The TheFork alternative that stops charging you per diner
Your booking engine, on your website, for a flat €49 a month. Zero commission per diner and zero per booking: fill 200 tables or 2,000, you pay the same. Everyone who books lands in your CRM and belongs to you, so when they come back they cost you nothing. On a marketplace like TheFork, that same cover gets paid for again every time it arrives through the portal. Start today with 30 days free, no card.
Stop paying by the head: €49 a month, whatever happens
A marketplace charges by the head. Every cover seated through its portal carries a €1.50–4 commission, and that bill climbs every time you fill up. It's a cost that grows with your success and never stops: not for the new guest, and not for the one who's been coming on Thursdays for eight years.
Qomanda flips it. It's your own engine: you embed it on your website with an iframe in 12 languages that auto-detects the guest's, and you put it on your Google listing and your social channels too. You pay €49 a month per restaurant. Zero commission per diner, zero per booking, no lock-in. The reservation lands straight in your system and the guest stays in your CRM.
Do the math on your last month: how many covers arrived with a commission attached, times what each one costs you. That figure is the one that becomes €49. See it for yourself with the tool up and running: 30 days free, no card.
The full comparison, nothing hidden.
| Feature | Qomanda | TheFork / El Tenedor |
|---|---|---|
| Base price€49 out in the open, and always the same. TheFork's model combines a fee and a commission, and varies by plan and city. | €49/mo flat per restaurant | Variable fee by plan; rate not always public |
| Commission per diner or reservationThat cost rises with every table you fill. Qomanda's doesn't move. | €0 — never | ≈ €1.50–4 per cover on portal-sourced bookings |
| Brings new diners (marketplace)Its portal captures people who don't know you: that's its strong point. The fine print is that you don't pay for that acquisition once — the guest stays in its database and every return pays commission again. With Qomanda the guest is yours from the first booking, and coming back costs nothing. | No: it's your engine, and the guest who books is yours | Yes — its portal and app can bring guests who don't know you |
| Bookings from your website, Google and socialYour direct bookings pay no commission with either. The difference is where the guest ends up: with Qomanda, in your CRM. | Yes — embeddable engine in 12 languages, no commission | Yes — its widget on your site charges no commission either |
| Ownership of the guest and their dataWhoever holds the guest's record decides who pays to bring them back. | Yours and exportable, in your CRM (14 allergens, notes, VIP, history) | The relationship and data largely live inside its platform |
| Lock-in | No lock-in | Depends on your plan's contract |
| Anti no-showBoth fight no-shows. With Qomanda the deposit money lands in your own restaurant's Stripe account. | Card deposits/holds (Stripe, on your account) + SMS reminders | Also offers card imprint and reminders |
| Trial and onboardingWith Qomanda you try the full software for 30 days without a card and decide on data from your own dining room. | 30 days free, no card | Offers an entry plan to list in its directory |
| SupportNo layers, no tickets escalating upward: you talk to the people who code the tool. | Direct line to the team that builds it (Alture, Granada) | Support from a large international platform |
Comparison as of 2026 based on public information. The third-party figures on this page — per-cover commissions and no-show data — are estimates from sector sources, not official rates. The brands mentioned belong to their owners; we are not affiliated. Their terms and pricing may change and some are not public.
The portal introduces the guest. Then charges you every time they return
TheFork's portal has an audience of its own: people looking for somewhere to eat who can discover you there. That's genuine acquisition, and it earns a first visit.
The fine print is that you don't pay for that acquisition once. The guest comes in through the portal, stays in its database and returns through its app; and every time they return, you pay commission again. A regular's tenth cover costs you exactly what a stranger's first one did. That isn't discovery any more: it's renting your own customer.
Qomanda gives them back. The booking runs through your website, under your brand, and the guest lands in your CRM with their history, their allergens and their notes. Let them come back as often as they like: it still costs €49 a month.
The play that works: the portal, to get discovered. Qomanda's engine, for everything else — your website, your Google listing, your Instagram, word of mouth and, above all, the people who already know you. You pay to acquire once, not to be remembered. Set it up today: 30 days free, no card.
Fill your tables from your own database
Everyone who books moves into your CRM: name, contact, visit history, spend, up to 14 allergens, notes and a VIP tag. It's your database, and you export it whenever you want.
That's how you fill up with no middleman. The last-minute gap gets covered by the waitlist. The regular walks in and their waiter already knows they avoid gluten and that it's their birthday. The slow Tuesday gets lifted straight from that list, without asking anyone's permission or paying for every head that answers.
In a marketplace, that relationship lives inside the platform: the guest associates the booking with the portal and, every time they come back that way, you pay again for someone who was already yours.
Start building your database today. 30 days free, no card, and whatever you gather leaves with you.
300 covers through the portal cost €900 a month. With Qomanda, €49
Picture 300 covers a month arriving through a marketplace portal. At €3 per diner that's €900 a month: €10,800 a year, climbing every time you fill more. Count only the covers that reach you with a commission today; the ones already coming through your own website pay nothing.
With Qomanda you pay €49 a month per restaurant, whether 300 reservations come in or 3,000. That's €588 a year, flat, with no lock-in. It isn't a discount: it's swapping a cost that grows with your success for one that stays still.
And there's a second hole, bigger still: no-shows. Spain's average no-show rate was 3.3% in 2025, and a restaurant handling around 500 bookings a month loses on the order of €1,292 a month — over €15,500 a year — in tables nobody sits at. Qomanda shields them with SMS reminders and card deposits or holds via Stripe, charged on your own restaurant's account.
Put your numbers into the calculator and see your own figure. Then try it free for 30 days, no card.
Average no-shows in Spanish restaurants in 2025, per TheFork
What no-shows take each year from a restaurant handling around 500 bookings a month
What a portal charges you for every diner you seat from its directory
Everything your restaurant pays with Qomanda: no commissions, no lock-in
Before you make the move.
What restaurants thinking about switching usually ask us. No fine print.
Who owns the guest. With Qomanda you pay a flat €49/mo per restaurant, no commission per diner or per booking, and everyone who books stays in your CRM: when they return, they cost you nothing. TheFork is management software and, above all, a marketplace: its portal introduces you to new diners and charges around €1.50–4 per cover on bookings that come through its directory, including when that guest is already a regular of yours. A fixed cost and a guest who is yours, or a variable cost for life.
Fill your room.We handle the rest.
We move your guests and your floor plan across with you, and stay through the launch. You run the service; the software is on us.
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