Derek Little

<p>DABL Restaurant Reservations adds a booking form and a basic admin calendar so restaurants can receive reservation requests.</p>
<p><strong>Simple Setup</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Set your opening hours</li>
<li>Add a shortcode to any page</li>
<li>Start receiving reservations</li>
</ol>
<p><strong>Features</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Clean, accessible reservation form (two layouts: tall or wide)</li>
<li>Weekly hours of operation with per-day open/close times</li>
<li>Manual confirmation workflow (new reservations are saved as pending)</li>
<li>Email notification sent to the site admin when reservations are submitted</li>
<li>Staff portal for viewing and managing reservations</li>
<li>Month view calendar for administrators</li>
<li>Custom “Restaurant Staff” user role for delegation</li>
<li>Fully translatable with complete internationalization support</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Shortcodes</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><code>[dabl_rr_form]</code> – Public reservation form</li>
<li><code>[dabl_rr_staff_login]</code> – Staff login form</li>
<li><code>[dabl_rr_portal]</code> – Staff reservation list</li>
<li><code>[dabl_rr_admin_calendar]</code> – Admin month view calendar</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Customization Options</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Restaurant name</li>
<li>Form layout (tall/skinny or short/wide)</li>
<li>Maximum party size</li>
<li>Time slot intervals (5, 10, 15, 20, 30, or 60 minutes)</li>
<li>Minimum notice required for bookings</li>
<li>Maximum days in advance for bookings</li>
<li>Default reservation duration</li>
<li>Required fields (name, email, phone)</li>
<li>Cancellation instructions</li>
</ul>
<h3>External services</h3>
<p>This plugin includes a link to the DABL Software Solutions website on the plugin’s admin “Go Pro” page. This link directs administrators to information about the Pro version of the plugin.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Service:</strong> DABL Software Solutions website</li>
<li><strong>URL:</strong> <a href="https://software.dabl.ca/restaurant-reservation-wordpress-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://software.dabl.ca/restaurant-reservation-wordpress-plugin/</a></li>
<li><strong>Purpose:</strong> Provides information about the premium version of the plugin. The link is only displayed on the plugin’s admin settings pages and is never shown to site visitors.</li>
<li><strong>Data sent:</strong> No data is transmitted to DABL Software Solutions. The link is a standard outbound hyperlink that administrators can choose to click.</li>
<li><strong>Terms of use:</strong> <a href="https://software.dabl.ca/terms/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://software.dabl.ca/terms/</a></li>
<li><strong>Privacy policy:</strong> <a href="https://software.dabl.ca/privacy/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://software.dabl.ca/privacy/</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Privacy</h3>
<p>This plugin stores customer data (name, email, phone, reservation details) in your WordPress database. This data is:</p>
<ul>
<li>Stored locally in your database</li>
<li>Not shared with any third parties</li>
<li>Only accessible to administrators and users with the Restaurant Staff role</li>
<li>Subject to your site’s privacy policy</li>
</ul>
<p>You should update your privacy policy to inform users about the data collected through reservation forms.</p>


DABL Restaurant Reservations

Accept restaurant reservations with a simple, fast form. Works immediately once you set your opening hours.

