Experience setup
Creating your Experiences
Create bookable reservation experiences, choose when to split offerings, set visibility and payment rules, and start from practical restaurant or winery templates.
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Foundational guides for deciding what should become an Experience and how it differs from Events.
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Create your first CoverCount Experience
Set up your first bookable CoverCount Experience with a clear guest promise, duration, schedule, table assignments, visibility, and launch checks.
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Make your CoverCount Experience clear to guests
Write clear Experience names, descriptions, expectation-setting details, and photos so guests understand what they are booking.
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When to create a separate CoverCount Experience
Decide when a service, room, tasting, or reservation type should be its own CoverCount Experience instead of a schedule or table rule.
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CoverCount Experiences vs Events
Learn when to use a CoverCount Experience for reservations and when to use Events for ticketed, tenant-marketed occurrences.
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Use public, hidden, and private-link Experiences
Choose whether a CoverCount Experience should be hidden, publicly listed, or bookable only by direct link.
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Configure the details
Settings that shape availability, guest commitments, payment rules, and launch readiness.
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Choose duration and party-size rules for Experiences
Set practical Experience durations, party-size limits, minimum notice, and pacing rules so CoverCount can show accurate availability.
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Assign tables and hours to a CoverCount Experience
Assign eligible tables, rooms, and schedule hours to an Experience so CoverCount can show real public availability.
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Use pre-visit questions on CoverCount Experiences
Ask useful pre-visit questions for allergies, occasions, seating preferences, membership context, and planning details without slowing down ordinary booking.
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Club member access for winery tastings and events
Use club-member data or guest tags to offer member-only tastings, member event pricing, and host-visible member context without promo codes or separate guest logins.
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Use deposits and card holds on Experiences
Decide when a CoverCount Experience should collect no payment, charge a deposit, or authorize a credit-card hold.
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Test an Experience before publishing
Use this checklist to test a CoverCount Experience before making it public or sharing a private booking link.
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Recommended templates
Starting points for common restaurant, winery, and tasting-room booking menus.
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Recommended Experiences for restaurants
Practical starting points for restaurant Experiences, including lunch, dinner, brunch, bar seating, tasting menu, chef's counter, patio, and large-party workflows.
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Recommended Experiences for wineries
Practical starting points for winery Experiences, including standard tastings, reserve tastings, vineyard tours, barrel tastings, wine club visits, release weekends, and private tastings.
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Recommended Experiences for tasting rooms
Practical starting points for tasting-room Experiences across wineries, breweries, cideries, distilleries, meaderies, and similar hospitality venues.
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