What per-cover fees cost you a year.
Some booking platforms charge a fee for every seated diner their marketplace sends you — and as at July 2026, none of the big names publishes the rate. So this calculator doesn't guess: enter your own covers and the rate from your own contract or statement, see the formula in full, and compare the yearly total with a flat ResoFlow plan. If per-cover works out cheaper at your numbers, it will say so.
Used only to work out roughly how many bookings your covers are, so the comparison picks a ResoFlow plan that actually fits.
Type the rate from your own contract or statement — as at July 2026 none of the big platforms publishes an official one. Or start from the starred estimate below and adjust.
500 covers × £1 × 12 months = £6,000 a year in per-cover fees — vs £468 a year flat with ResoFlow Plus (£39/mo, the cheapest plan that fits ≈167 online bookings a month).
You'd keep £5,532 a year.
Break-even: at £1 a cover, Plus (£39/mo) costs the same as 39 marketplace covers a month. Below that, per-cover is cheaper; above it, flat wins.
Count only covers booked through a marketplace — on per-cover platforms, bookings from your own website are typically free (OpenTable's site says its are, as at July 2026). ResoFlow prices are our standard published plans: Plus includes 500 online bookings a month and there's no monthly online-booking cap on Pro and above; staff-created bookings and walk-ins are unlimited on every plan, and paying annually gets two months free. There's also a free Free plan for trying ResoFlow (30 online bookings a month and a 5-day advance-booking window — built for getting started, not a busy service). See pricing for the full plan grid. *The starred preset is an approximate figure as reported by third-party restaurant-industry guides (July 2026) — OpenTable doesn't publish its per-cover rate, so treat it as an estimate and use the rate from your own contract for a true answer.
Commission isn't the only fee model — see exactly what ResoFlow charges on every payment type →
Who actually publishes a per-cover rate?
We checked each provider's own website in July 2026. Here's exactly what they say — which is why this page asks for your rate instead of inventing one.
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| Provider | Per-cover rate | What their own site says |
|---|---|---|
| OpenTable | Charges per-cover fees — amount not published (approx. £2 per network cover*) | Its own FAQ says cover fees apply only to diners who discover you through OpenTable's website, app or affiliate network; bookings from your own website are free, and only seated diners are charged (nothing for no-shows or cancellations). Its UK restaurant pages list no prices at all — plans are "contact us for pricing" — though third-party guides commonly report around £2 per network cover (*an estimate, not OpenTable's own figure). |
| ResDiary | No per-cover commission | Its pricing page states it "does not charge a commission on your booking, regardless of where the booking is made". Plan prices aren't published (quote on request); it lists add-ons at £10–£35/month, plus a 1% surcharge for processing deposits and payments and 3% for gift vouchers. |
| Quandoo | Winding down — rates never published | Quandoo has announced it is closing: new bookings stop on 30 September 2026 and the platform goes offline by 31 December 2026. It never published its restaurant per-cover rates, and its site today carries no partner pricing. |
| ResoFlow | No per-cover fees — prices published | Flat monthly plans, published on the website: free, £39, £79 and £129 a month. We never take a cut of your bookings, whatever channel they come from. |
OpenTable details from opentable.co.uk's restaurant pages; ResDiary details from resdiary.com's pricing page; Quandoo dates from its public wind-down announcement — all checked July 2026. Features and pricing change; always confirm current terms with the provider directly. ResoFlow is not affiliated with OpenTable, ResDiary or Quandoo.
When per-cover fees can be worth paying.
You're below the break-even
A quiet venue seating a handful of marketplace covers a month can pay less per-cover than any flat subscription — the calculator's break-even line shows exactly where the tipping point sits for your rate. Below it, per-cover is genuinely the cheaper deal.
You need the marketplace’s diners
A per-cover fee buys something a flat-price system doesn't: guests who found you through the platform's own marketplace. OpenTable's model charges only when its network delivers a seated diner. If discovery is your bottleneck, paying per delivered guest can be rational. ResoFlow has no diner marketplace — guests book through your own website, links and profiles.
Your channel mix matters
Per-cover platforms typically don't charge for bookings from your own website — so your real bill depends on where your bookings come from, not your total covers. If most guests already book direct, you're paying a marketplace premium for a marketplace you barely use; that's when flat pricing pulls ahead.
If marketplace discovery is what your venue needs most, a per-cover platform may genuinely be the better buy — we'd rather you do the maths and choose well. If your bookings mostly come direct, a flat plan means a busy month never costs you more.