--- title: Online ordering on your own site, next to the delivery apps ยท The Direct Index url: https://directindex.org/guides/online-ordering-without-delivery-apps --- [The Direct Index](https://directindex.org/) [Scanner](https://directindex.org/scan)[Cities](https://directindex.org/cities)[Guides](https://directindex.org/guides)[Why](https://directindex.org/why)[Method](https://directindex.org/methodology)[About](https://directindex.org/about) Guide # Online ordering on your own site, next to the delivery apps Asked "where can I order from tonight", assistants on the Lisbon index sent people to the business's own site in 74% of answers and to a delivery app in 23%, measured on 14 October 2026. The delivery answers were mostly places whose only ordering path is the app. Adding one on your own site changes the answer. ## What an agent needs - **An ordering page on your domain** Linked from the homepage with Order, Pedir, Commander or Bestellen. - **A menu with prices and add-to-cart on the page** Not a PDF, not a link out to an app. - **A checkout that reaches a confirmation step** The action test stops right before confirming and never places an order. - **No account required to get that far** Guest checkout, with email or phone for the confirmation. ## The options | Option | How it works | | --- | --- | | A direct ordering vendor on your domain | Vendors that build the ordering page under your domain or embed it. A monthly fee or a small per-order fee instead of a commission; the customer data is yours. | | A delivery app's "direct" product | Some apps sell a white-label ordering page for your own site at a lower commission. It counts as direct when it sits on your domain and you are the merchant of record. | | Your own shop | Shopify, WooCommerce or Wix Stores with the menu as products and pick-up as the delivery method. | | A simple order form | For small places: the menu as text and a form with the order, confirmed by you. Scores as a direct channel; the action test scores it partial. | ## Keep the apps for the people who use them The apps bring customers who browse the app. The direct page serves the ones who found you, through search or through an assistant, and should not cost you the same commission. Listing both is the common setup; the score only asks whether a direct path exists. ## Check it Want to see which path the scanner finds first on your site? Run the [free scanner](https://directindex.org/scan) on your address: the report names each crawler that was refused, what it found for the menu, the structured data and the booking path, and what to fix first. Rescans are free. ## More guides - [ChatGPT doesn't show my restaurant. Why, and what to do](https://directindex.org/guides/chatgpt-does-not-show-my-restaurant) - [Am I blocking ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity without knowing?](https://directindex.org/guides/blocking-ai-crawlers-without-knowing) - [robots.txt for AI agents: who to allow, and how](https://directindex.org/guides/robots-txt-for-ai-agents) - [My menu is a PDF. Can AI assistants read it?](https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai) - [All guides](https://directindex.org/guides) Updated 2026-10-14. Dashboard names are as of that date. #### The Direct Index [Why direct](https://directindex.org/why)[About and principles](https://directindex.org/about)[Methodology](https://directindex.org/methodology)[Privacy](https://directindex.org/privacy) #### Use it [Free scanner](https://directindex.org/scan)[City indexes](https://directindex.org/cities)[Guides](https://directindex.org/guides)[Common fixes](https://directindex.org/fix)[What agent-direct means](https://directindex.org/agent-direct) #### For agents [llms.txt](https://directindex.org/llms.txt)[llms-full.txt](https://directindex.org/llms-full.txt)[OpenAPI](https://directindex.org/openapi.json)[MCP server](https://directindex.org/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json)[A2A agent](https://directindex.org/.well-known/agent-card.json) #### Data [City data, JSON and Markdown](https://directindex.org/cities)[Sitemap](https://directindex.org/sitemap.xml) Business listings from OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Scores under the same licence. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://directindex.org/#org","name":"The Direct Index","url":"https://directindex.org/","logo":"https://directindex.org/favicon.svg","founder":{"@type":"Person","name":"Antonio Curado"},"description":"Independent measurement of whether AI agents can find, read and act on a business's own website."},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://directindex.org/#site","url":"https://directindex.org/","name":"The Direct Index","publisher":{"@id":"https://directindex.org/#org"},"inLanguage":"en","potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://directindex.org/scan?url={url}"},"query-input":"required name=url"}},{"@type":"WebAPI","name":"The Direct Index API","url":"https://directindex.org/openapi.json","documentation":"https://directindex.org/llms-full.txt","provider":{"@id":"https://directindex.org/#org"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https://directindex.org/guides/online-ordering-without-delivery-apps#article","headline":"Online ordering on your own site, next to the delivery apps","description":"Why assistants send orders to delivery apps, what a direct ordering page needs, and the options from vendor widgets to a simple order form.","datePublished":"2026-10-14","dateModified":"2026-10-14","inLanguage":"en","author":{"@id":"https://directindex.org/#org"},"publisher":{"@id":"https://directindex.org/#org"},"mainEntityOfPage":"https://directindex.org/guides/online-ordering-without-delivery-apps","isPartOf":{"@id":"https://directindex.org/#site"}},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Guides","item":"https://directindex.org/guides"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Online ordering on your own site, next to the delivery apps","item":"https://directindex.org/guides/online-ordering-without-delivery-apps"}]}]} ```