Dojo Bookings alternative · UK · sourced and dated 4 November 2026
A Dojo Bookings alternative for UK restaurants that want the floor plan and the bill in one system
Dojo is a card-payments company that also sells a booking product, built to sit beside the EPOS you already have. Slotina is one system for the room itself: the booking, the table it lands on, the order and the bill. The right choice depends on what you want to keep.
Leave an address and the list writes to you once: the day Slotina opens.
A card company that takes bookings, and a restaurant system
Dojo's main business is card payments: card machines, Tap to Pay on iPhone, payment links and next-day transfers of takings. Dojo Bookings is sold beside them, with online reservations, walk-ins, a virtual queue, booking deposits and guest profiles.
Where Bookings gets its tables from is the detail that matters. Dojo's developer documentation describes Bookings reading the tables and their availability from the venue's POS, which it treats as the source of truth, and its integrated-payments page connects the card machine to an EPOS from a long list of partner providers. Dojo's pages, as opened, describe no till of its own. In Slotina the room is drawn in Slotina, and the order and the bill run there too.
Dojo Bookings and Slotina, as of 4 November 2026
| Dojo Bookings | Slotina | |
|---|---|---|
| Who runs it | Paymentsense Limited, London, which trades as Dojo and is authorised by the FCA. Its main business is card payments.dojo.tech, footer | Belavin Limited, a company registered in the UK, whose business is the restaurant system rather than card machines. |
| How the price is set | Bookings: a quote after sign-up and a 30-day free trial; no Bookings price list is published. Card payments: a blended rate for smaller businesses, a custom rate above a turnover threshold on a 12-month fixed or a 30-day rolling plan; card machines bought upfront or paid monthly.dojo.tech Bookings; dojo.tech pricing | Published: £99 per location a month for the first 100 UK restaurants that pay, then £149, plus VAT where applicable, with no commission on bookings. |
| Tables and the room | Its developer documentation describes Bookings reading tables and availability from the venue's POS, the source of truth.docs.dojo.tech Bookings | Each room drawn to scale with its tables, the terrace and the private room as rooms of their own, named table combinations, and a host-stand screen that seats, moves and combines parties on the night. |
| Where bookings come from | Google, your own website and Dojo's own diners' booking app.dojo.tech Bookings | Your own booking page, the phone and the door. |
| Walk-ins and the queue | Online bookings and walk-ins handled in one place, with diners seated automatically; walk-ins can join a virtual waitlist at the door by QR code.dojo.tech Bookings | Walk-ins seated in one tap at the best free table; a waiting list at the door with an honest estimate, which guests can join from their phone by QR code; a table that frees up is offered on the card of the waiting party it suits. |
| Deposits | Booking deposits are taken.dojo.tech Bookings | A deposit, a card guarantee or a no-show fee, set by your own rules and taken through the Stripe account you connect, not through a card machine. |
| Guests | Guest profiles keep preferences and dietary notes; the data can be exported for offers.dojo.tech Bookings | A card per guest with visits, no-shows, allergies, dietary needs and tags, shown at the host stand; a guest book you filter and export as CSV, whose mailing export holds only guests who agreed to marketing. |
| The order and the bill | Its integrated payments connect the card machine to the venue's existing EPOS from partner providers; the pages opened describe no till of Dojo's own.dojo.tech integrated payments | The order by seat and course, a kitchen display, the bill split by dish, by seat or evenly, and card payments with Tap to Pay on a phone or from the table's QR code, into your own Stripe account with no Slotina commission. |
Choose Dojo Bookings if
- Your card machines are Dojo's and you want the bookings from the same company, with one supplier to deal with.
- Your EPOS already holds your tables and menu, you are happy with it, and you want bookings that read the room from there.
- You want diners to find and book you through Dojo's own diners' app as well as Google.
What Slotina leaves out
- No bookings from Google, a diners' app or any other network: only your own booking page, the phone and the door.
- Your Dojo card machine and your EPOS stay where they are: Slotina does not connect to either of them.
- No card terminal on the counter: cards are taken with Tap to Pay on a phone, or paid by the guest from the table's QR code.
What Slotina does with the room
The room, to scale
You draw each room at its real size and put the tables on it, so a booking lands on a table that exists, the party of eight goes to the tables you named as pushable, and the terrace opens and closes as a room of its own.
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A walk-in is seated in one tap. If nothing is free they join the waiting list with an honest estimate, and when a table frees up their card says so. The host and the floor see the same evening on every tablet.
The bill where the booking was
The table that was booked is the table that orders, and the bill it pays is split by dish, by seat or evenly, with the tip on each payment. One system from the booking to the last check.
Moving from Dojo Bookings
- 1
Export from Dojo
On Slotina's import screen, pick Dojo Bookings: it shows Dojo's own export steps. Download the export from Dojo as the ZIP file it comes in.
- 2
Check the columns, then preview
Upload the ZIP as it is. The columns are matched from the file's headers; you check or change the matching and see a preview before anything is saved.
- 3
Guests and bookings arrive
Future bookings arrive confirmed, waiting for a table; past ones become each guest's visit history. A guest already on file is matched by e-mail or phone and never overwritten. No marketing consent is carried across from a Dojo file.
- 4
Draw the room and open the page
Draw your rooms and tables, set your services and turn times, then give the new booking page's link to your website and your regulars. An import can be undone from its history if something looks wrong.
Dojo Bookings questions
Can I bring my Dojo Bookings guests and bookings across?
Yes, through a file: pick Dojo Bookings on Slotina's import screen, follow Dojo's export steps it shows, and upload the ZIP as it comes. You check the column matching and a preview first; no marketing consent comes across from a Dojo file.
Do I have to give up my Dojo card machine?
That is your choice, but the two are separate. Slotina takes cards with Tap to Pay on a phone or from the table's QR code, through your own Stripe account; a payment taken on another machine is recorded on the bill by hand as card or other, because Slotina does not connect to it.
Why does this page not show Dojo's prices?
Dojo prices Bookings by quote after sign-up and publishes no Bookings price list, and this site prints nobody else's prices in any case. Its pricing and Bookings pages are linked above.
Is this comparison for Irish restaurants too?
No. Dojo's Irish site sells card machines and does not mention Bookings, so this page compares the offer in the UK.