Five Star Restaurant Reservations Premium adds controls for availability, guest details, and booking messages to a restaurant reservation form on a WordPress site. Guests can submit requests from phones, tablets, or desktop devices, and staff can review bookings in the WordPress administration area.

Place the form and collect guest details

Add the form to a page with the Gutenberg restaurant booking block or the [booking-form] shortcode, or select a reservation page in the plugin settings. Patterns are also available for block-based themes.

Premium custom fields let you add text inputs, dropdowns, checkboxes, or radio buttons. Use them to ask about promo codes, allergies, dietary concerns, or other reservation details. Field choices retain their identities when reordered, disabled, or recreated, helping preserve the meaning of information stored with existing bookings. The form can also require a phone number, use preferred date and time formats, and display a custom message after a successful booking.

Schedule bookings and set capacity

Set the dates and times available for reservations, add exceptions for holidays or special events, and define minimum and maximum party sizes. Guests select a party size before choosing a date and time, so availability checks can apply the selected group size and the configured restrictions.

Premium capacity limits apply over a defined dining block length. Set a maximum number of reservations per block or cap the number of seats or people. You can also set a reservation or seat threshold below which bookings are automatically confirmed. These rules work with party-size limits, auto-confirmation settings, and early-booking restrictions to determine which days and time slots the form shows.

Apply capacity settings by location

For multiple restaurant locations, the plugin integrates with Five Star Business Profile. Once locations are enabled there, each can have its own schedule and exceptions, as well as its own maximum reservation and seat limits. A shortcode attribute can assign a form to a specific location, hide the location selector, and automatically assign submitted bookings to that location.

Review requests and configure notifications

Staff can add or edit bookings in the plugin administration area, then confirm or reject new requests. The plugin can email administrators when a request is submitted and notify clients when a request is confirmed or rejected.

The Premium notifications table works with an unlimited number of notifications. For each one, set the event, recipient, subject, and message. Events can include new pending, confirmed, or closed bookings, and template tags can insert reservation details into the message.

Set up in WordPress

After activation, an automatic walkthrough helps with adding the booking form and setting key settings. Configure the schedule, party-size rules, locations, capacity limits, custom fields, and notifications, then place the form on the desired page.