Bookings & payments,
handled.
From a corner café to a busy restaurant, a compact soft play to a big play warehouse — tables for some, timed sessions for others, all in one diary. Deposits and payments land straight in your own Stripe, Square or SumUp — nuvelo never takes a cut of your sales and never charges per cover. Just a flat monthly fee, and that's the whole bill.
Per-cover and per-booking platforms quietly bill a slice of every table — that scales with your success. On a busy book it runs to four figures a year. nuvelo is £29–£99 a month, flat, whatever your covers.
Restaurants & bars
Tables, time slots and a real floor plan. Seat every party at the smallest table that fits — a pair never ties up a table meant for six.
Cafés & coffee shops
Take deposits on the busy weekend covers, send day-before reminders, and drop a "Book now" button straight onto your own site.
Soft play & family venues
Timed sessions with child-capacity limits, per-child pricing and birthday party packages. When it's full, it's full — no oversold Saturdays. Built for soft play →
Everything a booking desk does,
without the booking desk
Take the booking
Online, on the phone, or off the streetTables & time slots
Set your tables and hours once. We offer the right slots and seat each party at the smallest table that fits.
Choose-your-table floor plan
Drag your tables into place, and guests book the exact seat they want — window included.
Widgets for your site
A quick copy-and-paste puts "Book now" on your own website, in your accent colour (or just share your booking link).
Waitlist
Fully booked? Guests join online. When a table frees, text them "your table's ready" and seat them in a tap.
Soft play, your way
Timed sessions with capacity limits and per-child pricing, plus birthday party packages with add-ons — book out the whole floor for a private party, or share the session.
Guests manage their own booking
Move the time or cancel from a link in the confirmation — so the phone stops ringing in the middle of service.
Get paid
Your Stripe, Square or SumUp — we never touch the moneyDeposits via Stripe, Square or SumUp
Per-person, flat or full prepayment — your call, per venue. Unpaid bookings release their slot after a hold window you set.
Order & pay at the table
Turn any table into a QR: guests scan, order, tip and pay from their phone. No app to download.
Running tabs & split bills
Staff open a tab and ring items as they go, then hand over a pay link the whole table can split.
Fill more tables, keep more guests
The bits big platforms charge extra forGuest book
Every guest remembered — visits, spend, tags like "nut allergy" or "VIP" pop up on the booking.
No-show protection
Save the guest's card at booking and only charge a fee if they don't turn up.
Reminders that cut no-shows
An automatic day-before text and email nudges the guest to turn up — or cancel in time so you can rebook the table.
See all 30 features →Waivers, memberships, vouchers, loyalty, ticketed events, split bills, reports, the API and more.
If something breaks. The platform is watched around the clock — automated checks run every minute and raise anything unusual straight away, so you are not the one who has to notice. Report a problem from inside your admin and you get an email acknowledging it straight away — and another when it's fixed. Anything affecting bookings or payments is treated as urgent rather than queued; other fixes ship in a regular overnight update. Questions, rather than faults, go to [email protected].
Emails that look like you. Confirmations, reminders and receipts carry your logo and venue name, not ours.
Built for everyone. Guests who use a keyboard or a screen reader can book just as easily — choosing a table on the floor plan included.
Your data is yours. Anyone can export or delete their own data in a click, and if you ever leave, everything leaves with you.
Texting, no surprises. Paid plans include a monthly text allowance per venue — 400 on Pro, 500 on Complete (sent and received both count). Past that, we simply send the email instead, at no charge — unless you opt in to keep texting at 8p a message. Bulk marketing texts are priced per message, shown before you send.
