United Kingdom · Slotora for restaurants
A restaurant booking system priced in pounds, for restaurants in the UK
£99 a month per location for the first 100 UK restaurants that pay, held for 12 months, then £149. No commission on bookings from your own channels, no fee per cover — and a bill that shows VAT by class, with a tips ledger for the 2023 Act.
Plus VAT where applicable. Try it free for 3 days when it opens; month to month after that. Not legal or tax advice.
The price, in pounds
£99 Founding, per location
For the first 100 restaurants that actually pay, and guaranteed for 12 months from the first payment. The Founding offer is in sterling only.
£149 Standard, per location
Once the Founding places are taken. The same things are included either way: unlimited bookings, covers, tables, staff and devices, with 0% Slotora commission on bookings from your own channels.
A group of restaurants
From 5 to 9 locations there is 10% off Standard at every site, so £134.10 per location; from 10, we quote. The group discount does not stack with the Founding price.
The booking side, in a British week
The floor plan, the host stand and the guest book have pages of their own; in short:
- Every booking sits on a real table, in rooms drawn to scale, and the host stand runs on a tablet by the door.
- A walk-in is seated in one tap; when the room is full, guests can add themselves to the waiting list from a QR code.
- Each guest's card counts their no-shows and late cancellations, and your own booking page takes no commission.
- Bank holidays, Mother's Day, Christmas Eve and Boxing Day each get their own hours in one step, or close.
- Deposits and card guarantees by party size, day or event, through your own Stripe account once it is connected.
VAT on the bill, by class
HMRC treats food and drink served to eat in a restaurant as catering, standard-rated at 20%. Hot takeaway food is standard-rated too; most cold takeaway food is zero-rated. A service charge you make is standard-rated, while a tip the guest freely gives on top of your total is outside VAT.
- In Slotora you give each dish a VAT class, one for eating in and one for taking away; the class you choose is what the bill uses.
- The bill at the table shows VAT by class, whether it is one check or split by dish, by seat or into equal shares.
- The sales reports export daily takings and VAT by class as CSV files for your accountant, and say plainly that they are not a tax return.
Tips and service charge under the 2023 Act
Since 1 October 2024 the Employment (Allocation of Tips) Act 2023 has applied in England, Scotland and Wales: tips and service charges go to the staff in full, shared fairly, by the end of the month after they were paid, under a written policy, with records kept for three years. A compulsory service charge is also part of the price: the CMA lists it among the charges that belong in the total a menu shows.
What the bill records
Each payment is recorded as cash, card or other, with the tip that came with it. A service charge can be set by party size and marked optional or compulsory, so every bill says which it was.
The tips ledger
The ledger adds up the tips and service charges taken and records every hand-out: the period, the named members of staff and how it was split. It moves no money and works out no pay.
Your tipping policy is yours to write; the ledger can serve as the record that shows you kept to it. The Tips Act, duty by duty
Allergens and no-shows
The 14 allergens
The FSA expects a restaurant to give allergen information for every dish that contains one of the 14, in writing or by word of mouth with a notice saying how to ask. In Slotora each dish on the menu carries its allergens, and an allergy noted on a guest's card stays with every booking they make. Building the allergen matrix
A fee for an empty table
The CMA's guidance on unfair terms reads a no-show charge as fair when the guest knows it in advance and it reflects what the table really cost; a small deposit made clear at booking may be kept. You set the rule in Slotora; the money goes to your own account. No-show fees and UK law
Coming from another system
Quandoo's restaurant contracts ended on 30 September 2026, and its partners can export their data until 31 December 2026. A restaurant on another system can bring its bookings across as a CSV or Excel file: the import suggests which column is which, shows a preview, and past visits land on the guest cards.
Guest data
Under UK GDPR a guest may ask for the data you hold about them, or ask to be erased. In Slotora the owner or a manager answers from the guest's card: download it in one go, or erase the guest.
Sources for the law on this page (checked 26 October 2026; not legal or tax advice)
- HMRC VAT Notice 709/1: catering and takeaway food, service charges and tips
- Employment (Allocation of Tips) Act 2023, as enacted, including section 13 (extent)
- Code of practice on fair and transparent distribution of tips
- CMA209, paragraph 4.4: a mandatory service charge at a restaurant belongs in the total price
- Food Standards Agency: allergen guidance for food businesses, sections 1 and 2.5
- CMA, Unfair contract terms guidance (CMA37), paragraphs 6.62–6.63
Read alongside
- Pricing for the UK and Ireland, and the trial
- The bill split by dish or seat, VAT by class and the tips ledger
- Deposits and card guarantees, rule by rule
- The floor plan, drawn to scale
- Restaurant booking systems in the UK and Ireland, compared
- Running a restaurant in Ireland instead? The euro price, VAT and tips
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