Picture this: a diner lands on your website after a friend’s recommendation. They’re ready to book. They click “reserve a table” — and then they hit a form with six fields, two dropdowns, and a date picker that doesn’t quite load seamlessly on their phone.
Half of them won’t finish. It’s what happens on venue websites every single day, and it’s rarely your restaurant’s fault.
Every extra click, every unnecessary field, is a chance for a hungry diner to give up and book somewhere else instead.
We’ve rebuilt our booking widget from the ground up to make sure your venue is best positioned to confirm reservations and keep the booking experience seamless for diners.
What's changed with the Now Book It booking widget
Fewer steps, more bookings
We’ve stripped the flow back to what actually matters. Diners move from browsing to booked in 63% less clicks, that’s much fewer chances to drop off along the way.
Your brand, front and centre
Customisable branding means your venue stays the focus throughout — not a generic form that could belong to any restaurant in town. Diners should feel like they’re booking with you, right up until the confirmation lands in their inbox.
Everything you relied on, just refreshed
Every feature you loved from the existing widget is still here. We’ve just modernised the experience around it, so it works better without asking you to relearn anything.
What this means for your restaurant
A smoother booking flow doesn’t just look better — it converts better. Fewer steps means fewer diners bailing out partway through. Stronger branding means the diners who do book remember exactly whose website they were on.
You don’t need to change how you operate to benefit from this. The widget updates on your site automatically, so the improvement shows up without adding anything to your to-do list.
Your restaurant's virtual storefront
Your website is often the first real interaction a diner has with your venue — before they’ve read the menu, before they’ve seen a single dish. A booking flow that’s slow or generic undercuts that first impression. One that’s fast, easy, plus looks and feels like your restaurant, reinforces it.
That’s the idea behind this refresh, making booking your venue an opportunity to impress your guests before they even step through your doors.