Built together. Side by side.

Your guests reserve a table. You don’t pay a cent.

Table reservations and ticketed seating for restaurants, wineries and event venues that would rather not pay for the privilege. Card processing stays in your own Stripe account.

Talk to us about your venue See it work

The floor map on a phone: round and rectangular tables around a tasting counter, one selected, with Hold table 3 ready to press

Cedar & Vine is an example venue.

No cost to your venue

The booking fee is the guest’s, and they see it before they pay.

Bougie Booking charges your venue nothing — no subscription, no per-cover fee, no setup fee, no contract. Card processing stays in your own Stripe account, exactly as it is today.

No subscription: There is no monthly plan to choose and nothing to cancel.
No per-cover fee: A full room costs you the same as an empty one: nothing.
No contract: Nothing to sign for a term. Stop whenever you like.
Your own Stripe: You are the merchant of record. Your money lands in your account; card processing comes out of it as it does on any card sale.

Your guests pay a $1.50 + 3.5% per person booking fee, shown to them before they pay.

Most booking platforms charge venues a subscription, a per-cover fee, or both.

How it works

Pick a table. Hold it. Pay up front.

Pick a table

Guests see your room as it is — the stage, the bar, the patio — and choose their table on the map or from a list. The same tables, either way.

Cedar & Vine is an example venue we made up for these screens. Your room and your name go here.
Hold it for ten minutes

A hold takes the table off the map for everyone else while they fill in their details. A countdown keeps it honest, and they can hold it again if it runs out.
Pay up front

Checkout is Stripe’s. A booking is confirmed only when Stripe says it is paid, so the room can never be oversold and nobody walks on a held table.

At the door

They give a name. Your door list finds them on a phone, marks them in, and shows what they prepaid.

The door list on a phone in its dark theme: the show, a Synced pill and 0 of 3 parties in at the top, then the first booking in full — Avery Lin, table 3, party of 4, $180.00 prepaid F&B — with its Check in button and its food-and-drink toggle, and the next name starting below it

What your venue gets

Draw your room once. Publish a show in minutes.

The room builder on a desktop: a snap grid with tables, a tasting counter, the entrance and restrooms placed on it

Cedar & Vine is an example venue we made up for these screens. Your room and your name go here.

A floor plan editor: tables, the stage, the bar, the entrance, the restrooms, snapped to a grid.
Shows with a prepaid minimum or a ticket price, a cutoff, and tables kept back for walk-ins.
A door list that works on a phone in a dark room, with no-shows released on a timer you set.
Bookings and money in one place, in your own Stripe account, with your own disputes and refunds.

Who it is for

Rooms where the table is the point.

Restaurants with live music

Keep the door free to walk in and sell the guaranteed table with a prepaid minimum.

Wineries and tasting rooms

Flights, pairings and patio seats, booked by the table, paid before the pour.

Event centres and private venues

Ticketed evenings with a seat count, a cutoff and a door list that knows who paid.

Breweries, supper clubs, jazz and comedy rooms

One room, one night, every table accounted for.

See it work

Book a table in a room that does not exist.

This is a demonstration. Nothing here is a real reservation, no card is asked for, and nothing is charged.

What it costs

Nothing, for the venue.

Your guests pay a $1.50 + 3.5% per person booking fee. You pay Bougie Booking nothing. Card processing comes out of your Stripe account, as it does on any card sale.

Most booking platforms charge venues a subscription, a per-cover fee, or both.

No cost to your venue

A party of four at $27.50 a head

$0

What your venue pays Bougie Booking. Card processing stays in your own Stripe account, as on any card sale.

Prepaid minimum (4 × $27.50): $110.00
Booking fee ($1.50 + 3.5% per person × 4): $9.84
The guest pays: $119.84
Your venue receives: $110.00, less Stripe’s card processing
You pay Bougie Booking: $0.00

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How it compares

The same night, four ways to sell it.

What a venue pays each option to sell a ticketed night, from each one’s published pricing. Card processing is left out of every column; with Bougie Booking it stays in your own Stripe account.

Venue costs for Bougie Booking compared with three other ways to sell a ticketed night
Cost	Bougie Booking	A reservation network	A reservation & ticketing platform	An event-ticketing marketplace
Monthly subscription	$0	$149–$499	$289–$459 on plans that sell tickets	$0
Per-cover fee	$0	$1–$1.50 per cover booked through its network	None	None
Fee on prepaid tickets	$0 to the venue. Guests pay $1.50 + 3.5% per person, shown before they pay	2% service fee	2–3% of prepayments	3.7% + $1.79 per ticket, paid by buyers by default, plus 2.9% payment processing
Contract	None	One year, auto-renews	Not published	None to start
One 75-seat dinner at $200 a ticket: what the venue pays the platform	$0. Guests pay $8.50 a ticket in fees	$300 (2%) plus the monthly plan	$450 at 3%, or $300 at 2%, plus the monthly plan	$0 by default. Buyers pay $9.19 a ticket in fees

Card processing is not included; with Bougie Booking it comes out of your own Stripe account, as on any card sale. Figures are from each company’s own published pricing page, checked September 2026, for the plans that sell prepaid tickets. Plans and fees change, so confirm with the provider.

Talk to us

Tell us about your room.

We set each venue up by hand for now — the floor plan, the first show, your Stripe account. Say a little about your room and we will come prepared.