NowBookIt alternative: TableNest vs NowBookIt

It depends on what keeps you on Now Book It. If it is the price and the contract, TableNest publishes flat monthly prices with GST included, from $29 AUD, month-to-month with no lock-in and no per-booking commission. If it is a point-of-sale system other than Square, or an AI phone receptionist, Now Book It lists both and TableNest offers neither, so compare other options before you move. Already decided? The switch-from-NowBookIt guide covers notice periods and migration.

TableNest and Now Book It are both Australian-built booking systems for hospitality venues. Now Book It publishes no pricing; the one figure we hold is an invoice from July 2026 charging a single Australian venue A$219 a month all-in, against TableNest's pricing from $29 AUD per month. Free-RSVP events come with all TableNest plans, while Square POS sync, Xero invoicing, deposits and vouchers come on Business and above, not at the starting price. There is no per-booking commission and no per-channel marketplace fee.

Now Book It publishes no pricing, so the only figure we will stand behind is one we were actually charged. A Now Book It invoice dated July 2026 bills A$199 a month before GST — A$219 a month all-in once GST and the payment-processing fee are added. TableNest's Australian prices already include GST, so the all-in figure is the one to put beside Starter at $29, Business at $49 and Pro at $69 AUD — a flat subscription, with email confirmations unlimited and SMS allocated by tier. It does not cover everything Now Book It sells: the table below marks where Now Book It is ahead, including point-of-sale systems other than Square and an AI phone receptionist. That venue moved to the Business plan and its monthly bill fell by A$170. It is TableNest's founder's own venue, so read it as our own case study rather than an independent customer's. Now Book It publishes no pricing, so this is not a rate card. A$219 a month all-in is what Now Book It invoiced one Australian venue in July 2026 — TableNest's founder, for his own venue, as a Now Book It customer: A$199 a month before GST, A$219 a month all-in once GST and the payment-processing fee are added. TableNest's Australian prices include GST, so the all-in figure is the like-for-like one. That invoice also bills a 90-day cancellation notice period, covering two months after the venue had stopped using the platform. One venue's invoice is not everyone's price — your own quote may differ, so confirm current terms with Now Book It directly.

Yes. Export customer and upcoming-booking CSVs from Now Book It and use TableNest's CSV import to map name, email, phone, visit count, notes and dietary preferences. The import runs duplicate detection. Setting your venue up in TableNest takes about 10 minutes; the import is a separate step after that, and the booking widget's embed code is a single line of HTML that goes on your site with your website's usual deploy. The widget starts taking bookings once a card is on file.

Yes. Now Book It lists Square among the point-of-sale systems on its integrations page, and its Square page describes sending sales data to Now Book It at completion of sale, redeeming Now Book It gift cards in Square, and allocating deposits to tables in the POS (checked 2 November 2026). TableNest ships a named Square POS sync on the Business plan and up — confirmed bookings flow out into Square as customer records and draft tickets, and the one thing that comes back is status: cancel, decline or no-show a TableNest booking inside Square and the TableNest booking updates to match. It does not read your Square orders, tickets or spend, and does not import customers or bookings created in Square, so if you want Square sales on the guest profile, that is a Now Book It strength. No connector fee, no add-on subscription.

TableNest is built for the broader Australian hospitality market — restaurants, cafes, bars, cellar doors, breweries and salons. Vertical templates pre-fill opening hours, event types, deposit defaults and run-sheet layout for each venue type. A cellar door running tour slots and group bookings uses the same platform as a Saturday-brunch cafe.