The Design My Night
Alternative
For Late Nights.
Big group bookings, packages and deposits on a system you own outright. Keep DesignMyNight for discovery if it earns its keep, and still run your Friday and Saturday guest list yourself.
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Own the Guest List
Behind the Big Nights
DesignMyNight sends real traffic and Collins runs tables and private-hire enquiries properly. What you give up is a marketplace sitting on the guest relationship, and a price you have to ask a salesperson for.
The Party Books With You
Collins comes bundled with the DesignMyNight consumer marketplace. On BookingNinja a 20-person birthday books on your page, in your branding, with nobody else's venue listed underneath. Our LetsBookFor.com directory sends guests to that same page rather than keeping them.
A Price Without a Sales Call
Access publishes Collins Evo "from £149 per month, per site" and hides the full number behind a lead-capture form, describing it as tailored. Our plans are on the pricing page. Read them at 2am if you like.
Nothing Bolted Onto the Guest's Bill
Tonic, the sister ticketing product, adds a per-ticket booking fee your customer pays at checkout. On a paid BookingNinja plan there is no admin fee on top of what the guest agreed to pay.
Packages Priced Per Head
Set a bottomless brunch at one price, an under-18 at another, add a drinks package and take the pre-order and the deposit in the same checkout. It is one flow, not a booking tool plus a ticketing product plus an integration.
BookingNinja vs Design My Night (Collins)
Both handle a busy Saturday. The differences are the marketplace, who ends up with the guest, and whether you can see the price.
Flat monthly subscription, no per-cover fees
Full pricing visible without a form
Direct-only: every guest record is yours
Consumer discovery marketplace
Reserve with Google
Drag-and-drop floor plan, live during service
Deposits, card holds and pre-orders at booking
Booking fee added to the guest's payment
Per-guest-type pricing for packages
Order at table from a QR code
| Feature | BookingNinja | Design My Night (Collins) |
|---|---|---|
| Flat monthly subscription, no per-cover fees | Yes, plus 1% on payments | |
| Full pricing visible without a form | ||
| Direct-only: every guest record is yours | ||
| Consumer discovery marketplace | LetsBookFor.com directory | |
| Reserve with Google | ||
| Drag-and-drop floor plan, live during service | ||
| Deposits, card holds and pre-orders at booking | ||
| Booking fee added to the guest's payment | No on paid plans | Yes on Tonic tickets |
| Per-guest-type pricing for packages | Not advertised | |
| Order at table from a QR code | Native | Via integration |
Access Collins Evo pricing is quote-gated, so the only public figures are the "from £149 per month, per site" entry point and Capterra's Core £149 / Pro £199 listing. We do not treat those as your price. Where Collins' public sources do not evidence a feature we say "Not advertised" rather than claim it is missing. Accurate to the best of our knowledge; check Access Collins for the current position.
Your Bar,
Your Guest List.
When a group books through your own BookingNinja page, the organiser's name, email, marketing consent and spend history land in your database. No consumer marketplace holds a copy of the relationship or decides which venue the guest sees next.
The Whole Room,
On One Screen.
Collins gives you drag-and-drop floor plans and live space visibility, and so do we. Your plan doubles as the run sheet for the night: who is sat down, which booth is due at nine, which table is finishing and about to turn.
Take the Money
Before They Arrive.
Collins does deposits, pre-orders and private hire well through Collins Pay and its enquiry stack, with Tonic alongside it for ticketed nights. We built the same jobs into one place, priced per head, so a big group books and pays in a single checkout.
When Collins Is the Better Call
Collins is a good product and we would rather you picked the right one. Three situations where it beats us outright.
- Private hire and large-group enquiries are your business. Enquiry management is what Collins is genuinely best at, with inbound and outbound feeds and AI tooling that can pick up bookings while you are closed. If most of your revenue arrives as an email asking about the function room, look hard at that depth before you move.
- You need the discovery traffic. The DesignMyNight marketplace claims up to 3.9 million monthly visitors across major UK and Australian cities, and for a new bar that exposure is worth paying for. Our LetsBookFor.com directory is far smaller, so for that kind of reach DesignMyNight wins. BookingNinja mostly runs the bookings on the channels you already have.
- You want Reserve with Google and one big vendor. Collins includes Reserve with Google and sits inside The Access Group's hospitality stack alongside EPOS, payments and reporting, which suits multi-site groups that would rather have one contract than five.
A fair number of venues run both: the marketplace listing for people who have never heard of them, BookingNinja for the regulars and the parties they want to keep. That combination is fine by us.
Design My Night (Collins) Alternative Questions, Answered
What does Access Collins actually cost?
Do my guests pay a booking fee?
Can I stay listed on DesignMyNight and use BookingNinja too?
Does it cope with a 30-person party on a Saturday?
What happens to my guest list if I leave Collins?
Is there a free plan?
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