About this plugin
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), or turn duration selection off entirely so guests just book a table with no fixed length (it’s then held until closing time).
- 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.
- Edit any reservation straight from the admin screen – guest details, party size, date, time, duration and table(s) – with availability re-checked for the (possibly changed) slot and an optional guest notification email.
- Add reservations manually (phone bookings, walk-ins) straight from the admin screen, with the guest confirmation email optional, combining more than one table with a checkbox for larger groups.
- Customize the wording of the guest confirmation, pending-confirmation, now-confirmed, updated and cancellation emails, with placeholders for the reservation details.
- Require your own confirmation for large parties: set a party-size threshold above which reservations wait for you to approve them instead of confirming automatically, choosing which table(s) to seat them at (combining several, if needed) when you confirm.
- Look up any past guest by name or email and see their full reservation history plus special requests in one place, and keep staff-only notes about them (preferences, allergies, etc.).
- Print a clean, ready-to-hand-to-staff daily reservations list for any date.
- Optional REST API for a companion mobile app: generate an API key under Settings > Mobile app to let a dedicated app manage reservations and guests, with optional push notifications for new reservations and status changes.
For your guests, on the reservation form:
- Enter the number of guests.
- Pick a date and how long they’d like to stay.
- See, in real time, whether a table is available for that party size and time.
- Enter their name, email, optionally a phone number and any special requests, and book instantly.
- 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.