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inline | How to Extend the Latest Available Online Booking Time for Regular Setting?

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If a merchant wants to extend the latest available booking time for regular settings, for example, from 21:30 to 22:30, first check whether the business hours, dining time, and table bussing time settings meet your requirements, then adjust the relevant settings.

How the atest available booking time is calculated?

To make later booking times available, make sure your Closing Time allows enough time for the final booking to complete its dining session. The system automatically calculates the latest available booking time by counting backward from the closing time based on your Business Hours Closing Time, Dining Time, and Bussing Time settings.

Latest Available Booking Time = Closing Time − Dining Time − Bussing Time

For example:

  • Dining Time: 90 minutes｜Bussing Time: 0 minutes｜Closing Time: 22:00
    → The latest available booking time is 20:30.
  • Dining Time: 90 minutes｜Bussing Time: 15 minutes｜Closing Time: 22:00
    → The latest available booking time is 20:15.
  • Dining Time: Unlimited｜Closing Time: 22:00
    → Each booking reserves a table for a minimum of 30 minutes, so the latest available booking time is 21:30.

In other words, the final booking of the day must leave enough time for both the full Dining Time and Bussing Time before the business closes. If you want to make later booking times available, you must either extend theClosing Time or shorten the Dining Time or Bussing Time.

If a time slot falls outside the available booking range, it will not appear at the top of Booking Management as an available option.

Extend Business Hours in Business Settings

After confirming the required business hours, update them in the App. Once saved, the changes will affect both the available online booking times and the Business Hours displayed in the Restaurant Information section of your online booking page.

1. Open the iPad App and go to Settings > Business Settings.

2. Select the schedule you want to edit, such as Weekday, Weekend, or Holiday.

3. Adjust the Closing Time, then tap the orange < Weekday button at the top to save the schedule.

4. Finally, tap < Business Settings to save all changes.

Please Note: If you extend your business hours only to allow later booking times but do not want customers to see the updated business hours on your online booking page, you can customize the displayed business hours separately. Please refer to: How to Customize the Business Hours Displayed on Booking Page?

Open the New Time Slots in Booking Management

After updating your business hours, you also need to make the new booking time slots available in Booking Management.

1. Go to Settings > Booking Management.

2. Select the schedule you want to edit, such as Weekday, Friday, Weekend, or Holiday.

3. Turn the table off and then back on in the left panel. The new latest available booking time will appear at the top. (If you want to enable the new time slot for all tables, each table must be turned off and turned back on individually)

4. Adjust the available booking time if needed: Orange = enabled, White = disabled.

5. Tap Done in the upper-right corner to save your changes.