Collabstr for restaurants: fees, what you get, and where it stops
Collabstr gives restaurants influencer search, orders, escrow, and post analytics. Compare its full fees, rights, owner work, and limits with Remy.
Collabstr can work for a restaurant that wants to search a broad influencer marketplace, order from people individually, and keep payment in escrow until work is approved. It does not publicly document restaurant visit management or sales tied to POS checks, so choose it for marketplace access—not as proof that an influencer visit produced restaurant revenue.
Remy is the better fit when the missing job is recruiting interested local influencers and carrying them through booking, reminders, and file follow-up. See the broader restaurant influencer marketing guide if you are still deciding whether this channel belongs in your plan.
| What you need to decide | Collabstr | Remy |
|---|---|---|
| Best fit | You want a large, general marketplace where you can search profiles, buy a package directly, or post a campaign on a paid plan. | You have chosen a restaurant influencer program and want software to recruit applicants and handle the repetitive work after approval. |
| Business model | A broad marketplace. You can use a free search-and-order tier or add a subscription for campaigns, filters, post tracking, and reports; paid orders also carry platform fees. | Restaurant-focused software. It recruits through the restaurant's local ad, and it does not charge a software fee for each influencer. |
| How influencers are found | Search profiles and hire directly on Free, or post campaigns for applications on Pro and Premium. Published search fields include platform, niche, location, follower count, and engagement rate. | A local recruitment ad presents your restaurant's offer, and interested influencers apply. |
| Pricing | Free is $0 per month. Pro is $299 month to month or $249 per month billed annually. Premium is $399 month to month or $333 per month billed annually. Each influencer's order price is separate. | $300/month per location ($150 Remy + $150 creator recruitment ads). Hosted food and separately agreed compensation are additional. No per-influencer software fee. |
| Order fees | You pay a 10% fee on Free and Pro or 5% on Premium. Collabstr also deducts 15% from the influencer's payout; that is not a second charge on your invoice. | Influencers are not metered by the software. You may pre-agree to an optional bonus that is triggered only when the content actually runs in paid advertising under the written terms. |
| Billing and exit | Subscriptions are billed in advance monthly or annually. Monthly subscriptions can be canceled, but paid subscription fees are nonrefundable and not prorated for the remaining current term. | A monthly subscription. Confirm the effective cancellation date and export or save anything the applicable agreements let you retain. |
| Speed | Collabstr says most posted campaigns get their first applications within an hour. That is a vendor-reported application claim, not a promise of an approved influencer, restaurant booking, completed visit, post, or file. | Set no fixed deadline for an application or visit. The market, ad delivery, offer, approval choices, and available visit slots all affect timing. |
| Owner work | Search or post, choose an influencer, agree on requirements, fund the order, and review the delivery within the 72-hour review period. Restaurant booking, reminders, no-shows, and visit follow-up are not publicly documented as a platform workflow. | Set the offer, make the decisions, and handle exceptions. Remy handles routine recruiting, booking, reminders, and file follow-up. |
| Working together again | A restaurant and influencer introduced through Collabstr must use it for covered transactions for 18 months from their first order. | The restaurant builds a direct working relationship and does not pay another software fee to invite the same influencer again; food and any newly agreed compensation still apply. |
| Finished and raw files | The accepted order names the finished deliverables. Raw footage or B-roll is not a documented platform-wide default. | Your written collaboration must name which finished or raw files, if any, are delivered to you and what you may do with them. Influencers keep their intellectual property; Remy's license is not restaurant ownership. |
| Commercial rights | If the accepted order does not transfer content rights, the default license lets you use the file only to approve the order—not to copy, publish, or distribute it. | Influencers keep their intellectual property; Remy holds a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license to partnership content and raw footage. |
| Advertising from the influencer's account | No platform-wide permission is documented in the August 29 capture. Put paid use and any influencer-account permission in the individual order. | An optional, pre-agreed bonus triggered by actual paid use is separate from account permission. If the ad runs from the influencer's account, the influencer must grant that account-level permission separately. |
| Geography | Collabstr advertises location filters and payments and compliance handling in 150 countries. A restaurant-specific local visit service is not documented. | Recruiting is set around the restaurant's market; results vary with local supply, the offer, and the restaurant's choices. |
| Reporting | Pro tracks 5 live posts at once and includes 20 monthly audience reports; Premium tracks 15 and includes 50. Tracking lasts up to three weeks. Restaurant visits and matched sales are not publicly documented. | Remy records the influencer workflow, not restaurant sales. Do not treat operational records as proof of visits, incremental lift, contribution, or profit. |
“Not publicly documented” means only that Collabstr's homepage, pricing page, and terms captured on August 29, 2026 did not state the feature or term; it does not prove the capability is absent.
