Built by people who run a pub

Why it exists

When you run a pub, the booking system is the thing that rings at the worst moment. The systems we tried were built for restaurants with a host stand and a reservations person. They wanted a monthly fee that made sense for 100 covers a night, or a fee per diner, or both, and in return gave us a complicated floor plan editor we never opened. Ours is simple drag and drop. What we wanted was simpler: a page customers could book on in under a minute, a phone behind the bar that beeped and showed two big buttons, and rules so the kitchen did not get slammed at half seven.

So we built it, first for ourselves, then for the pub down the road, then for a cafe a customer's daughter ran. Nabsie is that, tidied up and made available to anyone.

What we believe about pricing

Per cover fees are wrong. They mean the more successful you are, the more you pay for a bit of software, and they turn your busiest nights into your most expensive ones. Nabsie is a flat price: free for up to 50 bookings a month, £14.99 for up to 1000, £29.99 for up to 5000, and a conversation for anything bigger. The limits exist so the price can stay low for everyone. There are no set up fees and no per cover fees, and there never will be. Paid plans are monthly, cancel any time, or yearly at a lower price.

The free plan is free for good. It is not a trial that quietly expires. Plenty of small venues will never need more than it, and that is fine by us.

What we do not do

We are not a marketplace. We do not send you diners, and we do not send your diners anywhere else. Your customers are yours, your data is exportable, and nobody markets to your regulars on your behalf. We do not do everything: there is no till or EPOS integration, and Reserve with Google is still waiting on Google. What is there works: a drag and drop floor plan, a staff app, texts, a waitlist, deposits, events and reports. We would rather do the core job well and be honest about the rest.

Built in the UK, works anywhere

We are in the UK and we started with UK pubs, restaurants and cafes, which is why the guides on this site talk about Sunday lunch and Google Business Profile. But Nabsie is not a UK only product. Set your venue's time zone and everything shows local times. Any country, any address. Prices are in pounds sterling and cards from any country are fine. Deposits are taken in pounds sterling through your own Stripe account, and guests can pay with a card from any country.

Kalchevo

Kalchevo is a small web company that builds and hosts websites for small businesses, and Nabsie is one of its products. Being small means you will get a reply from a person who knows the system, usually within a working day, and that we are not funded to be sold to someone who will change the pricing. Kalchevo hosting customers get the Standard plan included.

Kalchevo is at kalchevo.com. Nabsie is a trading name of Kalchevo.

Say hello

Questions, feature requests, or you run a group of venues and want to talk about one invoice? Contact us. If you have found a bug, we would genuinely like to know.