TableNest vs Hostme

Both are flat-fee booking and table-management platforms rather than commission marketplaces, and both publish their prices, so the comparison is unusually clean. The difference is what the flat fee covers. TableNest's Starter at $29, Business at $49 and Pro at $69 AUD a month carries a two-way Square POS sync, Xero invoicing, deposits, vouchers, events and the public REST API on the standard ladder, with a monthly message count on top. Hostme's ladder is built around reservations, waitlist and table management with per-cover pricing on its discovery integrations. Hostme figures are taken from Hostme's own Australian pricing page (hostmeapp.com/pricing/au), fetched 26 September 2026, and are the monthly-billed list rates. Hostme's plan cards show the annual-billed equivalent instead (AUD$143 and AUD$224 a month, its own "Annual plan. 10% discount"), so check which one a quote is using. Hostme states no GST or VAT basis anywhere on that page, and our Australian prices include GST — so every difference below is list against list, not tax-adjusted. Plans and add-ons change; confirm current terms with Hostme directly.

Hostme publishes its Australian prices, which is more than most of this category does. Its two named plans are Mezzo at AUD$159 a month and Grande at AUD$249 a month, billed monthly, with a third "Enterprise" tier quoted only on request and pitched at operators with ten or more venues. TableNest's ladder in the same market is Starter at $29, Business at $49 and Pro at $69 AUD a month, flat. Both sides also publish a free start with no card asked for: two weeks at Hostme, 30 days at TableNest. Hostme figures are taken from Hostme's own Australian pricing page (hostmeapp.com/pricing/au), fetched 26 September 2026, and are the monthly-billed list rates. Hostme's plan cards show the annual-billed equivalent instead (AUD$143 and AUD$224 a month, its own "Annual plan. 10% discount"), so check which one a quote is using. Hostme states no GST or VAT basis anywhere on that page, and our Australian prices include GST — so every difference below is list against list, not tax-adjusted. Plans and add-ons change; confirm current terms with Hostme directly.

In Australia Hostme charges for messaging per message: its plan cards read "AUD$0.08 for each text and SMS". TableNest's plans carry a monthly message count instead — 120 messages a month on Starter, 240 on Business, with no charge per message until you pass them. Every send counts the same way on our side, so a confirmation plus a 24-hour reminder is two. Email confirmations are never counted or capped on TableNest.

Hostme's Australian plans are flat monthly fees with no per-cover commission on the booking itself, so on the core product this is close to a tie. Two of its integrations are the exception and they are priced per cover: its feature table lists TripAdvisor at AUD$2.5/cover and Michelin Guide at AUD$2.5/cover. TableNest has no per-cover charge of any kind, and no discovery-network integration to attach one to — which is also the honest limitation: if being bookable from TripAdvisor or the Michelin Guide is worth a per-cover fee to you, Hostme sells that and we do not. Hostme figures are taken from Hostme's own Australian pricing page (hostmeapp.com/pricing/au), fetched 26 September 2026, and are the monthly-billed list rates. Hostme's plan cards show the annual-billed equivalent instead (AUD$143 and AUD$224 a month, its own "Annual plan. 10% discount"), so check which one a quote is using. Hostme states no GST or VAT basis anywhere on that page, and our Australian prices include GST — so every difference below is list against list, not tax-adjusted. Plans and add-ons change; confirm current terms with Hostme directly.

Yes. Export your customers and upcoming bookings as CSV and TableNest's import maps the columns by header name — name, email, phone, visit count, notes and dietary preferences — so it does not depend on any one vendor's export layout. Existing customers matched on email or phone are updated rather than duplicated. The booking widget swap is a single embed-code line on your website.