mee-table - Restaurant Reservations, Gift Cards & Event Tickets
| 开发者 | breedartstudios |
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| 更新时间 | 2026年9月4日 21:42 |
| PHP版本: | 7.4 及以上 |
| WordPress版本: | 7.1 |
| 版权: | GPLv3 or later |
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详情介绍:
api.mee-table.com, so there is no server for you to maintain.
Every installation starts with a 14-day trial of the full version. When the trial ends the plugin does not switch off: it carries on at the free level, and your venues and bookings stay where they are.
What it costs, and what we take. The plugin is free. A mee-table account is from EUR 24 per month billed yearly (EUR 29 monthly), and there are higher plans for larger venues and groups.
We never take a commission on table reservations. Ever, on any plan, including the free one. A guest booking a table costs you nothing.
A percentage applies only where a ticket is sold and paid online: event tickets, cooking class tickets and gift cards. It is deducted at the moment of payment, and the rest goes straight to your own Mollie or PayPal account:
- Free: 20% on event and class tickets, 10% on gift cards
- Bronze: 15% on tickets, 5% on gift cards
- Silver: 10% on tickets, 5% on gift cards
- Gold: 5% on tickets, 5% on gift cards
- Platinum: agreed with you
- Table reservations with availability, opening hours, rules on the number of guests, a weekly closing day and a quick-block calendar for one-off closures.
- Guests manage their booking on YOUR site. The link in every email and message opens your own booking widget, on your own pages, in edit mode: the guest moves the date, the time or the number of guests, or cancels, inside the limits you set. A per-venue cap says how many people one booking may bring (the venue capacity is a separate number), and an optional notice window closes online changes some hours before the table, after which the guest is asked to call you.
- Move a booking instead of losing it. The guest can change the day, the time or the number of people from the link in their confirmation email, without calling: the free tables are re-checked live, and you decide how many times they may do it before they are asked to phone you. Your own staff can move any booking from the Waiter Dashboard, with no limit, the phone rings there.
- Your own time zone, so opening hours and reminders are right even when the venue and the server are in different countries.
- Prepayment by time band. An "Aperitivo" rate from 19:00 to 20:00 and a different one for dinner, each with its own days of the week and minimum number of guests. The guest is only ever offered the rate that covers the time they picked, and when a rate covers it the prepayment replaces the no-show card guarantee: nobody is asked to pay twice for the same evening.
- Choose which emails reach you. Everything that happens to a booking sends you an email by default, confirmed, declined, cancelled or moved, including what your own staff did from the dashboard. Untick the ones you do not want; your guests keep receiving theirs either way.
- No-show guarantee: the guest's card is authorised, not charged. Nothing is taken unless they fail to turn up, and staff release or charge it from the Waiter Dashboard.
安装:
- Upload the plugin folder to
/wp-content/plugins/or install via the WordPress plugin directory. - Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu. 3. Go to mee-table -> Settings, paste your licence key (from your mee-table.com dashboard), and click Activate licence.
- Set up your location(s), opening hours and payment methods on the Locations and Settings pages. 5. Optional: to switch the guest assistant on, open mee-table -> Guest assistant and paste a Groq key. Until you do, nothing is sent anywhere and the chat does not appear.
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常见问题:
Where should my Google Business Profile booking link point?
To your dedicated booking page, not to your homepage, even if the widget is on the homepage too. A link always opens at the top of a page: on a long homepage the guest lands on the header and has to scroll to find the widget, on the booking page they land right on it. The plugin creates that page for you (see mee-table -> Settings) and the floating booking pill brings guests there from every other page of your site.
Does mee-table store guest data on my WordPress server?
No: all reservation, prepayment, and gift-card data is stored on the mee-table SaaS backend (api.mee-table.com). Local WordPress tables are kept for caching only.
Does the AI guest assistant cost anything, and is it on by default?
It is off until you paste a Groq API key in mee-table -> Guest assistant, and while that field is empty the plugin contacts no AI service at all and the chat is not even loaded on your pages. The key is free to create at https://console.groq.com/keys and the account is yours, so the free allowance is yours alone and the plugin never resells anything.
What does the assistant tell guests about allergens?
If you have ticked your menu page and the answer is written there, it repeats what you wrote and says it read it from you. What it never does is promise a guest that a dish is safe for their own allergy: a question like "I am allergic to hazelnuts, can I eat this?" always goes to your phone, whatever your menu says. Cross-contamination is decided in your kitchen, not on a menu, and only you know how you work.
And about prices?
The same rule. If your menu with prices is on a page you ticked, it can repeat a figure you wrote. If it is not published, it tells the guest to ask you. It never invents a figure, and it never says a percentage: on time-slot discounts it tells the guest which times are discounted and that they are marked on the list, so the number is read from your own page and cannot be misquoted.
The admin panel is in the wrong language. Where do I change it?
By default the panel follows Settings -> General -> Site Language. If you want it pinned to one language regardless, set it in mee-table -> Settings -> Panel language.
Do you take a commission on my bookings?
No. Table reservations never carry a commission, on any plan, including the free one. A percentage applies only to tickets sold and paid online (events, cooking classes, gift cards): 20% on the free plan, 15% Bronze, 10% Silver, 5% Gold. It is taken at the moment of payment; the rest reaches your own Mollie or PayPal account directly. Sell no tickets and you pay no percentage.
Where can I manage my licence or upgrade?
Log into your dashboard at https://mee-table.com/dashboard. There you can manage your location(s), billing, and staff accounts.
Why does the plugin need to connect to api.mee-table.com?
The connection is required for the booking widget, payment processing, and no-show protection to work. Without it, Mee-Table cannot retrieve availability, process payments, or update reservations.
