Alternative To TableAgent
Real hospitality businneses need powerful software that can help them grow, and keep their time free. BookingNinja offers a true upgrade to TableAgent
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Why BookingNinja is Better
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Highlighted Features
Easy To Follow Guides and Help
Breeze through setup and take control of our powerful tools with our updated help centre. Now including video guides!
Learn moreImport Existing Bookings For Free
Save hours and make swapping services painless with a completely free data import offered on any of our paid accounts.
Learn moreSend Automated Post Visit Review Requests
Maximise your positive review amount while keeping negative reviews visible only to you using the exact system that's helped our own Board cafe become one of the best rated in the world.
Learn morePowerful Customisation Options
Make the booking form feel your own, with your own logo, background and colours. Set initial messages and tweak nearly every area of the form.
Learn moreApply a Custom Booking Fee
Use Booking fees to add an additional charge, and unlock more revenue per booking - with no commission.
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TableAgent - You Get What You Pay For
BookingNinja offers a compelling alternative to Table Agent with hundreds of features designed for the modern restaurant. TableAgent claims to be 100% free, but unless our math is completely wrong, Free + $29 for taking payments + $20 for sending SMS credits suddenly doesn't add up to free. Even if you were to use the free features of TableAgent, you'll quickly find that you get what you pay for.
TableAgent is a dated platform that offers the bare simplest requirements for a venue. BookingNinja has been designed to have every feature your business could need, and we have every feature TableAgent has plus tons more. Never hit a road block on setting up sessions and events how you want.
BookingNinja's Feature Rich Platform
If your a business that requires more advanced payment control then you'll be able to make use of BookingNinja's advance deposit types. You can charge per guest type (for example adult or child tickets), or you can charge a percentage - or mix and match. Want to set a booking fee you get to keep 100% off? Not a problem! Or maybe you want to be able to offer discount codes to special VIPs? BookingNinja has you covered.
Frankly we could go on (gift cards, hosted site, embeddable widget, table chains, event management, email marketing tools...)... and on (custom design choices, sync with Google Sheets, printable exports, SMS reminders)... you get the picture.
When you sign up to a BookingNinja account you open up over 200 configuration options that enable you to build out your booking platform exactly how you want it - or why not get one of our team to do the leg work for you and get you completely setup.
With TableAgent your limited to email support - where as BookingNinja offers LiveChat support so you can get responses to your questions within seconds, not hours & days.
The Reviews Speak For Themselves
98% of BookingNinja customers rate us 5/5 on Trustpilot, a platform for independently verified reviews. At the time of writing this article here's the current comparison between the two platforms on Trustpilot as for everything we could say - this probably speaks the most to the way we do things over here at BookingNinja
Have a look around our features, and if you have any questions feel free to LiveChat with us as we'd be happy to help. BookingNinja is a UK based company but one that serves wonderful venues across the globe.
Plans & Pricing
Plan Details Comparison
BookingNinja
TableAgent
Cost Comparison Example
Let's compare the cost of processing 500 bookings at £20 each (£10,000 total revenue):
- Monthly plan: £49.00
- Per booking fee: £0.00
- Commission: £0.00
- Total Cost: £49.00
- Monthly plan: £24.00
- Per booking fee: £0.00
- Commission (0%): £0.00
- Total Cost: £24.00
Unlock a wealth of powerful features, designed and built based on real feedback from venue owners worldwide.
BookingNinja's transparent pricing means you pay one flat fee with no per-booking fees or commissions.
Important: Sometimes providers make it incredibly hard to find their pricing. Our estimates above are based on publically available data
Feature Comparison
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Create Enquiry Forms, and Manage Responses
Embed or Link to your enquiry forms & capture customer information, add custom fields and respond directly within your BookingNinja control panel. |
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Custom Terms & Conditions
Ask customers to agree to your booking terms before they can complete their booking |
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Group Together Guests with Group Codes
Got limited tables and often find groups are booking independently from each other using those tables up? Group codes allows people to join their friends booking. |
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Sell Gift Cards Directly
With over 25% of Gift Cards never redeemed, unlock a new profitable revenue stream by selling gift cards direct. |
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Set Customistable Guest & Ticket Types
Specify different types of guests, like adults and children, create unique tickets for events, and set custom rules based on every ticket to run a dynamic event business. |
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Take Payments During Booking
Using Stripe and thier powerful and secure checkout, we can take payments and deposits online using Google Pay, Apple Pay, and more. |
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Take Pre-Orders Online
Create menus and take pre-orders for large groups via online bookings. |
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Unlimited Free Team Accounts
Create, edit and remove access to an unlimited number of team members. Change accounts to be able to edit and view different parts of the site, or simply the app for team members. |
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Yield Management (Auto Table)
Automatically place guests on the best-suited table for your business, move guests, enable and disable tables and areas per session. |
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