Stachethemes

<h4>WooCommerce Seat & Table Booking System</h4>
<p>Stachethemes Seat Planner is a WooCommerce plugin for selling assigned seats, tables, and event tickets. Interactive maps, temporary holds during checkout, QR validation at the door, and a single dashboard to run the venue.</p>
<p><strong>Ideal for:</strong> cinemas, theaters, concerts, events, and restaurant table booking.</p>
<p><strong>Replace separate booking, seating, and ticketing plugins in WooCommerce</strong> with a single unified seat-based system—no second checkout, no disconnected inventory.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<p>Seat Planner Lite is the core seat booking system for WooCommerce—maps, holds, checkout, and check-in in one plugin. Upgrade to <strong>Stachethemes Seat Planner</strong> (Pro) for multi-date events, discounts, custom fields, PDF tickets, CSV import/export, unlimited layout objects, and more – see <strong>Premium Features</strong>.</p>
<h4>Core booking & seat management</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Table & seat support</strong> – Build both table layouts and seating charts in the same system.</li>
<li><strong>Drag-and-drop seat planner</strong> – Design your venue with seats, tables, screens, labels, and static objects.</li>
<li><strong>Interactive seat selection</strong> – Customers pick seats in real time on a map with zoom, pan, and seat details.</li>
<li><strong>Cart hold timer</strong> – Temporary seat holds while customers checkout to help prevent double bookings.</li>
<li><strong>Handicap / accessible seats</strong> – Mark accessible seats so they stand out on the map.</li>
<li><strong>Auto-fill and pattern tools</strong> – Place rows or sections quickly when building your layout.</li>
<li><strong>Per-seat pricing</strong> – Set prices by location, section, or individual seat.</li>
<li><strong>On-site-only seats</strong> – Restrict selected seats to on-site purchase via seat status.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Checkout & customer experience</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Standard WooCommerce cart and checkout</strong> – No separate ticketing checkout to learn.</li>
<li><strong>Configurable redirect after adding seats</strong> – Send customers to the cart, checkout, or a custom URL; optional cart timer on the storefront.</li>
<li><strong>Unique QR code per seat</strong> – Generated for each purchased seat for validation at the door.</li>
<li><strong>Auto-complete paid auditorium orders</strong> – Configurable, including mixed-cart behavior.</li>
<li><strong>Front-end dark mode and accent color</strong> – Brand the seat-selection experience.</li>
<li><strong>WooCommerce coupon seat limits</strong> – Require a minimum or maximum number of auditorium seats in the cart before a coupon applies.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Manager & day-of operations</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Run the venue from one screen</strong> – See what is free, block seats for holds or VIPs, and fix availability without waiting on a customer order.</li>
<li><strong>Sell at the door or comp a seat</strong> – Create a single-seat order from the floor when someone pays in person or gets a complimentary ticket.</li>
<li><strong>Fix mistakes without re-checkout</strong> – Move a customer to another seat on an existing order when they picked the wrong one.</li>
<li><strong>Know who is inside</strong> – Filter by scanned tickets and reset check-in when staff scans the wrong code.</li>
<li><strong>Detect and fix double bookings and stale inventory</strong> – Automatically find conflicts, seats stuck as taken, and unpaid orders still blocking sales.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Check-in & ticket validation</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Built-in web scanner</strong> – Validate tickets with a camera QR scanner in your WordPress dashboard.</li>
<li><strong>Scan records</strong> – Each scan updates ticket status; invalid or already-scanned tickets are shown clearly.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Integrations & layout tools</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Shortcodes</strong> – Embed a “Select seat” button or live seat counts on any page.</li>
<li><strong>Elementor widgets</strong> – Select Seat Button and Seat Count widgets.</li>
<li><strong>Gutenberg blocks</strong> – Select Seat Button and Seat Count blocks.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Statistics & analytics</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>See how the event is selling</strong> – Seats sold, occupancy, revenue, and order counts at a glance; trends over time; breakdown by order or date; a simple read on how fast you are filling the house.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Premium Features</h3>
<p>Upgrade to <strong><a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/stachethemes-seat-planner/" rel="nofollow ugc">Stachethemes Seat Planner</a></strong> on WooCommerce for the full feature set, including everything in Lite plus:</p>
<h4>Core booking & seat management</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Unlimited layout objects</strong> – No 100-object cap in the seat planner editor.</li>
<li><strong>Multiple event dates on one product</strong> – One seat map, many performances.</li>
<li><strong>Best Available</strong> – Auto-select the best contiguous seats; filter by price when seats have different rates.</li>
<li><strong>Optional sales rules</strong> – Stop sales before the event; prevent isolated empty seats; min/max seats per purchase.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Pricing, discounts & upsells</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Seat-level discounts</strong> – Percentage or fixed amount on selected seats or groups; optional role restrictions.</li>
