About Bookable

We built the problem we're now solving.

Before Bookable, we ran hospitality marketplaces — real ones, at real scale. The bookings worked. The plumbing didn't. So we built it.

The Bookings Group London · UK Est. 2024

Before Bookable, we ran hospitality marketplaces. Real ones, at real scale — sending tens of millions of pounds in bookings to venues every year. It should have been a good story. In many ways it was. But behind the numbers was a workflow that, frankly, embarrassed us.

We were sending those bookings by email.

Every reservation, every party of twelve, every deposit-backed Saturday night — delivered to a restaurant inbox, to be keyed into a table management system by a host who was already dealing with arrivals, walk-ins, and a ringing phone. The bookings landed. The revenue was real. But the operational admin we were creating for our venue partners was enormous, and the experience for guests was held together by people working harder than they should have to.

Moment 01

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        Dear Restaurant,
         
        We've just taken a booking for eight
        people on Saturday at 8pm.
        Deposit paid. Could you confirm?
         
        — bookaparty.com
        booking #47,128
      

01. Every booking was an email. Every email became a task for the host. ···

The other half of the problem was availability. Knowing when a venue was fully booked. Knowing when they were closed. Knowing which shifts they actually wanted bookings for, which ones they didn't, and when any of that changed.

We spent an extraordinary amount of time managing this by hand — chasing updates, reconciling calendars, apologising when we got it wrong. And we were one marketplace. Every venue we worked with had the same conversation running in parallel with a dozen other partners.

Moment 02

09:14 · tueAre you open Friday?

09:41 · tueYes — take bookings til 10.

14:07 · wedActually fully booked that night.

08:22 · friWait — we have 2 tables left.

16:52 · friCan you confirm a party of 6 tonight?

… and we're one partnerof twelve asking the same thing.

02. Availability, managed by goodwill and the reply-all button. thread · 6 messages

We kept waiting for someone to fix it. The integration layer between distribution and the table management systems venues actually run on — Collins, SevenRooms, ResDiary, Zonal — just didn't exist in any usable form. Not as a product. Not as a standard. Not as something a marketplace or an events platform or a concierge service could plug into and trust.

So we built it.

Moment 03

partners venues

One integration. Real-time availability. Nobody retyping anything.

03. The connectivity layer we wish we'd had. always on

Bookable is the connectivity layer we wished we'd had. A single API that speaks to the table management systems venues already use, with availability, booking creation, deposits, and commission handled properly — not by email, not by spreadsheet, not by goodwill.

Venues stay in the system they've trained their teams on. Partners get real-time availability and clean booking flows. Nobody retypes anything.

We know this problem from both sides of the inbox. That's why we're building it the way we are.

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