# bindro — Ticketed restaurant experiences > Bindro sells prepaid seats at ticketed dinners — chef tables, supper clubs and themed menus — for restaurants. A service is modelled as timed sittings with a cover count on each, guests pay in full at the moment they book, dietary and access questions are asked per guest and held as health data, a seat can be handed to another guest or deferred to a later night, and the money reaches the restaurant two days after that dinner's last sitting has ended. It costs 2.5% + $0.99 per paid seat; free dinners cost nothing. Canonical page: https://bindro.io/vertical/ticketed-dining/ Reviewed: 2026-08-09 ## Facts - Inventory model: timed slot. - Pricing models: flat, tiered, per person addon. - Fees: 2.5% + $0.99 per paid seat; free dinners cost nothing. - Payouts: one payout per event, released 2 days after that event's LAST session has ended (low risk tier, 0% reserve). Never before delivery, and a dinner sold as a run of dates pays out once, after the final date. - Check-in: name list. - Joining: free, alone, in minutes. No contract, no monthly fee and no card at signup. A payout destination is verified before the first payout, never before the first sale. - Booking fee default: the guest pays it. A restaurant can absorb it or split it per dinner; the fee itself does not change with the choice, only which side of the sale it comes from. - Overselling is structurally impossible: inventory moves only under a row lock inside the transaction that confirms the order, with a database constraint behind that as a backstop rather than as the mechanism. - The number this vertical is run on: Covers per service. Also tracked: no-show rate, deposit forfeit rate, menu-change refund rate. The console computes the north-star figure and prints the arithmetic under it, beside this restaurant's own funnel with the drop-off at each stage, where the traffic came from, refund, transfer, turnout, no-show, add-on and repeat rates each shown with its numerator and denominator, gross, fees and refunds per dinner, live remaining capacity during the dinner, and CSV exports of orders and guests. A step the platform cannot observe says so rather than reporting a zero. - Data export: orders and guests as CSV from the console at any time, behind a fresh one-time code. No export fee, no notice period, no lock-in. ## Not supported for this vertical - Collecting the balance of a payment plan automatically — you can publish a deposit plan and the deposit is taken at checkout, but bindro does not charge the stored card for the rest of it. Off-session charging is armed by a separate switch that is set in no environment, on purpose: a checkout happens with the diner watching and a sweep bills with nobody present. Take the balance the way you take any other payment. - A second allergy channel — the per-service allergen sheet lists every seat on a sitting with what each guest stated, including the ones who stated nothing, and the guest export carries the same answers. What bindro does not do is chase a guest who left the question blank, or replace the question asked again at the table. - Replacing your reservation book — there is no table map, no floor plan, no walk-in seating and no cover-flow management. Bindro sells admission to a ticketed service; ordinary reservations are explicitly out of scope for this vertical. - A waitlist when a sitting is fully committed — a waiting list is not enabled for ticketed dining, so a full sitting is full and the page says so rather than collecting addresses nobody calls back. - Supper-club memberships and subscriptions — recurring revenue is not attached to a dinner, and payouts settle per delivered event, so the engine could take a monthly payment and have nothing to release it against. It is off on purpose. - Member and non-member seat prices checked against a roster, and automatic group rates for a table of ten — both are optional for this vertical and neither is enabled. - Charging a no-show after the night — nobody has their card billed for not turning up. What you can do is keep money already taken: a deposit on a payment plan can be forfeited once the service has been delivered and nobody on the booking checked in, and your published cancellation terms can keep a stated share of a late cancellation automatically. No new charge is ever raised against a card that is not present. - Check-in with no connection, and a till at the door — offline check-in and counter sales are optional for ticketed dining and are not turned on, so the door needs a signal and a walk-up cannot be sold on the night through bindro. - VAT and non-US tax — sales tax here is price-exclusive US sales tax; VAT is a separate capability that this vertical does not claim, and onboarding offers the United States. ## Questions the landing page answers - How should a chef table be split into sittings and priced? - Can bindro run the ticketed nights while the reservation book stays where it is? - How does a prepaid dinner change the arithmetic of a cancellation? - What will a restaurant still have to do outside bindro? https://bindro.io/vertical/ticketed-dining/ ## Pages - FAQ (27 questions): https://bindro.io/vertical/ticketed-dining/faq/ - bindro vs Tock: https://bindro.io/vertical/ticketed-dining/compare/tock/ (reviewed 2026-08-09) - bindro vs Resy: https://bindro.io/vertical/ticketed-dining/compare/resy/ (reviewed 2026-08-09) - bindro vs SevenRooms: https://bindro.io/vertical/ticketed-dining/compare/sevenrooms/ (reviewed 2026-08-09) - bindro vs OpenTable: https://bindro.io/vertical/ticketed-dining/compare/opentable/ (reviewed 2026-08-09) - How to run a prepaid supper club without empty seats: https://bindro.io/vertical/ticketed-dining/blog/running-a-prepaid-supper-club/ (reviewed 2026-08-09) - Allergies and dietary requirements at a ticketed dinner: what bindro collects, and where the kitchen reads it: https://bindro.io/vertical/ticketed-dining/blog/allergies-and-dietary-requirements-at-a-ticketed-dinner/ (reviewed 2026-08-09) - Pricing a chef table: fees, pairings and when the money lands: https://bindro.io/vertical/ticketed-dining/blog/pricing-a-chefs-table/ (reviewed 2026-08-09) - Changing a booking: transfers, deferrals and the night a service is cancelled: https://bindro.io/vertical/ticketed-dining/blog/changing-a-booking-transfers-deferrals-and-cancelled-services/ (reviewed 2026-08-09)