ResDiary alternatives UK: seven options for your next booking system
ResDiary alternatives for UK venues include nollie, from £99 a month, no per-cover fees, plus OpenTable, TheFork Manager, Access Collins, simpleERB, Resos and Tableo. Choose around the job you need done: repeat visits, marketplace discovery or a lower diary subscription. Staying with ResDiary can be the right answer if your current setup already delivers what your team needs.
By Jordan Foord, Founder & CEO of nollie
nollie makes a competing product. Read this the way you would read anything written by a rival.
Start with the reason you would move.
An alternative earns its place by fixing a specific problem. Write down what is awkward today, what already works, and the result you want from a switch. A cheaper diary, fewer separate tools and more first-time diners are different goals. Do not ask one headline price to answer all three.
Use your recent invoices, booking-channel mix and normal monthly volume as the baseline. Include any services you would need to replace, and the staff time involved in changing over. These seven options are a shortlist for different needs, not a ranking or a promise that moving will save money.
How to read the evidence
Published means the vendor states the detail on its own site. Quote only means it asks you to contact sales for the price. Our own price comes from nollie’s current price list. “Ask the vendor” and “Not published” mark evidence gaps, not missing features. We omit historical and reseller-reported prices, and make no currency conversion.
Seven ResDiary alternatives for UK venues: price evidence and buying questions
Headline prices are starting points, not complete quotes. Source links sit with each option below. Confirm plan eligibility, charges, renewal and notice terms before you sign.
Seven options, seven reasons to look.
nollie: our own product
For bookings and repeat visits in one system
Our own product. nollie takes bookings on your branded page, builds the guest record and sends email campaigns from the same system, measuring bookings, covers and revenue. It is worth a demonstration if your reason for leaving is the work between running the diary and bringing guests back. It does not replace a diner marketplace that is already sending you valuable new customers.
Core covers up to 500 covers a month. The separate one-off setup fee is £129; SMS is an optional £39 a month add-on. Compare the plan for your total covers, including direct bookings, before comparing bills. View nollie pricing.
OpenTable
For a switch centred on diner discovery
OpenTable is worth considering when finding diners through a network is the missing job. Its Core and Pro cover charges apply to seated diners arriving through its website, app or affiliate network; direct website and phone reservations are outside that fee. Ask for the subscription and cover rate together, then compare them with the value of genuinely additional visits. Its published standard term is one year with annual renewal.
TheFork Manager is another marketplace option, but its fee is a percentage of the average bill per guest on reservations from TheFork, Tripadvisor and partners. Your own website and social reservations are included. That is a different calculation from OpenTable’s cover charge. Ask for the percentage, subscription and channel rules in a UK quote before deciding whether the change suits your margins.
Access Collins gives a UK operator a published per-site starting price, while its own comparison table states zero booking commission. The final quote depends on site type, size and required features. For a small group, use that per-site basis to ask for a complete group proposal, including the connections and service each venue needs. A starting price alone does not establish the final cost.
For modest cover volume and a smaller subscription
simpleERB is a useful shortlist entry when the diary subscription is the main reason to move. Its published UK plans step up by cover volume, with payments included on the unlimited tier. Test the plan that matches your real service, including any payment requirement, rather than selecting on the smallest headline alone. This is a price-led reason to evaluate it, not a claim that other capabilities are absent.
Resos publishes a free plan for a small booking allowance and paid plans in euro. Its plan allowances count bookings, which should not be treated as interchangeable with covers: one booking can bring several guests. The table keeps its standing euro entry price and omits introductory promotions. Confirm the currency and any add-ons on your own quote before comparing it with a sterling subscription.
Tableo’s published free plan allows up to 100 covers a month. It states commission-free reservations and offers email campaign allowances on its pricing page, with plan eligibility to confirm. The source we can read does not establish a sterling paid-plan price, so we leave that amount out. Test the free allowance against normal trading volume and ask what happens when you need the next tier.
ResDiary publishes commission-free bookings across booking channels, including its Dish Cult listing. That is a real reason to stay: changing systems solely to avoid booking commission would not, by itself, distinguish nollie from ResDiary. Keep the value of the setup you already use in the comparison, alongside the time your team would spend learning a replacement. Read ResDiary’s own pricing explanation.
Its pricing page can vary by region and served version. We do not convert its Singapore add-on list into a UK price or infer UK contract terms from it. Ask for a written UK proposal for the services you actually use, then place it beside each alternative’s complete proposal.
When staying on ResDiary is the right choice
Stay if your team runs service confidently, the channels you use bring worthwhile business, and the complete bill is acceptable. If the problem is one unused setting or an integration you have not evaluated, ask your current supplier to demonstrate a solution first. A replacement needs to offer enough practical benefit to justify the disruption.
Choose for your room.
Independent restaurant or café
If the subscription is the issue, start with the published-price options and test a real week of service. Compare covers with covers and bookings with bookings. Avoid paying for a higher allowance just because the lowest plan cannot accommodate your normal month.
Pub or bar seeking repeat visits
Test the journey from a booking to a guest record to an email campaign, then ask how the system shows resulting bookings and revenue. Include nollie in that demonstration. Ask each supplier which parts are included and which require another product.
Venue needing new diners
Evaluate marketplace acquisition separately from repeat-guest marketing. Ask how you will identify bookings from each channel and judge their contribution after the relevant fees. A branded booking page and a marketplace listing do different jobs.
Small group of two to five sites
Request a total group quote and demonstrate staff access, guest records and reporting across your actual venues. Agree whether each location needs its own plan and who owns the changeover. Do not infer group capabilities from a single-venue demonstration.
Before you change over.
Ask every shortlisted supplier to explain the import, staff training and go-live plan. Check upcoming bookings, deposits, guest notes and marketing permissions explicitly rather than assuming every field transfers. Confirm your existing renewal and notice arrangements before setting a date, and decide who will check the first service on the new system.
For a UK move to nollie, booking and guest history can be imported while both systems run in parallel. Plan the cutover for a quiet night and keep a rollback option. The incumbent connection is part of the switch; your website and point of sale remain ongoing connections. Our switching guide explains the practical steps.
Questions operators ask
What is the best ResDiary alternative for a UK restaurant?
There is no universal winner. Start with the reason you are considering a move: the total bill, the booking workflow, guest marketing or new-diner discovery. Shortlist two alternatives around that job, and compare their demonstrations with what your current ResDiary setup already does.
Does ResDiary charge booking commission?
ResDiary publishes commission-free bookings across its booking channels. That does not mean every service is free: ask for the full subscription, add-on and payment costs applying to your UK venue. A rival offering no per-cover fees is not automatically a cheaper replacement.
Are TheFork fees the same as OpenTable cover fees?
No. TheFork publishes a fee based on a percentage of the average bill per guest for its marketplace and partner reservations. OpenTable publishes cover charges scoped to seated diners arriving through its network. Get the applicable rate and subscription in writing from each vendor.
Can I move from ResDiary to nollie without an abrupt changeover?
During a UK switch, nollie imports booking and guest history and your venue can run both systems in parallel. Agree what will transfer and how upcoming reservations will be checked, then cut over on a quiet night with a rollback plan. Your point of sale and website remain ongoing connections.
Does an “Ask the vendor” cell mean a feature is missing?
No. It means our ledger does not establish that detail for the relevant offer. Ask the vendor to demonstrate the capability and state which plan includes it. We do not treat a missing source as evidence that a competitor lacks marketing, integrations or a marketplace.
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