Booking page settings

The Settings tab is where the practical side of your booking page lives: the web address guests type in, your own domain name if you have one, your opening hours, social links, the fields on the booking form, the languages your page speaks, and the buttons that take the page live or pull it back down. Everything else in the editor decides how the page looks; Settings decides how it works and where people find it.

Before you begin

Open the Booking Page editor from the left-hand menu, then click the Settings tab.

Available on plans that include the booking page. Opening the editor needs the View booking page permission; changing and publishing needs permission to manage the booking page. Two parts have extra requirements: Custom Domain is available on plans that include a custom domain, and Languages and localization needs permission to update restaurant settings (without it, that section is hidden). As the restaurant owner you have every permission by default; an employee only sees each part once you grant it.

Where the settings live

The Settings tab is the fourth tab across the top of the editor, next to Branding, Pages and Advanced. Scroll down it and you will find each group in its own card, top to bottom: your URL Slug, Custom Domain, Opening Hours, Review URL, Social Links, Booking Form Fields, Languages and localization, and finally the publish controls.

Most of these save together through the save bar at the bottom of the screen (see Saving your changes below). The two exceptions are Languages and localization, which has its own Save Changes button, and publishing, which is a separate, deliberate action.

The Settings tab. Each group of settings sits in its own card down the page.

Your web address (URL slug)

Your URL Slug is the last, memorable part of your booking page’s web address — the bit that identifies your restaurant. In the field you will see a fixed /book/ prefix, and you type the rest.

The slug has a few simple rules, enforced as you type:

• Use only lowercase letters, numbers and hyphens — no spaces, capitals or accents.
• It must be at least 3 characters and no more than 50.

1. In the Settings tab, find the Page Settings card at the top.
2. In the URL Slug field (after the /book/ prefix), type a short version of your restaurant name.
3. If anything is not allowed, a red message appears under the field — fix it before saving.
4. Save from the bar at the bottom.

Worked example

A restaurant called Trattoria da Mario would use the slug trattoria-da-mario. Keep it short and easy to say out loud — guests may type it from a business card or read it off a poster.

The complete, shareable link is always the Public URL shown in the publish card once your page is live — copy it from there rather than typing it out by hand, so you get the exact address every time.

Caution

Changing your slug after you have shared the link means the old address stops working. If your page is already live and printed on menus or flyers, change the slug only when you really need to.

Using your own domain (custom domain)

By default your page lives at the address built from your slug. On plans that include a custom domain, you can instead point your own domain name — such as book.your-restaurant.com — straight at your booking page, so guests never leave your brand.

There are two kinds of domain you can use:

• A subdomain, such as book.your-restaurant.com — recommended, and the easiest to set up.
• An apex domain (the bare name), such as your-restaurant.com — this needs a DNS provider that supports CNAME flattening or ALIAS records, such as Cloudflare, DNSimple or Route 53.

How to connect a domain

Connecting a domain is a two-place job: you enter the domain here, and you add one small record at whoever manages your domain’s DNS (your domain registrar or DNS provider). The Setup Guide button in the card walks you through the exact record to add.

1. In the Custom Domain card, click Setup Guide to open the step-by-step instructions and see the exact record you need.
2. In the Domain Name field, type your domain without https:// — for example book.your-restaurant.com.
3. At your DNS provider, add a CNAME record using the values from the Setup Guide:
   • Type — CNAME
   • Name — your subdomain (for example book), or @ for an apex domain
   • Value — the exact target address shown in the Value row of the Setup Guide (for example eighty-six.tech)
4. Come back here and Save from the bottom bar.
5. Wait for the domain to verify. DNS changes can take up to 24 to 48 hours to take effect; the security certificate is set up automatically once your domain points to us correctly.

The Custom Domain card. The Setup Guide button shows the exact CNAME record to add at your DNS provider.

The status badges

Once a domain is entered, the card shows it with a status badge so you always know where it stands:

• Active — the domain is verified and working.
• Pending DNS verification — we are waiting for your DNS record to be seen. This is normal for the first day or two.
• Configuration error — something is wrong with the record; open the Setup Guide and double-check it against what your provider shows.
• Not configured — the domain is saved but no DNS record has been added yet.

To remove a domain, click the trash icon next to it. To swap it for a different one, type the new domain in the Change domain field and save.

The www version

When your domain does not already start with www., an extra checkbox appears: Also support www subdomain. Tick it if you want visitors who type the www. version to land on your booking page too.

Worked example

Say your domain is the apex trattoria-da-mario.it. Tick Also support www subdomain so that www.trattoria-da-mario.it works as well. Because that is a second address, you also need to add a second CNAME record for www at your DNS provider, pointing to the same target shown in the Setup Guide.

Opening hours

The Opening Hours card is where you set the hours guests see on your Contact page. It is a simple week: one row per day, Monday to Sunday.

