Brand colours & table statuses

The Branding tab in Settings is where your restaurant gets its look inside the CRM. In one place you set your logo, your brand colours, and the colours used to show whether a table is free, booked, seated or out of action on the live floor map. It is quick to set up once and it makes the whole app feel like yours.

Before you begin

Branding lives on the Branding tab of Settings, reached from Settings in the left menu. You need permission to update restaurant settings to open it. As the restaurant owner you have every permission by default; an employee only sees Settings once you grant them that permission.

This page is about branding inside the CRM and your logo. The look of the public Booking page guests use — its own colours, font and awards — is set separately. See Branding your booking page.

What is on the Branding tab

Open Settings from the left menu, then click the Branding tab. You will find three sections stacked down the page, followed by the save controls:

• Restaurant Logo — the image shown in the live map header and on your booking page.
• Brand Colors — your primary, secondary and accent colours, used throughout the CRM and booking page.
• Table Status Colors — the four colours that mark table status on the live floor map.

Nothing you change here is saved automatically. You edit freely, then click Save Changes at the bottom to apply everything at once.

Your restaurant logo

Your logo appears in the header of the live floor map and on your booking page, so it is worth getting right.

1. In the Restaurant Logo section, click the empty image box or the Upload button.
2. Choose an image file from your computer and wait for the upload to finish — a preview then appears in the box.
3. Alternatively, paste a link to an image into the box and click Apply.

Upload a logo file, or paste an image link and click Apply.

A wide, banner-shaped logo works best here, since the box is sized for one. The recommended size is about 200 by 50 pixels. A PNG with a transparent background sits cleanly on any colour. To remove the logo, hover over the preview and click the small X in its corner.

Tip

Just uploaded your logo? You may notice a small card underneath inviting you to see it on a printed product. That is an optional cross-sell to Makolate, our branded-merchandise service — you can ignore it. It does not change your restaurant branding.

Brand colours

The Brand Colors section has three colour controls. They are used throughout the CRM and your booking page, so your restaurant’s colours show up consistently wherever you work.

• Primary Color — your main brand colour, used for buttons and accents. This is the colour that tints the CRM to match your restaurant.
• Secondary Color — used for hover states and highlights.
• Accent Color — used for links and special elements.

Each control has a colour swatch and a text box beside it. To set a colour, either click the swatch to open your device’s colour picker, or type a colour code straight into the box. Colour codes are six-digit hex values that begin with a hash, like #e8612c for an orange or #111111 for near-black.

Click a swatch to pick a colour visually, or type a hex code like #e8612c.

Tip

Your Primary Color is the one guests and staff notice most. Pick the colour from your real logo or signage so the CRM and booking page feel like one brand.

Table status colours

The Table Status Colors section sets the four colours used to mark tables on the live floor map. At a glance, your team can see which tables are free and which are taken. Each status has a short reminder of what it means:

• Available — tables ready for guests. Default is green.
• Reserved — tables with upcoming bookings. Default is amber.
• Occupied — tables currently in use. Default is red.
• Maintenance — tables temporarily unavailable. Default is grey.

Set each one the same way as your brand colours — click the swatch to pick, or type a hex code. Below the four controls, a Table Color Preview shows a swatch and label for each status so you can check they read clearly together before you save.

The four table-status colours, with a live preview of how each will look on the map.

Tip

These colours are the language of your floor during service, so pick shades that are easy to tell apart at a glance — a clear green, amber, red and grey. See how they behave in practice on the Live floor map.

Saving and resetting

1. Make your changes — logo, brand colours, table status colours, or all three.
2. Click Save Changes at the bottom right. The button stays greyed out until you have changed something.

To start over, click Reset to Defaults at the bottom left. This restores the standard eighty-six colours and clears the logo in the form — but it is not saved until you also click Save Changes. So if you reset by mistake, simply leave the page without saving and nothing changes.

Caution

Reset to Defaults also removes your logo from the form. If you only meant to change a colour, set the colour by hand instead of resetting, so your logo stays in place.

Related

Live floor mapWhere your table status colours are used during service.

Branding your booking pageSet the separate colours, font and awards for the public booking page.

Settings & AdministrationEverything else on the Settings screen, from general details to security.

Roles & plansWhat each plan and permission unlocks in the CRM.