Advanced Features

Can customers select where they wish to be seated when booking online?

Customers can tell you where they would like to be seated and you can their ensure the correct table is allocated.

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How do I turn off 'table turn time'?

Turn off table turn time to stop auto rebooking.

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How can I change a tables turn time for a specific date/day?

Override your normal booking table turn time on certain days/date.

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How can I join tables for larger customer bookings?

Create table joins so larger parties can book online.

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How do I use the promotions setting?

Use the promotion setting to monitor in-house offers with an allocation.

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How can I know what menu the customer wants to dine from prior to their booking date?

Set up your account completely with booking offers so you are aware what menu they will dine from.

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What are the 3 authority access levels?

simpleERB has 3 different authority access levels for account security.

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How can I restrict booking covers on certain single time slots?

Smallest/largest advance setting is useful when you want to restrict booking sizes in order to cope with the previous busy timeslot.

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How do I make my restaurant completely ticketed for bookings.

How to use simpleERB deposit rules to set up a ticketed (prepayment) restaurant.

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How can I make my restaurant bookings 100% ticketed.

Using our deposit feature you can make very booking prepaid.

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How to set a minimum and maximum booking size at a specific time slots.

You can set booking cover sizes to control capacity.

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Can I add a 'buffer' time to our table turn time without customers knowing?

Add a buffer time to allow you extra time for turn over before the next booking.

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How can I close out a time slot for all bookings.

Find out how to close out simpleERB for all bookings at a certain time.

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Can I quickly contact a customer via SMS?

Send customers a custom SMS from within their booking.

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How can I add private online booking for a special event or promotion?

simpleERB can allow customers to book online for special events/promotions with private booking offers.

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How can I amend my normal booking time slots for a specific day.

Changing your booking time slots for a one off date is easy using 'partial open days'.

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How can I obtain specific customer and booking data reports.

See our extension list of useful reports.

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How can I make specific time slots bookable by a manager only?

Set certain time slots to only be booked by managers for further control in busy periods.

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Can I take deposits for online widget bookings?

Set up your own specific rules for online widget booking deposits.

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How can I monitor unpaid and overdue customer deposits?

Use our deposit reports and booking icons to chase up overdue payments.

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How do Quick Info Buttons work?

Quick Info Buttons help you to get to know your customers better?

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Can I link multiple simpleERB restaurant accounts together?

Linking accounts allows a quick switch over without having to login

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Can we send customers a receipt for their paid booking deposit?

Send deposit receipts from Stripe to customers.

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How do I change the settings so that only a owner or manager can cancel bookings?

Add extra staff control by not allowing wait staff to cancel bookings.

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Can my staff take deposits/card capture for telephone bookings with simpleERB?

How your staff can take customer payment details securely within simpleERB with Stripe.

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How to integrate with Stripe for deposits and payment.

How to set up simpleERB with Stripe to allow deposit payment and credit card capture.

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How do I refund a customers deposit?

Refunding customers booking deposits within simpleERB is easy with a click of a button.

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How can I waive a specific customers deposit?

Waive a specific customers deposit on their booking

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How to set up deposits and credit card capture booking conditions.

How to set specific rules for obtaining deposit and credit card capture for bookings.

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How can I ensure my larger tables are booked last or only for larger parties?

Making changes to tables by ranking their booking preference for covers.

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Why do I have bookings in the unassigned tab?

Bookings can be filtered into the unassigned tab if availability has not been updated

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Forward covers and business planning

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Override covers for a time slot on a specific date.

How to change the max covers per booking time slot for a specific date.

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Can I take deposits?

Deposits can help reduce no shows

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I want a table which only managers can put a booking on

Configure widget settings to make table non-bookable online

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How to deal with coupon companies

Use offers to reduce the deluge of calls when running a deal

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How do I add offers?

Adding offers which can be booked by customers

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How do I get reviews?

Get feedback directly from customers

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How can simpleERB help me at Christmas?

simpleERB has a number of features which can help make the festive period a bit easier for you.

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I need to change my layout for a couple of days

simpleERB has a neat trick to cope with seasonal table layouts.

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How to stop repeat no shows

Can I stop someone from booking again?

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Download your user list and use Facebook Ads with Mailchimp

How to keep your top customers, top customers, using Facebook Ads in Mailchimp

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How can simpleERB help digital and SEO agencies?

simpleERB helps restaurant SEO and marketing

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How do I rank my tables?

I'd rather bookings went on a specific table first. How do I prioritise?

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Can I see a list of regular customers who haven't visited recently?

Where can I see a list of my disappearing customers?

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How to update your Ts & Cs

Customise your terms and conditions

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Can I add any custom features to my table layout?

Need to add a stage or dancefloor, but don't know how?

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How does simpleERB send emails from my restaurant to customers?

What SMTP setup or email service provider does simpleERB use to send email from my restaurant?

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