Taybl Bookings vs Competitors

We’re up-front about how we compare against other booking platforms, so you can compare features and pricing below. If there’s a feature you need but don’t see, drop us a message and we’ll try and help!

Features
Taybl From £69 p/m
ResDiary From £154 p/m 1
ResOS From £143 p/m 1
OpenTable From £179 p/m 1
Pricing and terms
A charge for every diner seated. Taybl never charges one. OpenTable charges per cover on reservations from its network and, from early 2026, a 2% service fee on deposits, prepayments and no-show charges.
What it costs to get set up.
Whether your plan limits how many bookings you can take each month. ResDiary and ResOS tiers are banded by booking volume.
Taking bookings
A reservation widget in your own colours, embedded on your own website.
Take bookings directly from Google Search and Maps.
Add a Book button to Instagram and Facebook.
Live table availability, with no risk of double-booking.
Guests amend or cancel their own booking from the confirmation email.
A diner-facing app that lists you for discovery. OpenTable runs a full marketplace, ResDiary has its own directory, and Taybl and ResOS are direct-booking only, so the guest relationship stays entirely yours.
Tables and service
Lay out your rooms and tables, and assign each booking to a table.
Automatically seats parties and combines tables where needed.
Cap how many covers land in each time slot to protect the kitchen.
Define lunch, dinner and other services, each with their own rules.
Manage walk-ins and a waiting list when you are full.
Sell tickets for set-menu nights and events. ResDiary, ResOS and OpenTable support this today, and Taybl does not yet.
Payments and no-shows
Hold a card at booking and charge only if the guest does not show.
Take a deposit per booking or per person.
Charge the full amount upfront for set menus and special nights.
Deposits and no-show fees go into your own Stripe account and pay out to your bank. OpenTable processes the payment on its side and applies a 2% service fee.
Guests and reporting
Tags, free-text notes, allergy flags and VIP status against every guest.
See how often a guest visits and what they typically spend.
Build email lists from your guest data and export them.
Reports on covers, no-show rates and where your bookings come from.
Links to your till to match bookings against spend.
Run several venues from one account.
Your diner data is not pooled into a marketplace. OpenTable keeps the diner relationship on its own platform.
The unified-system advantage 2
Large-party pre-orders taken during booking appear on a prep list the kitchen works from, with no re-keying and no separate spreadsheet.
Build your menu once and it feeds the website menu widget, the pre-order flow and the recipe cards. Change a price in one place.
Booked covers show on the rota builder by the hour, so the manager staffs against the actual book rather than a hunch.
Covers and average spend drive the projected takings and wage-percentage target on the rota, with nothing to connect.
Guest-facing charges settle to the same Stripe account as any other Taybl payment, so reconciliation is one statement rather than several.
A guest is one record you can share across your venues, tied to their booking history and any feedback or complaint they have raised.
  1. 1 Representative mid-tier plan for each competitor; figures match the taybl.food price calculator (August 2026). Entry tiers are lower: ResDiary from about £109, OpenTable from about £149, and ResOS has a free plan up to 25 bookings a month.
  2. 2 ResDiary, ResOS and OpenTable can integrate a rota or POS tool by API. In Taybl these links are native, with nothing to configure.

Full Bookings Feature List

Taybl Booking Software helps you to offer a smooth, efficient and frictionless booking experience to customers, whilst giving your team the tools they need to offer amazing customer experiences.

Document Manager

Manage certificates, training records and more, with or without expiry date alerts to your phone.

Team Management

Add your whole team, assign roles and what they can access, store their documents, all with a click.

Multi-Venue Dashboard

Full oversight of your entire chain from one dashboard, with customisable alerts if anything’s missed

Complaint Manager

As a requirement of HACCP, Taybl effectively logs, manages and resolves food complaints with a full audit trail.

Booking Widget

Take bookings via your website with a customisable, beautifully easy to use widget, or hosted booking page.

Deposits & Charges

Take deposits, payments and authorise cards to prevent and recoup funds in the event of a no-show guest.

Booking Types

Add booking types such as dining or bottomless brunch, then set availability, max covers and areas for each.

Floor Plan

Design a floor plan using our drag-and-drop builder, setup floors and rooms, plus table joins & cover counts.

Guest CRM

All your guest data in one place, plus insights into visit & spend patterns, booking reliability & much more.

Pre-Orders

Take pre-orders from guests with simple shareable links, which convert to simple kitchen & FOH run sheets.

Reputation Manager

Get alerted to negative feedback, with food complaint logging, stopping bad reviews before they’re published.

Live Waiting List

A live, self-join waiting list for guests arriving with no booking, plus remote waiting for busy or sold-out nights.

How much could Taybl save you?

Apart from the fact that Taybl is the only platform on the market that fully integrates bookings, rotas, marketing and food safety, it’s also cheaper! Select the products you use and we’ll show you savings!

Based on 15 users

You're Paying Around £0 per venue, per month
With Taybl You'd Pay £0 per venue, per month
Saving At Least £0 per venue, per month

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