Reservation Statuses

A reservation isn't one thing — it moves. Confirmed at booking, guest arrives and gets seated, meal ends and table closes, or they never show up. Without statuses, the book becomes a mess of bookings that 'might' be current, and no-shows disappear into thin air without a trace.

Reservation.Tools tracks every booking through its lifecycle. Staff update status with one tap: seat the guest, mark finished, log a no-show, cancel. The floor plan color-codes tables by status so anyone glancing at it knows what's happening across the whole room.

Statuses feed reports: no-show rate per weekday, average turn time, how many bookings actually completed versus walked. This is the data that tells you whether to take deposits on Saturdays, whether Fridays are worth overbooking, and which guests are costing you covers.

For hosts on a busy shift, it's also situational awareness — red tables are seated, green are free, grey are about to arrive.