How do I set up my venue website?
Build your themed venue website with the Your website product — pick one of four site styles, switch pages and widgets on, fill in short forms and publish. Your menu, events and hours stay up to date automatically.
The Your website product (£15/month, or £150/year — two months free) gives your venue a professional themed website at your venue page. It works on any plan — or with no plan at all — and it's deliberately not a drag-and-drop page builder: you pick a look, switch pages and widgets on, fill in short forms, and the design stays professional whatever you type. Your menu, events, opening hours and booking button come straight from your ResoFlow data, so the site can never go stale.
Where everything lives
Once you own the product, the Your website page appears under Grow in the sidebar (/dashboard/website). It's the whole editor: your pages, your widgets, your look, and the publish switch. The very first time you open it, a short guided set-up walks you through three questions — choose your look, pick which sections your site shows, then publish now or save as a draft — and you can leave it at any point and drop into the ordinary editor (your answers are kept on this device). If you don't own the product yet, the page explains it and links to Plans & Products, where you can add it in a minute.
Choosing your look — four site styles
Under Choose your look the eight looks are grouped into four site styles, and picking one changes the whole site — the layout, the arrangement and the type, not just the colours:
- Editorial classic — centred composition, warm serif type, a floating booking card. Looks: Classic and Elegant.
- Bold photography — huge statement type and full-bleed photography. Looks: Bold and Modern Dark (the one dark look).
- Minimal modern — hairline rules, quiet letterspaced labels, a split-panel hero. Looks: Minimal and Coastal.
- Warm bistro — soft corners, friendly buttons, ticket-stub event cards, a postcard-style gallery. Looks: Rustic and Warm Bistro.
Switching looks takes one click and keeps all your content. Under Accent colour you choose whether buttons and highlights use Your brand colour (from Settings → Branding) or The theme's own tuned accent.
Your pages
The editor is a page list — each page is a row with a switch and a short form. Most sections also have a Section heading and Intro line you can rewrite; leave them blank and the theme's own wording is used.
- Home — always on. The Opening line (up to 140 characters) and the Hero photo: your cover image from Settings → Branding is used by default, or pick a website-only hero photo from your image library and use Set focus point to choose what stays in view.
- About — your story (up to 800 characters), a photo, and your own heading.
- Gallery — up to 12 photos from your image library. Drag photos (or use the arrows) to reorder them, and set each photo's focus point — the theme arranges them into a varied, deliberate layout instead of uniform squares.
- Menu — marked From your data: a featured menu section appears on the site itself, showing a few dishes with a "See the full menu" link. Pick up to 4 Featured menu sections, or leave it automatic.
- What's on — your published events appear automatically, soonest first.
- Contact & hours — your address, phone number and opening hours, straight from your settings, shown read-only with links to change them there — one source of truth, so the site is never wrong.
- Book a table — always on, riding your existing booking page with deposits, waitlist and confirmations exactly as normal. You can also rewrite the closing invitation at the bottom of the site.
Widgets
The Widgets row adds interactive blocks to the site itself. Each one appears to customers only while its feature is genuinely available — a switched-on widget whose feature lapses simply disappears rather than showing a dead button:
- Booking widget — a day, party size and time card; customers finish on your booking page.
- Waitlist widget — a short join form: customers check the wait and put their name down without leaving the site.
- Gift card widget — a "Buy a gift card" banner.
- Loyalty widget — a join invitation, shown while your scheme is open to new members.
Section order
The Section order row lets you drag sections into the order you want (or use the arrows). The hero always leads and the booking invitation always closes the page. Sections with nothing to show simply don't appear — the order is kept for when they do.
On every device
The site is built phone-first: on smaller screens the header keeps your name, the sign-in icon and the Book button, and a menu button opens a full-screen navigation. Your logo (from Settings → Branding) appears in the header and footer when set; customers with a remembered sign-in see a filled person icon that opens their account.
When a page isn't available — you choose what shows
Every feature page tells you honestly whether customers can actually use it right now — for example, if online bookings are switched off, or your plan doesn't include a menu. When something isn't available, you choose per page:
- Show a friendly notice — the page keeps its place with honest copy like "Online bookings aren't available at the moment — call us on…" (your phone number is included automatically).
- Hide it — the page disappears from the site entirely.
There's never a dead button: anything a customer can click always works or explains itself.
While your website is live, your look carries across every page your customers reach from it — the menu, events, gift cards, waitlist, tickets and the account area all adopt your theme's fonts, colours and shapes, so the site never feels like it ends at the front page. With Modern Dark, payment and booking screens keep a light background (still carrying your theme's fonts and accent) so the money steps stay easy to read.
Previewing and publishing
- Preview shows your draft with the chosen look before anyone else sees it — it's labelled Preview — example content because events, featured menu dishes, hours and live availability are example content in the preview; they come from your real data on the published site.
- Publish website makes it live: your venue page immediately shows the themed site instead of the standard layout. Save your changes first — publish always puts live exactly what you saved.
- Take offline switches back to the standard venue page layout at any time. Nothing is deleted — publish again whenever you like.
The status chip shows Live or Draft — with a count of how many of the five optional pages are on (for example "Live · 3 of 5 pages on") — so you always know what customers are seeing.
Good to know
- Editing the website needs the "edit branding settings" permission — owners and admins have it by default, and you can grant it to other roles under Roles & permissions.
- The Your website product includes 250 MB of image storage for your photos.
- The Analytics page gains a Website tab with your page views and link clicks, counted on our servers without cookies — see What do the analytics show?.
- If your website subscription ever lapses, your venue page simply returns to the standard layout — your text, photos, theme choice and section order are kept, and everything comes back if you re-add the product.
Related guides
- Your domain — your web address and email
- How do I add my logo, colours and images?
- How does the image library work?