Booking commission savings calculator
Qomanda costs a flat €49 per restaurant per month, with no per-diner or per-booking commission. This calculator shows you, with your own numbers, how much you pay today in commissions to a portal like TheFork and how much you'd keep each year on a flat rate. The defaults are conservative: swap them for the figures on your invoices to get your real 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 usually don't charge per reservation, they charge per diner (per cover): every person seated at your table via the portal costs you a commission. So your monthly spend is portal bookings × diners per booking × commission per cover.
Example using the defaults, which are deliberately conservative: 40 bookings/month × 2.5 diners × €2.50 = €250/month, i.e. €3,000/year in commissions alone. Against that, Qomanda is a flat €49/month: €588/year, no matter how many bookings you run. The gap —over €2,400/year in this example— is what you keep.
The calculator does exactly this in real time. You change your real bookings, your average party size and the commission you're charged, and you see the annual total next to Qomanda's €49/month. No sign-up, no card: just your numbers.
Where the figures come from (and what we leave out)
The figures you see are labelled with their source or marked as a conservative estimate. The per-cover commission on TheFork-style portals ranges, depending on plan and area, roughly from €1.50 to €4 per diner; we default to €2.50 so as not to exaggerate in our own favour. The average spend per diner (around €27) and the average party size in Spain (about 2.9 people) come from sector figures reported by the trade press; as a starting point we use 2.5 diners, again on the low side.
There are real costs we do NOT include even though they count against the portal: any fixed visibility-plan fees, the fact that commission is charged on the cover before discounts, and the per-transaction fees on their payment gateways. We leave them out on purpose so the number you see is a floor, not a ceiling. Your real bill will almost always be higher.
An honest note: CoverManager doesn't publish its price (always «on request»), so we don't estimate it here. If you're on a system that charges per cover, enter its rate and the maths is identical.
Why a flat price beats commission once you fill up
Commission penalises you precisely when you're doing well. Every full service, every table that turns twice, every large party: all of it multiplies what you pay the portal, even though your work to serve that booking is the same. On a flat rate, your software cost barely moves whether you do 40 bookings or 400. The saving isn't linear: it grows the fuller you are.
There's also a break-even point that's easy 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 just 8 bookings a month; beyond that, everything you book on top you'd be giving away in commission.
And there's a saving that doesn't even show up in the calculator: repeat bookings. A portal charges you every single time that same guest books, even though they're firmly yours already. With your own engine and CRM, the guest who comes back never costs you commission again.
What this calculator doesn't measure (and it's in your favour)
Let's be clear about what the calculator does NOT measure, because this is where a portal has a real advantage. TheFork isn't just software: it's also a marketplace. Its portal has its own traffic and can bring you new diners who don't know you yet. Qomanda doesn't do that: Qomanda is your own booking engine, embedded in your website, not a directory that captures customers for you. It's an important difference and we say it plainly.
That's why this tool measures one specific thing: how much commission money you'd keep if those bookings were going to reach you anyway —your customers, your website, your Google, your Instagram. For that traffic, paying a commission on every diner is throwing away margin. To win brand-new customers cold, a marketplace is a different tool, at a different price, and it's your call whether it pays off.
The honest version is this: if a good share of your bookings already come from people searching for you by name, that share shouldn't cost you a commission. That's what Qomanda gives back to you for a flat €49/month, with no lock-in and a 30-day trial with no card.
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 places it next to Qomanda's €588/year so you can see how much you'd keep on a flat price.
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 typically falls in a range of roughly €1.50 to €4 per person, and is also charged when a customer returns.
- Own booking engine
- A booking system embedded in the restaurant's own website (for example, Qomanda's iframe). 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 for hospitality. Qomanda includes reminders (SMS) and card deposits (Stripe, on the restaurant's own account) to reduce them, at no per-diner cost.
Before you make the move.
What restaurants thinking about switching usually ask us. No fine print.
Depending on the plan and area, TheFork's per-cover commission typically ranges from roughly €1.50 to €4 per diner. 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. In Qomanda's calculator we default to €2.50, on the conservative end of the range.
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