Pricing
Free to book. Paid on the booking.
Customers pay nothing, ever. Caterers pay a success fee on confirmed bookings, tapered so the largest jobs aren't subsidised by the smallest.
The schedule
Four numbers. That's the whole thing.
Every figure on this page is computed by the same module the system charges from, so the table cannot drift from the ledger.
01
8%
Of the booking total, up to £3,125.
02
4%
Of everything above £3,125. The taper is why a wedding doesn't pay for a buffet.
03
£35
Minimum fee. Below this the admin costs more than the booking earns.
04
£750
Ceiling. No uncapped agency-style cut, at any booking value.
Work it out.
£4,800
Drag to change the booking value.
Fee to the caterer
£317
8% of the first £3,125 (£250), then 4% of the remaining £1,675 (£67).
Effective rate: 6.6%. Cost to the customer: nothing.
Worked examples
The same rule, six ways.
Computed at build time from the fee module, not typed into a table by hand.
| Booking | Total | Fee | Effective |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buffet for 408% of £600. | £600 | £48 | 8.0% |
| Corporate lunch for 808% of £1,600. | £1,600 | £128 | 8.0% |
| Private party for 1008% of £2,800. | £2,800 | £224 | 8.0% |
| Wedding for 1208% of the first £3,125 (£250), then 4% of the remaining £1,675 (£67). | £4,800 | £317 | 6.6% |
| Large wedding for 2008% of the first £3,125 (£250), then 4% of the remaining £5,875 (£235). | £9,000 | £485 | 5.4% |
| Multi-day event8% of the first £3,125 (£250), then 4% of the remaining £21,875 (£875). Capped at the £750 ceiling. | £25,000 | £750 | 3.0% |
Why it tapers
A flat cap punishes the wrong job.
The original blueprint capped the success fee at £250. That cap bites at exactly £3,125 — which means a £6,000 wedding and a £3,125 corporate buffet pay an identical fee, while the wedding takes several times the work to run: more caterers to brief, more revisions, more chasing, more at stake if it goes wrong.
The highest-value segment ends up subsidising the lowest, which is a strange thing to design on purpose. So the fee tapers instead: 8% to £3,125, then 4% on the excess, with a £750 ceiling. A £6,000 wedding pays £365 rather than £250 — still nothing like an agency deduction, so “no uncapped cut” survives intact.
What the customer pays: nothing. Not a booking fee, not a service charge, not a percentage. You pay the caterer their price, directly. The fee comes out of the caterer's side of a booking that has already happened.