A chosen space and a deposit behind it — arrival certainty for the venue, certainty of the night for the guest.
Compare · RAYN vs Tock
Both treat a booking as a commitment. Only one starts with the space.
Tock pioneered prepaid reservations and remains a reference for ticketed experiences — tasting menus, wineries, event formats. RAYN is a guest-facing booking and intelligence layer built around 3D exact-table selection, a four-channel concierge and commission-free Smart Deposits. This page is a fair comparison from an operator's point of view, honest about where each is strong.
Where the difference shows
The commitment stays. The dimension changes.
Tock proved diners will put money behind a booking. RAYN keeps that idea — deposits, minimum spends, packages — and adds the dimension a slot-based flow cannot: the exact space, chosen by the guest, feeding intelligence back to the venue.
Visual, spatial booking
Guests pick their exact table, booth, cabana or private space visually — including in 3D — before they commit, so seat intent is captured, not guessed.
Commission-free deposits
Smart Deposits handle prepayment, minimum spend and packages on a flat subscription — no percentage taken on prepaid bookings.
WhatsApp guest journey
Conversational enquiries become a structured booking path with guest context attached, rather than a chat reconciled into the book later.
Pre-arrival commerce
Menus, packages and pre-orders offered before the visit, so intent turns into value ahead of service instead of at the table.
Spatial demand intelligence
Demand, yield and leakage read by seat, zone and slot, so premium inventory is visible before it is left on the table.
Everyday premium demand
Built for the nights between the ticketed events — the terrace Thursday, the cabana Saturday, the birthday booth — where the space is the sell.
Side by side
An honest table, feature by feature.
Where Tock leads, this table says so. Where RAYN leads, it says that too.
| Capability | RAYN | Tock |
|---|---|---|
| Exact-table selection in 3D | Yes — guests walk the venue and choose the precise table, booth or cabana | No — slot-based reservations with request notes |
| Conversational booking (WhatsApp · Instagram · voice · web) | Yes — one venue-aware concierge across four channels | Web booking flow; no conversational concierge |
| Deposits & prepaid commitment | Smart Deposits — deposits, minimum spends and packages, commission-free | Deep — prepaid reservations pioneered here; a percentage applies on prepaid bookings |
| Ticketed experiences & events | Sessions, brunches and guest lists in one canonical booking flow | Mature — a reference for tasting menus, wineries and event formats |
| Consumer discovery marketplace | No — RAYN is the venue's direct channel | Yes — Tock's consumer marketplace |
| Demand intelligence | By seat, zone and slot — which spaces sell, which are rejected | By reservation and event |
| Pricing model | Flat subscription, no per-cover commission | Published pricing pairs a subscription with a percentage on prepaid reservations |
Often not a choice at all
Keep the ticketed formats. Add RAYN for the room.
If ticketed tasting menus or event drops work for your venue, keep them. RAYN runs the everyday premium demand — the exact-table bookings, the conversational enquiries, the deposits on cabanas and booths — and builds the seat-level intelligence underneath all of it.
Existing system
Run in front
Keep your reservation system of record and add RAYN as the guest-facing layer ahead of it.
Explore Pick Your SpotChoose the spot
Guest-led visual and 3D seat selection before arrival, so seat intent is captured cleanly.
Explore EventsSell the night
Brunches, sessions, guest lists and packages through the same canonical booking flow.
ExploreOutcomes
What changes when the space is part of the booking.
Prepaid value without a percentage taken, and premium inventory priced on evidence rather than instinct.
Every booking teaches the venue which seats, zones and slots carry the demand — intelligence a slot grid cannot see.
Questions
RAYN and Tock, answered.
How does RAYN differ from Tock?
Tock is built around prepaid, slot-based reservations and ticketed experiences. RAYN is built around the space itself: guests choose the exact table, booth or cabana in a 3D walkthrough, commit through deposits or packages, and book conversationally over WhatsApp, Instagram, voice or web. The venue keeps seat-level demand intelligence.
Does RAYN take a percentage of prepaid bookings?
No. Deposits, minimum spends and packages run through Smart Deposits on a flat subscription with no per-cover commission. Tock's published pricing pairs a subscription with a percentage on prepaid reservations.
Can RAYN handle ticketed events and brunches?
Yes. Events, brunches, guest lists and session-based formats run through the same canonical booking flow, with capacity enforced at the database level and deposits or packages attached where the venue chooses.
Where is Tock stronger than RAYN?
Tock pioneered prepaid reservations, and its ticketing for tasting menus, wineries and experience formats remains a reference. It also offers a consumer discovery marketplace. This page credits both plainly — RAYN's difference is spatial and conversational.
Can RAYN run alongside Tock?
Yes. Some venues keep ticketed tasting-menu formats where they work and use RAYN as the direct spatial booking layer for everyday premium demand — the two are not mutually exclusive.
See it on your venue
Compare it against your own room.
A short walkthrough — we map your guest journey, deposits, visual booking and intelligence layer against how your venue runs today, whether ticketed formats stay in the mix or not.