simpleERB

RATING:

4.4

(10)
Overview

About simpleERB

simpleERB is a great first-step system for restaurants looking to make the move from a paper diary to an electronic book, both affordable and an easy-to-use cloud-based system. It provides a simple solution for restaurants to build a custom CRM and GDPR complaint mailing list to prevent and eliminate no-shows. Multi-user and device access levels, unlimited areas and tables. Quickly set up the basics in an account and begin taking online bookings from your website. simpleERB can also generate bookings from social pages and through Google. Access live diary remotely with multiple devices use through an internet browser, great on iPads. Create custom auto email reminders (SMS available at a charge), outline cancellation policies and selectable cancellation reasons. E...

simpleERB Pricing

Three affordable and competitively priced plan types depending on cover usage with all standard features included. *Prices below exclude VAT. - Starter plan £19.00 for 200 covers / month - Plus plan £42 for 1,000 covers / month - Pro plan £72 for unlimited covers / month + premium feature; payment integration for card capture and booking payments For Starter/Plus plans, add the premium payment integration feature for a small extra cost ~ £15.00 pm / £162.00 pa (excl VAT) *Your payment provider will charge you a transaction fee on all payments processed. We also offer annual contracts, with a 10% saving. No lock in, upgrade or downgrade your plan with seasonal fluctuations, cancel anytime. Try a free trial of all features with 250 covers to test, no card is required to register.

Starting price: 

£19.00 per month

Free trial: 

Available

Free version: 

Not Available

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simpleERB Reviews

Overall Rating

4.4

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4.5

Customer Support

4

Value for money

4

Functionality

4

Most Helpful Reviews for simpleERB

10 Reviews

Julie

Hospitality, 2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed September 2022

Works well for us!

Great.

PROS

It's pefroms well and is easy to use / view

CONS

Something logging on om my mobile doesn't work, so I have to reset and start again. Usually customer see me in the street and then ask to book a table which is then embarrassing as I can't log in!

Vendor Response

Hi Julie, Thank you so much for your kind review. We are happy to hear that you find the system easy to use. I will flag the issue you raised with the mobile site to our technical team. Take care Anthony simpleERB

Replied September 2022

Jessie

Hospitality, 11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed August 2022

Works really well for us. Just a couple of tiny users issues that are confusing, but nothing big.

Overall Simple ERB works well for us, and does what we need it to.

PROS

simple ERB is a reliable booking system, that allows up to maximise turnover in our restaurant. With the recent adjustments to the platform, it is much more user-friendly.

CONS

There are one too many clicks that clients have to make to confirm the booking. So we have guests arriving thinking they have booked, and they haven't. ALso when adjusting the restaurant layout of tables that are bookable, covers etc. you have to keep going out of the page and back in to change multiple tables.

Vendor Response

Hi Jessie, Thank you for your review. I am happy to hear that the system is working well for you. Thank you for the feedback in regards to the client's experience, we will flag this with our development team to review. Take care Anthony simpleERB

Replied September 2022

Alex

Hospitality, 11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

3

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

2

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed November 2022

Does the job but room for improvements

Generally works well, we are almost hitting the 1000 cap often and would be happy to pay a little extra for 100 or 200 more covers rather than having to upgrade to unlimited for heaps more money.

PROS

People can book in easily enough and the reminder emails have been helpful for our customers. The feedback email is also nice but would be good if the positive ones (when they hit 4 or 5 stars) could be prompted to leave the feedback publicly, say on Google or tripadvisor.

CONS

Having to constantly sign in and can be fiddly, hard to change tables and if you are trying to put too many people on a particular table it doesn't let you which is annoying when you've move tables around so they're bigger. Maybe let the manager have the final say on that. Also hate that when we run out of covers rather than someone contacting me and asking if we want to move up a tier, customers just can't book in, costing us heaps.

Vendor Response

Hi Alex, we thank you for your feedback, this will be passed to our development team for consideration. Changing tables can easily be done using the 'quick move' in the booking place or via the Grid drag/drop feature. This includes moving a single table within a 'table join'. Our system sends out emails to the admin contact when you have used 70% of your covers within the billing period to notify users. You can always upgrade/downgrade plans once per billing month. However, we appreciate your comments for users between plan allocations. With regards to booking higher covers on tables' set max cover size, this can be actioned two different ways. Please reach out to our support information for further information on this as it's more of a hack to override. Thanks again for taking the time to review.

