For the person who owns the booking book in one independent restaurant, bistro, gastropub or cafe with tables, or a small group of two or three sites: the owner-operator, the general manager, or the front of house manager who sets the sittings and answers the phone.Not for a diner looking for somewhere to eat, not for the person buying a till or building a menu, and not for the chef, the rota or the stock. Each of those is a different job and other software is written for it.
The table management system a restaurant runs its booking book on, and the free worksheet that sizes it
Taking a booking is easy. Knowing whether tonight's 9pm party of eight fits, which of your tables it fits on, what the room still has free at 7:30, and what the four people who did not turn up on Saturday actually cost you is the rest of the job, and most restaurants do it from a paper book and a memory of the room. Sittingly starts with a free worksheet that puts numbers on it: the floor plan turned into covers, the sittings each table really turns once you allow for resetting it, and what a year of no shows takes off the top. The paid plan keeps what it sized, as one book across the phone, the website and the people who walk in.
Sittingly Pro is £59 a month for the whole restaurant, billed monthly, however many people take the bookings.
- 1free tools on this site
- 1,300US searches a month
- Bookings and tables only
The worksheets a service is planned from
Free to use. No account, no card, no trial clock.
Book it, seat it, find it
A booking book is easy to start and almost impossible to keep, and keeping it is the part that decides what a Saturday is worth
- One book, three doors
- The phone, the website and the walk in all land in the same book Most independent restaurants run at least two books without meaning to: a diary on the host stand and a widget on the website nobody opens until service. Two books is how a table gets double sat and how a party of eight arrives to find its table is a two top. One book is not a feature, it is the whole product.
- The table, not just the time
- Every booking is a party on a named table, so the room fills the way you planned it A time and a party size is a queue, not a plan. When the booking carries the table it is on, you can see at 5pm which parts of the room are already spoken for at 8, and you can say yes to the party of six because you know exactly what has to move to fit them.
- The guest who did not come
- Cancellations and no shows kept against the guest, not lost with the date A no show costs the covers and the food, and the only thing that reduces it is knowing who does it. When the record hangs off the guest, the third time is visible before you confirm it, and a deposit policy becomes a decision you can make about one booking rather than a blanket rule that annoys everyone else.
Sittingly Pro keeps the book, not just tonight's service
The worksheet tells you what the room seats. It cannot tell you, in March, that the same guest has not turned up three times. Pro keeps the book itself.
- Download a floor plan and its covers as a file to send to a partner, a landlord or an insurer
- Your floor plans and booking sheets without our name on them
- Save a floor plan and open it again when you move the tables
- Your restaurant's name, address and licence number on everything you print
- Send a confirmation or a reminder to the guest from the booking itself
- Connect your own Stripe account so deposits are paid to you, not through us
- Connect your accounts so covers and deposits reconcile without retyping
£59 per month, whole team
Sittingly Pro is £59 a month for the whole restaurant, billed monthly, however many people take the bookings. Billed monthly. Cancel any time from your account page. Price and renewal terms are shown before checkout.
Should I just use a marketplace or a whole restaurant suite instead?
If you want a marketplace to send you diners you have never met, use a marketplace: that is what it is for, and this is not it. If you want one system that also runs the till, the stock and the rota, buy a suite. Sittingly is for the restaurant that already fills its room and wants the book that fills it to be its own, on its own terms, at a price that does not move with the number of people who sit down.
| Sittingly | A marketplace or a whole restaurant suite | |
|---|---|---|
| What you pay for | One flat monthly price for the restaurant, whatever the covers. | Typically a subscription plus a fee per cover, or a suite priced by module and site. |
| Whose customer the diner is | Yours. The booking, the contact details and the history stay in your book and export whenever you want them. | A marketplace mediates the relationship, and the diner belongs to the listing as much as to you. |
| What it covers | Bookings, tables, guests and no shows. Nothing else, deliberately. | A suite covers the till, the menu, the stock and the rota too, which is worth buying if you want all of them. |
| Who it is sized for | One room, or two or three, run by the person who answers the phone. | Usually sized and priced for a group, with a rollout and an account manager. |
We do not print competitors' prices here. Marketplace and suite pricing in this trade is mostly quoted rather than published, and a figure we could not show you the source of would be worth less than the honest statement that they charge differently: per cover, per module or per site, where we charge once for the restaurant.