Qomanda vs CoverManager vs TheFork
Short answer: pick TheFork if your priority is a portal that brings you new diners; pick CoverManager if you want the most established, best-integrated ecosystem in Spain; pick Qomanda if you want a flat €49/month price, no per-cover or per-reservation commissions, and to talk directly with the team that builds the product. Below we compare them with no spin, acknowledging where each one genuinely wins.
Before comparing features: your own engine or a marketplace?
Almost every comparison starts with features, but the real decision is different. TheFork is, above all, a portal: its true value is the thefork.es marketplace, which can put you in front of people who didn't know you. That's why it charges a commission on every reservation that comes through its portal. CoverManager and Qomanda are management software (SaaS): they're not a portal, they don't generate new traffic on their own, and precisely for that reason they don't charge a per-cover commission.
That's the line that splits the market in two. If what you need is acquisition —a platform bringing you new customers— TheFork plays in a different league and that deserves an honest acknowledgement. If what you need is to manage the reservations you already generate yourself (your website, your Google, your Instagram, your phone) without paying a toll on every table, then the real comparison is Qomanda versus CoverManager. No tool is "better" in the abstract: it depends on the problem in front of you.
Qomanda, CoverManager and TheFork, side by side.
Business model
No winner here: it's a fit decision, not a quality one.
Monthly price
CoverManager doesn't publish a price; we don't invent their fee.
Per-cover or per-reservation commission
The per-cover commission is documented; TheFork also adds a per-transaction service fee whose amount depends on the plan.
Free trial
Lock-in / contract
Marketplace: does it bring new diners?
TheFork's honest big advantage: acquiring new diners.
Own embeddable booking engine
All three allow booking from your own website.
Guest CRM (allergens, VIP, history)
Analytics (no-shows, source, occupancy)
Deposits / holds against no-shows
With card/prepayment no-shows fall to ~0.66% according to the cited study.
SMS reminders
Voice bot for phone reservations
We don't claim the others lack it; they just don't advertise it.
Booking engine languages
CoverManager covers more languages than Qomanda today.
Integrations and channels
Track record in the Spanish market
CoverManager's seniority in Spain is real; we don't hide it.
Support and closeness
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.
Pick TheFork if your priority is winning new diners
This is the most honest thing we can say: if your problem is that no new people come in and you want exposure on a high-traffic portal, TheFork has something neither Qomanda nor CoverManager offers —a diner marketplace. In exchange, it's the most expensive model per reservation. According to Spanish-market analyses (2026), TheFork typically combines a monthly fee with a commission of roughly €1.50 to €4 per diner on reservations coming through its portal, plus a per-transaction service fee on payments processed through its platform. In a busy restaurant, that can add up to several hundred euros a month or more (an estimate; the exact figure depends on your volume and the plan you contract).
The key is doing the maths honestly: the commission is paid on portal reservations, not necessarily on the ones you were already generating yourself. If TheFork brings you customers who wouldn't have come otherwise, that commission can pay off. If you use it only to manage bookings from your own website, you'll be paying for acquisition you aren't using.
Pick CoverManager if you want the most established ecosystem
CoverManager is one of the most established reservation platforms in the Spanish market, with many years behind it, a broad base of restaurants and, with that, more integrations, more channels and support for more languages than a young product like Qomanda. If your group needs to connect with many third-party systems, or you've been running on their platform for years, that maturity is a real advantage and we won't downplay it.
The honest nuance: CoverManager doesn't publish its price. It's always "on request" and configured by modules, so the final cost depends on what you contract and on the negotiation. We won't invent their fee —it isn't public— but it's worth knowing that, without an upfront figure, it's hard to compare at a glance. Like Qomanda, CoverManager is a management SaaS that doesn't charge a per-cover commission; the difference with us isn't commissions, it's price transparency and the human relationship.
Pick Qomanda if you want a flat price, no commissions and a direct relationship
Qomanda exists for the restaurant that already generates its own reservations and doesn't want to pay a toll on every table or decode a "custom" quote. It costs €49/month per restaurant, a public, flat price, with 30 days free without a card and no lock-in. Zero per-cover commissions and zero per-reservation commissions: however much you book, the fee doesn't move. That number, with no fine print, is the argument.
Inside you get real-time reservation management (day, month, inbox and activity, usable from your phone in the middle of service), your own booking engine embeddable on your website in Spanish and English, a table-by-table editable floor plan, a CRM with 14 allergens, notes, VIP tags and history, analytics for no-shows, source and occupancy, Google reviews, shifts and capacity, a waitlist, team management, multi-restaurant and GDPR compliance. And against no-shows: card deposits and holds via Stripe on the restaurant's own account, SMS reminders, and a voice bot that takes reservations over the phone. What's different, beyond the price, is who you talk to: behind it is Alture, a Granada-based team with hospitality clients across Andalusia. It's not a call centre: you talk to the people building the product.
What a no-show really costs you (and what each one does)
Here the three are more alike than they look. According to TheFork data, the no-show rate in Spanish hospitality was 3.3% in 2025 (down from 3.6% the year before). Building on that, industry analyses estimate that, with an average spend of around €27 per diner and tables of roughly 2.9 people, a restaurant handling around 500 reservations a month can lose on the order of €15,500 a year to tables that never show up (an industry estimate, not a guaranteed figure: it depends on your average ticket and occupancy).
What matters is what reduces that percentage. The cited studies suggest automatic SMS reconfirmation brings no-shows down to around 1.52%, and asking for a card or prepayment sinks it to 0.66%. All three tools offer card deposits and SMS reminders, so there's no clear winner here. The difference is the model: with Qomanda, Stripe deposits run on the restaurant's own account, and both deposits and SMS are included in the flat €49, with no added per-reservation cost. Protecting yourself against no-shows shouldn't get more expensive the better business gets.
Average no-show rate in Spanish hospitality in 2025 (down from 3.6% in 2024), according to TheFork.
source ↗Estimated annual revenue a restaurant with ~500 bookings/month loses to no-shows (industry estimate).
source ↗Estimated no-show rate when a card or prepayment is required (vs ~1.52% with an SMS reminder), according to the cited study.
source ↗Before you make the move.
What restaurants thinking about switching usually ask us. No fine print.
It depends on your volume, but the most transparent and predictable is Qomanda: a flat €49/month per restaurant, with no per-cover or per-reservation commissions. TheFork tends to get more expensive the more reservations you handle, because it adds a per-cover commission (~€1.50–4) plus a per-transaction service fee on top of the monthly fee. CoverManager doesn't publish its price ("on request"), so it can't be compared at a glance. If you want a fixed cost that doesn't grow with your bookings, Qomanda is the most predictable option.
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