PUB TABLE BOOKINGS

A pub table booking system built around a real floor plan.

Most booking software is a restaurant tool with the word “pub” swapped in. PubSuite takes bookings the way a pub actually takes them — on your own yourpub.pubsuite.app address, with deposits by card when you want them — and turns them into a list of regulars you can email.

Taking The Spinners’ real bookings every day — not a demo built for a pitch.

Try it yourself — no sign-up

Take a booking and watch it land on the floor plan.

The Kings Arms is a full demo venue with a live floor plan, real bookings in the diary and deposits switched on — poke around as the owner.
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THE PROBLEM WITH RESTAURANT BOOKING SOFTWARE

A pub isn’t a restaurant with worse lighting.

Restaurant booking systems are built on an assumption that doesn’t hold behind a bar: that everyone who walks in has booked, that they’re all eating, and that the evening runs in neat two-hour sittings.

A pub doesn’t work like that. Half the room is drinking, not eating. A table of four books for the quiz and stays until close. A party of nine turns up on the off-chance on a wet Tuesday. The snug gets booked out for a wake at two days’ notice.

So most landlords end up doing what we did for years — a diary behind the bar, a WhatsApp group, and someone’s memory of who’s having the back room on Saturday.

“Every booking app assumed I ran a restaurant. None of them understood a Thursday quiz night.”

Jamie Evans, The Spinners, Darwen — who built PubSuite because nothing on the market fitted.

WHAT THE BOOKING SYSTEM DOES

Your room, on screen, exactly as it’s laid out.

01

A real floor plan

Drag your tables into the areas you actually have — the snug, the back room, the beer garden, the raised bit nobody has a name for. Not a generic grid of numbered squares.
02

Automatic table matching

A booking for six comes in and PubSuite puts it on a table that seats six — instead of leaving a party of two sat at the big one all night.
03

Your own booking page

Customers book at yourpub.pubsuite.app — your name, your pub, your bookings. No marketplace putting the pub down the road in front of you.
04

Bookings and rota together

See a heavy Saturday filling up and staff it properly — because the rota is in the same software, not a different subscription with a different login.
05

Bring your existing diary

Import the bookings you’ve already got from a spreadsheet, so moving over doesn’t mean re-typing three months of Christmas parties.
06

Backed up automatically

Your bookings are backed up on a schedule without you thinking about it. Losing a weekend’s diary shouldn’t be possible.
07

Deposits & no-show guarantees

Ask for a deposit on Christmas parties, or a card to hold the table on a Saturday. Guests pay or save a card when they book, straight into your own Stripe account — refunds are a click, and PubSuite never sees the card.
08

Feedback after every visit

A couple of hours after they leave, guests are emailed to ask how it went. Their stars build your PubSuite score out of 100 — from real bookings only — and you choose whether to show it on your booking page. A bad one reaches you straight away.
09

Events, walk-ins & enquiries

Set up the quiz, Sunday lunch or New Year’s Eve with its own days, times and rules. Seat a walk-in in two taps, turn a function enquiry into a booking, and let guests change or cancel their own booking from the email.
TURN BOOKINGS INTO REGULARS

Every booking is someone you can talk to again.

Most booking systems take the booking and then forget the person. PubSuite doesn’t. Guests who tick keep me updated when they book or make an enquiry land on your subscriber list, so the diary quietly builds you an audience while you get on with running the place.

Then you can email them — the new menu, the beer festival, Boxing Day bookings opening, the quiz moving to Wednesdays. Write it in PubSuite, attach a poster, send it. No separate mailing platform, no export, no second monthly fee.

Guests opt in themselves, and every email carries a one-click unsubscribe — so the list stays one you’re allowed to have.

POSTERS, WITHOUT A DESIGNER

Describe the poster you want and PubSuite makes it.

There’s an AI image tool built in for artwork and graphics, and a materials library that keeps everything you’ve made — upload once, reuse as often as you like.

The list builds itself

Opt-in comes off the booking and enquiry forms you’re already using.

