Online bookings for New Zealand venues, flat monthly pricing
TableNest is a flat-rate online booking system for independent hospitality venues in New Zealand: an embeddable booking widget for your own site, email and SMS confirmations, a printable run sheet, a guest CRM, deposits, gift vouchers and ticketed events. Three plans, $29 / $59 / $89 NZD a month, flat, with no per-cover fee, no per-booking commission and no contract. In New Zealand the Starter plan confirms and reminds by email, which is unmetered, and SMS sending begins at the Business plan. The published New Zealand tiers we hold a dated source for run roughly NZ$120, NZ$186 and NZ$254 a month, tiered on booking volume, so their price climbs as a venue gets busier and ours does not: a quiet cellar door and a busy bistro pay the same here. Signup is open in New Zealand today, billing runs in NZD, and a trial runs 30 days on whichever plan you pick.
What booking software costs a New Zealand venue
The published New Zealand pricing we hold a dated source for is tiered on booking volume: roughly NZ$120 a month at the bottom, NZ$186 in the middle and NZ$254 at the top. Volume-tiered pricing has a specific consequence for a small venue: a good season moves you up a tier, so the software gets dearer exactly when you are busiest. TableNest's ladder is $29 / $59 / $89 NZD a month and the tiers are about FEATURES, not volume - take 40 bookings a week or 400 and the plan price does not move. The competitor figures on this page are one vendor's published New Zealand tiers as at September 2026: roughly NZ$120, NZ$186 and NZ$254 a month, tiered on booking volume. They are a dated observation, not a current rate card, so confirm terms with the vendor before you decide. Not every alternative is dearer: at least one New Zealand option is free but ad-supported with no support, and another bundles bookings into an all-in-one point-of-sale, so the comparison that matters is what you are buying rather than the headline number. TableNest's own prices on this page are generated from the same configuration that bills your card.
The entry plan in New Zealand is email-only, and that is deliberate
Here is the one real difference between the New Zealand plans and the Australian ones, stated plainly rather than buried: the Starter plan in New Zealand does not send SMS at all. It is not a configuration we have not finished - it is a permanent decision about that tier in this market, and the allowance is zero rather than small. What the Starter plan does do is email: confirmations, reminders and cancellation links, unmetered, with the same widget, run sheet, guest CRM and events as the tiers above it. For a venue whose guests book by email that is the whole job. If you need texting, the Business plan at $59 NZD a month is where it starts, and you can move plans mid-trial once you have seen how your guests actually behave.
Email confirmations, and where texting is worth paying for
Email confirmations and reminders are unmetered on all plans and never draw on a message count, so the cheapest plan is a complete booking system rather than a trial of one. Where SMS earns its cost is the 24-hour reminder: a text is read in minutes where an email can sit unopened until after service, which is why no-show reduction is the one job most venues buy texting for. Monthly message allowances on the plans that can send are 140 / 240, and one booking typically uses one or two messages depending on whether reminders are on. Each message type can be switched between SMS and email in Settings, per venue, so you spend the allowance only where it changes an outcome.
Cellar doors, lodges and tour slots
A large share of New Zealand hospitality is not a 7pm dinner service. Cellar doors sell tastings in fixed slots with a per-head charge, lodges and tour operators sell a capped number of spots on a departure, and both need a deposit taken at the time of booking rather than a credit card held on file. TableNest's event and ticketed-session tools cover exactly that shape: fixed capacity per slot, prepayment through your own Stripe or Square account, a guest list that prints as a run sheet, and a cancellation window you set yourself. Vertical templates pre-fill opening hours, event types, deposit defaults and run-sheet layout, so a cellar door and a Saturday bistro start from different sensible settings rather than the same blank page.
What proof we can show you, and what we cannot
Plainly: the testimonials published on this site are Australian venues. There is no New Zealand case study here because there is not an honest one to show. What is already true in New Zealand is checkable: signup is open, billing runs in NZD through the New Zealand Stripe prices, the New Zealand plan structure above is the live one, and the product is the same build Australian venues run every service. Being early on a platform is a real risk and we are not going to argue you out of it; the 30-day trial exists so the question costs you an afternoon instead of a year.
Where TableNest is the wrong choice
If your bookings arrive mainly through a consumer marketplace, TableNest will not replace that demand - it is booking software, not a channel, and you should keep paying whoever brings you covers. A group with its own revenue-management team and bespoke POS middleware should buy an enterprise platform. Venues that need dynamic per-slot pricing, table-level revenue forecasting, or a points-and-tiers loyalty program will not find those here. And if texting on the cheapest plan is non-negotiable for you, say so early: in New Zealand that is the Business plan, not the entry one, and no amount of asking will change the entry tier.
Common questions
Can a New Zealand venue actually sign up today?
Yes. Signup and billing are open in New Zealand and have been since September 2026 - this is not a waiting list. You create an account, set your floor, hours and services, import a guest list and embed the widget on your own site. Billing runs in NZD on the New Zealand prices shown on this page, and the trial runs 30 days on whichever plan you pick.
What does TableNest cost in NZD?
$29 / $59 / $89 NZD a month for the Starter, Business and Pro plans respectively, billed monthly and cancellable from the dashboard. Annual billing takes two months off the yearly figure. The tiers differ by feature rather than by booking volume, so the price does not climb when a season goes well. Every figure on this page is generated from the same configuration that bills your card, so the page cannot quote a number the checkout disagrees with.
Does the entry plan send text messages in New Zealand?
No, and that is permanent rather than pending. The Starter plan in New Zealand is email-only: the allowance is zero, not small. Email confirmations, reminders and cancellation links are unmetered on it, and it carries the same widget, run sheet, guest CRM and events as the plans above. Texting starts on the Business plan at $59 NZD a month, on allowances of 140 / 240 messages. You can change plan at any point, including during the trial.
Do you charge per cover, per booking or a commission?
No - none of the three. The monthly subscription is the entire cost of the software, whether you take 40 bookings a week or 400. Deposits and voucher payments run through your own Stripe or Square account, so those processing fees are the processor's published rates and are paid to the processor rather than to us. The only thing that can add to a TableNest bill is SMS beyond the monthly message count on a plan that sends, which is opt-in and shown in the dashboard before it applies.
Is TableNest a New Zealand company, and who holds my guest data?
Operated by Fyrge Lab Pty Ltd. That is stated rather than implied: we are not a New Zealand company with a New Zealand office. Your guest records are yours - exportable to CSV from the dashboard at any time, not resold, and not used to market a marketplace back to your guests. If you leave, you take the guest list with you.
What proof can you show from a New Zealand venue?
None published, and we are not going to invent one. We will not name or quote a venue that has not agreed to it, so what you can check is this: the testimonials published on this site are Australian venues, and we hold no New Zealand case study. The product itself is one build: a New Zealand venue runs exactly the code Australian venues run, with NZD billing and the New Zealand plan structure on top. The 30-day trial is how you check that for yourself.
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