Online settings
Features to improve your booking management.
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Diary configuration
Configure your online settings.
- Add terms and privacy policy to your bookingsYou can add terms and conditions, privacy notice and retention period to your diary settings.
- Manage your bookings with close outsYou can block bookings with close outs.
- Change what time you open or closeYou can edit your first and last booking time.
- Close your bookings for one dayYou can block your bookings for one specific day.
- Create your recurring close outYou can use periodic close outs to add a recurring block for a date period.
- Create your new beta recurring close outYou can create your recurring close out with our new beta version.
- Remove a close out for one dayYou can open up your availability for one day.
- Adjust your last booking time with close outsYou can change your last booking time with the use of close outs.
- Enable online bookings on your diaryYou can activate your diary to accept online reservations.
- Disable your online bookingsYou can deactivate your diary to accept online bookings.
- Stop online bookings for one off date rangeYou can stop all new booking for a set period of dates using your settings.
- Create a bulk close out for your tablesYou can close individual tables for a period of time with bulk close outs.
- Adjust your maximum online party sizeUpdate your online booking settings to control the maximum party size allowed.
- Set time for online booking changesControl when customers can edit or cancel bookings.
- Change your no availability messageYou can edit what appears on your Dish Cult portal when you have no availability.
- Redirect your bookings using an alternative widget URLYou can change where your customers are booking from on your microsite.
- Set your data retention policyYou can manage your customer data retention policy.
- Customer retention policy FAQsFrequently asked questions about your customer retention policy.
- Copy our GDPR privacy policy sampleYou can easily copy and adjust our privacy notice sample.
- Configure your SPF recordsAdjust your SPF records to improve email delivery rates.
- Ensure your diary can send emailsVerify your diary is setup to send email notifications to your customers.
- Set booking days in advanceYou can setup how many days in advance you accept bookings.
Booking customisation
Detail your bookings and customers.
- Add custom fields to your booking processYou can create custom fields for your booking widget.
- Manage your cancellation reasonsYou can create or edit your cancellation reasons.
- Create your booking codesYou can create codes to mark your bookings.
- Create your customer codesYou can add codes to your customerâs profile.
- Create your customer typesYou can add types to your customerâs profile.
- Set required fields in your booking processYou can decide which fields are mandatory in your booking process.
- Manage your reasons for bookingYou can create and edit your reasons for booking.
- Record how your customers found youYou can record how your guests discovered you.
- Create your large party booking typeYou can create custom booking types for big groups.
- Highlight your first time visitors and VIPYou can flag your first time visitors and VIP customers.
- Reallocate unallocated bookings efficientlyYou can unallocate and reseat bookings internally.
- Add and process booking extrasYou can create and process payments for booking extras.