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title: How to take table bookings
description: "Taking table bookings from the website, with a reservation app or without one. ## Without an app Out of the box, the booking band holds a simple enquiry form: a name, an email, a date, a time, and how many…"
url: "https://www.apselo.com/docs/kb/how-to-take-table-bookings/"
updated: "2026-08-23"
category: Restrovics
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# How to take table bookings

Taking table bookings from the website, with a reservation app or without one.

## Without an app

Out of the box, the booking band holds a simple enquiry form: a name, an email, a date, a time, and how many people. When somebody sends it, it arrives as an email at your store's contact address.

*Set that address in Shopify:* **Settings → Store details → Contact information**

It does not check whether you have a table. It is an enquiry, and you reply. For a lot of restaurants that is exactly right — and it works with nothing installed and nothing to pay.

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> Edit the text above the form to set expectations: *we confirm every booking by email, usually within the hour*. People are much happier waiting when they know they are waiting.

## With a booking app

If you use a reservation app — one that shows live availability and confirms instantly — it can take the form's place without changing how the band looks.

1. Install the app from the Shopify App Store.
2. In the editor, click the **Book a table** band.
3. Click **Add block** and choose your app's block from the list.
4. Remove or hide the enquiry form so you are not offering two ways to do the same thing.

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> Most apps assume a light background, and this theme's booking band is dark. The band has an **App block color scheme** setting — switch it to **Cream** and the app's own styling has something to sit on.

## Where the booking band appears

Three places, and you can add it anywhere else:

- The home page, near the bottom.
- The full menu page — somebody who has just read your menu is the most likely person in the world to book a table.
- The booking page itself, which is what the header button points at.

## The booking page

If you have not made it yet, see [that chapter](/docs/restrovics-your-pages/) — it is the page using the `reservation` template. It is the booking band, your contact details, and your Instagram grid, in that order.