Restaurant waitlist app
Replace the clipboard at the host stand. Guests add themselves, watch their own place in line, and stop asking how much longer.
Free to start. No account required, and no app for your guests.
Restaurant walk-ins without pagers
Pagers get stolen, dropped and left in cars, and a set of them costs more than a year of software. A waitlist does the same job on the phone the guest already has - they keep their place, they can wait outside, and there is no hardware to buy, charge or chase.
Barbershop waitlist app for a Saturday rush
Saturday is the day the sign-in sheet on the counter stops being legible. A digital list keeps the order unarguable, shows every client where they are without them asking the chair, and lets someone walk to the shop next door instead of giving up and leaving.
Salon and clinic front desks
A salon or clinic front desk is usually doing three things at once. The value here is not the list - it is that the list answers questions on its own, so the phone call, the walk-in and the person already in the chair stop competing for the same person's attention.
A walk-in queue app that does not need a contract
Most waitlist software is priced per location per month, which suits a chain and punishes one busy room. If your rush is a few days a week, or a few weeks a year, you can unlock a single waitlist once instead of subscribing - see pricing for exactly what that costs.
How a shift runs
- 01
Make a waitlist
Name it after the room or the day. No account required to start.
- 02
Put the QR code at the door
Guests scan and add themselves with a name and a party size, or you type them in from the host stand.
- 03
Work down the list
Mark people as served. Everyone still waiting sees their own position move, live.
Restaurant waitlist apps: common questions
Give each party a link instead of a device. When they join the waitlist - by scanning a QR code at the host stand, or because you added them - they get a page showing their place in line that updates as you seat tables. They can wait at the bar or outside and check their phone instead of watching the host stand, and there is nothing to hand back.
The honest test is what the free tier actually gets you, because that is where these products differ most. Ours is free for up to 15 guests per waitlist with no time limit, no card, and no cap on how many days you use it. Compare that against the free tiers of the established tools - several are capped by visits per month or by text messages rather than by list size, which runs out faster than it sounds on a busy Saturday.
Yes. Scanning the QR code opens a normal web page. There is no app for guests and no account for them to create - they type a name and they are in the queue.
No. You can create a working waitlist and share it before making an account. Making one later keeps your waitlists together and lets you get back to them from another device.
No, and that is a real difference worth knowing before you choose. We do not send SMS at all. Guests watch their own position on the link they were given rather than waiting for a message. If being able to text a guest is essential to how your room runs, a paging-first tool will suit you better than this one.
Yes. Share the editor link and anyone with it can add and clear guests from their own device, which is what you want when the host stand and the floor are two different people.
Related: QR code waitlist, event waitlist, compared with Waitwhile.
Clear the host stand
Free for up to 15 guests. No pagers, no contract, no app for your guests.