Quick venue setup

For a brand-new venue, the quick setup wizard answers a short set of questions and configures the settings for you in one go, instead of working through each Settings panel by hand. It’s offered right after you create your first venue during account onboarding, and as a Finish setting up banner on a draft venue’s dashboard until the venue is fully configured.

It only appears for a venue that’s still a blank draft (see Creating a venue) - once you’ve started adding shifts, access rules or tables of your own, use the Settings panels directly instead, or follow the full getting started walkthrough.

You can close the wizard at any point and pick up later from the same banner - nothing is applied to the venue until you finish.

The steps

About - your venue’s name, type and description.
Opening hours - the days and hours you’re open.
What you run - whether you take table reservations, guest-list entry, or both.
Services - the services you offer (for example dinner, brunch or late-night), used to shape your shifts.
Deposits - how you want to protect a booking: No deposit, Card on file (nothing charged unless there’s a no-show), or Capture (charged at booking). See Deposits & payments for how each works.
Look & feel - your brand colours and logo, carried into your widgets and emails. See Branding.
Widgets - which widgets to switch on to start taking bookings from your own site, picked from the types that match what you chose in What you run (for example Table Reservations, Guest List, Waitlist or Experiences). Pick a design from the same gallery as the full widget designer - see Customising a widget.
Tables - a starting floorplan and seating areas, if you take table reservations.
Review - check everything over before it’s applied to your venue.

When you finish, the wizard applies your answers to the venue’s availability, tables, policies, branding and widgets - the same settings you’d otherwise set individually. You can refine anything afterwards from its usual Settings panel.