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Get on Google

Most diners find a restaurant on Google or Maps before they find its website. Your booking link can go on your Google Business Profile today; you do not need us, or Google, to do anything first.

Add the link

1. Open the menu (the cog) and choose Get on Google. Press Copy next to your booking link.
2. On the same device, search your restaurant's name on Google while signed in to the Google account that manages it. Your profile appears with Edit profile buttons.
3. Choose Edit profile, then Booking links (some profiles call it Reservations). Paste your link and save.

Within a day or two, Reserve or Book a table appears on your listing, and tapping it opens your booking page.

Fill in the rest of the screen

The Get on Google screen also asks for your name as Maps shows it, your Place ID, address, category and phone number. This is not for the link above — it is for when Thezi can take bookings inside Google's own reserve button, without a diner leaving Google. That needs Google to accept us as a partner, which they do once we can show them enough venues. Filling it in now means yours matches first time when that happens.

Letting Google list your booking page

Lower down the same screen is Let people find this page on Google. It is on to start with, and what it does is let search engines list your booking page the way they list any other page.

Leave it on and somebody searching your restaurant by name can land straight on your own booking page, with your own form on it, instead of a listings site that would charge you for the same diner. The page carries your name and your town, and we tell Google where to find it.

Turning it off changes nothing about who can open the link — your booking page is public either way, and anyone you send it to still gets straight in. It only asks search engines not to list it. Turn it off if you would rather people came through your own website and nowhere else.

Either way it is not instant: a new page usually takes a week or two to appear in search results, and turning listing off takes a while to drop out again.

Finding your Place ID

Search for "Place ID finder" — it is a page Google runs. Type your restaurant's name, pick it from the list, and copy the code beginning ChIJ.

Still stuck? hello@thezi.app reaches a person, usually the same day.