Setting up the working time

Before anything else, the system needs to know when you're open. Lunch 12:00–15:00, dinner 18:00–23:00, or straight 12:00–23:00 — every venue runs differently, and the reservation book has to match.

Working time setup is where you define the default hours for each day of the week and the shifts inside them. Once it's in, the reservation book shows the right time grid, online bookings only offer slots inside those hours, and reports group covers by shift automatically.

Shifts matter: a lunch shift and a dinner shift with a gap between them is a completely different operation from non-stop service. Defining them properly lets you track lunch vs. dinner performance, set different minimum party sizes, and close one shift without closing the venue.

This is the foundation — everything else (rules, exceptions, online bookings, availability checks) is built on top of it.