Online bookings for pubs and bars
Sunday lunch fills up while you’re busy pulling pints, and the phone behind the bar rarely gets answered. Online bookings let guests choose a free table and time from your website, Google profile or booking link, with a confirmation and a reminder sent in your pub’s name.
Sunday roast, table for 4
How it works for pubs and bars
Tables that can’t clash
Set your tables up as resources and each booking only goes in while a table is free, so two parties can never end up on the same table, even if they book at once.
Lunch, dinner and events
Set up Sunday lunch, evening tables and the function room as separate services, each with its own length and notice, and keep anything you’d rather arrange yourself for the team to book.
Reminders before they come
Guests get a reminder by email and by text before their booking, and can change or cancel from their link up to your cutoff, so a cancelled table can be booked again.
Bookings that build your list
Every booking adds the guest to your contacts. With automatic review requests on, marking the visit done starts your usual review ask, and nobody who opted out is asked.
Asked politely. Followed up for you.
- Review request Text or email, after the visit
- Friendly reminder A couple of days later
- Taps through to review Follow-ups stop by themselves
Sunday lunches at The Old Bell Yard
Sunday lunch tables booked from the Google profile
The Old Bell Yard used to take Sunday lunch bookings by phone, which meant a lot of calls during Saturday service. Now the booking link sits on the pub’s Google profile and website. By Friday evening, many of Sunday’s tables are booked online, each guest choosing a time when a table is free and getting a reminder on Saturday. Ellie checks the diary before the Sunday prep starts, and the phone behind the bar is quieter.
An illustration of how it works, not a real customer.
The film
How the AI Receptionist, LocalQuiver's fifth AI agent, answers the calls you miss and your website chat in your business's name, how missed callers get a text back from your business number, and how customers book themselves into one diary. It works the same way for pubs and bars.
Read the transcript
0:02When you're on a job, the phone still rings. And every call you miss could be a customer who rings someone else.
0:09So meet the AI Receptionist, the fifth AI agent in LocalQuiver.
0:14Your phone rings first. When you can't pick up, it answers in your business's name, and says it's an AI assistant.
0:21It answers questions from your website and documents, then books the visit into your diary, or takes a proper message.
0:27And you get a short summary of every call it handled.
0:31The same receptionist chats on your website, answering questions and booking appointments in writing, day or night.
0:38With missed-call text back, every caller you miss gets a text from your business number, straight away, in your words.
0:45Their replies land in one place, and you answer from the app when you're free.
0:49And with online bookings, customers book themselves into times that are genuinely free, from your website or your booking link.
0:56Confirmations and reminders go out for you, and every booking lands in one diary, so nothing can clash.
1:03Every call answered. Every booking taken. Even when you're on a job.
1:09LocalQuiver. Your marketing, sorted.
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What's included
- A booking page in your pub’s branding
- Tables set up as resources
- Sunday lunch, evenings and events as separate services
- Reminders by email and text
- Guests change or cancel up to your cutoff
- Bookings added to your contacts
More for pubs and bars
Yes. Only the tables you set up for online bookings are offered, so you can keep some back for walk-ins. Bookings you add yourself in the diary can still use any table that’s free.
Yes, set it up as its own service with the time it lasts, or keep it for your team to book. For bigger events, have it arrive as a request you accept, so you can talk to the guest first.
No. The booking page works on its own and links back to the website you have. Share it on your Google profile and social pages, or add Book buttons if we built your website.
Online bookings
Book a free chat and we'll show you how it would work for your pub, set up and running for you.
