OPENTABLE SIMILAR APP DEVELOPMENT

YOU MIGHT SAY OPENTABLE IS THE FINEST RESTAURANT BOOKING SYSTEM

BUT WE SAY IT IS AN IMPECCABLE BUSINESS IN THE INDUSTRY. YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE ANY PERCEPTION TO BEAT THIS GIGANTIC BUSINESS BUT WE HAVE…

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Let’s go 10 years back in time….

 

Step 1:  Make a list of preferred restaurants

 

Step 2:  Visit the restaurants manually

 

Step 3: Ask the receptionist to book a table

 

Step 4: Sigh! Beg! Plead! to get a table (since all the tables are full for the day!)

 

Step 5: Visit another restaurant and repeat Step 3

 

Step 6: Repeat the procedure till a table is booked

Now, let’s go 5 years back in time 

 

Step 1: Make a list of contact details of the preferred restaurants

 

Step 2: Dial the digits to talk to restaurants

 

Step 3: Ask the receptionist to book a table

 

Step 4: Sigh! Beg! Plead! to get a table (since all the tables are full for the day!)

 

Step 5: Call up another restaurant and repeat Step 3

 

Step 6: Repeat the procedure till a table is booked

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Remember those days? Let’s talk about today now.

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Step 1: Go to OpenTable Web app, Android app, or iOS app

 

Step 2: Search for your favorite restaurant and  look for the table of your choice

 

Step 3: Book!

Quite easy, right?

Who would want to spare time to visit or contact the offline restaurants to get a table booked, simply when one can do it online with the help of just a few clicks!

Wondering how is it possible? OpenTable it is!

OpenTable as a business is becoming increasingly popular and this popularity is easily visible if you notice the rush of restaurateurs to be the successor of OpenTable by trying to develop a web application, an Android application, and an iOS application.

A table reservation is an arrangement made in advance to have a table available at a restaurant.

The online business model of OpenTable is simple: It matches people looking for a place to eat with restaurants that want customers, and also allows online reservations directly from restaurants’ own websites.

This way it helps fill the seats that would otherwise go empty when its lists available reservation times on its site.

In addition to this, restaurants get exposure on its site they might not receive by only hosting their own websites.

OpenTable does basically two things:

Sell restaurants tools to manage reservations.

Operates an online reservation service, both on its site and through partner sites. The reservations are free for consumers but restaurants pay a fee for reservations that go through OpenTable.

Some Prosperities for
Restaurants

  • Offering Table reservations can be a good tool to gauge the increase in the demand for certain restaurants.

 

  • ‘Steal the Customers’ strategy/ Competitive analysis.

 

  • Improve Sourcing and Staffing on busy nights and optimizing them on slow nights for a better quality of service

Some Prosperities for
Customers

  • Eliminates time consumption by waiting in the long lines at a restaurant.

 

  • Will get the pre-decided table.

 

  • Would not have to compromise on the restaurant one wishes to dine

 

  • Better quality of service

 

  • It the seats are unavailable for a particular restaurant, the customers can immediately look for another restaurant. The time is saved here to move to the other restaurant and the waiting time is eliminated here.

OpenTable – The Impeccable Business – You Should Have Too

Major Marketing Search Engine

When you develop a platform to accommodate different restaurants and diners, there is a high possibility of making up an organic marketing search engine.

Easy Acquisition of Service Providers

The platform helps to fill in the empty tables and generate steady business flow by recommending open tables to customers on the app. This way, the restaurateurs can get on-board easily.

Advanced Tools and Features

Certain tools like simple-to-use Electronic Reservation Book that handles reservation management, table management, guest recognition, and email marketing.

Ease to Customer Retention

Various rewards, coupons, gift cards, incentives, deals, etc. can be given to the diners in return to buy their loyalty to the platform.

No Fear of Masking Contacts

Once the diner books from the platform and he likes the service, he can choose to directly approach the restaurants. And believe me every restaurant today has got their own sites. In such cases, there are whopping big possibilities that the customers might go to the restaurant site.

