Alex Reservations is an easy-to-use WordPress restaurant reservations platform plugin.
It will streamline your entire booking process and will save time for both the restaurant and the customer.
Benefits of using a reservations system
With this plugin, you can efficiently manage your daily reservations for your restaurant or multiple locations. The plugin provides a full-screen dashboard where you can list your reservations, manage them in a floor plan view, or view them in monthly and weekly views. It also offers a timeline view to easily track the bookings.
You can create and manage multiple schedules with availability defined by time slots for the front-end widget. The widget can be customized with colors and can show only one or several shifts time slots at once. You can also organize reservations for specific events such as mother’s day, wine tasting, deal of the day, live music, ladies’ night, and more.
Customize your emails sent to your customers based on the status of the reservation, whether it’s pending, or confirmed. You can also send reminders to your customers up to 48 hours before the reservation to reduce the number of no-shows.
The plugin allows you to give your users the option to select their preferences when reserving online, such as culinary choices, allergens, and seating preferences.
In addition, the plugin provides a simple CRM solution to tag your customers as you want and export them in CSV for sending email marketing campaigns.
With Alex Reservations, you can also create a SAAS solution for multiple restaurants by using a multisite environment. This feature allows you to set up and manage several restaurants’ reservation systems from a single installation. This means you can offer a white-label solution to your clients and provide them with their own custom domain, logos, and branding.
Features included with the Alex Reservations Free Edition for restaurant reservations:
Bookings List View — Manage the daily list of reservations and create/update them from the same list. Filter them by customer, tags or status.
Monthly View — General view of monthly reservations. Add or update reservations directly in the view.
Weekly View — Jump from the monthly view to the weekly view. Show a list of daily reservations per column/day.
Customers List View — Easy CRM solution for customers. Filter them by tags, last reservation or number of reservations.
Custom Tags — Create tags for managing bookings and use them for filtering. Tag customers to know their wine preferences, identify VIP customers or know their food alergies.
Manage Shifts — Create multiple shifts for breakfast, lunch or dinner.
Email Templates — Customer your notifications to customers.
Custom Widget — Multi language front widget. Mobile friendly. Customize colors and the input fields required to the customer.
Features included with the Alex Reservations PLUS Edition for restaurant reservations:
Multiple Restaurants — With a central dashboard for adding and editing restaurants. Add a custom dashboard for accessing reservations for every restaurant.
User Roles — Granular access to each dashboard. Control who can create reservations, manage customer tags and design the floor plan with the tables.
Multiple Users — A single user can manage from one to multiple restaurants, and can have different roles/permissions on each one of them.
Floor Plan View — Assign customers to tables, create new bookings, view next reservations and manage wait lists. All from a floor plan view.
Timeline View — Use this view to have a global perspective of all reservations with assigned tables.
Tables Editor — With a powerful drag and drop floor plan builder, you can create several areas for each restaurant.
Manage Events — Apart from the usual schedules you can create special events such as Mother’s day, Christmas Day, Live Music day, etc.
Multiple Widgets — Manage different widgets for Shifts and Events, for the week or for the weekends. You can also use only one widget for everything.
Export Bookings — Export in CSV format or print the list in PDF.
Export Customers — Export in CSV format or print the list in PDF.
Email Logo — Add your restaurant logo with a custom header and footer for all emails sent to your customers.
Customers Reviews — Ask for a review after the customer has finished his experience.
Reports — Nice reports for bookings, customers and reviews.
Email reminders – You can set up one or more reminders for your customers.
Mobile Interface – Responsive mobile interface for managing daily bookings and customers.
Close days and slots – You have the option to close off entire days or specific time slots for online bookings, giving you greater control over your restaurant’s reservations.
Area/Table Selection Reservation – Customers now have the freedom to choose their preferred area and table when making a reservation.
360 Panorama Reservation – Users can explore immersive 360-degree panoramas of the restaurant and choose their desired area or table.
Getting Started with the Alex Restaurant Reservations plugin is Easy
Use the built-in Setup Wizard to create your first Restaurant in under 5 minutes.
Next, just embed the reservations widget on your site using the widget shortcode [rr_form id='__' button='Book now'].
Who This Reservation System is For
Single restaurants — Restaurant owners can use this system for managing their reservations and tables.
Multiple restaurants — Manage from one dashboard several locations.
WordPress agencies — Create your own SAAS platform for reservations managing many restaurants.
Embed the shortcode of the widget on your WordPress pages or posts. You can paste the shortcode from the widget editor. Settings > Widget > Form.
Where can I read the documentation?
The full documentation is available at our website.
How are bookings assigned?
The system will manage bookings depending on the seats available for every shift. The scheduler can manage seats in 4 ways:
Total seats
Seats for each slot
From all available seats
From specific tables
Can I manage events?
Yes, apart from the usual shifts, specific events can be scheduled.
Can I manage multiple restaurants?
With the free version you can manage 1 restaurants.
With the PRO version you can manage many restaurants.
Can each restaurant manage its own dashboard?
Yes, each one has its own dashboard with all the views.
Do I need a WordPress multisite?
You don’t need to use a multisite WP environment. Each restaurant has its own dashboard and they don’t need to access the WP admin dashboard.
Use a WP multisite if you want to manage subdomains with several pages for each restaurant:
/madrid.myrestaurants.com
/london.myrestaurants.com
/chicago.myrestaurants.com
Use a WP single site if you don’t need to manage subdomains and you can manage regular WP pages:
/myrestaurants.com/madrid
/myrestaurants.com/london
/myrestaurants.com/chicago
Can I define different roles for the restaurant?
Yes, you can manage three different roles, each one can have different permissions: Super-manager, Manager and Sub-Manager.
Does it provide a custom login page?
The PRO version has a custom login page that can be used for accessing the restaurant dashboard without going to the WP admin dashboard.
