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.