Cafe booking system for Australian cafes.
Most cafes do not have a reservation problem — they have a weekend problem. Walk-ins are the business, turns are short, and the only bookings that really matter are the table of eight for brunch and the group that wants the back room. A booking system for a cafe has to help with those without getting in the way of everyone else.
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What a cafe day actually looks like.
Walk-ins first, bookings second
The book is a guide, not a wall. Seat a walk-in straight onto a table in one tap and the timeline updates — no pretending every cover was reserved in advance.
Short turns, not long ones
A cafe table turns in thirty or forty-five minutes, not two hours. Set turn times that match how you actually trade, so availability is not throttled by a dinner-service assumption.
The 9am to 1pm crush
Your peak is breakfast and weekend brunch, not 7pm. Service times and pacing follow whatever hours you keep, including the days you close at two.
One person on the floor
There is often nobody standing at a host stand. The book works on a phone behind the counter, and the day sheet prints if you would rather have paper.
The bits that cost you money.
- A group of ten turns up on a Sunday unannounced.
- Set a minimum party size for bookings so large groups have to book while everyone else just walks in.
- You don’t want to take deposits from people buying coffee.
- Then don’t. Deposits are optional and off by default, and can be limited to large parties or specific dates if you ever want them for a set menu or an event.
- You don’t have a website worth embedding into.
- Share the link, or print the QR code and put it by the till. The booking page works on its own.
And what you probably won’t use. If you never take a booking at all, you do not need this and we would rather say so. The venues this helps are the ones already fielding group bookings by phone, DM and a paper diary.
Everything’s included. No tiers, no upsells.
- Bookings
- Real-time availability from your actual tables. Turn times by party size. Pacing limits so the kitchen isn’t slammed at 7pm. Table combinations for big groups. Blackout dates and special hours.
- Your booking page
- Your logo, colours and fonts. Embed it on your site, share the link, or print a QR code.
- The service floor
- A timeline of your whole night. Seat walk-ins, reassign tables, mark no-shows. Block a table for maintenance or a private event.
- Guest CRM
- Visit history, spend, no-show counts, tags and notes. Duplicate detection and merging.
- Deposits & no-show protection(optional)
- Take a deposit or hold a card for big parties and busy dates. Money goes straight to your account, not ours.
- Waitlist
- When you’re full, guests join the list and get told the moment something opens.
- Reports
- Covers, no-show rate, turn times, where your bookings come from. Export to CSV.
- Your team
- Owner, manager and host roles, so staff see what they need and nothing more.
$39 a month, inc GST, for one venue. Extra venues are $29 a month each. If you turn on deposits we take 2.5% of the deposit — don’t use them and you’ll never see it.