Two ways to pay for the same booking.
One takes a slice of every table you turn. The other charges you once, and leaves the rest alone. See how direct ordering against third-party apps changes that relationship.
- ✕Per-cover fees or per-booking charges on reservations
- ✕A percentage taken from every online order
- ✕Costs rise exactly when you're busiest
- ✕Guest records can end up on the platform’s list rather than yours, depending on the terms you signed
- ✕Your restaurant is listed next to your competitors
- ✓One flat plan from £19/mo — see pricing
- ✓0% TableSpark commission on bookings and orders, always
- ✓Costs stay flat when you're fully booked
- ✓Every reservation and order lands in your inbox and guest list
- ✓Your own domain, your own brand, nobody else's ads
A good night shouldn't cost you more.
On a commission model, the fuller your room, the bigger the bill. On TableSpark the line is flat — the same whether you seat ten covers or two hundred. Put the figures from your own contract into the online-ordering commission calculator.
What runs on your site.
Direct bookings
Live availability against your own table inventory and floor plan, with table assignment, deposits, no-show controls and reminders. Run it as instant confirmation or as a booking enquiry — both modes are supported, and both land in your inbox and guest list.
Online ordering
Menu-driven orders with your real dishes and prices, synced to the same live menu the rest of the site uses. A restaurant website with direct online ordering runs on the Full plan, at 0% TableSpark commission. Stripe’s standard card-processing fees apply to online payments.
Your domain
Your own domain with managed SSL, plus a Reserve with Google booking-link connection and POS connections. A live link is not the same as being indexed by Google, so managed search readiness — structured restaurant data, canonicals, sitemaps, robots controls and search verification — is built in.
It's all part of the same builder: pick one of 50 finished restaurant templates, drop in your menu, and the booking and ordering machinery is already wired in. Follow the direct online-ordering setup guide, then see how the complete site works.
0% TableSpark commission. Always.
Read your invoice, line by line.
TableSpark publishes no estimate of any other provider's fees, because your contract is the only accurate source for them. What we can tell you is which lines a flat TableSpark plan is designed to replace. Take last month's statement and find these three.
A percentage of each order
Whatever rate your agreement sets, it is charged on the order value, so it grows with every busy week. On TableSpark, orders placed on your own site carry 0% TableSpark commission. Stripe's standard card-processing fees apply to online payments.
A charge for each cover seated
Reservation charges are usually counted per cover or per booking, which means the fuller the room, the larger the line. Bookings made on your own TableSpark site are not counted or charged at all.
The subscriptions underneath
A website, a booking widget, a menu tool, a domain and an SSL certificate are frequently four or five separate renewals. One TableSpark plan carries the site, the live menu, the booking and ordering machinery and managed search readiness together.
To put your own three figures against a flat plan, use the commission calculator on the pricing page — it works entirely from the rates you type in off your own contract. For the longer argument about why those lines compound, read cutting booking commission without losing covers.
Moving across without losing a booking.
The reason most restaurants stay on a commission model is not the money; it is the fear of a gap in the diary during the change. There does not have to be one — the two systems can run side by side until the day you decide.
- 01 Build the site while the old one keeps running Building is free until you publish, and nothing changes on your live address until you say so. Pick a template, drop in your menu, and take as long as you need over it.
- 02 Point your own domain at it Your existing address moves across with managed SSL on the plans that include a custom domain, so printed cards, old links and anyone who typed it from memory all still arrive in the right place.
- 03 Put your own booking link where the guests are Your Google Business Profile, your social bios, your email footer and your Reserve with Google booking-link connection can all point at your own booking page, so the guest who was going to be introduced to you for a fee arrives directly instead.
- 04 Watch a full week before you cancel anything Every reservation, enquiry and order lands in your Inbox and guest list, exportable as CSV, so you can see exactly how much of your trade is already coming direct before you touch the old contract. Then read its notice terms, and decide. There is a step-by-step guide for restaurants leaving a per-cover booking contract if you want the detail first.
Questions, answered straight.
Yes. You pay a flat monthly plan for your website, and that's it. Bookings and online orders taken through your own site carry no per-cover fee and no TableSpark percentage: 0% TableSpark commission, on a full Saturday and a quiet Tuesday alike. Stripe’s standard card-processing fees apply to online payments. TableSpark adds nothing on top.
Charging models vary by provider and by the contract you sign, so read your own agreement and invoice for the exact figures — commission-based and per-cover pricing rises as you get busier, which is the point. TableSpark does it the other way round: one flat monthly plan, 0% TableSpark commission, and the same price on a full Saturday as on a quiet Tuesday. For an independent UK restaurant that is the best-value arrangement, and the one we recommend. See the practical guide to cutting booking commission without losing covers.
Yes. Every reservation, enquiry and order is held under your restaurant account, visible in your Inbox and guest list, and exportable as CSV whenever you want it. Your restaurant keeps control of its guest records.
Plans are flat: from £19/mo, with the complete restaurant-ready stack available across TableSpark plans: live-availability bookings, table and floor-plan operations and your own domain with managed SSL on Growth, online ordering on Full, and managed search readiness on every plan — all at 0% TableSpark commission. Building is free until you publish, with no card required. See full pricing.
Yes, and it is the sensible way to move. Publish your TableSpark site, point your own booking link at it, and leave the existing arrangement in place until you can see for yourself how much of your trade is arriving direct. Every direct reservation and order shows in your Inbox and guest list from day one, so the decision to give notice is made on your own numbers rather than on a promise.
It comes with you. On the plans that include a custom domain, your own address points at your TableSpark site with managed SSL, so existing links, printed menus and business cards keep working. Because managed search readiness is part of every plan — structured restaurant data, canonical URLs, sitemap and robots controls and search verification — the new site is built to be read correctly by search engines rather than quietly left out.
From your own paperwork, not from a figure we publish. Take the order commission rate, the per-cover charge and the monthly subscriptions from your contract and invoice, and enter them in the commission calculator on the pricing page; the total it shows is arithmetic on the figures you supplied, and TableSpark publishes no estimate of any other provider's fees. Whatever those lines come to is what one flat plan at 0% TableSpark commission replaces.