TablePort Sites

TablePort Sites is a restaurant website layer that turns live TablePort records into a branded guest destination. It is most useful for restaurants already running menus and service workflows in TablePort, from fine-dining rooms to cafés and pubs. The central advantage is keeping guest-facing content and transactions connected; businesses wanting an independent, low-cost website platform should look elsewhere.

Overview

Menus, prices, opening hours, locations, addresses and contact details are drawn from the restaurant’s live TablePort records. Changes made in those records can therefore flow through to the site instead of staff maintaining a second, separate copy. Guests can reserve a table, place an order, join a waitlist, purchase gift cards or memberships, read reviews and send enquiries from the same host.

That combination makes Sites more than a brochure site for an operation already using TablePort’s ecosystem. It is less compelling when a restaurant does not use TablePort for its underlying records and guest services, because the product’s value depends on that shared system.

Key features

The visual editor includes preview, autosave, undo, publish and revert. Together, these controls support a cautious review-before-publish workflow and provide a practical recovery path when an edit needs to be rolled back. AI can suggest bounded structural changes, but a person must approve and publish them, so automation does not remove editorial responsibility.

Sites connects with TablePort Order & Pay, bookings, waitlist, gift cards, memberships and Marketing Suite. Its analytics records cookieless events without personal information or IP addresses, then connects visits with bookings, orders, gift-card activity and other high-intent actions. Restaurants can consequently relate site engagement to commercial actions without relying on those identifiers.

For discoverability and inclusive access, the product lists structured JSON-LD, canonical and sitemap controls, multilingual pages, hreflang, right-to-left routes, WCAG AA support and reduced-motion handling. Sites Advanced adds guided custom-domain verification and managed SSL, removing much of the technical work involved in serving the site on a restaurant’s own address.

Pricing

The free Sites plan is a sensible way to publish a basic live presence on a TablePort address, especially for a new or budget-conscious venue that can accept that address and does not need the listed Advanced functions. It does not provide a custom domain, and the Advanced feature set is reserved for the paid tier.

Sites Advanced costs £99 a month. It is aimed at established restaurants that need their own domain, managed SSL, enquiry handling, AI-assisted structural editing and analytics in one package. The monthly charge is difficult to justify if a restaurant only needs static information or already has another site and guest-action stack.

Platforms

Sites runs on the web. Menu management, native reservation support and native ordering are part of its restaurant-focused setup, with text menus as the stated menu format.

Who it's for

Sites fits restaurants using TablePort across fine dining, casual dining, quick service, cafés, bars and pubs. It is particularly suitable for teams that want one set of operational records to power menus and guest actions without maintaining duplicate website content. A restaurant seeking a platform-neutral builder, or one that only needs a simple independent site, has less reason to pay for the TablePort connection.

Pros and cons

Pros

• Live operational content: menu data, prices, hours, locations and contact details stay tied to TablePort records.
• Broad guest journey: reservations, ordering, waitlists, gift cards, memberships, reviews and enquiries share one site.
• Controlled editing: autosave, undo, revert and human approval for AI proposals reduce the risk of unreviewed changes.
• Privacy-conscious measurement: cookieless, non-PII, non-IP events can be linked to bookings, orders and other high-intent actions.

Cons

• Platform dependence: the strongest benefits assume the restaurant already relies on TablePort records and integrations.
• Advanced cost: a custom domain and the listed Advanced features require £99 a month.
• Free-plan address: the no-cost tier publishes on a TablePort address rather than a custom domain.

Alternatives

GloriaFood is a better fit when unlimited orders and locations, with no commission per order or monthly fee on its Free service plan, matter more than TablePort’s connected website approach.

HungerRush suits operators seeking a restaurant POS option whose Starter offer can cover one location and one POS terminal, subject to qualification.

SpotOn Restaurant is worth considering for an integrated POS, ordering, payments, table layouts and reporting package with processing minimums and a two-year minimum term.

7shifts is the more relevant choice when employee scheduling is the priority, with its free Comp plan capped at 15 employees and one location.

Eat App may suit reservation-focused teams that can work within 100 guests monthly on its free plan or need unlimited guests on Lite.

UrbanPiper is an alternative for restaurants wanting a paid order hub with unlimited orders and no per-order charges at £79 a month.

Gasty offers restaurant marketplace and point-of-sale plans with pricing that varies by plan.

Heartland Retail is another freemium retail POS option, with its named starting plan priced from $89 a month.

For broader category browsing, see Restaurant Management Software, Restaurant POS Software and Restaurant Website Builders.

Verdict

Choose TablePort Sites if your restaurant already uses TablePort and wants live operational data, bookings, ordering and other guest actions on one branded web presence. Its main reason to look elsewhere is the same dependency: restaurants wanting a platform-independent website or unwilling to pay £99 a month for a custom domain and Advanced features will find a different tool more suitable.