Same widget on your own site. Same Google Reserve. Zero commission per cover, flat £49 a month, and your customer list is yours.
European-volume independents earn the bulk of their bookings from direct channels — the venue’s own site, Google, Instagram, walk-ins. TheFork’s marketplace charges a commission on every cover regardless of whether the diner found you through the marketplace or already knew you. For a venue doing 1,500 covers a month on TheFork, that’s an extra ~£3,000 in marketplace fees over the course of a year. Covered ships the same widget on your own domain, the same Google Reserve link, and your guest data sits in your account on day one. The £49/month doesn’t scale with your service — bigger nights cost the same as smaller ones.
Flat £49 a month. Monthly billing. Cancel anytime. No commission, no hostage data, no marketplace tax.