The whole operating cost behind a headline price. TableSpark plans and pricing →
You have been quoted for an app and nobody has said what happens after launch. Here is the full cost of three routes, and the one guests can install from your own site.
On UK cards, the fee on a deposit is a percentage plus a fixed 20p, and the fixed part takes a bigger share of £10 than of £25. The figures are worked here line by line.
Menu, hours and a number to tap go live first. Collection orders come with a move to Full; paying up front by card adds Stripe's fee per order.
A gift card's card fee is paid on the day of sale and is not returned if the sale is refunded. Work out the cost per card before setting the amounts and any bonus offer.
An online order that lands on a laptop in the office still has to reach the pass. Before taking on the cost of a second system, check what the ordering plan already prints.
A no-show leaves no invoice and no ticket, only covers missing from a total nobody checks against the diary. Four figures already in the building price what it costs.
A dated rise in the statutory wage floor landed in April; the menu did not move with it. Whatever that cost on this owner's payroll has been foregone on covers already served.
A module switched on during onboarding costs the same every month whether it runs at every service or has never been opened, and the invoice never says which.
The minutes spent answering the phone mid-service arrive with no invoice, so that labour goes unpriced. The wage floor under the hour rose on 1 April 2026.
The rate on a merchant agreement is not the whole of a card bill. The scheme fees beneath it are set elsewhere, and the regulator has found them rising without competition.
A small order carries the same packaging, the same fixed card fee and the same handling minutes as a large one, and a marketplace commission takes more than a third off the top.
Nobody warns a restaurant before its website add-ons renew, and the rules announced for January 2027 were drafted for consumers, so the recurring fees keep leaving unannounced.
