Bookings
Let guests choose a table type, like a booth or the garden
Make one booking type per table type, each limited to its own tables, so guests pick the experience they want.
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In short: make one booking type per table group, turn on Custom table selection, and pick only that group's tables.
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Choose your venue
Ordering
Bookings
Landing Page
Booking Types
Special Dates
Reviews
Set it up
- Go to Bookings › Booking Types, then choose your venue.
- Click New booking type.
- Under Basics, check Active is on, and add a Name, Description and Header image.
- Set Party sizes to match the group's tables.
- Under Tables and availability, turn on Custom table selection.
- Pick only that group's tables in Available tables, plus any Table combinations that suit.
- Click Save, top right. Repeat for each group.
New booking type, with Custom table selection highlightedThe New booking type panel: Active on, Custom table selection on and the Save button. Custom table selection is highlighted.
New booking type
ActiveOn
Custom table selectionOn
Save
To reuse a type instead, click its copy icon in the list, then Edit on the "[copy]" row it makes, and start at step 3.
Check it worked
Open the type's Web link and try a few party sizes as a guest would.
Good to know
- A type is not offered for a party size its tables or combinations cannot fit.
- If the same tables sit in two types, both types compete for them.
- Hidden from the booking page keeps a type off the page but bookable by direct link.
- See create and edit a booking type.
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