A ResDiary alternative with one price, not a menu of add-ons

A big, genuinely global operator

ResDiary's own site backs its scale with real numbers rather than a vague claim: "over 10,000 venues across the globe," operating in 60 countries, more than 20 years in the category and 70-plus technology integrations. This page is not arguing they are small or unproven. They plainly are not.

The comparison below is not about size. It is about where the price and the function-enquiry tool actually sit.

The core price, and the menu next to it

Their pricing page names four tiers and says they "offer the same core features... with the only difference being the number of bookings per plan," with no figure shown against any of them. The listed path to a number is "Book a Free Demo," the same sales-led pattern as most of this category.

What the same page does price is nine separate add-ons: Gift Vouchers, SMS, POS integration, ResPhone (bookings by phone), Event Manager, PMS integration, CRM/Marketing, Group Central Reservations and Pre-orders, each US$20 to US$70 a month, on top of whichever core plan you are quoted.

Ours works the other way around. Every number is published, each add-on is A$14.99 or A$29 a month, and Venue Pro includes all of them.

What "events, enquiries and large party bookings" costs extra

Event Manager is ResDiary's own name for the module that handles this, and their own description of it is close to word for word what our enquiry inbox does: "one system that seamlessly handles your events, enquiries and large party bookings." It is a real, capable module once purchased, with its own enquiry widget, run sheets and a link through to deposits. It is also a separate line item, US$70 a month, on top of a core plan whose price you do not know yet.

Ours comes with Venue Growth at A$99 and every plan above it, with no module to add and no separate line on the invoice. Above your online party limit, the booking page swaps the time grid for an enquiry form, and the guest's message becomes a real thread in the same inbox as your bookings, ready to convert into a held reservation from the same screen.

This is not a claim that one does more than the other. It is a claim about which invoice it turns up on.

Building the floor yourself

We could not find a documented way to build a run of tables in one action anywhere on ResDiary's own site. We build a whole run of tables in one action instead: name them, set the seat range once, and up to 50 land on the floor at a time, auto-arranged and ready to drag into place.