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Custom Fields for WordPress Reservations
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Custom Fields for WordPress Reservations

When guests sign up for a reservation on your website, one of the biggest advantages is that you’re able to record extra information about them. Need to contact them to reschedule? Their contact information is right there in your bookings dashboard. With the premium version of our Five Star Restaurant Reservations WordPress plugin, you can…

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WordPress Reservation Reminders and More
WordPress Reservation Reminders and More

There’s nothing more frustrating than having a full reservations list, turning away paying customers at the door, and then having a bunch of no-show reservations leave you with a half-empty dining room. Our Five Star Restaurant Reservations plugin for WordPress has powerful features, to help you minimize no-shows and maximize your dining room revenue: reservation… READ POST

Reservation Deposits and Holds for WordPress
Reservation Deposits and Holds for WordPress

When guests aren’t arriving for their reservations, and reminders and late arrival notifications haven’t worked, many restaurant owners consider charging a reservation deposit fee or putting a hold on a guest’s card pending their arrival for their reservation. In this blog post, we’ll show you how to enable deposits and holds in our Five Star… READ POST

Styling Options for Five Star Restaurant Menu
Styling Options for Five Star Restaurant Menu

There are four ways to style the menus generated by our Five Star Restaurant Menu plugin for WordPress. We’ll go over each of them here, in order of complexity, so that users from beginners all the way to developers can understand the options they have to customize the look of their menus. The place to… READ POST

Custom Fields for Restaurant Orders
Custom Fields for Restaurant Orders

This post in our plugin features series looks at custom fields for our WordPress Restaurant Menu plugin. Custom fields let you collect additional information from your customers with their orders, or add extra information to your menu items, such as the estimated calories of an item. To get started, you’ll need the premium version of… READ POST

Accept Orders Through Your Restaurant Website
Accept Orders Through Your Restaurant Website

Accepting orders through your website is a feature that wasn’t very common before 2020, but has since become seen as a necessity for restaurant owners. Managing your own orders through your website is also a much more profitable alternative to restaurant ordering aggregators such as Uber Eats, who can take up to 30% of every… READ POST

Restaurant Reservations – Creating a Schedule and Exceptions
Restaurant Reservations – Creating a Schedule and Exceptions

Five-Star Restaurant Reservations lets you create a schedule with as many opening and closing periods as you’d like. Want to accept reservations at three different periods during the day on weekends? You can do that. Have a schedule that changes depending on the day of the week? You can schedule for that. Need to block… READ POST

Restaurant Reservations – Checking in Guests and Reminders
Restaurant Reservations – Checking in Guests and Reminders

Five Star Restaurant Reservations has a number of powerful features designed specifically for when your guests are actually arriving (or not) for their reservations: automated reservation reminders at a set time before the reservation, checking in guests as having arrived for the reservation, and, if necessary, late arrival reservation notifications at a set time after… READ POST

Setting Restrictions in Five Star Restaurant Reservations
Setting Restrictions in Five Star Restaurant Reservations

Owning and managing a restaurant is already a very time-consuming and difficult occupation. Throw in a pandemic and it would be hard to blame anyone for feeling overwhelmed. Spending half your day dealing with a booking system that doesn’t work and that causes you to miss out on the little bit of business you might… READ POST

Using Tables in Five Star Restaurant Reservations
Using Tables in Five Star Restaurant Reservations

Over the next 8 weeks, we’re going to be covering the key features that make our plugins so useful to our users. In this post, we’ll go over the table selection feature in the Five Star Restaurant Reservations WordPress plugin. This powerful option, available in the Ultimate version of the plugin, lets you set up… READ POST

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