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Fill the tables a fully booked night turns away

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On a busy night, most of the guests who reach your booking page never book. The time they wanted was gone, so they closed the tab, and you never knew they were there. Notify Me catches them. A guest asks to be told if their time frees up, and the moment a cancellation or a SmartSeat rearrangement creates a fit, they get an SMS with a one-tap link back to the booking page. Asking to be notified costs a guest nothing, so far more of them do it than would ever join a waiting list. That gives a fully booked night something it has never had: a queue of guests ready to take any table that opens.

What you get

Demand you already have

Every busy night, guests reach your booking page and leave because their time was taken. Notify Me turns that invisible traffic into a list of people who still want a table.

A far easier yes than a waiting list

A waiting list asks a guest to commit to something undefined. Notify me asks for a phone number. Many more guests say yes to that, so your queue is deep enough to fill whatever opens.

Better with SmartSeat

SmartSeat rearranges your floor to open up bookable time, and Notify Me already has someone waiting to take it. One creates the opening, the other fills it within seconds.

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On your terms

Choose which restaurants, areas or tables guests may ask about, how many times one guest can be alerted, how close to the seating an alert may still go out, and when your quiet hours start.

Where Notify Me earns its keep

The five o'clock cancellation

A table for four drops out two hours before service. Instead of an empty prime-time table, the guest who asked for exactly that time gets an SMS and books it before you have finished reading the cancellation.

SmartSeat opens a gap

SmartSeat moves two bookings and frees a seven o'clock seating that nobody cancelled. Notify Me sees the new capacity the same second and offers it to a guest who has been waiting for it.

The guests you never knew about

A Saturday fills up by Tuesday. All week, guests keep arriving on your booking page and leaving again. With Notify Me, every one of them is another chance to fill the drop-outs that always come.

Good for any night that fills up

Wherever demand outruns your tables, Notify Me keeps the overflow within reach.

Fully booked weekends Prime-time seatings Large parties Holiday service Special events Chef's table Late cancellations Peak season

See it in action

Getting started takes just minutes. Here's how it works.

  • A guest who cannot find their time taps Notify me instead of leaving, and tells you the party size, the date, the time they wanted and how flexible they are around it.
  • Notify Me watches for capacity all service long: a cancellation, a booking that ends early, or a SmartSeat rearrangement that closes a gap and opens a table nobody gave up.
  • The moment a free table matches a waiting guest, they get an SMS with a one-tap link straight back to the booking page, their details already filled in.
  • First come, first served. Nothing is held, nobody is chased by hand, and the table goes to whoever answers first.
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