Configure Booking Settings
Customize the booking system to your restaurant's needs.
How to: To save general settings, you need Hantera restauranginställningar. Changes save automatically; wait for Inställning sparad (setting saved).
- Go to Bokning in the admin menu (under the APPAR heading)
- Open the Inställningar tab
- Under the Grundinställningar sub-tab you'll find:
Available settings:
| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
| Bordsbokning aktiverad | Enable or hide table booking for guests |
| Standard sittlängd (minuter) | How long a booking lasts (default: 120 min) |
| Min gäster | Minimum number of guests per booking |
| Max gäster | Maximum number of guests per booking |
| Min förbokningstid (timmar) | How many hours before the guest can book at the latest |
| Max förbokning (dagar) | How many days ahead the guest can book |
| Slot-intervall | Interval between bookable times (15, 30, or 60 min) |
| Automatisk bordstilldelning | System assigns a table based on party size |
| Tillåt gäst att avboka | Guest can cancel via SMS link |
| Tillåt gäst att ändra bokning | Guest can modify their booking |
| Brytningstid online | Latest point in the day guests can book online for the same day. Set per weekday. Empty = no limit |
Online booking cut-off – read this before setting it
The cut-off gives your kitchen advance notice: set 2:00 PM on Saturday and guests can book Saturday's tables online until 2 PM that day, after which no times are shown for that date.
The pitfall is what the guest sees afterwards. Without your own text it simply says "Online booking is closed for this date" – and many read that as fully booked and call instead of walking in. If you use a cut-off, you should also fill in your own text; see the next section.
Text for your guests:
Two free-text fields that control what guests read on your booking page. Both are optional – leave them empty and our standard texts are shown.
| Field | Shown |
|---|---|
| Text högst upp på bokningssidan | Always, whether the guest is booking a table, an event or an activity |
| Text när dagen är stängd för onlinebokning | Instead of "Online booking is closed for this date" |
Example for the second one: "Online booking is closed for today. You're welcome to walk in, or call us on +46 XX-XX XX XX."
Line breaks are preserved, so you can write several lines. Maximum 500 characters per field.
Its own text for a single day
When you close a particular day – Christmas Eve, a weekend, a private event – that day can carry its own explanation. The Text till gästen field sits in the same dialog where you create the special period, under Skift & Tider → Specialperioder. That text replaces your usual closed text for the duration of the period.
If two periods overlap on the same day, the shorter one wins. With both "Christmas break 20 Dec–7 Jan" and "Christmas Eve 24 Dec" carrying their own texts, the guest sees the Christmas Eve text on the 24th and the Christmas break text on the other days – you don't have to think about the order. Leave the period's field empty and your usual closed text is used.
Avbokningsdeadline (timmar) is under No-show & SMS, in the Avbokning card.
The No-show & SMS sub-tab additionally holds:
| Setting | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Kräv kortgaranti för bokningar | Off | Require a card at booking so the no-show fee can be charged. See Mark no-show |
| Låt gäster skriva om sin bokning | Off | Guests can message you from their booking link. See Messages between guest and restaurant |
| Skicka notis vid bokningshändelser | Off | Email when a guest books, cancels or modifies online |
Tip: Preview the booking page after changing time rules. Check that guests see times and information that match your service.
This feature is part of Vendion Booking.
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