Flat-fee bookings like ResDiary, plus the rest of the venue
ResDiary and Hendra One both charge a flat fee with nothing per cover, so the comparison comes down to what the fee pays for. Ours covers the diary plus guest emails, food safety records, rotas and maintenance, for £100 a site.
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What ResDiary gets right
ResDiary is a mature reservation system and a capable one. If it were the wrong tool, nobody would be looking up comparisons with it.
Flat-fee pricing
Mature table management
Established integrations
Group features
Hendra One and ResDiary, side by side
The top rows compare price and bookings like for like. Most of the rest is what a venue on ResDiary would need separate subscriptions for.
| At a glance | Hendra One | ResDiary |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | £100 per site per month, published, with everything included | Flat monthly plans, priced on request through a form (October 2026) |
| Per-cover fees | None. We never charge per cover | None |
| Charge on deposits | Nothing of ours; your card provider’s fee only | A published 1.2% surcharge on deposits and payments (October 2026) |
| Bookings and table management | Included. Table combinations, pacing, turn times, your own widget, waitlist, pre-orders and deposits | Included. This is what ResDiary is built around |
| Guest CRM and automated marketing | Included. One guest database, 8 automation triggers, vouchers and a campaign builder | Guest database and some marketing tools; email marketing depth varies by plan |
| Food safety compliance (SFBB) | Included. Digital SFBB, EHO inspection mode and escalations | Not part of the product |
| Fire log, accident book, COSHH | Included | Not part of the product |
| Maintenance and equipment register | Included | Not part of the product |
| Rotas, labour costs, holidays, HR | Included | Not part of the product |
| Contract | No minimum term, and you can export your data whenever you like | Varies by plan, so check current terms |
ResDiary details are from its published materials and third-party listings as of August 2026, with its pricing re-checked on its own website on 26 October 2026, and may change: confirm current pricing and features with the vendor before deciding.
The diary, with the room set up once
Tables that join, turn times and how many arrivals the kitchen can take, on a busy night at one of our demo venues.
On the Bramblewood Arms, our demo pub
What changes when the diary is part of the same system
Every tool bought on the side brings its own login and its own staff list, and before long they disagree about who still works there. One system saves a few subscriptions. It also means the marketing works from the diary’s guest list, and the rota is written with the bookings in view.
One guest record for bookings and marketing
Compliance in the same login
One price, on the website
The rota can see the covers
Choosing between ResDiary and Hendra One
If a reservation system is all you are after, ResDiary is a sound choice. ResDiary pricing is a flat monthly fee rather than a charge per cover, so the things to weigh are the plan you are quoted and the 1.2% it publishes on deposits. What is left to compare is how much of the venue each system covers, and what the parts ResDiary leaves out will cost you in extra subscriptions and in data that never joins up.
A restaurant or pub that uses ResDiary for bookings and wants the rest of the venue on a screen adds an email tool, a food safety app, a rota tool and an HR product, and often keeps maintenance in a spreadsheet. At the prices those vendors published in October 2026, the four of them cost a site with 25 staff more each month than Hendra One does for everything, and each keeps its own login and its own permissions. The gap shows on an ordinary Tuesday. The diary has a regular booked in at seven. Unless someone has connected the tools, the email tool cannot tell whether they had lapsed, and the food safety app has no idea who is on shift to sign the diary.
We built Hendra One as one system because a venue is one operation, and the person taking bookings on the phone may well be the one signing off the fridge checks an hour later. If the diary is the only thing you want fixed, compare ResDiary vs Hendra One on the diary and pacing alone. That comparison is £100 a site as well, with no volume tier above it, and it is a fair test of whether Hendra One is the ResDiary alternative for you.
What is in each part, in detail: bookings, guest CRM and marketing, compliance, rotas and HR and pricing.
Moving over without a gap in the diary
We move your bookings across
And your guest list
You pick the day
Switching from ResDiary?
Send us ResDiary’s standard export and we move your future bookings and guest list across for free. You choose the day you switch.
Switching from ResDiary
How does Hendra One pricing compare with ResDiary?
As of October 2026, ResDiary prices its plans on request through a form on its website rather than listing them. It does publish a 1.2% surcharge on deposits and payments processed through it. Hendra One is a published £100 per site per month, and the price includes guest CRM, marketing, compliance, maintenance, rotas and HR rather than bookings alone.
Does either system charge per-cover fees?
No, and this is genuinely a point in ResDiary’s favour too: both systems are flat-fee, unlike marketplace platforms that charge by the head. On deposits, ResDiary publishes a 1.2% surcharge; Hendra One adds nothing of its own, so you pay only your card provider’s fee. Beyond that, the difference is what the flat fee buys.
Can Hendra One import our bookings and guests from ResDiary?
Yes, and the move is free. Send us ResDiary’s standard export and we bring across your future bookings and your guest list, with each guest’s marketing choice intact. You choose the day you switch, and anything unusual we quote for first.
What does Hendra One include that ResDiary does not?
ResDiary is a reservation and table management system. Hendra One covers that ground and also includes automated guest marketing with vouchers, digital SFBB compliance with EHO inspection mode, a fire log and accident book, an equipment and maintenance register, rotas with labour cost forecasting, and HR with holiday routing. None of those are add-ons.
Which kinds of venue is Hendra One for?
Restaurants, pubs, hotels and bars. It started in a pub, which is a hard case for a diary: mixed drinking and dining, movable tables, big day-of-week swings. Restaurants and bars use the same diary, pacing and widget, and a hotel runs its restaurant, bar and events diary in it alongside its own property management system, because Hendra One does not book rooms.
ResDiary is a trademark of its respective owner, which is not affiliated with and does not endorse Hendra One. This page reflects our understanding as of August 2026, and of ResDiary’s pricing as of 26 October 2026, and exists to help operators compare options; if anything here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.
The rest of Hendra One
All of it is in the same £100 a site.
Try it on four busy sites
Leave your details and we’ll email you your own login to Bramblewood Inns, a demo group of four sites with a full diary, rotas, guest list and compliance records. Use every screen as your team would for 14 days, and Nick will ring to see how you are getting on.