yourself: a percentage, a fixed amount, or free delivery. It can apply on its own, be limited to a first order, or be usable once per phone number. On Plus.
Reviews
The rating and the written feedback come to you. You choose the mode: collect privately, send diners to your Google listing, or do both. On Plus.
Loyalty
A punch card that rewards every few orders, or a reward at a spend milestone, with the card saved in Apple and Google Wallet. Website orders stamp themselves; walk-ins and WhatsApp orders you stamp. On Pro.
Analytics
Menu views, unique visitors, the most tapped item, orders, the view-to-order rate, and the funnel from a view to a placed order. On Plus.
A marketplace, and your own link
| Talabat | ala.menu | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A delivery marketplace: many restaurants in one app | Your own menu, link and checkout |
| Who it brings you | Diners browsing the marketplace | The diners who already know you: your bio, your QR, your regulars |
| Cut of each order | No published rate card; platforms reported at up to 27% in Iraq and 15 to 25% in Jordan | 0%, on every plan |
| Where it runs | Iraq and Jordan, in its own app | In the diner’s browser, in whole dinars or JOD to three decimals |
Talabat compared, answered
Can I keep Talabat and use this too?
Yes, and we would advise it. The marketplace is how a stranger finds you. Move the regular, the diner who already knows your name, to your own link, and that order stops paying a cut.
How much does Talabat take?
Talabat publishes no merchant rate card, and we will not print a number we cannot source. In Iraq, the Iraqi Restaurants Association put platform commissions at up to 27% of order value. In Jordan, menuviel’s blog reports 15 to 25% for the Egypt and Jordan band. Your own statement is the figure that matters; an order through your own menu costs 0%.
Cash on delivery?
Yes. The diner chooses cash and pays at the door. Yoki Sushi in Baghdad takes its orders this way, in whole dinars.
Can I take Zain Cash?
As a transfer to the bank or wallet you name: you write the name the diner sees and your account, the diner sends, and you confirm before the order counts as paid.
What does it cost?
The menu, your Page and WhatsApp ordering are free, with no card and no trial. Website ordering with delivery priced by area and an order dashboard is Plus; a custom domain and loyalty are Pro. Plus is $49 a location a month and Pro $99. No plan takes a commission.
Keep Talabat for discovery. Take the regulars direct.
Send us the menu you already have and your own ordering is live today, at 0% commission.
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