You cook.We'll get the door.
bavoli runs your online ordering, your reservations, and your waitlist, and takes your calls, all from one place.
No credit card. Free plan forever. Your guest list exports any time.
Why bavoli exists
Restaurant software got sold to you in pieces, and the pieces that matter take a cut of every night's work. We think it should cost what software costs.
what a delivery marketplace keeps of every order it hands to your kitchen.
what bavoli charges on that same order, whether the ticket is $12 or $400.
what we charge per cover, per guest, per text, or per phone call, at any volume.
Our revenue is the monthly plan, a flat dollar on pickup and delivery orders, and half a percent on dine-in QR orders. That is the whole list, and it shapes everything else here.
The system
Everything your guests need, in one place.
bavoli started as a reservation book. It now takes the orders, answers the phone, holds the menu, and runs the door. It does not replace your POS or your payroll. It replaces the vendors sitting between you and your guests.
01 · The orders
Pickup, delivery, and table six.
Guests order from your own bavoli page for pickup or delivery, or from a QR code at the table. bavoli charges a flat dollar on pickup and delivery and half a percent at the table. Your guest covers it at checkout unless you'd rather absorb it, and your restaurant keeps the full menu price either way.
02 · The phone
Every call answered, even at 6 AM on a Tuesday.
The phone rings during the rush, after close, in languages you don't speak. bavoli picks up, checks the book, takes the reservation, and texts the guest a confirmation while your team works the room.
03 · The book
The book fills itself.
Guests book from your own page, your Instagram bio, or your Google profile. Reminders go out by text, card holds keep the no-shows honest, and every booking lands in one book.
04 · The door
One screen runs the room.
Tonight's book, the floor, and the walk-in line on a single screen at the host stand. Seat a party in one tap. Text the next one when their table opens.
05 · The menu
One menu, everywhere it is needed.
Send us the PDF you already have and we turn it into a menu guests can search and filter, on your own link and on your ordering page. Ran out of the branzino? 86 it from your phone and it greys out everywhere, instantly.
The bill it replaces
Five vendors, or one.
This is the guest-facing stack a typical independent restaurant pays for, at the prices those companies publish themselves. Card processing sits outside both columns: it goes to the card networks either way, and on bavoli your guest covers it at checkout.
With bavoli
$50a month
The usual stack
$1,116a month
Delivery marketplaces
15% to 30% of every order
Ordering from your own site
$149 to $499 a month
Reservations and waitlist
$129 to $499 a month, plus up to $1.50 a cover
Phone answering
$249 to $599 a month
Dine-in QR ordering
$15 to $229 a month
The same jobs, on one bill, for $12,792 a year less than that basket. And the delivery commission and the per-cover charge are still on top of that.
Month to month, no contract, no card to start. Plus a flat $1 on pickup and delivery orders and 0.5% on dine-in QR orders, on your guest's line by default, or absorbed by you if you prefer. Nothing per cover.
The $1,116 basket is OpenTable Core at $299, ChowNow Grow at $319 billed annually, Slang.ai Core at $399, and GoTab Pro at $99, each one the price that company publishes, checked on 29 August 2026. Cheaper and dearer options exist in every row, and what you actually pay depends on your volume and your plan.
No add-ons
Online ordering and the phone agent are on Professional. Everything else comes with every paid plan, with no per-cover fees.
Our promise
No per-cover fees, ever.
A packed Saturday costs you the same as a quiet Tuesday.
No commission on your orders.
A flat dollar on pickup and delivery, whatever the ticket comes to. Your restaurant keeps the whole menu price.
Your guest list is yours.
Export it any time, on any plan. We never market to your guests or sell them to your competitors.
No contracts.
Month to month, cancel in two clicks. We earn your business every service.
Your busiest employee costs $50 a month.
Start free. Pay when it's earning its keep. Online ordering, dine-in QR ordering, and the phone agent are on Professional.
50 reservations a month, your own booking page, and the guest book. Enough to retire the paper book and see if we fit.
500 reservations, SMS included, the waitlist, digitized menus, and no-show protection.
Everything, plus online ordering, dine-in QR ordering, the phone agent, unlimited reservations, and 10 staff accounts.
Guides and comparisons
Straight answers on what restaurant software costs, what commission-free ordering actually means, and how the options compare.
- Commission-free online orderingPickup and delivery from your own page, with the math on what a marketplace keeps of a $40 order.
- QR code ordering for restaurantsGuests scan, order, and pay from the table, and the ticket lands on your screen without a server relaying it.
- Free restaurant reservation softwareWhat a genuinely free plan includes, where each platform starts charging, and how to tell a free tier from a trial.
- Free restaurant waitlist appReplace the paper waitlist. Add parties, text guests when the table is ready, and quote waits you can stand behind.
- Best OpenTable alternatives for 2026Five options ranked with honest pros, cons, and the exact price each one charges.
- Cheap restaurant reservation softwareFlat monthly pricing with no per-cover fees, and what you give up at the lower end of the market.
- bavoli vs ToastHow an all-in-one POS and a flat-price guest platform compare on cost, contracts, and what you actually own.
- bavoli vs OpenTableA side by side look at pricing, per-cover fees, and who owns your guest data.
Five minutes to set up. Years of fees to stop paying.
Bring the menu PDF and your opening hours. We'll handle the rest.
No credit card required.