One app for the whole venue, set up with you.
Guestavo is for independent restaurants, bars, cafés, bakeries and event venues. Bookings, menus, the guest book, messages, events, loyalty and the staff rota sit in one app, with one record for each guest.
Why it exists
Too many tools, and none of them knows the whole guest
A venue runs on a booking widget, a menu PDF, an email tool, a paper loyalty card, a group chat and a spreadsheet for the rota. Each one has its own login and its own piece of the guest.
So the regular who books a table for eight every month is a stranger to the email tool, and whoever writes the rota is guessing how busy Friday will be.
Guestavo puts that work in one app. Bookings, event sign-ups, QR join pages and loyalty visits all land on the same guest record, and the rota sits under the covers already on the book.
You do not have to use all of it. Start with the part that costs you the most time and add the rest when you want it.
Who it is for
Is it right for your venue?
A good fit if
- You run a restaurant, bar, café, bakery or event venue, with one location or a few.
- Bookings, the menu, the guest list and the rota live in different tools today.
- The owner or the manager decides.
- You want guests to book on your own page, with no marketplace in between.
Not the right tool if
- You need a till. It runs beside the one you have and does not replace it.
- You need payroll. It prices the shifts you publish and pays nobody.
- You only ever want one of these, such as a rota, and nothing else.
- You need a live link to another system from the first day. There are no integrations yet, only CSV import.
The invited pilot
How a venue starts
We are preparing a free, invite-only pilot for 3–5 businesses. You cannot sign up and start on your own yet, so each pilot starts with a conversation.
- 01
A short call
We show you each part of the app with sample data, then spend most of the call on the part you would start with. It takes about twenty minutes and there is nothing to sign.
- 02
One venue, one part to start
If it fits, we agree which venue and which part you begin with, for 14 to 30 days. The pilot is free and needs no card.
- 03
We set it up together
We open your workspace and set up the venue with you, starting with the part you chose. Your staff can be on the rota without a login of their own.
- 04
We stay in touch
We check in while the pilot runs and sort out what gets in your way. At the end we decide the next step with you. Nothing moves to a paid plan by itself.
- Your guests stay yours
- Guests book on your page, under your name, with no marketplace in between. We use your guest data only to run the app for you, and we do not sell it.
- Take your guests and bookings with you
- Export the guest book as a CSV or JSON file and your bookings as a CSV file, whenever you like. If you stop, you get an export before we close the workspace.
- Where your data lives
- The app and its database run on servers in Germany. Uploaded files, such as a guest list you import, are stored with Cloudflare, and some services, such as email delivery, are outside the EU. Our data processing agreement names each provider and where it works.
- When a guest asks
- The app records when and how each guest agreed to marketing messages, and keeps their opt-outs for each channel. When a guest asks for their data or wants it deleted, you do it from their record. Guests can unsubscribe from campaign emails in one click.
Talk to a person
Book a demo and tell us about your venue. A person writes back, usually within a working day.
Or write to info@guestavo.com