Charging No-Show Fees
How to charge a cancellation fee to customers who do not show up. Covers the card-on-file setting, when the charge is made, and why a charge may not go through.
Reservation Cancellations and Changes
Explains, with annotated screenshots, how to cancel, complete, or mark reservations as no-show cancellations, and how to handle date/time changes.
Analyzing Reservation Data
Explains, with annotated screenshots, how to read the reservation dashboard statistics, narrow down the reservation list, and check cancellations and no-show cancellations.
Running a Waitlist
How to let customers join a waitlist for full slots and offer places in order when they free up. Covers the order of offers, how long a place is held, and the overnight quiet hours.
Recording Arrivals
How to record that a customer has arrived. Covers one-tap recording from the Timeline, recording from the reservation details, and how bookings marked as arrived are handled.
Recording Attendance and Makeups
How to record attendance for a whole class at once and move an absence to another session as a makeup. Also explains how session pass credits are never used twice.
Setting Up Deposits and Prepayment
How to take a deposit or full prepayment at the time of booking. Covers the four payment options, the Stripe connection you need first, what customers see, and what to check before you go live.
Creating and Running Session Passes
How to create session passes such as a 10-session pass, let customers buy them, and use up one credit per booking. Also covers setting an expiry and how credits are returned on cancellation.
Refunds on Cancellation
How payments taken in advance are refunded when a booking is cancelled. Covers the difference between customer and store cancellations and what to do after the cancellation deadline.
Editing Email Templates
How to edit the wording of confirmation, cancellation and reminder messages, including placeholders, the preview, and the fact that LINE messages use the same text.
Checking the Reservation Calendar
Explains, with annotated screenshots, how to check reservation status using the dashboard, timeline, and reservation list, including date navigation, availability legend, and filtered search.
What Is Reservation Management
An overview of ReceiptRoller's reservation management feature. Explains the basics of how staff register bookings, view the timeline, and send automatic notifications.
Staff Nomination Settings
How to let customers choose a staff member before they book. Covers adding a nomination fee, what customers see on the booking page, and why staff must be registered first.
Generating the Inventory Calendar
How to generate the inventory calendar you need before rooms and rental items can be booked. Covers how ungenerated days look to customers and the warning shown when the calendar is about to run out.
Booking Menus and Service Durations
How to set a duration for each booking menu item so customers are only offered times when that much time is free in a row. Covers buffer time, choosing which staff can take an item, visibility (Public, Link only, Members only) and who counts as a member.
Intake Pace and Maximum Concurrent Bookings
How to set the intake pace, which stops too many bookings arriving in a short time, and the maximum concurrent bookings per slot. Covers how the two limits differ and why the intake pace setting only appears for some business types.
Setting Up Recurring Bookings
How to register bookings for the same day and time each week, such as every Tuesday at 7 pm, in one go. Also covers how days without slots are skipped and what happens when you end a recurring booking.
Instructor Schedules and Booking Slots
How to make instructors and other staff bookable, with booking slots created only for the hours they are on shift. Also explains how to see each instructor's bookings and totals.
Setting Up Room and Rental Stock
How to register room types and rental items so you can take bookings that span several days. Covers the difference between stays and hires, quantity, and turnaround days.
Setting Up Unlimited Plans
How to set up a flat monthly or yearly plan that lets subscribers book without using pass credits. Covers how it differs from session passes, joining and cancelling, and closing a plan to new members.