Collabstr's free tier is useful, but an order still has a price
The Free plan is a real way to search profiles, buy a package directly, and use escrow without paying a subscription. Campaign posting, advanced filters, live post tracking, and audience reports start on the paid plans.
Separate the cash you pay from the time the program takes.
Direct cash cost = subscription + influencer order price + restaurant-side order fee + actual hosted-meal cost + any separately agreed rights or paid-use fee not already included in the order + media spend + added paid program labor not assigned elsewhere
All-in operating cost = direct cash cost + valued owner or salaried-staff time not already paid as an added cash cost
The actual hosted-meal cost means ingredients, packaging, fulfillment, and paid visit labor that would not otherwise have been incurred. If program administration creates extra payroll, put that wage in added paid program labor; value regular owner or salaried-staff hours only in the all-in line. Assign every hour once, and do not count menu value and its underlying costs together.
On Collabstr, the restaurant-side order fee is 10% on Free and Pro and 5% on Premium. The separate 15% influencer fee comes out of the influencer's payout. It changes what the influencer receives, but adding it again to the restaurant's ledger would overstate the restaurant's direct bill.
That separation is important when comparing Collabstr with Remy. Remy is $300 a month per location: $150 for Remy and $150 for creator recruitment ad spend. The influencer's food, cash compensation, customer-ad budget, and paid-use rights are separate. Write every other payment into the collaboration before the visit.
Collabstr is strongest before the restaurant visit
Collabstr makes discovery and buying concrete. You can inspect profiles, pricing, engagement information, and audience data; pay through escrow; discuss deliverables before hiring; and track posts on a paid plan. Those are meaningful strengths for a restaurant that knows exactly what content it wants and has somebody available to run the rest of the job.
The restaurant-specific work begins after the match. Someone still has to turn an accepted order into a real service slot, brief the influencer on guest count and what is included, record confirmation, handle a reschedule or no-show, verify the visit, and chase any missing post or file. Collabstr's dated public pages do not describe those restaurant states, so assign them to an employee before buying.
Remy is built around that middle. You still set the offer, make the decisions, and handle unusual cases. The software takes recurring recruiting, booking, reminders, and file follow-up off your daily list.
If coordination is your real bottleneck, compare the work behind every influencer visit. If you are deciding between a broad marketplace and a restaurant-first program, this marketplace comparison gives you another useful model without changing the Collabstr-versus-Remy decision here.
Put rights in the order before you fund it
Collabstr's default rights are narrower than many buyers will assume. Unless the accepted order transfers content rights, you receive a limited license to use the deliverable only for approving the order; you do not automatically receive the right to copy, publish, or distribute the file.
“You acquire no other rights to use, copy, or distribute the Content Deliverables for your own purposes.”Collabstr Terms of Service, captured August 29, 2026
Before paying, make one written order say:
- which finished files and raw files must be delivered;
- where the restaurant may publish them;
- whether the restaurant may edit, crop, subtitle, or combine them;
- how long the commercial license lasts and where it applies;
- whether actual paid advertising is allowed, on which accounts, and for how long;
- whether an extra payment is triggered only when the content actually runs in paid ads; and
- who must grant separate account permission if the ad will run from the influencer's handle.
That checklist does not make the restaurant the copyright owner. It makes the purchased uses explicit. On Remy, the influencer also keeps the intellectual property, while Remy holds the stated license to partnership content and raw footage. Advertising from an influencer's account still needs that person's separate account-level permission.
Post reports answer a different question from restaurant sales
Collabstr's reporting is useful for measuring what happened on the social post. The paid plans publish limits for live post tracking and audience reports, and the Enterprise plan advertises custom reporting by campaign, platform, or brand.
That can answer whether a post went live and how its reach or engagement developed. It cannot, from the dated public description alone, tell you whether a diner completed an in-person visit, which paid non-voided check belongs to that visit, or whether sales were incremental or profitable. Do not turn a social report into restaurant revenue by assumption.
Remy should not be credited with those sales answers either. It manages the influencer program. The broader Feast product handles POS-linked attribution, but Feast attribution is not a Remy result and matched sales still do not prove causal lift or profit.
Choose based on the work you need done after the match
Choose Collabstr when you want broad search, transparent profile packages, escrow, campaign applications, and social-post reporting—and you have somebody who can operate the restaurant visit and write the rights correctly. Start on Free if direct hiring is enough; pay for Pro or Premium only when campaign posting, filters, tracking, reports, or the lower brand fee justify the subscription.
Choose Remy when you already know you want a recurring restaurant influencer program and the repeated coordination is what keeps it from running. Remy is $300 a month per location: $150 for Remy and $150 for creator recruitment ad spend. Food and any separately agreed compensation are additional.
Before choosing either, write down five answers: who finds the influencer, who gets the booking onto the calendar, what files and rights arrive, what you pay in total, and what the final report can actually prove. The better option is the one that closes your missing job without asking a social metric to stand in for a restaurant result.