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Review the settings options for the Bookings section of the Settings tab
The Bookings tab features a number of different settings that tailor the Restaurant Diary and how it works. The purpose and functions of these features are explained below.
Staff Name
This field allows you to see which staff member has made a specific booking in the Restaurant Diary.
Show when creating a booking: this field controls whether or not the field appears in your Diary when adding. If its set to "No," this field will not appear. You have the option to make this a mandatory field.
Show when editing booking: This allows you to see which staff member has edited a specific booking in the Restaurant Diary. You have the option to make this a mandatory field.
Highlight overdue bookings:
Parties that are late for their booking will show up the Diary timeline view and floor plan view as late. You can customise the time at which point a party would be considered an overdue booking. Overdue means that the customer status has not been changed to seated or partially seated.
Warn me about bookings on occupied tables:
An alert will flash in the diary timeline view as well as the floor plan view to alert venue that table will soon be required for another booked table. you can customise the time at which point this alert would be triggered.
Highlight timeline intervals where maximum new covers is reached:
An alert will appear in the timeline in the interval spacing's, when venues are 1 away from meeting Capacity (light red will be shown in the timeline interval). This is just a warning to inform the venue that they are almost at their set threshold for bookings that interval.
Once venue has reached said threshold and gone over this will appear in dark red, so the venue has a visual queue to alert them they have reached capacity for that booking interval and to proceed with caution.Confuse
Auto confirm bookings: This will change the status of any booking made via the diary or the widget to confirmed if they are made on the same day. This is so same-day bookings are not sent reminders or followed up by the venue.
Booking name display: This will change the order of how the booking name is displayed and put the Company name as the main name of the booking. This is useful for venues that do a lot of business lunches and dinners.
Maximum booking size for restricted users: This limits the ability for staff members with restricted access to the Restaurant Diary to enter in bookings over a certain size.