Bookteq is a facility platform. It books pitches, courts, sports halls and community spaces, and it does that well. If what you sell is a table for two at half seven, you need a different shape of system, and you probably want to see the price before you book a call.
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A pitch is one space, hired by one party, for one hour. A dining room is thirty tables of different sizes, turning two or three times a night, with parties that grow by two people the day before. Bookteq is designed for the first job. This page is about the second.
Every table has a minimum and maximum party size, tables can be joined into chains for a party of fourteen, and the system fits bookings to the room. Bookteq's capacity model is facility configurations, which stop a hall and its sub-courts being sold twice. Good logic, different unit.
Our plans are on the pricing page with the numbers in them. Bookteq publishes a base plan from £100 a month and sends you to a demo for anything more specific, and it does not publish transaction fees, so you will not know your real cost until you have spoken to sales.
Your booking page sits on your domain and shows your venue only. Bookteq was built by Playfinder and offers listing on its consumer marketplace for extra discovery, so some of your bookings can come in through someone else's shopfront.
Per-guest deposits, memberships, gift cards, pre-orders and order-at-table are part of the product. None of those appear anywhere in Bookteq's documented feature set, which is fair enough for a lettings platform.
Both platforms take bookings online and both take payment through Stripe. After that they diverge, because they were drawn for different rooms.
Built around seated covers and service
Floor plan and table management
Per-guest pricing by guest type
Deposit or prepayment taken per guest
Memberships and gift cards
Order at table by QR code
Full pricing published on the website
Recurring block bookings with approvals
Pitch, court and sports hall scheduling
| Feature | BookingNinja | Bookteq |
|---|---|---|
| Built around seated covers and service | ||
| Floor plan and table management | ||
| Per-guest pricing by guest type | Discount categories | |
| Deposit or prepayment taken per guest | Group split (PaySplit) | |
| Memberships and gift cards | Not documented | |
| Order at table by QR code | Not documented | |
| Full pricing published on the website | From £100/mo, then a demo | |
| Recurring block bookings with approvals | ||
| Pitch, court and sports hall scheduling |
Bookteq's pricing page shows a base plan from £100 a month and a custom-priced Enterprise tier, with no transaction or marketplace fees published, so we have not put figures against it here. Aggregator sites still show an older £80 monthly price; treat that as stale. Everything above is drawn from Bookteq's own site as we read it, and it is a facility platform rather than a hospitality one. Check with Bookteq for the current position.
A facility diary tells you the 7pm slot is taken. That is all a pitch needs to know. A dining room needs to know which table, how many covers, who has ordered and who is running late, so the whole thing is drawn as your actual room.
Bookteq came out of Playfinder, and a Playfinder listing is part of what it sells. That trade works for a five-a-side pitch with empty midweek hours. For a restaurant, the guest who books through someone else's site is a guest you have to win again next time. We have no marketplace, so the question never comes up.
We are not trying to win an argument we should lose. Bookteq is built for a market we deliberately do not serve, and in that market it does things we have never attempted.
So the honest split is by venue type rather than by feature count. Facility and lettings operators should look hard at Bookteq. If your evening is measured in covers and turns, come and look at what we do.
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