Welcome to Tablein
Setting up restaurant settings
Adding reservations to the system
Integrating reservation widget
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1. The beggining
Restaurant set up
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Restaurant profile
Please access your restaurant profile and fill in the contact information section. This is essential for automated email and SMS notifications, widget notifications, website, integrations.
Restaurant profile and contacts
Select your time zone and language
Create user accounts (optional)
Dining areas and tables
Create dining areas and tables
Open Table Management Settings and click 'Add New Dining Area' at the bottom of the page, next to the save button. Add tables to all areas according to their size (number of people), assign booking length, and indicate whether the table can be booked online. Don't forget to save. For further guidance, watch the video tutorial.
Merge tables for group reservations (optional)
Floor plan (optional)
To edit or add more tables, please access the table management settings. When creating floor plans, please use a computer. Separate different areas with elements such as walls and text to provide a clear overview of reservations and tables. Learn how to set up. Learn how to set up. More layouts will be available soon.
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Opening hours and availability
Opening hours and online availability can vary for different dining areas. Please note: last available reservation times depend on table booking length. For example, if you want the final reservation time to be 9 p.m., set the closing time at 11 p.m. (assuming your booking length is 2 hours).
Reservation time slots
Set up regular opening hours
Custom periods (Optional)
Reservation management
Calendar view
The most popular tool for quickly reviewing all-day reservations, rearranging tables to accommodate more bookings, and identifying available time slots for new reservations. Learn how to add reservations to the calendar using drag-and-drop functionality or with a simple button click.
Reservation list
Floor plan (optional)
The floor plan enables you to see your restaurant layout and booked tables for a specific time. You can add reservations directly from the plan by selecting tables. Learn more about adding new reservations and checking availability.
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Reservation modal
Reservation statuses
Reservation details
Guest details
Widget settings
Widget languages
Booking policy
Restrictions
Select the number of minutes allowed for online booking or cancellation before the reservation time. You can also choose to limit the number of guests per time slot or day for online reservations. Please note that these restrictions do not apply to phone reservations.
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Widget integration
Easily integrate an online reservation widget into your website and social media platforms. Reservations from all channels will be centralized in one place. Please add all your current reservations to the system to avoid overbookings and conflicts.
Facebook and Instagram integration
Google integration
Widget integration to website
The widget is HTML code-based. You can set up your website widgets in seconds using a simple HTML code that you can copy and paste directly into your website. Find more information about integration to WIX, Squarespace, Wordpress
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Deposits and No-show fee
No show / late cancellation fee
Deposits
Deposit for group reservations only
The system allows taking deposits only for group reservations or during weekend evenings. For group reservations, navigate to Prepayment and event settings, and specify the Minimum guests. Additionally, for specific days, select the days and times at the bottom of the settings when you want to take deposits or save card details.
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SMS and email notications
After your guest makes a reservation, we will send a series of notifications via email and optional SMS messages: confirmation, reminder, feedback, and pending email. All these notifications can be edited to suit your preferences.
Email notifications
In email settings, choose whether to send guest feedback emails, receive notifications for online reservation receipt and cancellation, and edit all guest email notifications. Select preferred widget languages for notifications.
SMS notifications
Email banner
Marketing
Offers and events
Website
Call-to-action
Never forget to include a call-to-action "book a table" and a link to the reservation widget in all your channels and messages. This will help to increase reservations and save time for your staff by reducing the need to answer phones or reply to messages.
Email banner
Given the high open rate of reservation-related notifications, you can leverage this opportunity to promote your upcoming events, offers, channels, or other information. An email banner can be added to the email notifications settings, and you can find more information about it here.
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Account settings
Once you have completed all the setup, please change your password, and we highly recommend using 2FA authentication for added security.
Update password
Please navigate to your Account settings and change your password. As the main user, only you have access to all the settings. For this reason, we recommend creating additional user accounts for your staff.
2FA authentification
Change main user
Onboarding is finished!
We are here to help you achieve the best!
All reservations are added
Online widget is integrated
Marketing is set up!
Thank you for choosing Tablein system! We appreciate your support and hope you find our system beneficial for your business.
Reservation management: settings and tools for better productivity
Tablein management, floor plan, unlimited dining areas
Flexible time management settings for each dining area
Automatic table grouping option for increased capacity
Unlimited team accounts, permissions and staff notes
Quick and easy reservation search, edit, print, or export
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Guest CRM and reports
Guestbook with reports, smart filters and export function
All-day booking activity view
Customisable reservation reports, filters, exports
Feedback report and feature to reply to comment
Report dashboard with detailed information
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