Bookingrid: how we handle your payments

Bookingrid accepts payments with PayPal.

Such solution makes our booking system incredibly safe and anonymous because we do not require your personal details other than your email address to confirm your booking.

We don’t need your payment card details and we do not store your personal data other than your ID in our system. We are able to make refunds to the same source you use with your PayPal account. Such solution makes our booking system incredibly safe and anonymous!

Regardless when you make a payment to us, we transfer your money to the restaurant in lump sums before or after it happens. Hence there is no need to wait until your money reach the restaurant. Our fees payable by restaurants are also regularly invoiced to the restaurants and offset against the bulk payments.

If you are unsatisfied with the service provided by the restaurant, we refund your money and withhold the payment to the restaurant. 

If you are unsatisfied, we settle your claim. We refund your money and retain our payment to the restaurant.

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Bookingrid: club for those who deserve more and get more

All our partner restaurants are ready to encourage those customers who prepay. The least they can do for you is to offer more for your money. 

Working with Bookingrid, all our partner restaurants are ready to encourage those customers who prepay. Being guaranteed from no-shows, restaurants prefer making rewards to those who trust them. Restaurateurs can compliment loyal customers in several ways.

You can come late and still get the booked table, which is virtually impossible for free online bookings.

The least that they can do for you is to offer more for the same money. For the same price you can enjoy better wine and finer dishes. You can also come late and still get the booked table, which is virtually impossible for free online bookings. Chef’s tables and first-class tables are offered for prepaid bookings with us as well.

For the same price you can enjoy better wine and finer dishes. Sometimes this looks like an impressive discount.

You can easily find amounts of savings highlighted in Bookingrid services. 

Best available offer with savings - for a particular date - as shown in the calendar

Example of offer with savings

Bookingrid: at your service

We base our service on agreements with restaurants. Restaurants publish their offers in our system and entitle us to receive money for them. To make it possible, we strive to build open and straight relations with our partners.

We remove the risk that loyal customers pay extra for those who book and never show up. 

We plug the economic leverage which motivate restaurants to make offers to their customers. If you pay for your booking in advance, you’re rewarded because the restaurant eliminates the risk of no-show. Otherwise, customers eventually pay extra for those who book and never show up.

Also, if the restaurant charges higher prices for booking at busy times, it can offer lower prices during quieter times. Discount coupons are not suitable for this. With us restaurateurs can continuously vary prices to fill their dining halls.

With us restaurateurs can continuously vary prices to fill their dining halls, rather than discount their services.

With us restaurants do not drop the quality of their services. You receive more for the same money. 

The offer price - i.e. the price you have to prepay to make your booking - can be different from the price of the meal. The latter is the advertised price redeemable against the booked service, meal & drinks. Restaurateurs can easily vary the sums of required prepayments making them different from the advertised prices stated in the titles of their offers.

Fully booked? Again?!

Paying bookings with us, you can get - even at short notice - those tables which are fully booked otherwise.

This is an effect of variable pricing as well. 

We have agreed with all our partner restaurants that the entire advertised price is always deducted from the bill. This enables you to pay the bill decreased by the advertised price of your meal. Such deductible price is stated in the title of any paid offer. For instance, for ‘Dinner £100 for 2 at…’ the amount redeemable against the offered service, meal and drinks is £100. 

The advertised price - which is deductible from the bill - is stated in the title of an offer, e.g. ‘Dinner £100 for 2 at …’