Restaurant Group Pre-Order Software
Creventa is pre-order software for UK restaurant groups and multi-site operators. Every guest in a group booking chooses their food, drinks and allergies from a branded link before they arrive, your kitchen gets reports with no typing, and head office sees every site in one place.
It works with SevenRooms and OpenTable, and plans start from £74 per venue per month, billed annually. Most restaurants choose Creventa Select at £129.
Trusted by restaurant groups including The Wolseley Hospitality Group
Group bookings shouldn’t mean group admin
Spreadsheets work, right up until they don’t. A 30-cover Christmas party means emailing the organiser, waiting for a half-completed PDF, chasing the missing choices, re-typing everything for the kitchen, and hoping the allergy column is accurate. One change from the organiser and every document is out of date. Your team triple-checks everything and mistakes still slip through during service.
“Logistically, pre-orders with dietaries and allergies became a bit of a nightmare. That has just literally resolved all of our issues around that.”
The Wolseley
How restaurant pre-ordering works with Creventa
A group books
A large party books direct, by phone, or through SevenRooms. Bookings over your party-size threshold trigger pre-ordering automatically.
Guests order for themselves
Every guest gets a branded link or QR code to pick dishes, flag allergies and pre-order drinks. No app, no account, works for every age and ability.
Creventa chases the stragglers
Automated reminders go out before your ordering cut-off, so your team never sends another “just following up” email.
Reports print themselves
Chef’s report, food pass, place cards, table plans and drinks orders generate from live guest data. Zero typing, 100% accuracy.
Everything your team needs for group dining
Guest self-service pre-orders
Choice menus, set menus with allergy collection, or anything in between. Guests submit their own choices, so data is accurate the first time.
FSA-compliant allergen tracking
All 14 mandatory allergens plus custom allergies, separated from dietary preferences, visible to the kitchen on every report. More on allergens.
Drink pre-orders that lift wet spend
Party leads order bottles for the table before arrival. Venues see around a 251% uplift in wet spend.
Party lead and host access
The organiser invites their own guests via WhatsApp, Teams or QR code, and manages their own group. The work moves off your team.
Deposits and pre-payments
Take deposits and payments through Stripe, Adyen, Planet Pay or FreedomPay, with automatic VAT receipts and in-platform refunds.
One-click reports
Chef’s report, food pass, front of house report, place cards, table plans and drinks orders, generated with no manual entry. See all features.
SevenRooms and EPOS friendly
Our live SevenRooms integration triggers pre-orders from your reservation rules. Works alongside the systems you already run.
Your brand, not ours
Every email, page and place card carries your branding. If guests ever used Creventa, we’d hope they never knew we were there.
What restaurants get out of it
More wet spend when guests and party leads pre-order drinks
Less food waste from accurate numbers locked in by your cut-off
Back per booking that your team currently spends chasing and re-typing
Report accuracy with FSA-compliant allergen records on every event
One pre-order process across every site
Creventa is built for restaurant groups running many locations, brands or concepts. Head office sets the standard once, and every site runs group bookings the same way.
- The same guest experience at every venue. Branded pre-order links, reminders and allergen capture work identically across your estate.
- Central menus, local control. Configure menus and settings by site, brand or concept, while each restaurant manages its own bookings.
- Dashboards for central and local teams. Operations leaders see every site; managers see their own.
- Consistent reports everywhere. Chef’s reports, food pass and front of house reports follow the same format at every location.
- Enterprise options for larger groups. Grouped venues, a centralised dashboard across all properties, cross-venue reporting and a unified guest database.
Whether you run a handful of restaurants or hundreds, see restaurant pricing or book a demo for your group.
Built for every kind of group booking
- Christmas party nights and joiners. Sell tickets on your own website and consolidate ticketed and direct bookings into one seating plan. Managing Christmas pre-orders.
- Private dining rooms. Choice menus, place cards and chef reports for PDRs, generated automatically. Restaurant private dining.
- Large-party reservations. SevenRooms bookings over your threshold trigger pre-orders without anyone lifting a finger.
- Multi-site restaurant groups. One consistent pre-order process across every venue. Restaurant groups and group dining pre-orders.
Restaurant groups run on Creventa
“I would 100% recommend it. It changed our lives. Fundamentally it’s changed my workload. I’ve got more time to spend with guests rather than admin.”
“Creventa has been a game changer for us. It saves us so much time, and we receive great feedback from our guests.”
Restaurant group pre-order software FAQs
What is the best pre-order software for restaurant groups?
For a UK restaurant group, the right pre-order software lets every guest order for themselves, records allergens against the named guest, works with your reservation system and gives head office one view across all sites. Creventa does all four: guests order from a branded link with no app or login, all 14 allergens are captured per guest, SevenRooms and OpenTable bookings feed in automatically, and central teams see every venue. It is used by groups including The Wolseley Hospitality Group.
Can Creventa run pre-orders across multiple restaurant sites?
Yes. Menus and settings can be configured by site, brand or concept, every venue uses the same guest pre-order process, and reports follow the same format everywhere. Larger groups can add a centralised dashboard, cross-venue reporting and a unified guest database.
What is restaurant pre-order software?
Restaurant pre-order software collects food and drink orders from guests before they arrive. For group bookings, each guest receives a branded link to choose dishes, record allergies and pre-order drinks, and the restaurant receives kitchen-ready reports with no manual data entry.
How do guests submit their pre-orders?
Guests receive a personalised, venue-branded email, link or QR code. They pick their courses, flag allergies and dietary requirements, and can pre-order drinks. It works in any browser with no app or account needed.
Does it handle allergies and dietary requirements?
Yes. Creventa tracks all 14 FSA mandatory allergens plus custom allergies, keeps them separate from dietary preferences like vegan or halal, and flags them on every kitchen and front of house report.
Does it work with our reservation system?
Creventa integrates with SevenRooms, so reservations over your party-size threshold trigger pre-ordering automatically. It also works alongside any booking process via shareable links and QR codes.
Can we take deposits and pre-payments?
Yes. Deposits and payments run through Stripe, Adyen, Planet Pay or FreedomPay, with automatic VAT receipts.
What size bookings does it work for?
Everything from a table of 10 to ticketed party nights of 500 or more. The same platform handles private dining rooms and full-venue events.
See your next group booking run itself
Book a Demo and we’ll walk through a real booking like yours, from reservation to chef’s report. We wouldn’t expect you to change how you run things. Creventa flexes around how you want to run your bookings.
Frequently asked questions
How do restaurants collect pre-orders for large parties?
One branded link per party: the organiser shares it, each guest picks courses and drinks against the restaurant’s menu structure, allergies are captured per named guest, and the kitchen receives automatic counts by dish.
What does pre-order software cost for a restaurant?
Creventa restaurant plans run from £74 per month billed annually (Covers) to £199 (Signature); the most popular Select plan is £129 per month. Onboarding, allergen control and place cards are included on every plan.
Do pre-orders work for private dining rooms?
They are ideal for it: the host manages their own guest list through delegated access, choices arrive without back-and-forth, and The Wolseley Hospitality Group reports it “literally does my job for me, and it does the client’s job for them too”.
Can guests pre-order drinks for a restaurant event?
Yes, per table or per guest, and it lifts spend materially: a Holiday Inn hotel using Creventa reported a 251% uplift in wet spend from drink pre-orders.
Go deeper: restaurant pre-order alternatives, the complete pre-order guide, private dining, pricing.