To avoid such instances, the dining point system can be introduced which can build the loyalty of the customers for the platform

People & Restaurants  Both Are Two Sides Of Coin And OpenTable Used This as Their Prosperous USP

The electronic reservation book is a computer terminal which comes with a software that allows online reservations, helps the Restaurateurs to manage their business, seating arrangements, staff assignments, and maintain a record and take notes like information on frequent customers.

The restaurants pay a one-time fee for installation and training costs apart from the monthly subscription fee.

Connect is the feature that is purely a web-based system that enables restaurants to accept online reservations using OpenTable. There are basically two programs in which the restaurants are connected with the platform:

The Feature Program

The member restaurants can pay some extra fees for getting featured on the OpenTable platform.When the restaurant opts to be featured as a ‘1000-point’ restaurant, which rewards diners with extra reward points for making reservations at certain times, OpenTable receives more per diner, approx. $7.50

The Spotlight Program

With the Spotlight program, OpenTable sells discount restaurant coupons to consumers. The revenues from coupon sales are split between the restaurant and OpenTable.

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IN-DEPTH PLANNING OF OPENTABLE SIMILAR APP DEVELOPMENT WITH TROOTECH

Often businesses entail into the unknown. When it comes to understanding similar app development for their project, all it goes into is an abstract view. It is just so important phase in-between to decide the priorities on modules and features according to how the new, plans to run their business. We think below aspects are proven, tested and better to have:

AN MVP (MINIMUM VIABLE PRODUCT) TO EXPERIENCE OPENTABLE LIKE SUCCESS: USER APP

Registration Module/ Login

The customers can register and login to the application using email ids, social media accounts, phone numbers, etc.

Customized Choices

The customers input their choices, namely date, time, cuisine, budget, and the app shows them restaurants matching their choices, based on distance.

Booking

The user sends a booking request to the concerned restaurant and based on the available number of tables, the booking is confirmed and user is notified.

Google Map Integration

The integration of Google maps can help the restaurants pinpoint their exact location so that their diners can easily find out the venue.

Remainders

The diners are sent a remainder about their booking along with other

Customer Rating

The customer rating feature allows the users to rate a certain restaurant on the basis of their overall dining experience.

24 Hours Booking

The customers can make the bookings for all 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and 365 days a year.

Real-time Availability

The system in the app gets updated with each booking and shows the real-time availability of the seats and the bookings.

Instant Confirmation

The customers can get their tables booked instantly after selecting the table of their choices, dates, and number of people.

Multiple Language Support

The customers can select any of the language that is supported by the platform.

Invoice Generation

Once the customer chooses the table, date, and the number of accompanied people, the reservation is made and the invoice is generated addressing the same.

Notifications

The customers receive notifications about their booking status through the notifications in the mail received and the text message notifications.

Simple Cancelations

When the clients have to cancel a table reservation, they can simply choose the cancel option and can easily cancel the booking made without sparing even a single penny.

Special Requirement

The customers can even ask for some special requirements, intolerances, occasions, etc., and so in the booking section, a comment box is added so that the customers can brief about the requirements.

Dining Area Selection

The customers can select the dining table and dining area of their choice from the available table listing.

Drag and Drop Reservations

The customers can change the time of the reservation made or can even change tables with the help of ‘drag and drop reservations’ feature.

Group Bookings

When there are a large number of people to dine in the restaurant, the customers can select several tables and can easily make booking even for a large group of people.

Loyalty System

The customers can view all their loyalty points and these points are added every time the customers show up at the booking made.

Menu View

Using the ‘view menu’ feature, the customers can view menu before booking a table.

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Separate Manager and Staff Accounts

The Restaurateurs can have a separate manager and staff accounts in order to have the convenience of management.

Table Combinations

The Restaurateurs can add availability for the large parties. The table combining allows creating space for the parties that cannot be seated on a single table.

Print Reservation List

The Restaurateurs can even print the list for the day and can have the convenience to view the number of reservations.

Client Feedback

The Restaurateurs can receive feedback from the client’s last visit, in order to improve the restaurant’s quality; get more clients, better reviews and more repeat customers.

