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For restaurant owners: what your booking app really costs a month and a year, from OpenTable's fee per guest to a flat monthly price, so you can see what each guest it books really costs you.

You'll need: Your booking app's plan (its name is on the invoice) and, on OpenTable, how many guests booked through its own app or website last month; on SevenRooms or another app, the monthly fee on its invoice instead. Nothing else is required.

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What your booking app really costs

For US restaurants. Prices as the apps published them on October 11, 2026; they change, and your contract may differ, so your invoice comes first. We aren't affiliated with any of these companies. Nothing you type is sent to us.

A guest here is one seated person: a table of four is four guests (the apps call them covers). OpenTable charges a monthly plan plus a fee for each guest who booked through its own app or website; Resy, Tock, Yelp Guest Manager, Toast Tables, SpotOn Reserve and SevenRooms charge a monthly price with no fee per guest. Another app may charge either way: its invoice shows which.

Example answers. Replace them with yours.

  1. Which booking app do you use?

    The app your guests book a table with. Google doesn't charge for bookings, and Square has no booking app of its own: pick the app behind the booking.

    Which OpenTable plan?

    OpenTable Core: $299 a month, plus $1.00 for each guest booked through OpenTable's own app or website, as published on October 11, 2026.

    Not sure which plan? Its name is on your invoice from OpenTable.

  2. Seated guests only: a table of four is four guests. OpenTable's reports split last month's seated guests (covers) by where they booked: this is the line called Network. Leave out Google, your own website, phone bookings and walk-ins.

More detail (optional)

Each one makes the answer closer to your invoice. Leave out any you don't have: a blank is never counted as 0.

The line OpenTable's reports call Partner or Affiliate (Google, TikTok, Beli and others). OpenTable says their fee depends on your plan, so leaving them out may leave part of the bill out.

Included on OpenTable Core: they make the cost per guest smaller. Phone bookings and walk-ins cost nothing.

The plan plus any add-ons on the same invoice (text messages, a POS link, marketing, a kiosk), before any fees per guest. Leave it blank to use OpenTable Core's published price, $299 a month (October 11, 2026).

Published: $1.00 a guest on OpenTable Core. Your invoice shows yours.

OpenTable shows it under Billing History. Left blank, the result shows a range from nothing to the full fee per guest.

Deposits, prepayments, prepaid experiences or tickets, and no-show or cancellation charges, from the app's statement.

Published: 2% on OpenTable Core. The app's statement shows yours.

Net sales for the month ÷ guests for the month, from your POS. With it, the result shows the fee as a share of a guest's check.

From your contract or order form: the result says the last day to give notice.

With the example answers

OpenTable Core costs you at least $1,539 a month, $18,468 a year.

Counting the guests given, that's about $1.24 for every guest who booked through it.

If 1 in 4 of the guests from OpenTable's own app and website booked on your website instead, about $310 a month would stay with you ($3,720 a year), as long as they'd have come anyway.

The plan
$299

$299 a month, OpenTable Core's published price (read October 11, 2026)

Guests from OpenTable's own app and website
$1,240

1,240 × $1.00 = $1,240

A month
$1,539
A year
$18,468

Not in this total

  • Add-ons on the same invoice, such as text messages, a POS link, marketing or a kiosk: the published price leaves them out. The invoice's monthly fee counts them.
  • Guests who booked through Google and OpenTable's other partners: OpenTable may bill them like its own (up to $1.00 each). They're the Partner or Affiliate line of the covers report; add them to count them.
  • OpenTable Core's 2% of the deposits, prepayments and no-show charges it collects for you: add last month's total to count it.

What you can do

  • Ask regulars to book on your own website. A regular who books through OpenTable's app out of habit costs the fee for a guest who'd have come anyway. Each one who does keeps $1.00 with you on this plan. A new guest who found you on OpenTable is a marketing cost: weigh it against what else it costs to win one.
  • Mark no-shows and cancellations within 48 hours. OpenTable bills only seated guests, but its Basic plan page says to mark no-shows and cancellations within 48 hours, and implies one left unmarked is billed as seated.
  • Check what Google bookings cost you. Guests who book through Google, TikTok, Beli and OpenTable's other partners show as Partner or Affiliate, and their fee depends on your plan: the Billing History tab shows it. Google is the one partner you can switch off on its own, at the cost of those bookings; a booking link to your own website on your Google Business Profile is the other way.
  • Check your website's booking button counts as yours. Use OpenTable's booking widget for your restaurant on your website, not a plain link to your OpenTable page, then check that a website booking shows your website as its channel in OpenTable. OpenTable doesn't say this publicly: ask them to confirm.
  • Put the notice date in your calendar. OpenTable Core contracts run a year and renew every year unless you tell OpenTable 30 days before the renewal date. Note the date on your contract.
  • Know the fee on deposits and no-show charges. OpenTable charges no fee per guest for a no-show, but takes 2% of a no-show charge, deposit or prepayment it collects (The Philadelphia Inquirer reported it in January 2026). Card processing is a card fee on top. Check your state's rules before passing a fee on to guests.
  • Read the whole invoice. Text message packs, POS links, marketing, promoted listings, kiosks and surveys sit on the same invoice as the plan: the invoice's monthly fee counts them.
  • Know what other apps publish. Other apps list flat monthly prices from $129 to $459, with no fees per guest (listed with this result). This is information, not a recommendation: features, the new guests each brings and the cost of switching differ.

