Help Centre
How to set up your venue and run a service. Written for the person using it, not the person who built it.
Getting started
Set the venue up and take your first booking.
- How OneReserve fits together
Three parts: a public booking page guests use, a staff console where you run service, and the guest records built quietly from both.
- Your first hour
Verify your email, add tables, set your opening hours, check the turn times, then press Go live. Everything else can wait.
- Setting up your floor
Add a room, add its tables with the smallest and largest party each seats, then set up combinations for tables you push together.
- Shifts, special days and closures
Shifts are your normal opening hours, one row per service per day. Special days override them for a single date — a holiday, a function, a closure.
- Turn times and pacing
Turn times say how long a party keeps a table; pacing caps how many guests can arrive at once. Together they decide which times your booking page offers.
- Going live
Until you press Go live, your booking page is not public and nobody can book. The checklist shows what is still missing.
Your booking page
Branding, embedding, and what guests see.
- Branding your booking page
Set colours, a font, your logo and a welcome message so the booking page looks like your venue rather than like our software.
- Putting it on your website
Four ways to take bookings from your own site: an inline widget, a popup button, a plain link, or a printed QR code. All four are copy-paste.
- What your guests see
Guests pick a date, party size and time, leave their details, and get an email with a link that lets them change or cancel without an account.
Running service
The floor, the timeline, and the day sheet.
- Reading the service floor
The book is one row per table and one column per fifteen minutes, so a glance tells you what is seated, what is coming, and where the gaps are.
- Booking statuses
Booked, Confirmed, Seated, Finished, No-show, Cancelled. Only the first four hold a table; the rest release it immediately.
- Walk-ins and moving tables
Seat a walk-in from the More menu on the book, and move an existing booking to different tables from inside its drawer.
- Blocking a table
Block a table — or the whole venue — for a time range so nothing can be booked onto it. For maintenance, a private function, or a closure.
- The day sheet
A printable list of the day's bookings — time, covers, guest, table and phone — for when the tablet dies or the internet drops.
- Using the waitlist
When a date is full, guests can join a waitlist. A cancellation notifies them automatically, and you can also notify anyone by hand.
Guests
Guest records, tags, notes and requests.
- What's in a guest record
Every booking builds a guest record — visits, covers, no-shows, spend and history — without anyone typing it in twice.
- Tags and notes
Tags are short labels you can filter the guest list by. Notes are free text for the things that do not fit a label.
- Merging duplicate guests
When the same person books twice under different details, merge the two records so their history is in one place.
- Erasing a guest's details
Owners can permanently remove a guest's name, contact details, notes and tags. The bookings stay, so your reports still reconcile.