Q: For restaurants, clubs, cafeterias?
I have not seen it in general, is it on your roadmap?
Aleksandar_TMS
May 14, 2024A: Hi there, thanks for reaching out to us!
We actually have a lot of customers that use Amelia for restaurant bookings.
It just got easier with our last update where we included resource bookings (https://wpamelia.com/resource-booking/). With this feature, you would be able to create a resource ("Table", for example), set the quantity (how many tables you have), and share that resource between employees, services, and locations.
Have a look at our documentation and let us know if you have any further questions.
Kind regards!
Can you set the number of seats per table? If not, is this something you would consider? Would you consider in setting up live chat abotu future of Amelia? I absolutely understand reasoning of going to Events (although for now it's average, until you let people create template through shortcodes and custom fields, backend settings are fine), since you share like 60-70% of logic/conditions/code. But to create a proper restaurant booking, is not far from this. Its not like "we shouldn't make a booking platform for everything", since it's so close to make it really good for tables.
Going forward - you could create addons. Base framework and then let decide a client to enable Appointments, Events, Restaurant or other functionality ;)
Hi again.
You can't set the number of seats per table, unfortunately.
Maybe if all your tables are the same size, the Service capacity can serve this purpose?
Or, if you have multiple table sizes - you can create multiple services with different capacities to cover these sizes?
We currently don't have a lot of time to handle live chats. At least while the AppSumo deal is over. You can, however, reach out to us through our official support page. We're not active all the time, but we're usually there to chat between 10:00 and 14:00 CET.
Our developers have already redesigned the Step-by-Step and the Catalog booking forms, and they now moved on to the Event List and the Event calendar. We're preparing a lot of improvements, so all suggestions are welcome, but please note that we do have our own list of priorities.
Kind regards!