Bookteq Alternative

The Bookteq
Alternative
For Rooms of Tables.

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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Flat pricing, even on your busiest nights
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Family-Run Support
Real people, not a call centre
Why Switch

Covers Behave Nothing Like Court Slots

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.

Tables, Not Slots

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.

A Price You Can Read Today

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.

Nobody Else Is Listed Next to You

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.

The Money Tools Hospitality Runs On

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.

Side by Side

BookingNinja vs Bookteq

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

BookingNinja
Bookteq

Floor plan and table management

BookingNinja
Bookteq

Per-guest pricing by guest type

BookingNinja
Bookteq
Discount categories

Deposit or prepayment taken per guest

BookingNinja
Bookteq
Group split (PaySplit)

Memberships and gift cards

BookingNinja
Bookteq
Not documented

Order at table by QR code

BookingNinja
Bookteq
Not documented

Digital waivers with e-signature

BookingNinja
Bookteq
Uploads and questions

Full pricing published on the website

BookingNinja
Bookteq
From £100/mo, then a demo

Recurring block bookings with approvals

BookingNinja
Bookteq

Pitch, court and sports hall scheduling

BookingNinja
Bookteq

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. On waivers, Bookteq collects hire paperwork rather than signatures: additional questions, uploaded risk assessments and insurance certificates, with approval and expiry tracking. We could not find signature capture anywhere in its product, which is what the table reflects. Check with Bookteq for the current position.

Live floor plan during service showing seated tables, upcoming bookings and tonight's booking list
Covers, Not Courts

Service Runs on a
Map, Not a List.

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.

Your room, drawn once
Lay out areas and tables the way they really sit, and guests can pick where they want to be as they book.
Tables know their size
A min and max party size per table means a two never lands on your big round by accident.
Chains for the big bookings
Push tables together into one bookable option for parties, with best-fit assignment doing the maths.
Status at a glance mid-service
Seated, due, finished, colour-coded on the map, so the pass and the door are looking at the same thing.
Guest choosing their table on a phone during the BookingNinja booking flow
Direct, Not Listed

Your Domain,
Your Diners.

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. Our own directory, LetsBookFor.com, works the other way round: it sends the guest to your booking page, and the booking and the guest record stay with you.

The list is yours to keep
Names, emails, consent and past visits sit in your account, ready for you to actually market to.
Booked from your own page
The guest journey runs on your domain in your colours, on a phone, in about a minute.
No competitor two rows down
Checkout is on your own booking page and shows your venue and nothing else.
Deposits that hold the table
Take payment per guest, or hold a card, so a no-show costs the person who did not turn up.

When Bookteq Is the Right Answer

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.

  • Your bookable thing is a space, not a table. Pitches, tennis courts, MUGAs, sports halls, studios and classrooms. Bookteq's facility configurations handle the awkward part of that, where a hall subdivides into courts and the system has to stop both being sold at once. We have nothing equivalent, because a table does not split into three smaller tables.
  • You run lettings for a club, school, trust or council. Recurring block bookings for regular hirers, an approvals step before a booking is confirmed, and payment plans spread weekly, monthly or quarterly are the backbone of Bookteq. Those workflows are a real job of work and we have not built them.
  • Playfinder exposure is worth something to you. Bookteq can put your facility in front of the Playfinder marketplace audience, which matters if you have quiet weekday hours to fill. Our LetsBookFor.com directory lists venues too, but it is aimed at people looking for a meal or a night out, not a pitch.

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.

FAQ

Bookteq Alternative Questions, Answered

Can Bookteq be used for a restaurant or bar?
Bookteq is sold to sports facilities, community halls, schools, trusts and councils, and its own site describes pitches, courts, halls and community spaces rather than dining rooms. Tables, floor plans and covers do not appear in its documented feature set. That is scope rather than a flaw, but it does mean a table-service venue would be fitting itself around a facility model. BookingNinja starts from the table.
What does Bookteq cost compared with BookingNinja?
Bookteq publishes a base plan from £100 a month and an Enterprise tier at custom pricing, with no transaction fees listed, so the real number comes out of a sales conversation. Some comparison sites still show £80 a month, which looks like an older price rather than a cheaper plan. Our pricing is flat monthly, published in full, with no per-cover fees and no contract. Payments you take carry a 1% transaction fee on Starter and Gold, plus card processing at standard Stripe or Square rates. Put both against your own booking volume before deciding.
Can I get participants to sign a waiver before they turn up?
Yes, and it is built in rather than bolted on. Attach a waiver to a session and the booking emails a signing link, chasing it three days and one day before if nobody has signed. You can ask for one signature per booking or one per participant, adults can sign on behalf of under-eighteens, and signatures can be typed or drawn on a phone. Everything signed goes into a searchable register with the wording, timestamp and IP address kept against it, and you can set it to last a season so regulars are not signing every week. Bookteq is good at the paperwork around a hire: additional questions, uploaded public liability certificates and risk assessments, approval and expiry tracking. That is documents about the hirer. A waiver is a declaration signed by the person taking part, and we could not find signature capture anywhere in Bookteq's product.
How does BookingNinja handle tables and floor plans?
You draw the room, set a cover range on each table, and link tables into chains for large parties. Guests can choose their table while booking. During service the same plan turns into a live view of who is seated, who is due and who has gone. It is in every plan, including the free one.
Do I have to be listed on a marketplace?
No. Venues that meet our quality checks appear on LetsBookFor.com, our free public directory, and you can opt out. Every booking, from the directory or anywhere else, happens on your own booking page and the guest record belongs to you. Bookteq comes from Playfinder and offers a marketplace listing alongside the software, which suits venues chasing discovery but means some bookings arrive through a channel that is not yours.
Is there a free plan?
There is. Free Forever costs nothing each month, includes every feature, and covers up to 75 bookings a month where no payment is taken. Past that point a booking has to carry a payment, and the guest pays a small booking fee at checkout of 2.5% or 50p, whichever is the larger.
Who actually runs BookingNinja?
We are a small UK company and I am the founder, still writing code on it. We build your venue out for you, usually within a day, and when you email support you are talking to the people who made the thing rather than a reseller or an account manager reading a script.
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