Restaurant Manager

Managing Restaurant Reservations Create or Accept restaurant bookings online with our easy to use restaurant manager plugin. You can create your restaurant bookings through your WordPress Admin, or your customers can create their own bookings through your website. When a booking comes in confirm or reject the booking and the customer will receive notifications to their email. Major Update When any of your administrators change the status of your reservation this is now logged. You can see who made the change and when. Also the log system will record any sms or emails sent from the reservation screen. Restaurant Manager Plugin will integrate seamlessly into your current theme. It is very easy to use and will have you up and running in no time. Create a page with your reservation booking form and receive table bookings instantly.

• Create a reservation booking form easily with our built in shortcode.
• Shortcode menu to easily implement your reservation form.
• Reservation form validation to get important data without errors.
• Create reservations from your admin screen.
• Set your reservations to Pending, Confirmed or Rejected.
• Setup your email notification messages.
• Create booking schedules for your restaurant opening times.
• Fast and easy to use.
• Easily modify the CSS to better fit your theme.
• Log all of your events when a user changes the reservation status.
• Manage your restaurant staff with Manager and Staff roles.
• Improved reservation screen and bookings list.
• New Mailchimp and SMS support.
• Excellent documentation and online support.

Managing Restaurant Meals and Menus Create your restaurant meals through your administration screen and assign properties to your meals. Organize your meals into menus and display them on your website. You can have multiple menus and assign the meal to each menu. This means you do not have to duplicate your content and quickly move meals around your menus. Assign properties to your meals such as:

• Full Pricing
• Small Plate Pricing
• Calorie Counts (kcal)
• New Additions
• Healthy Options
• Gluten Free
• Spice Ratings
• Dietary Requirements (Vegetarian, Vegan, etc)

Create menu courses and assign the meal to the courses and menus. New Extensions Available Download Now View the add-ons screen in your Restaurant Manager plugin menu for new extensions MailChimp Support

• MailChimp Support has now arrived. Allow your users to subscribe to your MailChimp email list when they book a table. Download MailChimp Support.

Advanced Customer Email Support

• Advanced customer email support is now available. Apart from the automated email notifications made when pending, confirming and rejecting a booking, you are now able to send direct email notifications from the customers reservation booking panel. So when you reject a booking or overbook your table you can email the customer directly offering them another alternative. Download Customer Email Support and improve your customer relations.

SMS Support

• Send SMS directly to your customers from their reservation screen. The SMS messaged are logged in the system if they are sent or failed. Restaurant Manager keeps a record of your SMS's for audit purposes and to keep a record of the content being sent.

Future Developments

• Downloadable styling for your online booking form. Have beautiful forms today for any theme!

Plugin Instructions The plugin instructions are online and can be found at Restaurant Manager Documentation. The decision to not ship the documentation with the plugin is to save space and not bloat your plugin with more html code. Also you can read the documentation on the move and in your spare time. Restaurant Themes This plugin can be used with any theme!! SyntaxThemes are currently building restaurant themes for this plugin, so if you are looking for a restaurant theme more tailored to anything you can find on the market check us out. The themes will have beautiful menus and food reviews so watch this space. Keep upto date with progress at Restaurant Manager Taurus Theme has now been released!! This theme works beautifully with Restaurant Manager plugin. Check this theme out and download. Taurus Theme Download Feature Requests If the restauant manager has any features which you would like to see implemented in the future or you have any great ideas please let us know on our forum at Feature Requests. We can have a look at the feature and then see how it fits into the plugin and then implement it. This helps understand better how your using the plugin to manage and assist your daily business activities. Online Support There is an online forum where you can ask questions and discuss with other plugin users any problems or discussions which you have. You can also talk directly to the developer to solve any problems or notify us on how to further improve the plugin. Feedback If you like this plugin, then please leave us a good rating and review. Your feedback is really appreciated and will help further support this plugin. Any new features added to the plugin will be received free. So as we grow, your business will benefit from the extras. Consider following us on Google+ SyntaxThemes | Twitter syntaxthemes

Thank you very much for downloading

Upload your plugin to your wordpress site. Once you have activated your plugin you will see a new menu option called Restaurant. Go to your settings menu under Restaurant a set your required settings here. Create a schedule and fill in your notifications email address and you are set to go. Most options have be pre-filled to give you guidance. If you get stuck at any point and you need more assistance visit our documentation at Restaurant Manager Documentation

Version 1.3.4

• Fixed a bug with the reservation scheduler. The times are correctly set for open times.
• If no day is set then the time will not be able to be selected for this day.

Version 1.3.3

• Updated the text and language domain to assist translations.

Version 1.3.2

• Fixed the delete schedule error for Firefox, safari and opera.

Version 1.3.1

• Created a reservation form widget.

Version 1.3.0

• Improved the base code for creating reservations.

Version 1.2.9

• The taxonomies can now be view in the blog role for menu, course, diet and cuisine.

Version 1.2.8

• Fixed an error message about the image dimensions for the restaurant menu shortcode.

Version 1.2.7

• New roles and permissions
• Manager Role - Enables meals, menus & reservations creation.
• Staff Role - Only create and manage reservations - Cannot delete reservations.
• When saving settings better notifications to the user.

Version 1.2.6

• Updates to the email notifications screen.
• Added template tag instructions to the screen.
• Enabled template tags for the email subject.
• Improved the reservation screen for better output messages when saving.
• Improved the styling for the dropdown time selector on the menu.
• Enabled menu item images to be displayed on the menu item shortcode.

Version 1.2.5

• Major update to the reservations manager list. Improved notifications styling and new buttons.
• A short version of the notes is now displayed with a link to a larger set of notes.

Version 1.2.4

• Updated the localization for any missing texts.

Version 1.2.3

• Added new products to the AddOns page.

Version 1.2.2

• Added localization to the events log.
• Improved the execution of the database tables when upgrading the plugin.

Version 1.2.1

• Fixed the upgrade message

Version 1.2.0

• Optimized the database tables

Version 1.1.9

• Created an events list to record all of restaurant staff actions.
• New Events Log management.
• New reservation status color highlights.
• Extensions for SMS notification.
• Extensions for Email notifications.

Version 1.1.8

• Added plugin support for the Advanced Customer Email Support Plugin
• Improved admin settings pages and compressed files.

Version 1.1.7

• Improved the add reservation screen in the admin.
• Added date and time formatting built in by WordPress to all date components.

Version 1.1.6

• Updated the tinymce plugin for the shortcode modal.
• Enhanced the shortcode menu modal.
• Added the shortcode to the wordpress editor menus.
• Updated ajax shortcode menu support.

Version 1.1.5

• MailChimp subscriber list support when booking a table.
• Updated the AddOns page.
• Improved styling and menu functions.

Version 1.1.4

• Fixed setting parent menu highlight.

Version 1.1.3

• Major Update: Added more meal properties and filters.
• Course Types
• Dietary Types
• Cuisine Types

Version 1.1.2

• Updated the styling on admin and frontend also new enqueue.

Version 1.1.1

• Updated the styling to the reservation booking form.
• Restaurant Manager is now compatible with Restaurant MailChimp Plugin.

Version 1.1.0

• Major update, Meals and Menus have been added to the restaurant manager.

Version 1.0.2

• Refactored and improved javascript files for plugin extension support.
• Added modal support for shortcodes.
• Added support for restaurant menus plugin.
• Fixed an array check in the checkbox list.

Version 1.0.1

• Updated the validation for the maximum party size of people.

Version 1.0.0

• Initial Release!! - Happy Reservation Bookings.