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Reservation Deposits and Holds for WordPress
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Reservation Deposits and Holds for WordPress

When guests aren’t arriving for their reservations, and reminders and late arrival notifications haven’t worked, many restaurant owners consider charging a reservation deposit fee or putting a hold on a guest’s card pending their arrival for their reservation. In this blog post, we’ll show you how to enable deposits and holds in our Five Star…

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Styling Options for Five Star Restaurant Menu
Styling Options for Five Star Restaurant Menu

There are four ways to style the menus generated by our Five Star Restaurant Menu plugin for WordPress. We’ll go over each of them here, in order of complexity, so that users from beginners all the way to developers can understand the options they have to customize the look of their menus. The place to… READ POST

Custom Fields for Restaurant Orders
Custom Fields for Restaurant Orders

This post in our plugin features series looks at custom fields for our WordPress Restaurant Menu plugin. Custom fields let you collect additional information from your customers with their orders, or add extra information to your menu items, such as the estimated calories of an item. To get started, you’ll need the premium version of… READ POST

Setting Restrictions in Five Star Restaurant Reservations
Setting Restrictions in Five Star Restaurant Reservations

Owning and managing a restaurant is already a very time-consuming and difficult occupation. Throw in a pandemic and it would be hard to blame anyone for feeling overwhelmed. Spending half your day dealing with a booking system that doesn’t work and that causes you to miss out on the little bit of business you might… READ POST

Using Tables in Five Star Restaurant Reservations
Using Tables in Five Star Restaurant Reservations

Over the next 8 weeks, we’re going to be covering the key features that make our plugins so useful to our users. In this post, we’ll go over the table selection feature in the Five Star Restaurant Reservations WordPress plugin. This powerful option, available in the Ultimate version of the plugin, lets you set up… READ POST

Requiring Premium Helper Plugin
Requiring Premium Helper Plugin

To comply with the WordPress.org plugin guidelines, our premium helper plugin is now required for all of our plugins, in order for the premium version to function correctly. You can download the plugin at the following link:FSP Premium Helper Plugin To install and activate the plugin, follow these simple steps: Download the plugin above. Log… READ POST

Add Direct Ordering to Your Restaurant Menu
Add Direct Ordering to Your Restaurant Menu

As restrictions are lifted, restaurants are serving more and more people for in-house dining every day. This is great news and we hope the trend continues throughout the summer. Nevertheless, if we’ve learned anything in the last year, it’s the importance of offering your customers another option if they are unable to dine at your… READ POST

Setting Restrictions for COVID 19 in Your Restaurant Software
Setting Restrictions for COVID 19 in Your Restaurant Software

Being able to easily place restrictions for COVID 19 via restaurant booking software has never been more important. Owning and managing a restaurant is already a very time-consuming and difficult occupation. Throw in the current pandemic and it would be hard to blame anyone for feeling overwhelmed. Now imagine you have to spend half your… READ POST

2020 Top WordPress Black Friday Deals
2020 Top WordPress Black Friday Deals

With Black Friday 2020 fast approaching, we thought we’d put together a list of some of the top WordPress deals available this year, both for plugins and themes. Five Star Plugins Five Star Plugins will be offering 30% off all plugin purchases, including the Ultimate version of the Five Star WordPress restaurant reservations plugin, WordPress… READ POST

COVID-19 Update
COVID-19 Update

We hope this post finds you safe and healthy. We wanted to address a few things with respect to the current COVID-19 situation. First and most importantly, our partners at Etoile Web Design noticed that a number of health ministries have been using their FAQ plugin to help spread information about the current pandemic. If… READ POST

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