Built by one person. For UK independents.
Seatly is a small, independent software company building one thing well — a restaurant booking platform that doesn't take a cut of your covers.
Why this exists
UK independent restaurants pay enterprise prices for software that was built for chains. OpenTable charges a fee on every cover. ResDiary ties you into an annual contract. Quandoo is closing its UK operations altogether. None of it was designed for a 40-cover bistro, a village gastropub, or a small group running a couple of sites.
So a lot of good restaurants still take bookings on paper or over the phone — not because they want to, but because the digital options cost too much and fit too poorly. Seatly is the alternative. A flat monthly subscription from £59. A white-label widget that stays under your branding style and restaurant name. UK GDPR by default, with data kept in London. No per-cover fees, ever.
From the founder
Why I built it
I'm Harnake — an engineer with over a decade of experience building software and working in the IT industry, and the person who designed, built, and now supports Seatly.
I built Seatly because UK independents kept getting chain prices for booking software that was never built for how they actually work. I wanted to make the thing they deserved instead — one well-made tool, not a sprawling platform you pay for and use a tenth of.
I built it on my own, over about fourteen weeks of focused work, and tested it the whole way through with real UK operators rather than in a vacuum.
Because it's just me, you get something the big platforms can't offer. When something breaks or you need a change, you're talking to the person who wrote the code, not a support tier.
Harnake Sahota
Founder, Seatly
How we work
- 01. UK first. Every decision optimises for independent UK venues, not generic SaaS that happens to support GBP.
- 02. No lock-in. Monthly rolling. Export your data whenever you like. Cancel without a phone call.
- 03. Honest about the stage we're at. Seatly is onboarding its first cohort of UK independents around Southampton, one at a time. If you'd like to be one of them, get in touch.
The boring details
- Legal entity
- Seatly Software Ltd
- Company number
- 17176739 (England & Wales)
- Data residency
- London (AWS eu-west-2 via Supabase)
- Registered office
- London, United Kingdom
- Stage
- Onboarding our first cohort
- Founded
- 2026
Want in on the first cohort?
We're onboarding UK independents one at a time. Tell us about your venue and we'll tell you honestly whether Seatly's a fit.