Booking commission savings calculator
Qomanda costs a flat €49 per restaurant per month, with no per-diner or per-booking commission. Enter your numbers and you'll see in a second how much you pay each year in commissions to a portal like TheFork, and how much you keep on a flat rate. No sign-up, no card. Swap the values for the ones on your last invoice and look at the number.
What a portal or system charges you for each seated guest.
Estimate based on your figures. Qomanda is your own booking engine: it doesn't charge per guest, but it also doesn't replace the new-customer traffic a marketplace might bring you. Adjust the values to your real case.
How the calculation works
The maths is simple and you can redo it by hand. Booking portals don't charge per reservation: they charge per diner. Every person seated at your table through the portal costs you a commission. Your monthly spend is portal bookings × diners per booking × commission per cover.
With the starting values: 40 bookings/month × 2.5 diners × €2.50 = €250/month. That's €3,000 a year in commissions alone. Qomanda is a flat €49/month: €588 a year, no matter how many bookings you run. Over €2,400 a year staying in your till.
The calculator runs this in real time. Change your real bookings, your average party size and the commission you're charged, and put it next to €49/month. Once you see your number, start the trial: 30 days, no card.
The number you get is on the low side
The calculator only counts the per-cover commission. Left out: fixed visibility-plan fees, the fact that commission is charged on the cover before discounts, and the per-transaction fees on their payment gateways. All of that counts against the portal and none of it is in the sum: what you see is a floor, not a ceiling, and your real bill is almost always higher.
The per-cover commission on TheFork-style portals runs from €1.50 to €4 per diner depending on plan and area; we start at €2.50. Average spend per diner in Spain is around €27 and the average party size about 2.9 people; the calculator starts at 2.5. Put in the figures from your last invoice and the saving goes up.
CoverManager doesn't publish its price, so it isn't here. If your system charges per cover, enter its rate: the maths is identical.
A flat price wins exactly when you fill up
Commission punishes you when things go well. Every full service, every table that turns twice, every large party multiplies what you pay the portal, even though your work to serve that booking is exactly the same. On a flat rate, your software cost doesn't move whether you do 40 bookings or 400. The saving grows the fuller you are.
Break-even takes ten seconds to work out. At €2.50 per cover and 2.5 diners per booking, each portal booking costs you about €6.25. Qomanda's €49 is covered by 8 bookings a month. From the ninth onwards, everything you book on top you'd be handing over in commission.
And there's a saving that doesn't even show up in the calculator: repeat guests. The portal charges you every time that same guest books, even when they've been yours for years. With your own engine and CRM, the guest who comes back costs you nothing again. Start your 30 days and stop paying for the regulars you already earned.
Your regulars shouldn't cost you a commission
TheFork is also a marketplace: it has its own traffic and can bring you new diners who don't know you yet. For cold acquisition that's a different tool, at a different price. Qomanda is your own booking engine, embedded in your website.
Which is why this calculator measures one specific thing: how much money you keep when the booking was going to reach you anyway —your regulars, your website, your Google, your Instagram. You already paid for that traffic, with your kitchen and with your name. Paying a commission on every diner on top of that is giving the margin away twice.
That share is what Qomanda hands back to you for a flat €49/month, with no lock-in and a 30-day trial with no card. Look at your number above and start keeping it this month.
How to do it, in order.
- 01
Enter your bookings via the portal
Enter how many bookings per month reach you today through a booking portal (or how many go through a system that charges per cover).
- 02
Adjust diners and commission
Change the average diners per booking and the per-cover commission you're charged; if you pay a monthly fee or visibility plan, add it in the optional field.
- 03
Compare with Qomanda's €49/month
The tool works out your annual commission cost and puts it next to Qomanda's €588/year. That gap is yours from the month you switch: start the 30-day trial and keep it.
The terms, made clear.
- Per-cover commission
- The amount a portal charges for each diner seated through its platform (not per booking). On TheFork-style portals it runs from €1.50 to €4 per person, and it's charged again every time a customer returns.
- Own booking engine
- A booking system embedded in the restaurant's own website (Qomanda's, for example). Bookings come in directly and with no per-diner commission, unlike an external marketplace.
- Booking marketplace
- A portal with its own traffic (like TheFork) that can bring new diners who search for a restaurant there. In exchange it charges commission per diner. Qomanda is not a marketplace: it's your own engine.
- No-show
- A booking that never shows up and leaves the table empty. It's a real, recurring cost in hospitality. Qomanda goes after it with reminders (SMS) and card deposits (Stripe, on the restaurant's own account), at no per-diner cost.
Per-cover commission on TheFork-style portals (per diner, not per booking)
Average diners per booking in Spain (the calculator starts at 2.5)
Average spend per diner in Spain: what walks out with every seat you don't fill
Qomanda: flat price per restaurant, zero commission, 30-day trial with no card
Third-party figures as of 2026: sector ranges and averages drawn from public information and the trade press linked on each data point; they vary by plan, area and negotiation. The brands mentioned belong to their owners; we are not affiliated. Qomanda's price —€49/month per restaurant, no commissions, 30-day trial with no card— is ours and it's firm.
Before you make the move.
What restaurants thinking about switching usually ask us. No fine print.
Between €1.50 and €4 per diner, depending on the plan and the area. It's charged per diner (not per booking) and also on repeat customers. TheFork doesn't publish a single fixed rate, so the final amount depends on your volume and negotiation. Qomanda's calculator starts at €2.50.
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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