How do I customise the dashboard display and quick actions?

Set the staff clock format, timeline status colours, click shortcuts and booking-history colours.

You customise how the dashboard looks and behaves in Settings → Venue → Display and layout. Only Owners and Admins see this page. (Looking for light/dark mode? That's personal, not venue-wide — it lives in Account → Personal details.)

Staff dashboard clock

In the Clock format section, set Staff dashboard clock to 12 hour or 24 hour (default 12 hour). This controls times across all staff dashboard pages. The clock customers see on public pages is set separately in Settings → Branding.

Looking for the wall-mounted screens? Every wall-screen option lives in Settings → Venue → Wall screens, and a note on this page points you there. See How do I set up wall screens?.

Timeline and floor plan

In the Timeline and floor plan section:

• Show completed bookings on timeline (on by default) keeps cleared bookings visible as faded blocks so staff can see where tables were previously occupied. Switched off, it hides no-shows too.
• Colour bookings by status tints each timeline and floor-plan block by its status — seated green, running late amber. Turned off, every block shows as a calm neutral block. The defaults are calm translucent tints throughout.

Whether a cleared booking shrinks to the time actually sat — Auto-trim duration on clear (on by default) — is part of how long a booking lasts, so it is set on Settings → Bookings → How long a booking lasts → The gap after a booking; a row here points there.

Status colours

In the Status colours section, two one-tap presets sit at the top — Restore default colours (each status's colour at the calmer strength) and Bold palette (the original full-strength set). Then, under Choose your own colours, set a colour, a border (Solid border, Dashed outline or Dotted outline) and a fill (Heavy fill (solid) or Light fill (clear)) for each status: Upcoming booking, Seated, Table ready (pending), N+ mins late (your own late time, 15 minutes unless you changed it), Arrived (waiting to be seated) and Table cleared. Four extra waitlist rows appear while the waitlist is switched on. Pick from the palette or enter your own hex colour; Default restores a row. These rows only apply while Colour bookings by status is on.

Mouse shortcuts

In the Mouse shortcuts section, set what happens when staff double-click or triple-click a booking bar on the timeline. The section is plan-gated: Available on Complete plan.

Each of the nine bar types (Upcoming bookings, Seated bookings, Table ready, Late bookings, Arrived (waiting to be seated), and four Waitlist states) has a Double click and Triple click dropdown. Only actions that make sense for that state are offered — for example Mark as seated, Mark as cleared, Extend by 15 mins, Mark as no-show, Cancel booking or View / edit booking. Everything defaults to No action.

Shortcuts work with a mouse only — on touch devices (iPads and phones) a single tap always opens the booking. The waitlist rows also need the waitlist switched on (Turn on the waitlist, on Settings → Bookings → How people book).

Booking history colours

In the Booking history colours card, click a swatch to change the accent colour for each of the ten actions shown in a booking's history timeline (Created, Walk-in, Updated, Seated, Arrived, Cleared, Deleted, Settings, Staff added, Staff removed). Reset to default appears once you've changed one.

Click Save changes when you're done. An invalid hex colour is dropped with a warning; everything else still saves.

Related: How do I use the timeline? · How do I set up wall screens? · How do I add my logo, colours and images?