Replied November 2022

Dunslay

Restaurants, 2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed August 2022

Used this system for years and very happy

Really cannot think of any problems.

PROS

Simple and easy to use for both customer and ourselves. It has to be one of the best value for money systems around.

CONS

Maybe do not get the coverage of some of the more famous booking systems

Vendor Response

Hi Dunslay, Thank you so much for your kind review, I am happy to hear that you have found simpleERB good value for money. Take care. Anthony SimpleERB

Replied September 2022

Steve

Restaurants, 11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed August 2022

Brilliant Product

Table and Booking system completely transformed with simple ERB

PROS

Cloud based booking from anywhere . Easy to use and amend to customer and restaurant needs.

CONS

Customer titles rather outdated and unfriendly

Reason for choosing simpleERB

Easy to use, great customer service and a brilliant price.

Vendor Response

Hi Steve, many thanks for your review. We are thankful and appreciate your loyal custom with simpleERB.

Replied August 2022

Damon

Hospital & Health Care, 11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

3

EASE OF USE

2

VALUE FOR MONEY

1

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

2

FUNCTIONALITY

2

Reviewed August 2022

Barely adequate, poor usability, awful design.

Cheaper than many others and it does work if you persevere. With a few basic changes it could be so so much better. 3 days of a decent interface designer would transform it. Hugely wasted opportunity.

PROS

It works but there’s a high-ish learning curve as not much is intuitive. Once you’ve got there it is, in fairness, quite simple.

CONS

Interface is from the 90’s. Seems to almost be 4 different bits of interface stuck together with gaffer tape. Customer management is basic to the point of ridiculous. Table management is frustrating. Doesn’t really work on a phone.

Reason for choosing simpleERB

We we told it integrated with eposnow (which it just about does yes)

Vendor Response

Hi Damon, we thank you for taking the time to review and we appreciate your comments. We are sorry to hear you are frustrated with some of the features and found the system not intuitive. We do offer the opportunity to book in for an online demo to run over any queries or set up help our users may need. We also have a collection of FAQ's, our support team is only an email or a call away. We recently updated the system's settings and the development team is in the process of redesigning the front interface. We appreciate the design may be outdated, however, we offer the necessary features and reports for any small-medium business to effectively manage their bookings electronically. The system was designed ideally for iPads. We do offer a mobile site URL version which is a condensed view to quickly seat a walkin and check your bookings. We offer a basic booking integration with EposNow which we clarify in our welcome email to integrated users and in our video. Take care.

Replied August 2022

Rachael

Hospitality, 51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed September 2022

Great Product

PROS

We find the ease of the product a great help with our reservations. Easy online reservations for customers.

CONS

We would like to be able to change the deposit page to a hire charge fee.

Vendor Response

Hi Rachael, thank you so much for your kind review. I am happy to hear that found the system easy to use and helpful. Take care Anthony - simpleERB

Replied October 2022

Nigel

Hospitality, 11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed September 2022

Great booking software

Great

PROS

Makes managing bookings very easy, customer driven

CONS

Used to be glitches but now sorted, much quicker

Reasons for switching to simpleERB

Expense

Vendor Response

Hi Nigel, thank you for your kind review. I am happy to hear that simpleERB has been beneficial to your business needs. Take care Anthony

Replied September 2022

David

Restaurants, 11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed August 2022

Perfect

PROS

We love the different diary views that allow each user to choose their preference.

CONS

Not great integration with Google, with bookings not showing live.

Reasons for switching to simpleERB

Icr was very very poor

Vendor Response

Hi David, many thanks for leaving a review. It's great to hear that you love the different booking views. The Google booking integration is unfortunately not a live integration due to Google's code, many users find having the URL link to the live widget preferred.

Replied August 2022

Patrick

Hospitality, 11-50 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed November 2023

Excellent Restaurant Booking Tool

Really good operating system that allows for us to have multiple offers running in the restaurant so displays choice to the customer. The option to close down days and times works well for us as a business.

PROS

We manage this seamlessly into our booking promotions so this cuts down on customer delays as it offers an immediate booking option.

CONS

It can be a little bit clunky at times. We are still exploring the option of taking credit card payments as this cannot be reversed once implemented.

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