Special Offers

The platform can list out special offers for the customers to choose from. These special offers can be in the form of discounts, deals, events, or in some cases there are even special dinners for the customers to avail discounts from.

Reservation Templates

The reservation template helps the Restaurateurs to get rid of empty slots throughout the day and control kitchen load during busy periods.

ADVANCED SET OF FEATURES TO BE AS COMPREHENSIVE AS OPENTABLE

Reservation Statistics

The clients can choose any special offer, event or special dinner the customers have. The statistics provide more sales for your restaurant.

Reservation Blocking

The Restaurateurs can decide to block the reservations if they don’t want to allow online reservations anymore for that particular day or time.

Maintaining Database

The data of the clients can be added to the restaurant’s database. This way the restaurants can market about their updated services to the valuable clients and can gain repeat sales.

Rewards

This feature is an additional feature, where customers earn rewards for dining with the app and then can redeem these reward points for availing discounts at certain restaurants.

Reservation Management

The calendar style reservation diary lets the user quickly add phone and walking bookings as well as manage them quickly.

Advance Sales and Deposits

The platform provides reports and analytics about the customers, their booking behavior, their preferred dining areas, the timing for dining, etc.

Client Visit History

The platform provides the Restaurateurs with the bookings, clients, and visit history that are saved in a database. This way the Restaurateurs can have the full details about your loyal customers.

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Automatic Allocation of Free Tables

The customers should be automatically allocated the tables that are free so as to save time for manually selecting the tables.

Define Table Combinations

The platform should automatically define the table combinations as per the number of audience added to it.

Move Bookings Across Restaurants

The customers can list out their priority list of the restaurants. Now when the seats are not available in the restaurant of the customer’s choice, the platform can automatically suggest and move bookings across restaurants or show availability in the restaurant of the customer’s choice.

Print Individual Bookings

The Restaurateurs should be able to take the prints of the individual bookings and thus can have the convenience to print the individual bookings.

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THESE FACTORS ARE THE REASON OF OPENTABLE’S OUTSTANDING REVENUE MODEL

Selling Business Management Tools

OpenTable sells the restaurant management tools with the features, free setup, free live support, free updates, and free installation.

Subscription

OpenTable lays out subscription plans for the Restaurateurs, based on the number of bookings and number of restaurants owned.

Selling Discount Restaurant Feature

The Spotlight Program of OpenTable sells discount restaurant coupons to consumers. The revenues from coupon sales are split between the restaurant and OpenTable.

Featuring Fee

The member restaurants can pay extra fees to be featured on OpenTable to be a part of email marketing campaigns.

Fee for each Diner

From restaurants with the Connect system, OpenTable receives a fee for each diner who completes his reservation.

It receives $2.50 per diner who reserves through OpenTable’s site, and $0.25 per diner for reservations made through the restaurant’s site using OpenTable software.

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Charge of Reservation

The customers can be charged with the reservation fees for every booking made.

Cancellation Charge

When anyone from the front stakeholders – Restaurateurs or the customers decide to cancel the booking made, a percentage of the amount in the form of cancellation fees is charged from them.

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Programming Language

Database

Backend Programming Language

Xcode as Tool

Swift as Frontend Programming Language

Database

Backend Programming Language

USE THESE MARKETING ASPECTS TO ACHIEVE  AUDIENCE LIKE OPENTABLE

Reviews and Ratings

The customers can rate for the restaurants and can write reviews about their services. This way the other customers can view the ratings and reviews of the restaurants and can decide to try it out for once.

Social Media Platforms

The social media platforms are the best way to do the ‘Word of Mouth’ marketing. Social pages can be created; events can be organized in order to create awareness about the platform.

Promotional Offers

The customers can make use of the promo codes, referrals, deals and discounts to acquire more customers and retain them.

SMS and email

The customers can be targeted using the SMS and email marketing which properly addresses the features and functionality of the platform.

Loyalty Points

On the basis of what table the customer chooses, certain reward/ loyalty points are gifted to the repeated customers

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