Events are for one-off occasions — a tasting night, a quiz, a Christmas party night. Each has its own date, sitting times, guest limit and, if you like, a deposit, plus its own booking page you can share. Your regular meals aren’t touched.
How to set up an event
1. Open Events. In NomNom Web, click Configuration at the bottom of the left-hand panel (admins only), then choose Events.
2. Click Add event. Give it a Name, tick each of the Areas it runs in, and pick the Date.
3. Set the sitting times. Under Sitting times, click Add a time and pick a start time. Each sitting shows as a pill; click its × to remove it. For a run of sittings — every 30 minutes from 12:00 to 3:00 pm on Christmas Day, say — click Add a range, set From, To and Every, check the line underneath (“7 times: 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM”) and click Add times, or Replace the current times to start again. To cap one sitting on its own, click its pill and set its Max guests per area; the pill then shows that number. Leave it at 0 to use the event’s limit.
4. Set the numbers. Duration is how long each booking lasts. Max guests per area is the most the event takes in each area, so two areas with a limit of 40 can take 80 in all. If your team needs time to clear and re-lay tables between sittings, set Table turn time too (see Table turn time: giving staff time to reset a table).
5. Choose how online bookings are seated. Under Web booking capacity, Guest limit only (the default) simply counts guests. Assign a table gives each online booking a free table — only pick it if the area has tables bookable online, or no times will show.
6. Finish off and save. Leave Online booking on, or switch it off for a staff-only event. Add a Public notice if you like, such as the price. For a card or deposit, set Require a card from or Require a deposit from, then Per person or Flat fee and the amount. Click Create event.
Sharing the event’s link
Click the event in the list and choose Copy public link, then paste it into a post, an email or a QR code. The link opens a page with your venue’s name, the event, your public notice and a card for each upcoming date. Guests tap Book now, say how many are coming and pick a time — no calendar to wade through. A full date shows Fully booked.
The same event on several dates
Click the event and choose Duplicate Event. Change the date and take (copy) off the name. Events can share a name on different dates, and every date then appears on the same link.
Same-named events share one set of sitting times, public notice and card and deposit rules — change them on one date and they change on all. If one date needs different times, give it its own name and use an event group.
Different events on one page
For differently named events — October Tasting Table, November Tasting Table — type the same name, say Tasting Table, in each one’s Event group box. After the first, tap the suggestion under the box rather than retyping: a small spelling difference starts a separate group. The group shares one page under the group’s name, and the menu offers Copy group public link.
Good to know
- The guest limits only apply to online bookings — bookings your team takes aren’t blocked by them. Cards and deposits are only asked for once card payments are set up for your venue.
- If you take dog bookings, you’ll see a Bringing a dog? question switch. Turn it off for a formal evening and guests booking through the event’s link won’t be asked.
- Putting an event in a group moves it to the group’s link, so re-share the new one.
- Two events on the same date need different names — adding the time works well.
- Past events are hidden; click Show past to see them. Add a new date with the same name and the old link shows it.
- Deleting an event keeps its bookings.
- “Discard the saved schedule?” You’ll see this if you once had a meal with the same name as the event, such as Christmas Lunch, and deleted it. NomNom kept that meal’s times and deposit rules in case you added it back; saving the event replaces them. Choose Discard and save to go ahead, or cancel and give the event a different name if you still want the old meal back one day.
- Planning the festive season? See Your Christmas and New Year checklist.
- Events are in the phone app too: Configuration → Events.
In NomNom Web: Configuration → Events