Toast Tables alternatives for restaurants
Toast Tables is the waitlist and reservation tool that comes with Toast. If you want a waitlist without a Toast POS, or a different price, here are the alternatives, with figures from their own pricing pages and who each one honestly suits.
- 7Apps compared
- 5With a free plan
- $27Lowest entry price
- Nov 7, 2026Prices checked
What to look for
A POS plan or a stand-alone waitlist
Some restaurant waitlists run inside a point-of-sale system and need its plan. Stand-alone tools run in a browser beside whatever you already use.
Waitlist only, or reservations too
Check whether you need reservations, deposits or a floor plan, or only a walk-in line with a live wait. Prices differ with each.
Contracts and cover limits
Look for annual contracts, early termination fees and caps on covers or reservations a month before you compare monthly prices.
The monthly price, side by side
Bars are drawn to scale. Plans differ in what they include (billing yearly or monthly, seats, visits, texts, a TV display), so price is one part of the picture: each app’s card below has the rest. Apps with quote-only or non-US-dollar prices are left out. NextUp Walk-in is highlighted because we make it. Checked November 7, 2026.
Our app: NextUp Walk-in
We make this one, so it isn’t ranked against the others.
A walk-in line first: guests join from a QR code or a link with no app to download and follow their live place on their phone, and a now-serving TV display shows who is up next. The Restaurant plan is $69 a month for the first location and $44 for each one after, month to month, with the floor plan and no point of sale to buy. Tips and card payments go through your own Stripe account; NextUp Walk-in’s card fee is 0.5% of each card payment, never on tips, at most $1.
See pricingToast Tables Plus is listed at $199 a month, on top of a Toast POS plan; base Toast Tables (the waitlist and up to 25 reservations a month) has no published price. It is built for restaurants and runs inside the same system as the Toast POS (Toast’s own pages, as of October 2026).
NextUp Walk-in vs Toast TablesThe apps, A to Z
NextMe
Good fit for: A free plan to start, and a large text allowance: 3,000 a month per location on Starter.
- Starting price
- $49.99/month (Starter, billed yearly)
- Free plan or trial
- Yes: 1 location, 1 user, 100 messages a month
- Built for
- Many industries: restaurants, retail, healthcare, salons and more
From NextMe's pricing page, checked November 7, 2026.
NextUp Walk-in vs NextMeScanQueue
Good fit for: A QR-code queue priced by joins a month, with a free tier and WhatsApp alerts.
- Starting price
- Essential $49/month for up to 1,000 queue joins (Starter is free)
- Free plan or trial
- Yes: Starter, up to 100 queue joins a month (10 a day)
- Built for
- Service businesses and venues running a QR-code queue, priced by queue joins a month
From ScanQueue's pricing page, as of Oct 20, 2026.
NextUp Walk-in vs ScanQueueTablesReady
Good fit for: Restaurants and hospitality wanting a simple text-when-ready waitlist, with a free tier.
- Starting price
- $39/month (Starter, billed annually)
- Free plan or trial
- Yes: 150 texts a month, up to 100 parties on the waitlist
- Built for
- Restaurants, hotels, food trucks, salons, and other small businesses
From TablesReady's pricing page, checked November 7, 2026.
NextUp Walk-in vs TablesReadyWaitlist Me
Good fit for: A simple waitlist: free without texts, or Premium at $34.99 a location with 1,000 texts.
- Starting price
- $34.99/month (Premium)
- Free plan or trial
- Yes, without text notifications
- Built for
- Restaurants, salons, retail and other businesses
From Waitlist Me's pricing page, checked October 2026.
NextUp Walk-in vs Waitlist MeWaitQ
Good fit for: Walk-ins and bookings in one dashboard, with SMS or WhatsApp credits on every plan, from $27 a month billed annually.
- Starting price
- Starter $27/month billed annually (1 location, 5 staff accounts); Grow $49, Business $119
- Free plan or trial
- No free plan found on the pages checked; a free 7-day trial
- Built for
- Walk-ins and bookings for restaurants, barbershops, salons, hotels, clinics and retail, with a TV screen for the line
From WaitQ's pricing page, as of Oct 25, 2026.
NextUp Walk-in vs WaitQWaitwhile
Good fit for: Many industries in one app, with a free plan for up to 50 visits a month and Starter from $31 a month.
- Starting price
- From $31/month (Starter)
- Free plan or trial
- Yes: 1 location, up to 50 visits a month
- Built for
- Many industries: restaurants, retail, healthcare, government and more
From Waitwhile's pricing page, checked October 2026.
NextUp Walk-in vs WaitwhileYelp Guest Manager
Good fit for: Restaurants that want their waitlist and reservations listed on Yelp itself: Basic is $159 a month, or $129 on an annual contract.
- Starting price
- Basic $159/month, or $129/month on an annual contract (up to 500 covers)
- Free plan or trial
- No
- Built for
- Restaurants: waitlist and reservations listed on Yelp, Google Search and Apple Maps
From Yelp Guest Manager's pricing page, as of Oct 19, 2026.
NextUp Walk-in vs Yelp Guest Manager
Listed alphabetically, not ranked. Prices change, so check each app’s own page for today’s. Names are trademarks of their owners; NextUp Walk-in isn’t affiliated with them.
Common questions
How did you pick these alternatives?
They are the waitlist and queue apps we have full comparison pages for, each checked against the app’s own pricing page on the date shown. They are listed alphabetically, not ranked. We make NextUp Walk-in, so it is shown separately and labelled as ours.
Does Toast Tables need a Toast POS?
Toast Tables Plus is listed at $199 a month on top of a Toast POS plan, and base Toast Tables (the waitlist and up to 25 reservations a month) has no published price (Toast’s own pages, as of October 2026).
What is a Toast Tables alternative with no POS to buy?
We make NextUp Walk-in, whose Restaurant plan runs a waitlist, floor plan and TV display in any browser with no point of sale to buy, month to month. The other apps here are separate waitlist tools too, each with its own price.
Can I move my guests over from Toast Tables?
Into NextUp Walk-in, yes: import the export from your old system (Excel, CSV, Google Sheets or contacts), and NextUp Walk-in matches the columns and checks every row before anything is saved. For other apps, check their own import options.
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