In-app search

Find any guest or booking in one keystroke

A busy floor does not wait for menus and tabs. Hit Cmd or Ctrl plus F anywhere in Resos and the search bar opens dead centre. Type a name, email, or phone number and every matching guest and booking surfaces instantly, with previous visits, comments, and conversations one click away. No digging through lists while a guest waits on the line.

Resos in-app search bar pulling up a guest profile with booking history
How it works

Information your team can grab in seconds

Search bar in Resos surfacing guests and bookings side by side
One search bar

Guests and bookings in the same results

Search by name, email, or phone number and the bar pulls back every matching guest profile and reservation at the same time. Hosts answering the phone find the right booking before the third ring, without bouncing between tabs.

Guest profile showing previous visits, comments, and conversation history
Full guest context

Previous visits and notes on tap

Jump from a search result straight into the guest profile to see past bookings, internal comments, dietary notes, and earlier conversations on specific reservations. Your team walks into every interaction already knowing the guest.

Keyboard shortcut opening the Resos search bar mid screen
Keyboard shortcut

Cmd plus F from anywhere

The shortcut works on every page in Resos, so the team never has to leave the floor plan or list view to look something up. One key combination, full overview, no clicks wasted during service.

User permissions screen controlling which staff can see guest data in search
Permission-aware

Results follow your user rights

Search access respects the rights you set under Settings and Users. Staff without guest-data rights see bookings but not guest profiles, so sensitive information stays with the people who need it while the search tool stays useful for everyone.

How to get started

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How can the in-app search function help you?

  • Get a quick overview of all your guests and bookings
  • Easily look up details like a guest’s previous bookings and conversations
  • Quickly make changes to existing bookings and save time
  • Use names, emails, and phone numbers to locate the information you need

Resos in app search function

Easily find the information you need about bookings and guests

Managing a busy restaurant can be a stressful job. You need to juggle walk-ins and guests arriving for their reservations, while also answering the phone to take new bookings. So, wouldn’t it be nice if all the information you need was already available? With Resos’ in-app search, it is.

The in-app search is one of the features that helps you effectively manage bookings. You can quickly search for the information you need, so you and your team can seat guests faster.

And a quick tip: Try pressing Ctrl + F or Cmd + F to open the search tool even faster. The search bar appears right in the middle of the screen.

Resos in-app search results

Easily update existing bookings and save time

The information you reach for most often is usually guests and bookings. The search bar surfaces both - search by name, email, or phone number and the results come back instantly.

When you search, you’ll see all the guests and bookings that match. From there you can jump straight to a guest profile to see their details, any previously added comments, previous bookings, previous conversations on specific bookings, and more.

Read also about our automatic guest profiles feature.

This makes it both easier and faster to find a guest and create or update their booking. Useful when a guest calls to change a booking, or asks about an email they got - just search for the number they’re calling from and you have everything you need on screen.

Overview of bookings and guest profiles shown by the in-app search function

You decide who should be able to access the search information

Whether you want everyone at your restaurant to access everything or just a selected few to have the full overview, search access follows your user rights. Everyone has the search tool available; what they see in the results depends on the rights you’ve granted. If an employee doesn’t have guest-data rights, the system won’t show guests in their search results. You can adjust this anytime under Settings → Users.

Do you have any questions about this feature? Do not hesitate to contact us at hi@resos.com.

Would you like to learn more about the many cool Resos features? Check out the cool visual restaurant table planner feature here.

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