1. In the Opening Hours card, find the day you want to set.
2. Set the opening time and the closing time using the two time boxes.
3. For a day you are shut, switch on the Closed toggle on the right — the times disappear and the day simply shows Closed.
4. Repeat for each day, then save.

Worked example

A restaurant that closes on Mondays would switch on Closed for Monday, and set 12:00 to 15:00 for the other six days (or two rows if you also open in the evening). These hours are for display only — they tell guests when you are open. What guests can actually book is decided by your service periods and time slots, not by these hours.

Review link (review URL)

Your booking page can invite happy guests to leave a review. By default that link points to your Google review page. The Review URL field lets you send it somewhere else instead.

Paste a full link — for example your TripAdvisor page, https://www.tripadvisor.com/... — into the Review URL (optional) field. Leave it blank to keep the automatic Google link. This is a single override, so use the one review site you care about most.

Social links

The Social Links card lets you add your social media profiles. Their icons appear in both the header and the footer of your booking page, so guests can follow you in a tap.

There is one field per platform — Facebook, Instagram, X (formerly Twitter), LinkedIn, YouTube and TikTok. Paste the full link to your profile into the platforms you use, and leave the rest blank. Each field shows an example link as a placeholder to guide you, such as https://instagram.com/yourrestaurant.

The booking form fields

The Booking Form Fields card controls the little form your guests fill in when they reserve a table. For each field you decide two things: whether it is Visible (shown on the form at all) and whether it is Required (the guest must fill it in to book).

Field	What you can change
Name	Always shown and always required — you cannot switch this off, so a booking always has a name.
Phone	Toggle Visible and Required. On by default, and required by default.
Email	Toggle Visible and Required. Shown by default; not required by default.
Special Requests	A free-text box for notes like allergies or a window seat. Toggle Visible and Required. Shown by default; not required by default.

A field’s Required switch only works while the field is Visible — a hidden field cannot be required, so switching Visible off automatically turns Required off and greys it out.

At the bottom of the same card sits a separate switch, Send confirmation email — “Email the customer a confirmation after they book.” It is on by default. Leave it on so guests get a written confirmation of their reservation; switch it off only if you would rather handle confirmations yourself.

The Booking Form Fields card. Name is always required; every other field has a Visible and a Required switch.

Worked example

A busy pizzeria that only needs a phone number could switch Email off entirely (so guests see just Name and Phone) and make Phone required. A fine-dining room that wants dietary notes up front might keep every field visible and switch on Required for Special Requests. Both are just a few toggles.

Languages and localization

If your restaurant serves guests in more than one language, the Languages and localization card lets your menu and booking page appear in each of them. You choose a default language and the supported languages your guests can switch between.

The available languages are Italian, English, German, French, Spanish and Portuguese.

1. In the Languages and localization card, pick your Default language — the main language of your page and the fallback used whenever a translation is missing.
2. Open the Supported languages dropdown and tick every language you want to offer. Your default language is always supported and cannot be unticked.
3. Click Save Changes in this card. This section saves on its own — it does not use the bottom save bar.
4. Once you have added a language beyond your default, a Translate everything button appears. Click it and the platform translates your whole menu and page for you; you can then edit any wording by hand, and blanks are filled in automatically.

Note

The Translate everything button only lights up after your language changes are saved — if it is disabled, click Save Changes first. This card is only shown to team members with permission to update restaurant settings.

Saving your changes

The editor does not save on its own. The moment you change something, a small bar slides up at the bottom of the screen showing how many unsaved changes you have, with two buttons:

• Save — writes your changes. You can also press Cmd/Ctrl + S while the bar is showing.
• Discard — throws the changes away and puts everything back to the last saved version. You are asked to confirm first.

This one bar covers your slug, custom domain, opening hours, review link, social links and booking-form fields together. Two things save separately, as noted above: Languages and localization has its own Save Changes button, and publishing is its own action.

Publishing and taking it live

The publish controls sit at the very bottom of the Settings tab. Your page is always in one of two states:

• Draft — saved but not visible to guests. Every page starts here.
• Live — published and reachable by anyone at your web address.

1. Make your changes and Save them from the bottom bar.
2. Scroll to the publish card. If your page is a Draft, click Publish Booking Page.
3. Once live, the card shows your Public URL with buttons to copy the link or open it in a new tab. If you connected a custom domain, its address appears here too, with a status badge of its own.

The publish card. When live, your public link and any custom domain link appear with copy and open buttons.

To take the page back down, click Unpublish in the same card. It becomes a Draft again and stops being reachable — all your settings are kept, so you can republish whenever you are ready.

Caution

Saving and publishing are not the same thing. Guests only ever see the published version, so a saved change does not reach the live page until you publish. If a change is not showing up for guests, check that the page is Live.

Related

• Your booking page
• Branding your page
• Landing, menu, about and contact pages
• Advanced settings
• Service periods
• Time slots