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Tableo booking system: features, pricing, alternativesTableo, explained from its own UK pricing page and compared with Eightish
Tableo is a restaurant booking system with a free plan and three paid plans, aimed at venues from small restaurants to groups and hotels. This page sets out its features and UK pricing from Tableo’s own pricing page, as checked 9 November 2026, and where it differs from Eightish.
Tableo features
Tableo’s pricing page lists four plans, from Freemium to Expand, and a feature table covering reservations, booking channels, guest communications, marketing and payments.
Reservations and floor plan
Real-time reservations synced across channels, table management, a diary with timeline and calendar views, an interactive floor map, special service hours, caps on online bookings by covers per minute, and a waiting list for online, phone and walk-in guests.
Channels and messaging
Bookings from your website, Google, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. Tableo also lists a Google Business Profile integration and an AI messaging assistant for Facebook and Instagram, each with a free first month, plus SMS and WhatsApp guest notifications, for which carrier fees apply.
Marketing and payments
Email marketing campaigns and marketing automations, an exportable guest database, guest reviews, event management, gift vouchers, card verification with no-show fees, and pre-payments and deposits at 1% plus Stripe fees. Which plan includes each feature varies.
Tableo pricing
These are the monthly prices on Tableo’s UK pricing page.
| Plan | Per month | Tableo’s description |
|---|---|---|
| Freemium | £0 | Free for up to 100 covers monthly. Great for small restaurants or a way to try before you buy. |
| Organise | £69 | Unlimited, commission-free reservations from all your channels, with an interactive floor plan. |
| Grow | £86 | Adds payments and SMS notifications, plus advanced customisation and event management. |
| Expand | £299 | For restaurant groups, franchises and hotels: full CRM, reports, restaurant chain cross-selling and AI messaging tools. |
Tableo says you save 17% by paying yearly, which it describes as two months free. The page shows annual monthly prices of £57 for Organise, £71 for Grow and £249 for Expand. Contract terms are not stated on the pricing page, so ask when you sign up.
From Tableo’s own UK pricing page, as checked 9 November 2026: Tableo pricing (UK).
Tableo and Eightish side by side
| Eightish | Tableo | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Walk-In is free for one venue, with 50 online bookings a month. Phone bookings and walk-ins you enter yourself are never counted. Past 50, online bookings are 40p each, capped at £69 a month. A card is taken at signup and not charged unless you go past the allowance. | Freemium: free for up to 100 covers a month. It counts covers, so one booking for four uses four of the hundred. |
| Paid plans | Early Doors £69 a month (unlimited bookings, up to 800 covers), Service £139 (up to 2,000 covers) and Full House £249 (up to 3,000 covers). Going over a covers band costs nothing. | Organise £69 a month, Grow £86 and Expand £299, with unlimited reservations on the paid plans. |
| Commission and cover fees | None on any plan. | Reservations described as commission-free. |
| Deposits | Deposits on paid plans. Not on the free plan. | Payments from the Grow plan. Pre-payments and deposits at 1% plus Stripe fees. |
| Text messages | Text confirmation and one reminder per booking on the free plan. Reminders and confirmations are included on every paid plan with no per-message charge. | SMS notifications from the Grow plan. SMS and WhatsApp notifications are listed with carrier fees applying. |
| Social and messaging channels | Your own booking page and embed for your website. | Booking links on Facebook and Instagram, WhatsApp, and an AI messaging assistant for Facebook and Instagram messages. |
| Filling quiet nights | Autopilot, on paid plans: it texts past guests most likely to come back when a night is quiet, with 100, 400 or 800 messages a month by plan. | Email marketing campaigns and marketing automations, with the number of automations depending on the plan. |
| Several restaurants | Each restaurant goes on the plan that suits it. Every restaurant after your most expensive one is 10% off, on one bill. | Expand plan for groups, franchises and hotels, with restaurant chain cross-selling. |
| Contract | Billed monthly. Cancel at any time from the Account page, with no notice and no cancellation fees. | Monthly or annual billing. Contract terms not stated on the pricing page. |
Tableo details from Tableo’s own pricing page, as checked 9 November 2026: Tableo pricing (UK). Eightish details from our pricing page and terms. Vendors change terms without notice, so check anything that would decide your purchase. Corrections welcome, including from Tableo: hello@eightish.co.uk.
Which one fits your restaurant
When Tableo may fit
You want booking tools that reach into Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, with email marketing and event management, or you run a group or hotel that would use chain cross-selling. Tableo’s free plan suits a venue doing up to 100 covers a month.
When Eightish may fit
You want a free plan that counts online bookings rather than covers, with phone bookings and walk-ins never counted, or you want deposits, text reminders and Autopilot included from the first paid plan at £69 a month.
What to check before you choose
Whichever way you go between Eightish and Tableo, ask these before you sign anything.
Covers or bookings?
Tableo’s free plan counts covers; Eightish’s counts online bookings. Work out your real monthly numbers on both measures before comparing free plans.
What will texts cost?
Tableo lists carrier fees for SMS and WhatsApp notifications. Eightish includes reminders and confirmations on every paid plan. Ask for the cost of a typical month of reminders on each.
Can you get your guest list out?
Ask whether you can export every guest record, with phone numbers and visit history, whenever you like, including on the day you leave. On Eightish you can export your data at any time while your account is open, and for 30 days after it closes.
Tableo alternatives
Most people looking at Tableo are weighing it against two or three others. We have written the same kind of side by side for the systems that come up most often: Eightish vs OpenTable, Eightish vs ResDiary, Eightish vs Collins, Eightish vs Resos, Eightish vs Tablein and Eightish vs Sugarvine Tables. For the whole field on one page, read the guide to restaurant booking systems in the UK, or put them next to each other in the live comparison. If you are moving across, how switching works has the detail.
Tableo booking system: common questions
Is Tableo free?
Tableo has a Freemium plan that is free for up to 100 covers a month. Its paid plans are Organise, Grow and Expand.
How much does Tableo cost in the UK?
Tableo’s UK pricing page lists Organise at £69 a month, Grow at £86 and Expand at £299, with 17% off for paying yearly. Prices are as checked on 9 November 2026.
Does Tableo take deposits?
Yes. Tableo lists payments from the Grow plan, with pre-payments and deposits at 1% plus Stripe fees. On Eightish, deposits are included on paid plans.
How does the Eightish free plan compare?
Eightish’s free Walk-In plan includes 50 online bookings a month for one venue, and phone bookings and walk-ins you enter yourself are never counted. Past 50, online bookings are 40p each, capped at £69 a month. See the pricing page for the full detail.
Compare the free plans for yourself.
A free plan for one restaurant, no sales call. Every plan price is published.