Settings - Table Management - Manage Bookings By Channel

Note: This setting only applies to ONLINE channels and not internal



Manage Bookings by Channel is used to control the number of covers and/or bookings you accept from various different online channels. This feature allows a restaurant to continue to accept bookings via some channels for example your own website, while closing availability for other channels for example Dish Cult powered by ResDiary. 


Business Benefits

  • Ensure that 'paid for' bookings are only accepted on days-services that require an additional revenue lift.
  • Ensure that you are not paying for bookings when you do not need to because you will be full via free channels.
  • Target your marketing expenditure with 100% precision by using this feature with Manage Booking Channels


Table Management - How to manage booking by channels


Go to settings - table management - manage bookings by channels - select the segment to alter if applicable:


Example - Below we have an active online restriction by covers; you can also have simultaneous restrictions by bookings.




Let's take a further look as to what this is


Example - Here you can see we have 100 at brunch, 100 at lunch and 50 at dinner; this means that  - in total, via any one of your online channels -  at most 100 online covers can be booked at brunch and lunch (and at most 50 online covers can be booked for dinner service).





To add a restriction to a specific channel press add restriction:




 

Choose which Channel you want to add the restriction to from the drop-down menu and select the type as either covers or bookings:





Add in your restrictions, this can also vary by day (see dinner for Thursday, Friday and Saturday)





This feature allows you to accept bookings from online sources while restricting others.