What other apps publish

Other apps' published monthly prices, read October 11, 2026, for information only: not a recommendation. Features, the new guests each brings and the cost of switching differ.

Yelp Guest Manager Basic
$129 to $159 a month

$129 when billed yearly; up to 500 guests a month

SpotOn Reserve
$150 a month

plus a one-time $250 setup fee

Toast Tables Plus
$199 a month

needs an active Toast POS subscription, not included

Yelp Guest Manager Plus
$279 to $349 a month

$279 when billed yearly; no cap on guests

Resy Platform
$289 a month

no deposits or prepayment on this plan

Tock Essential
$289 a month

plus 3% of prepayments and card processing

Resy Platform 360
$459 a month

no deposits or prepayment on this plan

Tock Premium
$459 a month

plus 2% of prepayments and card processing

Before you act on it

  • Prices as published on October 11, 2026, each with its source. Platforms change prices and contracts differ: your own invoice wins.
  • RestaurantDoctorAI is not affiliated with or endorsed by OpenTable, Resy, Tock, SevenRooms, Yelp, Toast, SpotOn, Eat App or Tablein. Names are their owners' trademarks.
  • For US restaurants, in US dollars.
  • One month can mislead: guests rise and fall with the season. A year here is 12 times this month; the last 12 months of invoices give the real year.
  • This shows what the app costs, not which app to choose: features, the new guests each brings and the cost of switching differ.
  • Card processing on deposits and prepayments is a card fee, not counted here: the card fees check covers it. Deposits later taken off a guest's bill are sales, not fees.

Where the prices come from

Prices as published on October 11, 2026, each with its source. Platforms change prices and contracts differ: your own invoice wins.

How we worked it out
The plan
$299 a month, OpenTable Core's published price (read October 11, 2026)
Guests from OpenTable's own app and website
1,240 × $1.00 = $1,240
A month
$299 + $1,240 = $1,539
A year
$1,539 × 12 = $18,468
Per guest booked through it
$1,539 ÷ 1,240 guests = $1.24
Per guest from OpenTable's network
($299 + $1,240) ÷ 1,240 = $1.24
If 1 in 4 booked direct
1,240 ÷ 4 × $1.00 = $310 a month

How the cost per guest works

Booking apps charge in one of two ways. OpenTable charges a monthly plan plus a fee for every seated guest who booked through its own app or website, and Google and partner bookings may cost the same. Phone bookings and walk-ins cost nothing, and on its Core and Pro plans neither do bookings from your own website. Resy, Tock, Yelp Guest Manager, Toast Tables and SpotOn publish a flat monthly price with no fee per guest. SevenRooms publishes no price.

Cost per guest
Cost per guest = the month's cost ÷ guests booked through the app

One month: the plan, every fee per guest and the app's share of the deposits it collected, over the guests who booked through the app, its partners or your website's booking button. Not phone bookings or walk-ins.

On a flat price, every extra booking makes each guest cheaper. On OpenTable, each guest from its own app or website adds the fee: divide it by what a guest spends to see the share of their check it takes.

OpenTable Basic
$149 a month

$1.50 a guest booked through OpenTable; $0.25 a guest from your website, or $49 a month flat

OpenTable Core
$299 a month

$1.00 a guest booked through OpenTable

OpenTable Pro
$499 a month

$1.00 a guest booked through OpenTable

Resy Platform
$289 a month

No fee per guest

Resy Platform 360
$459 a month

No fee per guest

Tock Essential
$289 a month

No fee per guest; 3% of prepayments

Tock Premium
$459 a month

No fee per guest; 2% of prepayments

Yelp Guest Manager Basic
$159 a month, or $129 a month billed yearly

No fee per guest

Yelp Guest Manager Plus
$349 a month, or $279 a month billed yearly

No fee per guest

Toast Tables Plus
$199 a month

No fee per guest

SpotOn Reserve
$150 a month

No fee per guest; a one-time $250 setup fee

SevenRooms
Price not published

No fee per guest

Prices as published on October 11, 2026, each with its source. Platforms change prices and contracts differ: your own invoice wins. RestaurantDoctorAI is not affiliated with or endorsed by OpenTable, Resy, Tock, SevenRooms, Yelp, Toast, SpotOn, Eat App or Tablein. Names are their owners' trademarks.

Common questions

How much does OpenTable charge per reservation?

OpenTable charges per seated guest, not per reservation: a table of four is four guests. As published on October 11, 2026, each guest who booked through OpenTable's own app or website costs $1.50 on Basic and $1.00 on Core and Pro, on top of the plan: $149, $299 or $499 a month. Phone bookings, walk-ins and no-shows carry no fee per guest; OpenTable's Basic plan page says to mark no-shows and cancellations within 48 hours.

Do Resy, Tock, Yelp and Toast Tables charge per guest?

Their published plans don't: you pay the monthly price however many guests book, so each guest costs less the more book through it. Tock's plans keep 3% (Essential) or 2% (Premium) of prepayments, and Toast Tables Plus needs a Toast POS subscription.

Where do I find how many guests booked through OpenTable?

In OpenTable's reports, last month's seated guests (covers) are split by where they booked: Network is OpenTable's own app and website, and Partner or Affiliate is Google and other partner sites. The Billing History tab shows what you were billed for them.

Should I switch to a cheaper app?

This check shows what your app costs, not which one to pick: apps differ in features, in how many new guests they bring and in what switching costs. A regular who books through the app out of habit costs a fee for a guest who'd have come anyway; a new guest who found you there is a marketing cost.

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