🏪 What changes with your business type
This page is a reference table — it spells out exactly what the business type renames and which modules it switches on or hides.
This is the all-types-at-once view. A guide written for your business specifically is at Pick your business type.
You'll find the setting under System → Businesses → your business → Business type.
Changing the business type does not rename your existing records — only field labels and option lists. Reservations, guests and history stay exactly as they are.
Resource wording
The Tables collection is a generic "bookable resource". It is renamed per type:
| Business type | Resource name | "Capacity" field |
|---|---|---|
| Restaurant | Table / Tables | Capacity (guests) |
| Barbershop | Chair / Chairs | Capacity (clients) |
| Clinic | Room | Capacity (patients) |
| Salon | Station / Stations | Capacity (clients) |
| Hotel | Room type | Capacity (beds) |
| Event venue | Space / Spaces | Capacity (visitors) |
How a booking is expressed
The business type also decides what a reservation actually is:
- Time slot (restaurant, barbershop, clinic, salon) – a start time plus a duration derived from the chosen service.
- Stay (hotel) – a check-in and check-out date; capacity is counted per night.
- Ticket (event venue) – a specific event occurrence plus a number of tickets against that event's capacity.
Zones and locations
The location options adapt too — a restaurant gets Indoor - Main, Window, Terrace, Bar, Private Room, a barbershop gets Main floor, Window, Private room, Wash station, and so on.
Occasions
The Occasion field on a reservation offers different options — a restaurant has Birthday, Anniversary, Business meeting, Date, a barbershop has Wedding, Special event, First visit.
Available modules
| Module | Restaurant | Barbershop | Clinic | Salon | Hotel | Event venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Menu | ✅ | – | – | – | – | – |
| Weekly menu | ✅ | – | – | – | – | – |
| Events | ✅ | – | – | – | – | ✅ |
| Ticket sales | – | – | – | – | – | ✅ |
Modules that don't apply to your business simply don't appear — there is nothing to switch off.
What stays the same
Every business type shares the same core. In the left-hand menu it all sits under Common to every business type:
- reservations, their statuses and approval,
- opening hours, holidays and exceptions,
- staff and their schedules,
- notifications (email, SMS, push),
- the waitlist,
- statistics, CRM and billing.
Those shared pages are written in restaurant vocabulary ("table", "guest"). If you run a different type of business, substitute your own term from the table above — the steps are identical.