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Availability and closures, refreshed settings, and a faster waitlist

v0.11.xJun 29, 2026

Finer control over availability and closures, a refreshed Settings area, and faster waitlist and walk-in tools.

This update gives you finer control over availability and closures, a refreshed Settings area, a more customizable booking widget, and faster waitlist and walk-in tools during live service. Here's what's new.

More control over your availability

  • Recurring closures. Set a closure that repeats, so a regular day off or a standing private buyout stays blocked without re-entering it every week.
  • Per-day service times. Give each day its own hours instead of one schedule for the whole week, so a late weekend brunch or an early weekday close is easy to set.
  • Remove services cleanly. Take a service off a day without it lingering in availability.

A refreshed Settings area

  • A cleaner, reorganized Settings. Settings has a clearer structure that's easier to scan and move through.
  • Show only what you use. Hide the sections you don't need so your team sees a shorter, more relevant menu.
  • Brand styling that flows down. Your brand kit now carries through to the surfaces that inherit it, so colors and styling stay consistent without re-entering them.
  • An events control center. Private events have their own home in Settings, ready to turn on when you want to take event requests.

A more customizable booking widget

  • Custom text colors and a background image. Style the widget's text and add a background image so it matches your brand more closely.
  • A shorter guest flow. The widget skips the seating step automatically when there's nothing to choose, keeping the booking quick.
  • Cleaner embedding. Improvements to the embed snippet make it smoother to drop the widget onto your own site.

A sharper bookings dashboard

  • Quick Export and New actions. Export your bookings or start a new one right from the top bar.
  • Status tiles that follow the date. The status counts on the bookings dashboard reflect the date you're viewing.
  • Easier-to-read floor labels. Round tables now carry clear, centered number labels.
  • A clearer new-booking summary. The confirm step lists the details in a clean, labelled column, with small fixes for numeric guest names and a crowded late-evening time slot.
  • Simpler table picker. Combined-table options stay out of the quick picker, so choosing a single table is faster.

Faster waitlist and walk-ins during service

  • Seat from the waitlist by tapping the floor. Pick a waiting party, then tap an open table to seat them.
  • Full waitlist actions beside the floor. Notify, seat, and manage waiting parties right from the rail next to your live floor or timeline.
  • A condensed walk-in panel. Tapping a table opens a compact walk-in panel that's quicker to work through.

Smarter voice scheduling

  • Days off and a 12-hour picker. Set days off for your voice assistant's schedule and choose times on a familiar 12-hour clock.
  • Venue-specific voice messages. Tailor voice messages to a single venue.

Google Reserve

  • Self-serve enrollment. Venues can enroll in Reserve with Google through the same channel setup you already use.
  • Reliable listings. A fix to how venue addresses are stored clears a feed error so your listing publishes correctly.

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