> ## 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.

# Riserva help center

Riserva is reservations for wineries, built into Shopify. Guests book tastings,
dinners, tours and events on your own website; every online reservation is a
Shopify order, paid through your payment providers, against your customer
records.

New here? Work through **Getting started** in order — each step builds on the one
before it.

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## Getting started

Everything you need to take your first reservation.

* **[Install Riserva and work through setup](/getting-started/install-riserva)** —
  what the app asks for, the setup guide on Home, and the order to build
  things in.
* **[Uninstalling Riserva and your data](/getting-started/uninstalling-and-your-data)** *(New)* —
  what stays in Shopify, what Riserva deletes and when, and reinstalling.
* **[Plans and billing](/getting-started/plans-and-billing)** *(New)* — one
  flat plan billed through Shopify, the 14-day trial, and no per-reservation
  fees, ever; what happens when a plan ends, and Renew now.
* **[Set up locations and venues](/getting-started/locations-and-venues)** —
  how your Shopify locations sync, setting each one's timezone, and creating the
  bookable rooms inside them.
* **[Tables and the floor map](/getting-started/tables-and-floor-map)** —
  adding tables, combinable pairs and communal seating, and drawing your room in
  the visual editor.
* **[Set your cancellation policy](/getting-started/cancellation-policies)** —
  the refund schedule, all-sales-final, and what guests may change on their own.
* **[Create your first experience](/getting-started/create-your-first-experience)** —
  the guided flow: pick a template, set the schedule, set capacity and price.
* **[Publish an experience](/getting-started/publish-an-experience)** —
  Draft, Active and Archived, and what publishing does to your Shopify product.
* **[Make a test reservation, end to end](/getting-started/make-a-test-reservation)** *(New)* —
  book as a guest, find the order in Shopify, see it in Riserva, check the
  party in, then cancel a second one and watch the refund.
* **[Add the booking widget to your theme](/getting-started/add-the-booking-widget)** —
  the two theme blocks, every setting, and how the widget matches your theme.

## Core concepts

The ideas behind the settings — worth reading once.

* **[Experiences and one-off events](/core-concepts/experiences-and-events)** —
  one kind of thing, two kinds of schedule; duration and turn time; the blackout
  gap.
* **[Capacity strategies explained](/core-concepts/capacity-strategies)** —
  manual capacity, venue floor map, whole-venue buyout (flat priced) and
  open, in merchant language.
* **[Party size, cutoffs and who can book](/core-concepts/party-size-and-visibility)** —
  party limits, the online booking cutoff, members-only, and what staff override.
* **[Add-ons](/core-concepts/add-ons)** *(New)* — optional extras sold with a
  reservation: creating or linking a product, variants, badges, and how they
  are charged and refunded.
* **[Payment policies and money states](/core-concepts/payment-policies)** —
  when guests pay, what "Payment due" means, and how to collect it.

## Daily operations

The screens your team lives in.

* **[Running service with the Host view](/daily-operations/host-view)** —
  arrivals, check-in, seating, party adjustments and the walk-in waitlist.
* **[Reservations in Shopify POS](/daily-operations/pos)** — the
  Reservations, Book reservation and Bill credits tiles: today's book at the
  register, check-ins, walk-in bookings paid through the sale.
* **[The reservations list](/daily-operations/reservations-list)** — views,
  search, filters and columns, including the Needs attention triage view.
* **[A reservation's page](/daily-operations/reservation-page)** — the guest
  card, member badges, payment, table assignment and the timeline.
* **[Booking a reservation for a guest](/daily-operations/book-a-reservation)** —
  availability search and taking a reservation by phone or at the door.
* **[Edit a reservation](/daily-operations/edit-a-reservation)** — staging
  party, date, time and experience together, and what happens to the money.
* **[Cancellations and refunds](/daily-operations/cancellations-and-refunds)** —
  what a policy refunds, what else cancelling does, and when to check the
  timeline.
* **[Waitlist, early arrivals, ending visits and no-shows](/daily-operations/waitlist-early-arrivals-and-ending-visits)** *(New)* —
  the four settings under Settings → Reservations, what your team sees
  because of them, and Undo no-show.

## Guest experience

What your guests actually see and receive.

* **[What guests see, end to end](/guest-experience/what-guests-see)** —
  product page to confirmation, plus what guests can't do.
* **[Ask guests your own questions](/guest-experience/intake-questions)** —
  intake questions, their types, and where the answers appear.
* **[Guests managing their own reservations](/guest-experience/guest-self-serve)** —
  the link in every email, self-service cancel and reschedule, and when they
  are closed.
* **[Customer emails](/guest-experience/customer-emails)** — every email
  Riserva sends, when it fires, and what deliberately isn't built.
* **[Email settings](/guest-experience/email-settings)** *(New)* — choose
  which emails send, rewrite their opening and closing lines, brand them with
  your colours and images, and send yourself a test.

## Memberships

* **[Members and member benefits](/memberships/member-benefits)** — how
  Riserva recognises club members from their Shopify tags, the member badge,
  and what non-members see on a members-only experience.

## Integrations

* **[Klaviyo](/integrations/klaviyo)** *(New)* — reservation events for
  your flows and segments: paste the public key, events start flowing.
* **[Shopify Flow](/integrations/shopify-flow)** *(New)* — four reservation
  triggers and an add-a-note action, ready in Flow's editor.
* **[Ask Sidekick about your reservations](/integrations/sidekick)** *(New)* —
  ask Shopify's admin assistant who is arriving, who owes money, what's open
  and how last week went; read-only, and no guest emails or phones.

## Reports

* **[What each report answers](/reports/what-each-report-answers)** — covers,
  revenue, no-shows, attendance, peak hours, experience utilisation and
  waitlist conversion.

## Reference: what things mean

Every label, badge, number and message, as short questions and answers.

* **[What things mean, screen by screen](/reference)** *(New)* — Host,
  a reservation's page, Home and the list, Experiences, Settings, Reports,
  POS, and what guests see.
* **[Statuses: what every badge means](/reference/statuses)** *(New)* —
  reservation, payment, table, experience and channel labels in one place.
* **[Glossary](/reference/glossary)** *(New)* — the words Riserva uses, A to Z.

## Troubleshooting

* **[Troubleshooting and FAQ](/troubleshooting/troubleshooting)** — the widget
  not showing, guests unable to book, a missing reservation, emails not
  arriving, an expired reservation stopped at checkout, and why some things
  can't be deleted.

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## A quick vocabulary

| Term | Meaning |
| - | - |
| **Location** | A property. Comes from Shopify; Riserva mirrors it. |
| **Venue** | A bookable space inside a location — tasting bar, restaurant, cave. |
| **Table** | Real capacity inside a venue. Can be communal, or combinable with another. |
| **Experience** | What a guest reserves. Carries schedule, capacity, price and rules. |
| **Event** | An experience whose schedule is pinned to one date. |
| **Reservation** | One party, one experience, one time. |
| **Add-on** | An optional extra sold alongside a reservation. |
| **Capacity strategy** | What a reservation uses up: a seat, a table, or the whole venue. |
| **Payment due** | Money is owed and hasn't been collected. |


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