Tock pricing for restaurants and Tock fees per month with the prepayment fee worked out

Tock costs 289 or 459 USD a month per restaurant on its published plans. Essential is 289 USD plus a 3% fee on every prepaid booking, and Premium is 459 USD plus 2%, with card processing on top of both. There is no per-cover fee. Premium only becomes the cheaper plan once guests prepay more than about 17,000 USD a month, so a tasting-menu room and a neighborhood bistro pay very different real prices for the same software.

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How much does Tock cost per month?

Tock costs 289 USD a month on Essential and 459 USD a month on Premium, per restaurant, before card processing and the prepayment fee. Essential takes 3% of every prepaid booking, Premium takes 2%. Neither plan charges per cover, so a busy Saturday costs the same subscription as a slow Tuesday; what moves the bill is how much money guests pay up front.

Since American Express bought Tock in 2024, Tock's plans are sold as one offer with Resy. The same price list shows two Resy plans (Platform at 289 USD and Platform 360 at 459 USD) next to the two Tock-powered plans. We cover the Resy side in Resy pricing for restaurants.

Plans and fees as listed on the combined Resy and Tock pricing page and in independent 2026 comparisons, read in October 2026. Standard card processing applies on every plan. Contract length is not published, so ask for it in writing.

Why do some sites list Tock at 79 or 899 USD a month?

Those are the old plans. Before the Resy merger, Tock sold Base, Essential, Premium and Premium Unlimited, and directories such as TrustRadius and SoftwareSuggest still show figures from that era, from 79 USD a month on a three-year Base contract to 899 USD a month for Premium Unlimited with no prepayment fee. If a sales rep quotes one of those, it is a legacy or negotiated plan, so get the term, the prepayment percentage and the exit terms on paper before you compare it with anything else.

What fees does Tock charge on top of the plan?

Two lines sit on top of the subscription, and on a tasting-menu restaurant they are bigger than the plan itself.

• The prepayment fee. 3% on Essential or 2% on Premium of every dollar a guest pays in advance, whether that is a full tasting menu, a ticketed wine dinner or a holiday prix fixe.
• Card processing. The normal processing rate on every card payment, usually around 2.9% plus 30 cents online in the US. You pay this on any system, including ours, so it does not change the comparison much.

Plain reservations with a card held for no-shows do not trigger the prepayment percentage. The fee is a tax on prepaid revenue, which is exactly why restaurants that sell most of their seats as tickets feel it most.

Is Tock Essential or Premium cheaper for my restaurant?

Essential is cheaper until guests prepay about 17,000 USD a month, and Premium is cheaper above that. The plans are 170 USD a month apart, and Premium saves 1% of prepaid revenue, so the break-even is 170 divided by 0.01, or 17,000 USD of prepayments a month. A 40-seat tasting room selling 175 USD menus crosses that line with fewer than 100 prepaid covers.

Tock cost for three real restaurants, worked out

Three US restaurants, subscription plus prepayment fee only. Card processing is left out because you pay it on every platform.

The bistro pays about 4,500 USD a year mostly for the subscription. The tasting room pays more than 12,000 USD, and over half of that is the percentage on its own prepaid revenue. That is the real Tock pricing question: not 289 or 459, but how much of your revenue runs through prepayment.

Is Tock worth it for a restaurant?

Tock is worth it when prepayment is the product. Tasting menus, chef's counters, ticketed wine dinners, winery tastings and takeout events are what it was built for, and its ticketing, seat inventory and experience pages are stronger than most reservation systems. Being on the Resy network can also bring diners you would not reach on your own, and some restaurants find that worth the percentage.

It is a harder sale when you mainly need a reservation book with deposits for big parties, card holds on Friday and Saturday and text reminders. Then you pay 289 USD a month for ticketing you rarely use, and a percentage on the few prepaid nights you do sell.

What is cheaper than Tock for deposits and prepaid bookings?

A flat-priced reservation system that charges no percentage on deposits is cheaper for most restaurants that are not selling every seat as a ticket. Reserving Growth costs 149 USD a month, or 74 USD billed yearly, per venue. It takes deposits by party size, day and hour, holds cards for no-shows, sends two-way text reminders and runs a walk-in waitlist, and the money goes to your own payment account with nothing taken by us.

Be honest with yourself about the shape of your book. If you sell ticketed experiences every night, Tock is the specialist and the percentage is the price of its tools. If prepayment is a handful of holidays and large parties, the restaurant reservation system on Growth covers it, and our restaurant reservation deposit guide shows the deposit rules that work for US dining rooms. Whichever you pick, prepaid tickets and no-show charges are the payments guests dispute most, so it pays to fight chargebacks on prepaid reservations with the booking terms and reminder texts as evidence.

Questions to ask Tock before you sign

• Is the 3% or 2% fee charged on deposits and card-hold charges too, or only on full prepayments?
• How long is the contract, does it renew automatically, and what does it cost to leave early?
• Can I use my own payment processor, and what is my card rate in writing?
• Am I on a current plan or a legacy one, and will my price change when Tock moves fully onto Resy?
• Can I export my guest list, visit history and prepaid order data if I leave, and in what format?

The fourth question matters in 2026. The Tock and Resy offers are still being merged, so the price you are quoted today is not guaranteed to be the price at renewal unless the contract says so.