Covered vs Toast Tables · UK 2026

Switching from Toast Tables? Here’s why operators move to Covered.

Reservations and card-on-file depth without the POS bundle. £49 flat a month, your own processor, and a stack you actually own.

Five reasons

When the bundle stops working for you.

What it requires / what you own
Toast Tables
Covered
Requires Toast POS
Yes — bundled with the POS stack
No — works with any POS or none
Payment processor
Toast-only (US-focused)
Stripe Connect — bring your own
Pricing model
Per-location subscription + POS fees
£49 flat — no per-cover tax
UK availability
US-first; UK rollout limited
UK-built, UK-hosted, GDPR by design
Data portability
Held inside the Toast ecosystem
Full CSV / JSON export anytime
Why operators switch

Reservations shouldn’t require committing to a POS.

Toast Tables is excellent when you’re already running Toast POS, Toast KDS, Toast Online Ordering and Toast Payments — the vertical integration is unbeatable inside that bundle. The trade-off is that everything has to be Toast: the till, the receipts, the merchant processor, the bookings, the kitchen display. UK operators who already have a POS they like, or use Stripe for online transactions, end up choosing between Toast’s full stack and losing reservations depth. Covered ships the same booking + card-on- file capability as a stand-alone product. Connect any Stripe account (or Square), keep your existing POS, and the reservations layer just works alongside whatever you’ve already built.

Your POS, your processor, your data.

Flat £49 a month. Monthly billing. Cancel anytime. No POS commitment, no processor lock-in, no per-cover fees.