This hold lets the partner make sure that the end user does not lose their requested time while they fill out the reservation information. The end user will select the date and time they want and the partner will place a hold for the time to Yelp's Holds endpoint.Using the Business ID obtained from a given search, the partner will make a request to Yelp's reservation Openings endpoint to get a list of all available reservation dates and times for the restaurant.Yelp's Search endpoint will return businesses which can accommodate the requested date, time, and number of attendees.The partner will make this request into the existing Search endpoint. End user will search for a reservation by providing a date, time, and number of people attending.To book a reservation, the flow taken by end users is as follows: That same page also listed the crowd-sourced design startup Chirply as a potential acquisition - so keep your eyes peeled there.There are three different parties involved in the flow to book reservations: the end user, the partner, and Yelp. Seems like Yelp won out in the end, though. We’d actually spotted SeatMe listed as a “potential acquisition” on one of Square’s hiring pages (of all places), so we had a feeling that the company was looking for a buyer. We will continue to provide the same great product and service that we hope you’ve come to love and rely on. How does this change your SeatMe service? It doesn’t. SusieCakes is an All-American bakery offering classic desserts made entirely from scratch using simple, natural ingredients.
Update: From an email sent to SeatMe’s current customers, it sounds like the service will go on: We’re reaching out to Yelp/SeatMe for clarification there.
As for what this all means for current SeatMe customers? That… goes unmentioned. Yelp says that they’ll be bringing the SeatMe team in to help them build out their own reservation system, expanding their time-slotting offerings from just restaurants and night clubs to things like spas, dentists, and salons. No wonder he was so tight lipped future plans and if anything spoke a little to rosey about them. While at LeWeb London 2013, Jeremy Stoppelman, Yelp’s CEO, was pressured time and time again to talk about their open table partnership. It also has a few other neat tricks, like texting customers when their table is ready, or flagging a return customer’s known allergens and seating preferences.Ĭompetitor OpenTable has been powering Yelp’s integrated reservation since around June of 2010 - this acquisition presumably means that that deal will dry up sooner than later (Yelp tells us they “believe SeatMe complements existing partnerships.”) As pointed out by commenter Max Lemos, below: The web app lets restaurant owners easily add an online reservation system to their own site or Facebook page, while the iPad app lets the restaurant’s host/hostess manage their tables on the fly. SeatMe’s main offering is part web service, part iPad app. Update: Looks like they acquired them for $2.2 million in cash and 263,000 shares of common stock, pinning the acquisition price at a total up to $12.7 million. No word yet on the acquisition price, though we’re digging. Yelp has just announced that they’ve agreed to acquire SeatMe, the startup that set out to battle OpenTable in the restaurant reservation space.
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