Posters and menus attached

Images sit at the top of the email; a PDF menu becomes a view button.

One-click unsubscribe

On every campaign, as it should be. Nobody’s buying a list here.
Party & group preorders

Parties and groups can preorder their food.

A preorder for a table of twelve usually means a photo of the menu with ticks on it, a list in someone’s notes app, and a member of staff retyping it all for the kitchen the night before.

With PubSuite, the organiser fills in everyone’s choices in one go, online, against their booking. The preorder sits on the booking itself, so the kitchen and the floor know who’s having what before the party walks in.

Birthdays, work dos, Christmas parties, wakes — any big table that needs to be ready on time.

HOW IT COMPARES

The diary, a restaurant app, or PubSuite.

Online bookings 24/7
Paper diary
No
Restaurant app
Yes
PubSuite
Yes
Built for pub layouts
Paper diary
—
Restaurant app
Rarely
PubSuite
Yes
Card deposits & no-show guarantees
Paper diary
No
Restaurant app
Often
PubSuite
Yes, into your own Stripe account
Feedback from verified guests
Paper diary
No
Restaurant app
Sometimes
PubSuite
Included
Email marketing built in
Paper diary
No
Restaurant app
Usually an add-on
PubSuite
Included
Staff rota included
Paper diary
No
Restaurant app
No — separate subscription
PubSuite
Yes
Cover charges per booking
Paper diary
None
Restaurant app
Common
PubSuite
None
Cost
Paper diary
A fiver and a biro
Restaurant app
Varies, often per cover
PubSuite
£59.99/mo flat
THE KINGS ARMS
Take a booking yourself and see where it lands.
The Kings Arms is a full demo venue with a live floor plan and real bookings in the diary. Log in as the owner — details at the top of this page.
COMMON QUESTIONS

Pub table booking, answered.

How much does PubSuite’s booking system cost?

£59.99 a month, flat. That includes the bookings, guest feedback, the email marketing, the rota, clock-in, stock and GP and the manager’s office — there aren’t tiers or per-cover charges. The first 60 days are free and there’s no contract.

Can guests pay a deposit when they book?

Yes. Any booking type or event can ask for a deposit, or for a card to be saved against a no-show fee. Guests pay by card as they book, through your own Stripe account, so the money lands with you and the card details never touch PubSuite. Deposits are marked paid automatically and refunded from the booking in one click.

Do I need a card machine or an EPOS system to use it?

No. PubSuite runs in a browser on whatever you’ve already got behind the bar — a tablet, a laptop, the office PC. It doesn’t tie you into a particular till.

Can we still take bookings over the phone and at the bar?

Yes, and most pubs do. Staff add phone and walk-in bookings straight onto the floor plan, so the online diary and the bar diary are the same diary — which is where most double-bookings come from in the first place.

Is the email marketing GDPR-friendly?

It’s built around consent: guests only join the list by ticking a box themselves on a booking or enquiry, and every campaign email carries a one-click unsubscribe. You’re emailing people who asked to hear from you, which is the whole point.

What happens to the bookings we’ve already taken?

Import them from a spreadsheet. If they’re currently in a paper diary, we’ll help you get them in during set-up — that part is done with you, not left as homework.

Is PubSuite suitable for a pub that doesn’t serve food?

Yes. Plenty of wet-led pubs use bookings only for functions, the back room and big match days — and take the rota, clock-in and takings side as the main reason for having it.

Who actually built it?

Jamie Evans, who runs The Spinners in Darwen, Lancashire. PubSuite ran that pub before it was sold to anyone else, and it still does. When you email, you get him — not a call centre.
What else is in the box

One system, not four logins.

Staff rota, clock-in and HR basics · GP, VAT and labour cost tracking · stock, recipe costing and allergens · the Staff Room noticeboard · automatic backups.

Book a demo →Try the demo venue

Or email hello@pubsuite.app

£59.99 a month · first 60 days free · no contract

PubSuite
A product of Darwen Pub Co Ltd (company no. 16420301)
253 Bolton Road, Darwen, England, BB3 2PG