<li><strong>Custom fields per seat</strong> – Free or paid add-ons, upgrades, meal choices, and more (with conditional display).</li>
</ul>
<h4>Checkout & customer experience</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>PDF tickets</strong> – Attach ticket details and QR codes to order emails; optional My Account downloads.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Manager & day-of operations</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Bulk create orders</strong> – Create orders for multiple seats at once from Manager.</li>
<li><strong>Full booking edits</strong> – Change seat, date, discounts, and custom fields on existing orders.</li>
<li><strong>Move bookings to another date</strong> – For multi-date products (bulk action supported).</li>
</ul>
<h4>Check-in & ticket validation</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Free Android app</strong> – Door check-in; pairs with your site via integration settings.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Integrations & layout tools</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>CSV import & export</strong> – Seat layouts in the seat planner editor; export bookings from the product or Manager (filter by date, choose columns).</li>
<li><strong>Script embed</strong> – Run seat selection on external sites with an allowed-origins whitelist.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Statistics, reports & analytics</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>CSV export</strong> – Statistics tables and booking exports.</li>
<li><strong>Automated email reports</strong> – Scheduled occupancy and sales summaries, with CSV and optional color-coded seat-map snapshot.</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/stachethemes-seat-planner/" rel="nofollow ugc">Check it out on WooCommerce</a></p>
<h3>Demo</h3>
<p><a href="https://stachethemes.com/seat-planner/demo/" rel="nofollow ugc">Live Demo</a></p>
<h3>Source Repository</h3>
<p><a href="https://github.com/zbozhilov/stachethemes-seat-planner-lite" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub Repository</a></p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://mui.com/material-ui/material-icons/" rel="nofollow ugc">Material UI Icons</a></li>
<li><a href="https://react-hot-toast.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">React Hot Toast</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-zoom-pan-pinch" rel="nofollow ugc">React Zoom Pan Pinch</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>1.7.5</h3>
<ul>
<li>Added: Gutenberg blocks – “Select Seat Button” (embed the add-to-cart flow on any page) and “Seat Count” (display available, sold, or other seat totals for a product).</li>
<li>Added: Site Health tools – now check for problems with QR Code.</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.7.3</h3>
<ul>
<li>Added: Dark mode option for the front-end interface. Turn it on in Dashboard -> Settings -> Colors to apply a dark theme to the date/time picker, seat selector form fields, and cart timer.</li>
<li>Added: WooCommerce coupon seat limits for auditorium products. On the coupon edit screen you can set a minimum and/or maximum number of auditorium seats required in the cart before the coupon applies.</li>
<li>Added: Elementor widgets – “Select Seat Button” (embed the add-to-cart flow on any page) and “Seat Count” (display available, sold, or other seat totals for a product and optional date). Find them under the Stachethemes Seat Planner category in the Elementor editor.</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.7.2</h3>
<ul>
<li>Update: QR Code now supports PHP 8.5</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.7.1</h3>
<p>Added: A new option for “Redirect Customers After Successful Addition” enabling admins to send customers to a custom URL after seats are added to the cart.</p>
<h3>1.6.7</h3>
<p>Added: Stalled Orders check in Dashboard -> Tools -> Booking Integrity. Lists pending/failed orders that hold auditorium seats without payment markers or an active slot lock (same rules as checkout conflict auto-cancel). Report only; does not modify orders.<br />
Update: Refreshed General tab UI for auditorium products in the admin.<br />
Fixed: Saving the seat planner, dates, discounts, or custom fields no longer fails when text includes certain characters (for example in seat labels).</p>
<h3>1.6.6</h3>
<p>Added: QR code scanner – choose which camera device to use<br />
Update: Various small improvements to the Seat Editor</p>
<h3>1.6.5</h3>
<p>Update: Security improvements<br />
Added: Better protection against double bookings. The plugin now checks seat conflicts earlier and helps prevent stale pending reservations from blocking available seats.</p>
<h3>1.6.4</h3>
<p>Update: Faster and more reliable seat updates when order statuses change (e.g. payment received, order completed)<br />
Update: Manager section now processes seat changes more efficiently</p>
<h3>1.6.3</h3>
<ul>
<li>Added: RTL Support (beta) for right-to-left languages</li>
<li>Fixed: Orders with only seat tickets now automatically move to “Completed” after payment (e.g. Stripe) instead of staying at “Processing”</li>
<li>Update: Clearer description for the “Force Auto-Complete Mixed Orders” setting</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.6.2</h3>
<ul>
<li>Added: Option in Manager -> Availability to filter seats by scan status using the “Scanned” toggle, showing only seats that have been scanned (QR code checked in)</li>
<li>Added: Option in the Manager Edit Seat page to unscan a ticket, view scan details, and clear scan status when needed</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.6.1</h3>
