Features
Everything the host stand needs. Nothing you will not use.
Reservations, tables, waitlist, guest book, emails and no-show protection. Built for one restaurant at a time, priced flat.
Online booking page
A booking page guests finish in thirty seconds
Your restaurant gets a fast, mobile-first page: date, party size, live times, done. Link it from your website, Google Business Profile and Instagram bio. Guests never make an account and never see anyone's brand but yours.
- Live availability from your real tables and turn times
- Confirmation screen with manage link and calendar file
- Special requests and occasions captured at booking
The Copper Kettle
Modern American · King Street · $$
Date
Thursday, July 2
Free cancellation until 3 hours before
Availability engine
Times you can actually seat, nothing else
You set the rules once: service periods, slot interval, turn times by party size, a pacing cap so the kitchen never gets fifteen tickets at 7:00. The engine only offers a time when a real table is free for the whole turn.
- Covers pacing per slot, so the kitchen keeps up
- Turn times by party size, closures by date
- Booking window and same-day cutoff you control
House availability rules
Every online slot is checked against all of these.
- Slot interval
- 15 min
- Turn time · party of 2
- 90 min
- Turn time · party of 4
- 105 min
- Turn time · party of 6+
- 120 min
- Max covers per slot
- 14
- Online cutoff
- 60 min before
- Advance window
- 30 days
Floor plan and tables
Your room, drawn once
Name your tables, set seat ranges, group them by area. The host stand and the availability engine both run off the same floor, so what the guest can book is what the host can seat.
Main room
Waitlist
Walk-ins without the clipboard
Quote a wait, add the party, mark them notified when the table is close. The waitlist sits under tonight's timeline, so the host never juggles two lists.
Waitlist
3 parties · 8 covers
- 1Patel×215 minNotified
- 2Brooks×425 minWaiting
- 3Ito×235 minWaiting
Guest book
Know who is walking in before they reach the stand
Every reservation builds the record: visits, no-shows, allergies, seating preferences, occasions. Tag your regulars, greet the anniversary table properly, and keep all of it when you leave. It exports to CSV free, forever.
- Visit and no-show history per guest
- Tags, dietary notes and preferences
- Yours to export, never sold or shared
Naomi Chen
naomi.c@example.com
14
visits
0
no-shows
Jun 18
last visit
DietaryShellfish allergy
NotesAnniversary in October. Prefers Barolo.
Your guest book exports to CSV free, any time. It leaves with you.
Confirmations and reminders
Emails that quietly cut no-shows
Guests get a clean confirmation with a manage link and a calendar file, then a reminder the day before. Cancellations release the table instantly. No built-in SMS yet; the manage link texts fine from any phone.
- Confirmation with .ics calendar attachment
- Day-before reminder
- Guest self-service cancel inside your cutoff
From The Copper Kettle
To naomi.c@example.com
Your table on Thursday, July 2 at 6:45 PM
Naomi, your table for 2 is set for Thursday, July 2 at 6:45 PM.
Free cancellation until 3:45 PM on the day. Reply to reach the restaurant.
No-show protection
The Saturday six-top that ghosts you now pays for the table
Full House plan: require a card hold at booking, at the fee you set. Show-ups never notice. No-shows get charged in one click, and 100% of the fee lands in your restaurant's own Stripe account. No middleman cut, no platform lock-in.
- You set the fee per guest
- Stripe card hold at booking, disclosed to the diner
- Charged in one click when you mark the no-show
Whitfield · party of 6
Sat · 7:30 PM · Table P1
Charged in one click through your connected Stripe account. 100% goes to your restaurant; we take nothing.
The host stand
Tonight's service on one screen
A timeline of every party: booked, seated, finished, late. Covers and pacing at the top, waitlist at the bottom, one tap to change any status. It works on the cheap tablet already at the stand.
- Seat, complete or mark a no-show in one tap
- Live covers count for the kitchen
- Walk-ins and reservations in one list
Thursday, July 2
84 covers · 31 reservations
- 5:30Alvarez×2T4Seated
- 6:00Chen×4T12Seated
- 6:15Okafor×2B2Booked
- 6:45WhitfieldHold×6P1Booked
- 7:00Marsh×3T7Booked
Embeddable widget
Bookings on your own website
Paste one snippet and the booking page runs inside your site. Same live availability, same confirmation flow, your domain front and center.
Embed on your site
HTML<iframe src="https://tablehelm.com/r/copper-kettle?embed=1" style="width:100%;max-width:420px;height:640px;border:0" title="Reserve a table"> </iframe>
Exports
Your data, in a file, today
Guests, reservations and history download as CSV from settings on every plan, including Free. No export fee, no support ticket, no retention games.
guests.csv
1,204 rows
name,email,visits,no_shows,tags,dietary Naomi Chen,naomi.c@example.com,14,0,"regular;window seat",shellfish allergy Marcus Whitfield,m.whit@example.com,3,1,large parties, Priya Patel,priya.p@example.com,7,0,regular,vegetarian
Feature questions
Asked before switching
A time is offered only when your rules all pass: the date is open, the party size fits your limits, the slot is inside your booking window and cutoff, the covers pacing cap for that slot is not exceeded, and a real table of the right size is free for the full turn time. No overbooking by design.
See it with your own tables
Set up your floor and service periods in minutes. Free forever for one location.