Covered vs SevenRooms · UK 2026
Covered is built for independent restaurants.
Covered is £49 a month per venue. We set up your account with you, and it is built for one or two venues. The price and contract rows below show what SevenRooms publish on their own site.
Side by side, honestly.
Covered-side claims are the live product. The price and contract rows come from what SevenRooms publish on their own site. We have not checked SevenRooms’ features, so those cells say “Not checked”.
| Feature | Covered£49/mo | SevenRooms |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly platform cost | £49 flat per venue | Not published — we read their page |
| Contract minimum | Monthly, cancel anytime | Not published — check your agreement |
| CRM & guest segmentation | Guest profiles, notes, tags and VIP flags | Not checked |
| Email marketing built in | Win-back and lapsed-guest emails to guests who signed up for offers, sent in your venue’s name — no email server of your own needed | Not checked |
| POS integrations | Square today; Toast and Lightspeed are on the roadmap | Not checked |
| Group reporting across venues | Per-venue reports | Not checked |
| Floor plan, pacing, service tracking | Included in £49 | Not checked |
| WhatsApp pre-order reminders | Included, with the menu sent before the visit | Not checked |
| Dedicated customer success manager | Email support, the same for every venue | Not checked |
| Data portability on exit | Full CSV / JSON export anytime | Not checked |
Where each SevenRooms row comes from is set out in the Sources at the foot of this page.
What would you save? Start from your invoice.
SevenRooms publish no price, so start from your own invoice. Covered is £49 flat per venue.
In pounds, excluding VAT, with any add-ons and cover fees.
Not used for your own figure.
Your own figure
Type what you pay now each month to see the difference a year.
- You pay
- Not entered yet
- Covered
- £49 a month, with no VAT to add
Prices and terms from each provider’s own website: pay-monthly, excluding VAT. Covered is £49 a month with no VAT to add.
Their pricing page answers all three plans with “Get a quote”. Groups of 3+ can email sales@covered.technology for a multi-location deal.
This compares platform fees only. Covered is built for one or two venues: if your team relies on detailed CRM or reporting tied to your till, check that Covered does what you need before you switch. Treat the output as a rough guide.
When Covered may not be enough.
If any of these describe you, check that Covered does what you need before you switch. We’d rather lose a sale than cost you a feature your operation depends on.
You run five or more venues as a group
Covered reports on each venue separately. It has no group roll-up reporting.
Email marketing is your main growth lever
Covered's win-back and lapsed-guest emails go only to guests who signed up for offers when they booked. If email campaigns drive your bookings, check what you use today against Covered first.
You depend on a POS integration
Covered supports Square. Toast and Lightspeed are on our roadmap and not available yet.
You want a named account manager
Covered support is by email, the same for every venue. There is no named account manager.
Private dining or events are 20% or more of your covers
Covered handles the occasional 12-top well, but it has no events or private-dining module.
Your procurement needs SOC 2
Covered is a UK limited company and is not SOC 2 certified today.
How switching actually works.
Self-serve CSV import for SevenRooms exports, plus a human option if you’d rather we ran the CRM-heavy migration for you.
Step 01
Export
Ask SevenRooms in writing for an export of your bookings and guest data. We'll help you word the request if you like.
Step 02
Map
Drop the CSV into the in-app importer (Settings → Migrate) and match its columns to Covered's fields. Bookings, guest contact details and notes come across, and a human can still run the import for you if you'd prefer.
Step 03
Launch
Embed the widget, point the booking links on your own channels at Covered, and you're live. You can run both in parallel during your notice period so nothing drops mid-service.
Want to talk it through first? Book a 15-min migration call
Common objections, answered honestly.
Questions about moving from SevenRooms to Covered, and our answers.
Will I miss CRM features?
You might. Covered's CRM holds guest profiles with visit history, notes, tags, VIP flags and allergy alerts. It can send win-back and lapsed-guest emails, in your venue's name, to guests who signed up for offers — you don't need an email server of your own. If you run multi-step guest journeys, segment guests by lifetime spend or send email campaigns from your booking system, check that Covered does what you need before you switch.
What kind of venue is Covered actually built for?
UK independents doing 60 to 250 covers a service, with one venue or two. Owner-operators who take reservations directly through their own website. If you're a 15-venue group with a central marketing team and an analytics lead, Covered is probably not the right tool yet.
Why is Covered £49?
Because there is no enterprise sales team or named account manager to pay for. We set up your account with you, with no setup fee, and after that you run it yourself from the dashboard. Support is by email.
Will my POS integration come with me?
That depends on your POS. Covered supports Square today. Toast and Lightspeed are on our roadmap but not available yet, and Aloha is not on it. If you use a POS integration every day, for example to post cover counts back into Toast each night, wait until we support your provider.
Can I run both during my SevenRooms contract term?
Yes. Point new reservations to Covered while existing ones run out on SevenRooms. Your reports are split across two systems for a while, but no bookings drop and you don't need to end your contract early. When the SevenRooms contract ends, switch it off.
How does Covered handle large groups and private dining?
Covered has a large-party enquiry form and the standard booking flow, but no private-dining or events module. If private dining and events are a big share of your covers, say 20% or more, Covered is probably not enough for you yet. If it's the occasional 12-top, the standard booking flow with special requests handles it well.
What does honest look like?
We won't tell you what you'd save. SevenRooms publish no price, so any figure we put against theirs would be one we made up. Put your own invoice next to £49 and the arithmetic is one subtraction.
One plan, £49 a month.
Flat £49 a month. Monthly billing. Cancel anytime.