ResDiary vs Slotora · lookup table, facts read 16 October 2026
ResDiary vs Slotora, row by row, for restaurant owners who need the detail
Nine rows, the ResDiary side taken from ResDiary's pricing, product and Irish pages and from The Access Group's announcement. Where Slotora does not do something, its cell says so.
Slotora’s cells describe what the product does today.
The lookup
| ResDiary | Slotora for restaurants | |
|---|---|---|
| Owner | Access UK Ltd, part of The Access Group, which completed the purchase on 11 July 2023.The Access Group press release | Slotora. A new product for restaurants, with an early-access list. |
| Where it sells | The UK and Ireland; its Irish page shows Irish venues and an Irish sales contact.resdiary.com/ie | Written for the UK and Ireland, among the other markets this site covers; restaurants start from the early-access list. |
| Price basis | Four monthly tiers, separated mainly by the bookings included each month. Billed monthly or yearly in advance. No setup fee, contract length or free plan is stated.resdiary.com pricing | £99 per location per month for the first 100 paying restaurants (UK), then £149. Plus VAT where applicable. |
| Commission | None on bookings from any source.resdiary.com pricing | None, and nothing per cover. |
| Add-ons and usage charges | Paid monthly add-ons for CRM and marketing, POS integration, pre-orders, vouchers and SMS (some on enquiry). Usage charges on deposits, payments and gift vouchers.resdiary.com pricing | No add-ons to buy: what Slotora does is in the single price. Card payments carry your payment processor's own fee. |
| Deposits, prepayments, card guarantees | Offered.resdiary.com | Deposits and card guarantees by your own rules, through your own Stripe account once it is connected. |
| Table plan | Table management with a table plan.resdiary.com | Rooms drawn to scale, tables of four shapes placed where they stand, named combinations for large parties, and booking rules the plan obeys: turn times, pacing, how far ahead. |
| Connections and channels | More than 70 EPoS and PMS integrations. Reserve with Google and social-media bookings. Promotion on DesignMyNight in the UK.resdiary.com; pricing (Ireland) | No connections and no channels beyond your own booking page, the phone and walk-ins. |
| Users, devices and records | Unlimited users and round-the-clock support listed as included.resdiary.com pricing | Unlimited staff and devices, all seeing one floor, each person with their own login. A card per guest with visits and no-shows, a guest book that exports as CSV, one guest's data exportable on request, and a log of every change, with the name of who made it, kept for two years. |
Testing the tier model against your own year
The row that differs in kind is “Price basis”. One price against a price that follows booking volume can only be compared with your numbers, so here is a way to do it in ten minutes.
- 1
Count bookings, not covers
ResDiary's tiers are described by the bookings they include. From your own records, write down the number of bookings in each month of the last year.
- 2
Find the busiest and the quietest month
Read ResDiary's current tier boundaries on its own pricing page, linked above, and see which tier each of those two months falls in.
- 3
Add the extras you would switch on
From the add-ons row: SMS, the CRM and marketing package, POS integration, pre-orders. Note the usage charges if you take deposits.
- 4
Set that against one figure
Slotora's price for the same location does not move between those two months. The difference you get is the honest comparison, and it belongs to you, not to this page.
The empty cells in the Slotora column
- No EPoS, PMS or Google connection, and no listing on a diners' guide.
- No CRM campaigns, SMS packs, dishes chosen in advance or vouchers to add on.
- A guest card and a booking page instead: the record of who came, and a page where the next booking is made.
Questions about the lookup
Why does the table not give ResDiary's tier prices?
We print no prices but Slotora's, which are on our pricing page. ResDiary's pricing page is linked in the sources and is the place to read its current figures, which can change at any time.
Who owns ResDiary?
The Access Group, which announced on 11 July 2023 that it had completed its acquisition of ResDiary, and ResDiary's pages name Access UK Ltd.
What would I lose by moving to Slotora?
Everything in the rows where the Slotora cell says none: integrations, Reserve with Google, DesignMyNight promotion and the paid add-ons. If you use those every week, the table has answered the question.