<ul>
<li>Fixed: Closing the color picker without choosing a new color no longer clears the color from your selected items</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.6.0</h3>
<ul>
<li>Price input now allows decimal values</li>
<li>Added auto-fill mode in the Seat Planner Editor for faster objects creation</li>
<li>Added arc transform tool in the Seat Planner Editor</li>
<li>Added flip transform tool in the Seat Planner Editor</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.5.6</h3>
<ul>
<li>Added Statistics page in the Manager section with product analytics: summary cards (seats sold, occupancy, revenue, orders), revenue and sales over time (by event date or order date), sales-by-order and sales-by-date tables with CSV export, and velocity projection.</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.5.4</h4>
<ul>
<li>QR code styling updated to use accent color</li>
<li>Added rotation feature in the Seat Planner Editor for rotating elements</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.5.1</h4>
<ul>
<li>Added option to create Order from the Manager section</li>
<li>Added new shortcode [stachesepl_count] for displaying the total seat count for auditorium product(s).</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.4.1</h4>
<ul>
<li>Added seat details tooltip on mobile devices</li>
<li>Added new option in general settings to show or hide the seat details tooltip</li>
<li>Other minor bug fixes</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.4.0</h4>
<ul>
<li>Added Manager section in the Admin Panel</li>
<li>Added option to hide the QR Code</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.3.0</h4>
<ul>
<li>New tool “Edit Order”, enabling admins to modify existing orders data, such as changing seat ID.</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.1.0</h4>
<ul>
<li>New general option “Enforce WooCommerce Cart Calculation”. This option helps fix the issue with missing cart price on certain themes.</li>
<li>Fixed issue where the cart timer may not work properly on certain carts</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.42</h4>
<ul>
<li>Fixed a bug where setting a non-existent or invalid product ID in the shortcode caused a crash.</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.40</h4>
<ul>
<li>Option to disable the “Select Seat” button on product listings (product loops) such as the Shop page and category pages.</li>
<li>New Accent Color option for simpler front-end UI color customization. Legacy color customization options have been removed.</li>
<li>Merged Cart Timer and Add to Cart settings into a new Cart Behaviour tab in the plugin settings.</li>
<li>Front-end UI now displays the Close button at all times.</li>
<li>Front-end UI buttons and elements now follow the Accent Color setting.</li>
<li>Converted the Round Corners option to a slider for better control over element border radius.</li>
<li>Minor fixes and improvements.</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.38</h4>
<ul>
<li>The Plugin now uses it’s own “Select Seat”, “View Cart” buttons.</li>
<li>Added option to change colors for “Select Seat”, “View Cart”, “Add to Cart” buttons.</li>
<li>Added Front-end seat tooltip</li>
<li>Added Compatibility mode for cache plugins (e.g. WP Rocket, LiteSpeed) when lazy loading breaks due to JS optimization.</li>
<li>Added New editor option “Additional Class Name” allowing custom CSS classes to be attached to objects.</li>
<li>Improved UI for adding dates to the product.</li>
<li>“Seat Reservation Time” and “Auto-Complete Orders” options moved to the new General tab in plugin settings.</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.36</h4>
<ul>
<li>Added new plugin dashboard centralizing settings and features.</li>
<li>Added new option “Auto-Complete Orders”: automatically marks orders as Completed when payment is received for auditorium products.</li>
<li>Added new option to control whether users are redirected after adding seats to the cart.</li>
<li>Added new option to choose whether users are redirected to the cart or checkout page.</li>
<li>Added new option to control whether customers are shown a message during redirection.</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.35</h4>
<ul>
<li>Added Dashboard Widget showing Seats Sold & Revenue for the last 30 days</li>
<li>Added Option to Lock objects in the Drag & Drop Editor </li>
<li>Added Visual UI for turning grid-snap on/off, grid color, grid size</li>
<li>Added message when user is redirected to cart/checkout page on the front-end</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.34</h4>
<ul>
<li>Bug fix where product can be incorrectly flagged as Unavailable</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.33</h4>
<ul>
<li>Bug fix where deleting a draft order can accidentally release slot reservation</li>
<li>Other minor bug fixes</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.32</h4>
<ul>
<li>UI/UX improvements</li>
<li>Added UI for Auto Incremental Patterns</li>
<li>Added Booking Integrity Checker Tools</li>
<li>Added option to check Reservation Details from the front-end if the user has Shop Manager role</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.28</h4>
<ul>
<li>Minor fixes & improvements</li>
<li>Enabled option to Scan QR Codes from the Dashboard</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.5</h4>
<ul>
<li>Add to cart seat validation improvements</li>
</ul>
<h4>1.0.4</h4>
<ul>
<li>Initial public release with core seat selection features.</li>
</ul>


Stachethemes Seat Planner Lite

Let customers select and reserve exact seats or tables in WooCommerce, prevent double bookings during checkout, and validate entry with QR tickets.

DABL Restaurant Reservations vs Stachethemes Seat Planner Lite