TableNest vs DesignMyNight (Access Collins)

They are two different products from the same owner. DesignMyNight is the consumer discovery and booking site — founded in 2011 by Nick Telson and Andrew Webster, and acquired by The Access Group in 2017, alongside Collins, Tonic Ticketing, ResDiary and Soda. It is where up to 3.9 million people a month look for somewhere to go. The booking system Access sells to a venue is Access Collins Evo, and that is the product priced at "From £149 per month, per site" — Access's own figure, read on 26 September 2026 — and compared on this page. So if you searched for DesignMyNight, you searched for the name on the door; Access Collins Evo is the name that would appear on your invoice. Any comparison that prices "DesignMyNight" as a venue booking system is comparing against the wrong product.

Access publishes one figure for Access Collins Evo: "From £149 per month, per site". Everything above that starting point is behind a form, so nobody outside Access can tell you what a quoted tier costs — including us. TableNest's UK ladder is Starter at £29, Business at £49 and Pro at £69 GBP a month, all of it on the pricing page, per venue, cancel anytime. Both sides charge no commission on a booking: Access's page says "0% - keep every penny" and ours is zero too, so that row is a tie. Every Access Collins figure here comes from The Access Group's own product page (theaccessgroup.com/en-gb/hospitality/access-collins-booking-system), retrieved on 26 September 2026: "From £149 per month, per site" and commission "0% - keep every penny". That is a starting figure, not a tier and not a total — the full Access Collins Evo price list sits behind a form on Access's page, so we cannot state it and we are not guessing it. It is also per site rather than per business: a two-site operator starts at twice that figure and a five-site group at five times it, before anything Access quotes on top. Access states no VAT basis for it, and our UK prices are quoted excluding VAT, so read every gap below as list against list rather than tax-adjusted. Access's page also carries its own note — "Based on publicly available information. Accurate as of June 2026" — which is Access's date on Access's own comparison content; the date this page stands behind is 26 September 2026, when we read it. The 2017 acquisition detail comes from designmynight.com/frequently-asked-questions, read the same day. "Not stated" in the table means Access does not state it on the page we read, not that Access Collins Evo lacks it: the feature detail is behind the same form as the pricing. Plans change — confirm current terms with Access directly, and ask for the per-site total for the number of sites you run. TableNest prices are from £29 GBP a month per venue, published in full at tablenest.app.

Per site. Access's figure is "£149 per month, per site", so it is a starting price for one site, not for your business. Two sites start at twice it, five at five times it, and that is before whatever the lead-gated tiers add for the features a particular venue needs. TableNest is also priced per venue — from £29 GBP a month — so the useful comparison is not one number against another but your site count multiplied by both. Run that multiplication before you sit through a demo: at a starting £149 per site the gap against our ladder is large for one venue and grows with every venue you add. Every Access Collins figure here comes from The Access Group's own product page (theaccessgroup.com/en-gb/hospitality/access-collins-booking-system), retrieved on 26 September 2026: "From £149 per month, per site" and commission "0% - keep every penny". That is a starting figure, not a tier and not a total — the full Access Collins Evo price list sits behind a form on Access's page, so we cannot state it and we are not guessing it. It is also per site rather than per business: a two-site operator starts at twice that figure and a five-site group at five times it, before anything Access quotes on top. Access states no VAT basis for it, and our UK prices are quoted excluding VAT, so read every gap below as list against list rather than tax-adjusted. Access's page also carries its own note — "Based on publicly available information. Accurate as of June 2026" — which is Access's date on Access's own comparison content; the date this page stands behind is 26 September 2026, when we read it. The 2017 acquisition detail comes from designmynight.com/frequently-asked-questions, read the same day. "Not stated" in the table means Access does not state it on the page we read, not that Access Collins Evo lacks it: the feature detail is behind the same form as the pricing. Plans change — confirm current terms with Access directly, and ask for the per-site total for the number of sites you run. TableNest prices are from £29 GBP a month per venue, published in full at tablenest.app.

Sometimes, yes, and we would rather say so than win an evaluation you will regret. Access Collins is enterprise UK hospitality software sold per site to pub and restaurant groups — Access names Fuller's, Boxpark, Mitchells and Butlers, Croeso Pubs, The Laine Pub Company, The Scotsman Group, Wahaca and We Are Bar on its own page — and it comes bundled with a consumer audience of up to 3.9 million monthly visitors on DesignMyNight. If you run five sites, want one vendor across bookings and ticketing, or want your tables filled from a discovery platform, that is a genuinely better fit and TableNest cannot match it at any price. TableNest is for independent venues that want the whole price published, a flat monthly subscription per venue with no contract, and the operational kit — Square POS sync, Xero invoicing, deposits, vouchers and events — on the standard ladder rather than quoted.

No, and no comparable discovery network either. TableNest takes bookings on your own website, your own Instagram link and your own Google Business Profile listing, and every guest record stays yours to export. What it does not do is put you in front of diners who were browsing somewhere else — that is what the DesignMyNight half of Access's offer buys, and it is a real thing we do not sell.

Yes, and the import does not depend on any one vendor's export layout. Export your customers and upcoming bookings as CSV and TableNest maps the columns by header name — name, email, phone, visit count, notes and dietary preferences. Existing customers matched on email or phone are updated rather than duplicated. Swapping the booking widget on your website is a single line of embed code. Check your own notice period before you move: ours is none, and a per-site contract elsewhere may not be.