> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.riservahq.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Install Riserva and work through setup Riserva turns your Shopify store into a reservation system. Guests book tastings, dinners, tours and events on your website; every reservation settles as an ordinary Shopify order, with your payment providers and your customer records. This article covers what happens on install and what to do first. *** ## What Riserva asks for During install, Shopify asks you to approve the app's access. Riserva needs to: * **read your locations** — your properties become the top level of Riserva * **manage your orders** — this is how an online reservation becomes a reservation, and how refunds go back through Shopify * **manage products** — each experience you publish becomes a Shopify product, and so does each add-on * **manage sales channels** — to make those products available on your Online Store and Point of Sale * **manage draft orders** — for payment links on phone and walk-in reservations * **manage your customers** — to find or create a guest, and to recognise wine-club members by their tags * **manage files** — for experience, venue and add-on photos, email logos, and files attached to notes on a reservation * **saved cards and purchase options** — for experiences that save the guest's card at checkout and charge it later * **manage fulfillment** — so an order whose card is charged later is released for processing when it's placed and marked fulfilled when the party checks in * **checkout rules** — so Riserva can add the checkout rule "Check reservations at checkout", which stops a guest paying for a reservation whose date has already passed, or whose quantity no longer matches its party. Riserva adds it by itself the first time you open the app; it is listed under **Settings → Checkout → Checkout rules** in your Shopify admin *** ## The setup guide on Home When you open Riserva, **Home** leads with a **Setup guide** card and a "n / 4 completed" counter. Each step links to the page where you do the work, and each one **ticks itself off from your own data** — you don't have to remember to mark anything done. | Step | What it wants | Ticks itself when | | - | - | - | | **Set up your property and venues** | Your Shopify locations sync in on their own — add a bookable venue with real capacity at one of them | You have at least one venue and at least one table or seat pool | | **Create an experience and schedule it** | The thing guests reserve | An experience exists *with a schedule on it* | | **Review your cancellation policy** | The refund schedule and guest self-service | You open **Settings → Policies** — keeping the default counts | | **Place the booking widget on your storefront** | The widget in your theme | The widget first **loads on your storefront** (a guest, you, or the theme editor preview), or your first online reservation arrives | Riserva can't see inside your theme, so the widget step waits for the widget itself to phone home — visiting your product page after adding the block is enough. You can tick a step manually with the circle on the left, and dismiss the whole guide from its three-dot menu (or with **Dismiss Guide** once every step is done). > **Good to know** > Dismissing the setup guide is permanent — there's no way to bring it back. > Leave it until you've genuinely finished. *** ## The order to do things in Riserva is built in layers, and each one needs the one below it: 1. **Locations** — mirrored from Shopify automatically. Set each one's timezone. 2. **Venues** — the bookable rooms inside a location: a tasting bar, a restaurant, a tour meeting point. 3. **Tables** — the real capacity inside a venue. 4. **Policies** — what happens when a guest cancels. 5. **Experiences** — what guests actually book, with a schedule and a price. 6. **The widget** — the booking surface on your website. Start with [Locations and venues](/getting-started/locations-and-venues). *** ## What else is on Home Once you're running, Home is your morning glance: * **Today by location** — a tile per property, showing today's reservations broken down by status. * **This week** — reservations, covers and booked value for the next seven days by visit date, compared with the same weekdays over the past four weeks, with a covers-per-day chart and an **Open Host** button. It appears once you have reservations ahead or some history. * **Next 10 upcoming reservations** — guest, when, party, venue, status, with a Member badge where it applies. Click a row to open the reservation. * **Quick actions** — **Book reservation**, for a phone call. * **Payments queue** — for experiences that charge a saved card later: how many charges are due, charging, or failed, with **Run due charges** to collect now instead of waiting for the hourly run. * **Recent activity** — the last few things that happened across your shop: reservations made and changed, payments, waitlist movement, guest emails. **View all activity** opens the full feed, newest first, with each entry linking to its reservation. *** ## Getting around The navigation has six items: | | | | - | - | | **Home** | Setup, today's shape, upcoming reservations, recent activity | | **Host** | The service-day desk: arrivals, check-in, seating, the waitlist — as a List, a Timeline or a Map | | **Reservations** | The full list, plus every reservation's own page | | **Reports** | Covers, revenue, no-shows, attendance, peak hours, utilization — and what's booked ahead | | **Experiences** | What you sell — recurring experiences and one-off events | | **Settings** | Venues & floor maps · Policies · Reservations · Memberships · Emails · Integrations · Regional formats · Reservation IDs · Plan | *** ## Set your date and time formats early **Settings → Regional formats** controls how times and dates read everywhere — in the admin, in the booking widget, and in guest emails. * **Time format** — 12-hour (2:30 PM) or 24-hour (14:30) * **Numeric dates** — MM/DD/YYYY, DD/MM/YYYY or YYYY-MM-DD Written dates always spell the month ("Sat, Jul 25"). Changing these changes display only — nothing about your stored reservations moves. *** **What things mean on this screen:** [What things mean: Home, the reservations list and Book reservation](/reference/home-list-and-booking) ## Related * [Set up locations and venues](/getting-started/locations-and-venues) * [Create your first experience](/getting-started/create-your-first-experience) * [Add the booking widget to your theme](/getting-started/add-the-booking-widget) This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.