Qomanda vs CoverManager vs TheFork
€49 a month per restaurant. Public price, zero per-cover commission, zero per booking and no lock-in: fill the room and the fee stays put. CoverManager sends you to a sales rep to find out what it costs; TheFork takes €1.50 to €4 for every diner who comes through its portal, month after month. Below is the full table, row by row, so you can decide in five minutes.
Own engine or marketplace: the decision that sets your bill
The choice isn't in the feature list, it's in the model. TheFork is a portal: it puts you in its shop window and charges a toll for every diner who walks through it. Qomanda and CoverManager are management software: the booking is yours, the guest is yours, and there's no percentage on top.
And you already generate bookings. They come from your website, your Google listing, your Instagram and your phone. You've already paid for those tables once; handing over a commission on each one means paying twice. Qomanda takes that flow and turns it into a full room, a CRM with names, allergens and preferences on file, and a bill of €49 that doesn't move even if you double your bookings.
If what you want is a shop window bringing you new faces on a quiet Tuesday, TheFork does that and charges every time. If what you want is to run what you already have and keep the margin, the choice is Qomanda. Check it against your own numbers: 30 days free, no card.
Qomanda, CoverManager and TheFork, side by side.
| Feature | Qomanda | CoverManager | TheFork |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business modelThe model sets your bill: flat fee, custom quote, or a toll per diner. | Management software. Your bookings, your guest, your database. | Management software (SaaS). Not a portal. | Marketplace + software. Portal with its own traffic and a toll. |
| Monthly priceThe only price you can check right now, without calling anyone, is ours. | €49/month per restaurant, flat and public. | On request, by modules. | Monthly fee + variable per-booking commission. |
| Per-cover or per-booking commissionEvery diner arriving through TheFork's portal carries a toll. At Qomanda, none do. | €0. Whatever you book. | No per-cover commission (SaaS model). | €1.50–4/cover on portal bookings, plus a per-transaction service fee. |
| Free trialA full month of real service before you hand over a single bank detail. | 30 days free, no card. | Demo on request; terms not public. | Free sign-up on a basic plan with reduced visibility. |
| Lock-in / contract | No lock-in. You stay because you want to. | Depends on contract (on request). | Depends on the plan. |
| Marketplace: does it bring new diners?TheFork sells acquisition and bills it per diner. We make the most of what you already generate, at a flat fee. | No. Your engine and your traffic, with no commission in between. | No. It's management software, not a portal. | Yes. Its portal can bring you new diners, with a commission on each. |
| Own embeddable booking engineAll three book from your site. With Qomanda the guest sees it in their language without doing a thing. | Yes: iframe on your site, 12 auto-detected languages. | Yes: booking widget on your site. | Yes: widget on your site (on top of the portal). |
| Guest CRM (allergens, VIP, history)Returning guests can tell you know them: their table, their allergy, their last visit. | Yes: 14 allergens, notes, VIP tags and history. | Yes, very complete and well established. | Yes, also with data from the portal. |
| Analytics (no-shows, source, occupancy)You know what empty tables cost you and which channel fills them. | Yes: no-shows, booking source, occupancy and average rating. | Yes, advanced analytics. | Yes, with portal metrics. |
| Deposits / holds against no-showsWith a card or prepayment, no-shows fall to 0.66%. The money lands in your account, nobody else's. | Yes, via Stripe on your own restaurant's account. | Yes, card charges and guarantees. | Yes, card imprint / prepayment. |
| SMS remindersSMS reconfirmation leaves no-shows at 1.52%. | Yes, automatic before service. | Yes, notices and reminders. | Yes, confirmations and reminders. |
| Voice bot for phone bookingsNo booking is lost because the phone was engaged in the middle of service. | Yes: it takes the phone booking while you're out on the floor. | Yes, AI phone assistant. | Not publicly announced. |
| Booking engine languagesCoverManager adds more languages. Qomanda's 12 switch on by themselves from the guest's browser. | 12 languages, auto-detected. | Broad multilingual support. | Multilingual (international platform). |
| Integrations and channelsCoverManager connects to more third-party systems. We're not a Swiss army knife: we're the reservations software, and we put ordering on that same table ourselves, with the Comandas add-on. | Own engine, Google reviews and Stripe. For ordering, our own module on the same floor plan. | Broad catalogue of POS, delivery and channel integrations. | Integrations + its own portal as a channel. |
| Track record in the Spanish marketCoverManager has more years behind it. Qomanda carries no twenty layers of legacy, and it's kept by the team that answers your phone. | A 2026 product: built for today's dining room. | Veteran and very widespread in Spain. | Established, international group. |
| Support and closenessOn a Friday at nine, the difference between a ticket and a phone somebody picks up. | You talk to Alture, the Granada team that builds it. | Structured corporate support. | Corporate support from a large platform. |
Comparison as of 2026 based on public information. Third-party and industry figures (TheFork commissions, no-show rates and annual losses) are published estimates, linked in the sources, and vary with your volume, your average ticket and the plan contracted. The brands mentioned belong to their owners; we are not affiliated. Their terms and pricing may change and some are not public.
