A table booking system for your restaurant, with no fee per guest
Booking platforms charge per guest and keep the guest list. We build table booking systems for restaurants and restaurant chains: online booking on your own website, a floor plan for the host, deposits for groups and events, with the code and guest data owned by you.
The prototype and the quote are free, with no commitment.
- Prototype and quote
- 48 h
- Build time
- 2–3 weeks
- Fixed price, typically
- $15–50k
- Commission on bookings
- 0%
What the system looks like for restaurants and restaurant chains
Guests book a table
The host runs the night
In use
What do your people and customers see?
Floor plan for the host
The host sees every table on the plan, seats walk-ins and joins tables for groups.
Every table on the plan
Events and set menus
Tasting dinners, brunches and private events with tickets, a limit of places and payment online.
How the Bookable events module worksA tasting dinner, sold online
Admin panel
How does your team run it?
Hosts, managers and the owner work in one panel: tonight's tables, bookings by hour, guests and deposits.
The admin panel for managers and the owner
What it can include
What can a booking system for restaurants and restaurant chains do?
You don't have to order everything at once. Start with booking and payments.
Online table booking
Guests pick a date, a time and the number of people. The system finds a table that fits and leaves time to turn it.
How the Time-slot generator module worksDeposits for groups
A deposit or a card hold for large tables and busy nights, so a no-show is still paid for.
Waitlist
When the night is full, guests join the waitlist and get a message when a table frees.
Guest notes
Allergies, birthdays and past visits, visible to the host before the guest arrives.
Reminders
SMS reminders with a link to confirm or cancel, so the table goes back on sale.
Several restaurants
One system for the whole chain: each place keeps its own plan and hours, and the guest list is shared.
When it makes sense
When is your own system worth it?
A ready-made platform is a good start. If it does all you need, stay with it. Your own system makes sense when:
- The platform charges you per guest or per booking
- You run several restaurants and want one guest list
- Groups and busy nights bring no-shows
- You sell events, tasting menus or private dining
Compared with SaaS
What do restaurants and restaurant chains gain over a SaaS platform?
A platform is rented and shared. Your own system is built for you and owned by you.
Cost
On a SaaS platform: A fee per guest or per booking, every night.
With your own system: One fixed price, with no fee per guest.
Your guests
On a SaaS platform: The platform keeps the guest list and shows guests other places.
With your own system: The guest list is yours, in your own database.
No-shows
On a SaaS platform: Deposits follow the rules the platform allows.
With your own system: Deposits work the way you set them, per table size and per night.
Events
On a SaaS platform: Events are sold in a separate ticket tool.
With your own system: Events and tables are booked in the same system.
How we work
How do we start?
- 01
Brief
About 15 minutes, with our AI, whenever it suits you.
- 02
Prototype
A clickable prototype on your data and a quote within 48 hours.
- 03
Scope
Changes from your feedback, then a fixed price.
- 04
Build and launch
Code, documentation and 3 years of support.
Questions
What do owners ask first?
Yes, if the POS has an API. We check that at the brief and include the integration in the quote.
Yes. Your booking page has its own link, which you put on Instagram, Google Maps and your website.
The price depends on the scope and is fixed before the build starts. Most projects fall between $15k and $50k. It is a one-time cost, with no subscription and no commission on bookings.
You get a clickable prototype and a quote within 48 hours of the brief. The build takes two to three weeks, and the system is live six to eight weeks after the first call, including migration and handover.
We move your customers, bookings and history into the new system, even when the current provider has no export. The old tool keeps running until the data matches, so bookings never stop.
You do. The code, the data and the documentation are handed over. It runs in your own cloud account or on our infrastructure, and 3 years of support are included.
Read more
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See your restaurants and restaurant chains system before you decide
Describe how you take bookings. Within 48 hours you get a prototype and a quote.
Using an AI assistant? It can write the brief for you through our MCP server.