Automaize Restaurant Reservation

Automaize Restaurant Reservation adds a simple, self-contained table booking form to your restaurant website.

For the restaurant owner:

• Define your weekly opening hours (per day of the week).
• Add closed periods for holidays or vacation, which override the weekly hours for those dates.
• Add your tables, each with its own seat count.
• Choose which reservation lengths guests can pick from (e.g. 60, 90, 120 minutes).
• Set the email address that should receive new reservation notifications.
• Set the sender name shown on reservation emails, instead of “WordPress”.
• Manage and cancel reservations from a simple admin screen, optionally emailing the guest a cancellation notice with your own custom message.
• Print a clean, ready-to-hand-to-staff daily reservations list for any date.

For your guests, on the reservation form:

1. Enter the number of guests.
2. Pick a date and how long they’d like to stay.
3. See, in real time, whether a table is available for that party size and time.
4. Enter their name, email, optionally a phone number and any special requests, and book instantly.
5. Receive an email confirmation. The restaurant owner is notified by email as well.

The plugin matches each reservation to the smallest available table that fits the party size, so a party of two won’t tie up your largest table, and automatically prevents double-booking a table for overlapping time windows.

No external services or API keys required, and no data ever leaves your site.

AI disclosure

This plugin’s code was developed with the assistance of an AI coding tool (Claude, by Anthropic). All code was reviewed and tested by Automaize before release.

Usage

Add the reservation form to any page or post in either of these ways:

• Shortcode: place [amzres_reservation_form] in the page/post content, in a Shortcode block, or in any widget area that supports shortcodes.
• Elementor: drag the “Restaurant Reservation Form” widget (listed under the General category) onto the page, if Elementor is active.

Both display the exact same form; there is nothing extra to configure per placement, since opening hours, tables and durations are all set once under Reservations.