Full room, guests that are yours, and a €49 bill that doesn't move
Qomanda costs €49/month per restaurant. A public, flat price, 30 days free without a card and no lock-in. Zero per-cover commissions and zero per booking: whatever you book, the fee is the same. That number, with no fine print and no meeting first, is the argument.
Inside you get the room in real time —day, month, inbox and activity— workable from your phone in the middle of service. Your own booking engine embedded in your website in 12 languages, so visitors book in theirs without hunting for a flag. A floor plan you edit table by table. A CRM that remembers 14 allergens, notes, VIP tags and history, so returning guests can tell you know them. Analytics that tell you what empty tables cost you, which channel fills them and how your occupancy is doing. Google reviews, shifts and capacity, a waitlist, team management, multi-restaurant and GDPR compliance.
Against no-shows: card deposits and holds through Stripe, charged on your own restaurant's account, SMS reminders, and a voice bot that takes phone bookings while you're out on the floor.
And there's something no table shows: who you talk to. Behind it is Alture, a Granada team with hospitality clients across Andalusia. There's no call centre: you talk to the people who build the product. Start today, free for 30 days, no card.
TheFork brings you new diners, and charges for every one
TheFork is a high-traffic shop window and it can put you in front of people who didn't know you. That's its product, and that's why it's the most expensive model per booking: a monthly fee, plus a commission of €1.50 to €4 per diner on bookings coming through its portal, plus a per-transaction service fee on payments processed on its platform.
Run the numbers on your own volume. In a busy restaurant that adds up to several hundred euros a month, and it grows exactly when business is good: the fuller you are, the more you pay. And the toll applies to portal bookings, not to the ones you were already generating; if you're using it to manage tables that come through your own website, you're paying for acquisition you don't need.
With Qomanda those same bookings cost you €49 a month, whether there are 200 or 2,000. Try it free for 30 days, no card, and compare the bill.
CoverManager: to learn the price, first there's a meeting
CoverManager is a veteran of the Spanish market, with many years behind it, a broad base of restaurants and, with them, a large catalogue of integrations and channels. If your group needs to plug in many third-party systems, that catalogue is their ground.
Now the price: it isn't published. It's "on request" and configured by modules, so until you sit down with a sales rep you don't know what you'll pay or what to compare it against. A large catalogue is always paid for by someone, and in a restaurant that just wants to fill its tables it's usually catalogue that never gets used.
Qomanda works the other way round: a single €49 plan, the whole reservations product inside, and the figure on the website before you talk to anyone. Like CoverManager, we don't charge a per-cover commission either; the difference is that here you see the price now and can try it free for 30 days without a card, no meeting required.
€15,500 a year in empty tables: here's how you keep that money
The no-show rate in Spanish hospitality was 3.3% in 2025, down from 3.6% the year before. With an average spend of around €27 per diner and tables of 2.9 people, a restaurant handling about 500 bookings a month loses on the order of €15,500 a year to people who never turn up. That's a full salary thrown away on gaps nobody filled.
It can be fixed, and the numbers are known: automatic SMS reconfirmation brings no-shows down to 1.52%, and asking for a card or prepayment leaves them at 0.66%. All three tools offer deposits and reminders; what changes is the bill and where the money lands.
With Qomanda, deposits are charged through Stripe on your own restaurant's account —the money goes straight where it belongs, no middleman— and protecting yourself doesn't raise your fee: it's still €49, whatever you book. Recovering a single table a month already pays for the month. Start charging them today: 30 days free, no card.
Average no-show rate in Spanish hospitality in 2025, down from 3.6% in 2024.
What a restaurant with ~500 bookings a month loses each year to tables that never show up.
No-show rate when you ask for a card or prepayment, versus 1.52% with an SMS reminder.
What Qomanda costs per restaurant, flat and public, with no per-cover or per-booking commission.
Before you make the move.
What restaurants thinking about switching usually ask us. No fine print.
Qomanda: a flat €49/month per restaurant, no per-cover or per-booking commission, and you can check it on the website right now. TheFork climbs as you grow, because it adds €1.50 to €4 per diner and a per-transaction service fee on top of the monthly fee. CoverManager is "on request", so you'll only learn its price after a meeting. If you want a fixed cost that doesn't grow with your bookings, Qomanda is the one: 30 days free, no card.
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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