Pricing & price lists

Price lists let you attach a per-cover price to table bookings. On their own they define what a cover is worth; linked to an access rule, they’re what drives a deposit card hold at booking time. You’ll find them under Settings → Tables → Pricing.

Price lists

A price list sets a price per cover (per guest). When a price list is in effect for a booking, the deposit amount is calculated from the price per cover multiplied by the party size - specifically price × max(minimum covers, party size) - so a table’s minimum spend is always honoured.

Create as many price lists as you need - for example a standard weekday list and a higher weekend or peak list.

Tip

The Pricing panel supports Copy from another venue, so you can reuse a group’s standard price lists across venues.

Linking a price list to an access rule

A price list only affects bookings once it’s linked to an access rule. On a Table Reservation access rule, set the rule’s price list. From then on, bookings made through that rule calculate their deposit from the linked price list.

This is the mechanism behind deposit card holds: when a rule (via its access profile and payment policy) requires a deposit hold, the price list tells Sidedoor how much to hold on the guest’s card. The full end-to-end model - authorising, capturing and releasing holds - is covered in Deposits & card holds.

Note

No linked price list means no per-cover amount to hold. If you want deposits on a slot, make sure its access rule points at a price list and the relevant payment policy requires a hold.

Per-table price overrides

Sometimes a specific table should be worth more (or less) than the list default - a prime window table, a private booth, a large communal table. You can set a per-table override so that table carries its own per-cover price, taking precedence over the price list for bookings on that table.

Bulk pricing

When you’re setting up a lot of tables, bulk pricing lets you apply prices across many tables at once rather than editing them one by one - handy when a whole area or room shares the same per-cover rate.

Putting it together

1. Create a price list with your per-cover price.
2. Link it to the relevant Table Reservation access rules.
3. Add per-table overrides for any tables that should differ.
4. Make sure the slot’s payment policy requires a deposit hold so the price actually drives a card hold.

See Deposits & card holds for what the guest experiences and how your team captures or releases the hold.