FOR RESTAURANTS AND CAFES
By four o'clock you knew there were twenty-seven in tonight.
The reservations came in overnight and kept coming through service. Tonight is one sheet, sorted by sitting, with the party size and the nut allergy on table nine sitting where the kitchen will see them.
Tonight27 covers
8 seated17 to come1 no-show
IN THE ROOM
DUE NOW · 7:00
How the night filled up
Twenty-seven covers, and one of them came in over the phone.
11:40pm, Tuesday
8
Booked while the room was dark
Your reservation page does not close, so the party of eight for Friday was taken two nights before anyone read about it.
4:00pm
27
The count was already right
Covers add themselves up as the bookings land, so the prep order went out against a real number rather than a guess about a Friday.
6:20pm
1
Someone rang anyway
A table for two, added to the sheet from the pass in a few seconds. Phone bookings sit in the same list as the rest, in the right sitting.
7:40pm
8
Eight of them were eating
The sheet shows who is in the room, who is due and who never arrived, so you can read the floor from the pass without asking.
Eighty dollars, and a full Saturday costs the same as a dead Tuesday.
There is no fee per cover and no commission, because Octobook is not a marketplace and your reservation page is not listed beside the place down the road. A venue has no bookable staff, so there is nothing for a seat calculator to do.
- Unlimited reservations and covers
- Your own branded reservation page
- Allergies, occasions and notes on every table
- Email confirmations, reminders and cancellations
- Phone bookings straight onto the sheet
- Online orders for collection, made to order
- Block out private functions and closures
Questions & answers
No. They open your reservation link, choose how many people and a time, and leave their details. No login, no download. They get a confirmation email with a link they can use to change or cancel the booking themselves.
You tell it how many covers the room seats and how long a table turns. It counts the covers already booked in each sitting and stops offering times once the room is full. You can still seat a walk-in or take one more by phone: the dashboard lets you go over, because you are the one looking at the floor.
Never. One flat monthly price whether you take ten reservations or a thousand, and we are not a marketplace: your reservation page is yours alone, and we do not list you beside the restaurant down the road.
No. Your reservation page works alongside any website, so you can link or embed it. If you would rather we built the site too, that is a $20/month add-on.
No contracts and no setup fee. Month to month, cancel any time. The 14-day trial starts when you sign up and needs no credit card.