Free restaurant reservation software that stays free
A real reservation system on every plan, including Free. Guests book online, you manage from any phone, and your dining room runs on one flat price with $0.00 per-cover fees.
- $0/mo forever, no trial clock
- No credit card to start
- 50 reservations a month
- $0.00 per-cover fees
bavoli's Free plan costs $0 a month with no end date: 50 reservations a month, a booking page guests can use from your website or Instagram bio, one floor plan with up to 10 tables, an email waitlist, 50 guest profiles, no-show tracking, and basic analytics. No credit card to sign up, and $0.00 per-cover fees on every plan.
How it works
Share your booking link
Add it to your website, Google listing, and Instagram bio. Guests pick a day, party size, and time.
Confirm or let it auto-confirm
The guest gets a confirmation with a link to cancel or change. You see it on the floor plan instantly.
Seat and manage
Open the day's list before service. The floor plan shows what is open, who is coming, and who did not show.
Every real free reservation system, compared honestly
These are the systems with a genuine free tier as of July 2026, as distinct from free trials. Each is a reasonable choice for the right restaurant, and each has a catch worth knowing before you build your host stand around it.
Verified from each vendor's public pricing pages in July 2026. Caps and prices change, so check the vendor's own page before you commit.
| System | Free tier | The catch |
|---|---|---|
| bavoli | 50 reservations/mo (counted as bookings, so a party of four counts once): floor plan, email waitlist, 50 guest profiles, no-show tracking. $0 forever, no card. | "Powered by bavoli" badge and one staff account. Paid starts at a flat $20/mo. |
| Tableo | Up to 100 covers/mo with email and SMS reminders | The cap counts covers (seats) rather than bookings, so a busy weekend eats it fast. |
| resOS | Up to 25 bookings/mo with core features | The lowest cap of the group. Paid plans list around $47/mo. |
| Eat App | Up to 100 covers/mo with table management and guest profiles | No waitlist and no SMS on the free tier, and paid plans climb steeply. |
| GloriaFood | Unlimited table reservations | An online-ordering platform first. Branded website, apps, and marketing are paid add-ons. |
| TableAgent | Unlimited reservations, truly $0 | A list-based book: no floor plan, no guest CRM, a widget you cannot brand, SMS at $20/mo, and $30/mo to keep your restaurant off their public directory. |
What you get on Free
Floor plan and table management
Draw your room, assign tables, and see availability at a glance. One floor plan with up to 10 tables on Free.
No-show tracking built in
Every booking builds a guest profile. No-shows are marked automatically, so you know which nights and party sizes cost you covers.
Guest profiles from day one
50 profiles on Free, unlimited on paid. See visit history, preferences, and no-show counts without a separate CRM.
Waitlist included on every plan
Walk-ins join the list, get an email when the table is ready (SMS on paid), and your host stand runs both systems in one place.
When free is enough
Free is enough when you are doing fewer than 50 reservations a month: a new opening, a small dining room, a place that lives mostly on walk-ins. At that volume you get online booking, a guest list, and no-show tracking without paying anyone anything, and that already beats the notebook. Where the line sits, and what the upgrade changes, is spelled out further down rather than left for you to find mid-service.
Exactly what changes when you outgrow the Free plan
Free has four edges, and which one you hit first says something about your room: 50 reservations a month, one staff account, one floor plan with up to 10 tables, and the small "Powered by bavoli" badge on your booking page. A room that lives on walk-ins usually hits the staff-account edge, because two people need the host stand at once on a Friday. A room whose booking page has caught on hits the 50 first, often in one strong month.
Starter at $20/mo lifts them. It raises the reservation cap, adds staff accounts, and turns on SMS confirmations and reminders included in the plan price. The badge comes off on Professional. Professional at $50/mo is for rooms with real volume: deeper guest history and the tools worth having when no-shows cost real money. Premium is $100 per location per month.
Two things never change, and they are the two that matter on a busy night. The per-cover fee stays $0.00, so a Valentine's Day that turns the room three times costs what a dead Tuesday costs. And every plan is month-to-month, so a slow February is a month you can spend on a smaller plan instead of one you committed to in October. Nothing upgrades itself: with no card on file, the cap is a signal rather than a shutdown.
Setting up and running your reservation system
Frequently asked questions
Keep reading
More honest comparisons and pricing breakdowns for independent restaurants.
- All four bavoli plans, including exactly what Free covers
- The free OpenTable alternative, and four more, ranked for 2026
- Cheap reservation software with flat pricing
- How online reservations work on the Free plan
- The free restaurant waitlist app, compared honestly
- Guide: the best free reservation systems for 2026, reviewed
- No-show tracking, included on the free plan
- Floor plans and table management for a small dining room