Booking Templates are shortcuts for table parameters. For example, if you regularly sell booth packages or organise your minimum spend and deposits in a particulate way, you can create templates to apply them in the DQ Pro app, or make them available for public bookings.If an event has a Package Template attached, and that template is available at vacant tables, the table can be booked by a customer online. <h1>Editing a Package</h1>When customizing a booking package, you have several fields to adjust:<table style="min-width: 121px"><colgroup><col style="min-width: 25px"><col style="min-width: 25px"><col style="width: 71px"></colgroup><tbody><tr><th colspan="1" rowspan="1">Property</th><th colspan="1" rowspan="1">Description</th><th colspan="1" rowspan="1" colwidth="71">Required</th></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Name</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">The title of the package.</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" colwidth="71">yes</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Package Type</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Choose behaviour of the Package. Examples are provided for each option.</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" colwidth="71">yes</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Number of Guests</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">The number of guests that may be added to the guestlist or enter under the booking.</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" colwidth="71">yes</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Contents</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">List the items and services provided in the package. You can add menu items or decorative (text-only) items for visual purposes</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" colwidth="71">no</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Tables</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Select the tables at which the package can be booked. You can override this or merge tables when making a booking manually.</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" colwidth="71">no</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Auto-Approve</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">This option skips the approval step when a booking is made and automatically confirms the booking.</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" colwidth="71">no</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">Payments</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1">The payment parameters required by the booking. Deposit, Door Payment, Minimum Spend and Credit are <a href="https://feedback.getdqd.com/docs/general/booking-payments#5-booking-payment-types" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" class="cursor-pointer box-border border-b hover:border-b-[2px] transition-all duration-75 " style="text-decoration: none; border-color: var(--portal-accent-color);">covered in more detail here</a>.</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" colwidth="71"></td></tr></tbody></table><h1>Different Inclusion Types</h1>Packages can include 3 different things.<ol class="steps-list"><li>Menu Items These are items that will both show on the customer facing booking, but will also be requestable once the booking is seated. This can be used to create “Packages” of your menu items, or to add things like “Promo” Shots to bookings. Once a booking is seated DQ will track the the items requested and allow them to be managed by staff.</li><li>Item Options This allows you to provide options to a customer. For example you could add a option “Premium Mixers” and add “coke”, “sprite”, “tonic” as options. This will show on the customer facing booking. When the booking is seated the staff member can select the item the customer wants, and request it. DQ will track the options requested and allow them to be managed by staff.</li><li>Text Inclusion This allows you to create inclusions that are just visible to the customer. These could are just decorative options and wont be requestable by staff. For example you could add “Private Bartender” as a text inclusion, or “Free Limo Ride”.</li></ol>Package Options and inclusions are always editable by staff at the door, when editing bookings, or after the guest is seated.💡 You can change the name of menu items and Item Options at any time to make it clearer for guests, when the order is submitted to the bump screen it will use the proper item name.

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Learn how to configure and manage your booking (package) templates and base options.