What is the difference between the no-show guarantee and the prepayment tiers?
They are two different things, each with its own refund setting. The no-show guarantee only authorises the card: no money is taken, so there is nothing to refund. Its setting is a deadline, up to when the guest may cancel without a penalty. The prepayment tiers take real money at booking time, for a fixed-price menu you have already shopped for: that setting decides whether it is refundable at all, and defaults to non-refundable. A venue can run a flexible guarantee alongside a non-refundable tasting menu, which a single shared setting made impossible.
I set up an SMS provider. How do I know the credentials are right?
Use the "Send test SMS" button under the credentials. It sends one real message, using what is typed in the form even if you have not saved yet, and it costs one credit of your plan. Missing fields are reported before anything is dispatched, and the button locks for ten seconds after each attempt so a double click cannot burn credits. Note that the test leaves from your own site while real reminders leave from the mee-table servers: if your provider filters by IP address, the test can succeed where real sending fails.
What photo should I use for a cooking class?
A horizontal one, and as large as you can. The picture sits in a wide band on the flyer and in the email, so a portrait shot only shows a central strip of itself. When you pick the file the plugin crops it to 3:2, tells you which print sizes that photo can actually carry (A3 needs about 2200 px of width, A4 about 1550) and compresses it below 600 KB before it leaves your computer, so the 15 MB a modern phone produces is never uploaded. No compression invents pixels that were never there: a small photo stays small.
Which paper size should I print the flyer on?
A3 for a poster read from a distance, A4 for a window or a wall, A5 for a table stand, portrait or landscape. Each size is laid out separately rather than being a scaled copy, because what makes text readable is the distance it is read from, not the size of the sheet. The flyer always shows the next scheduled event: if nothing is scheduled it says so instead of printing a date that has passed.
How do I enable the WhatsApp contact button?
Go to mee-table → Location, edit the location, and fill in the "WhatsApp (digits only)" field with the number in international format, digits only (e.g. an Italian number +39 333 123 4567 becomes 393331234567). Once saved, a WhatsApp chat button appears automatically under the booking widget on your site, linking to a direct chat with that number. This uses the free wa.me link: no paid service, no extra setup, available on every plan tier.
更新日志:
- Documentation: the readme now states what the plugin costs and where a commission applies. Table reservations never carry one, on any plan; a percentage applies only to tickets sold and paid online (events, cooking classes, gift cards).
- The Gold plan commission on tickets is now 5%.
- Cooking class photos: you can now pick several photos at once from the WordPress library, and drag them with the mouse to change their order. The first photo is the one used on the flyer. Before, each new photo replaced the previous one.
- Cooking class tickets: the list of who bought can now be filtered by this week, this month or all, shows where each buyer came from, and can be exported to CSV.
- On a page that shows one of your experiences, the floating button now offers the experience first, with Book a table underneath: a guest reading about a class was being sent to the table booking instead.
- The page the plugin creates can also be added to your site menu, if you tick the box: it is off by default, because many restaurants already have their own Book now entry pointing somewhere else.
- You can now choose whether your class appears on the mee-table.com page for your city, the one people find searching for a cooking class in their town. The tick was already in mee-class and was missing here.
- Your classes and your special event can now live on your own site: switch on the page in Settings and the plugin creates it, or paste the shortcode [mee-cooking] or [mee-custom] into any page you like. The box resizes itself and never blocks scrolling.
- You can now name the ticketed experience yourself: wine tasting, piano lesson, Valentine dinner. The old fixed list of six categories is gone, and what you type is the line printed above the title on the public page and on the flyer.
- Dating Aperitivo: the panel now shows who bought a ticket, not only how many tickets were sold, with the same filters, the same "Came from" column and the same CSV export.
- Fixed: the public Gift Card page stayed on "Loading..." on block themes (Twenty Twenty-Four, Twenty Twenty-Five). Scripts are now registered on init.
- Fixed: the booking form loaded no scripts or styles when the shortcode came from a page builder such as Elementor or Divi.
- Fixed: a double click on the confirm button could create two bookings when a prepayment tier was selected.
- Fixed: when a licence expired or was suspended, the booking form showed no time slots at all instead of falling back to the free mode.
- Fixed: on the free plan the restaurant received no email when a guest booked a table.
- Fixed: with more than one venue, the second venue could not be reached by the panel.
- Fixed: every page load could call the server again when the venue cache was empty, slowing the whole site down when the server was unreachable.
- Fixed: payment confirmations arriving after a trial ended were refused, so a guest could be charged without the booking being confirmed.
- Fixed: schema updates never reached the venues table on sites installed before this release.
- Fixed: on the free plan, editing a venue showed a success message without saving anything.
- Fixed: the "Give a Gift Card" button appeared on the free plan and led to an empty page.
- Fixed: the Quick Blocks routes ran even on plans where the feature is not included.
- Fixed: the Events page was empty for free sites that had opted in to selling tickets.
- Changed: gift card amounts no longer ask for a name. An amount of 25 is called 25.
- Added: a link from Settings to where the gift card amounts are set.
- Fixed: the disabled-fields styling in the email settings screen is now delivered as a stylesheet instead of being written into the page.
- Free version: bookings, calendar and confirmation email, with no account.
- 14-day trial on activation, then the plugin drops to the free level.
- Events and ticket sales work on the free level too.
- The free confirmation email uses the same wording as the paid one.
- The floor log now lives on the mee-table service, not in the site database.
- Events page: four PHP notices fixed.
- The author name in the plugin list links to mee-table.com. Le versioni precedenti stanno in changelog.txt, dentro la cartella del plugin. Older releases are listed in changelog.txt, in the plugin folder.