The TheFork alternative with your own engine and no per-cover commission
Qomanda is restaurant booking software with its own engine: €49 a month per restaurant, no commission per diner or per reservation, and every guest saved in your CRM. TheFork combines management software with a marketplace: its portal can bring you new diners, but it charges a commission on every cover that arrives through it. The real difference is who owns the guest. With Qomanda, you do.
Marketplace or your own engine: the difference you pay for
The key difference between Qomanda and TheFork isn't the feature list, it's the business model. TheFork is both booking-management software and, above all, a marketplace: a portal and app with their own audience that send diners to restaurants in exchange for a commission on every cover seated. According to sector sources, that commission is around €2–5 per diner on reservations coming from its directory (it varies by plan and city; TheFork doesn't publish a single rate). It's a variable cost: it grows with your volume and never stops, not even for the guest who already knew you.
Qomanda is not a portal. It's your own booking engine: you embed it on your website (a Spanish and English iframe), on your Google listing and on your social channels, and you pay a flat €49 a month per restaurant. Zero commission per diner, zero commission per reservation. The booking lands straight in your system, with the guest in your CRM.
To be honest about it: with both, reservations coming from your own website pay no commission — TheFork's widget installed on your page doesn't charge either. The commission shows up with the portal's traffic. So the right question isn't "which is better?" but "how much of my bookings do I want depending on a portal that charges per head?".
The full comparison, nothing hidden.
Base price
Qomanda publishes its price; TheFork's model combines a fee and commission and varies by plan and city.
Commission per diner or reservation
The €2–5 range is estimated by sector sources, not an official TheFork figure.
Brings new diners (marketplace)
TheFork wins here: its marketplace is genuine acquisition that Qomanda doesn't replicate.
Bookings from your website, Google and social
With both, your direct bookings pay no commission.
Ownership of the guest and their data
Lock-in
Anti no-show
Both fight no-shows; with Qomanda the charge goes on the restaurant's own Stripe account.
Trial and onboarding
Different models: Qomanda lets you try the full software for 30 days with no card.
Support
Comparison as of 2026 based on public information. The brands mentioned belong to their owners; we are not affiliated. Their terms and pricing may change and some are not public.
What TheFork does and Qomanda doesn't: bring new diners
Let's be honest: TheFork's marketplace has real value that Qomanda doesn't replicate. Its portal and app have a large audience of people looking for somewhere to eat, and they can put you in front of diners who had never heard of you. That's pure acquisition, and for a newly opened restaurant or one in a fiercely competitive area, paying commission on those first visits can be worth it.
Qomanda won't bring you diners from outside: it isn't a portal with its own audience, it's your engine. It works with the demand you already generate — your website, your Google listing, your Instagram, your word of mouth — and turns it into commission-free bookings with no middleman.
That's why many restaurants don't pick "one or the other": they use each tool for what it's good at. The portal, to capture people who don't know you. Your own engine, for everything else. The expensive mistake is letting the marketplace keep the guests who are already yours and would have come back anyway, paying a commission on every single one.
Win your guest back — and keep them
With Qomanda, everyone who books moves into your CRM: name, contact, visit history, spend, up to 14 allergens, notes and VIP tags. It's your database, you can export it, and you use it to fill tables with no middleman: a waitlist, an availability alert, a special touch for your usual regular.
In a marketplace, much of that relationship lives inside the platform. The guest associates the booking with the portal, not with you, and every time they come back through it, you pay commission again on someone who was already yours. Winning your guest back means exactly this: the second, third and twentieth cover from a regular shouldn't cost you a commission.
The honest play: if you capture someone through a portal, the first visit is yours to win them over. From there, give them a reason to book directly with you — your website with Qomanda's engine shows availability in seconds — and take that relationship out of the marketplace. The guest is still yours; the per-cover cost is gone.
Doing the commission math (with numbers and sources)
Let's do the math with a conservative estimate, and a caveat up front: it only makes sense to count the bookings that reach you through the portal on commission today, not the ones that already come in through your own website. Imagine 300 covers a month reach you through a marketplace portal. At €3 per diner — within the €2–5 range sector sources report — that's €900 a month, around €10,800 a year, and the bill climbs every time you fill more. It's an illustrative estimate: your real figure depends on your volume and plan.
With Qomanda you pay a flat €49 a month per restaurant, whether 300 reservations come in or 3,000. No per-diner commission, no per-reservation commission, no lock-in. The difference isn't a discount: it's swapping a cost that grows with your success for one that stays still.
And there's a second front where money leaks: no-shows. In 2025, TheFork put Spain's average no-show rate at 3.3%, and the industry estimates that ghost reservations cost around €1,292 a month — over €15,500 a year — for a restaurant handling about 500 monthly bookings. Qomanda includes SMS reminders and card deposits or holds (via Stripe, charged on the restaurant's own account) so that table doesn't stay empty. Run it through the calculator with your own numbers.
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Qomanda is your own booking engine with a flat price (€49/mo per restaurant) and no commission per diner or reservation; the guest stays in your CRM. TheFork is management software, but above all a marketplace: its portal can bring you new diners and charges a commission (around €2–5 per cover per sector sources) on bookings coming from its directory. In short: Qomanda is ownership and a fixed cost; TheFork adds acquisition in exchange for a variable cost.
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