Tableify Smart Site: a link in bio page for restaurants

Tap one: what the guest sees first

A guest who taps the link in your Instagram profile is not browsing. They saw a post, or heard your name from a friend or an assistant, and they want one thing: the menu, a table, the room for a birthday, or whether you are open right now. The Smart Site is built for that moment. It is one page at your own domain followed by /bio, and it opens quickly inside the small browser Instagram and other social apps use.

The top answers the first questions before the guest scrolls: your logo or name, a one-line tagline of up to 80 characters, today's hours, your address and your phone number. Tapping the address opens directions and tapping the number dials it. A thin banner above can carry an announcement, like a holiday closing, or today's hours. Under it sit up to four round quick buttons, chosen from directions, call, text, hours, share and a link to leave a Google review.

Tap two: buttons that open the real thing

Below the top come the buttons that do the work. Each one is a link, a room, an event, the menu, online ordering, your inquiry form, booking or a section heading. A button can be a simple row, one large featured row per page, or a photo tile, and a section can stack its buttons or let guests swipe through them.

None of those buttons hold a copy of anything. A room button points at the room in your account, so the page it opens shows the room's photos and details as they are today. Change the room's capacity, add a dish to the menu or move Saturday's event, and the Smart Site follows with no second edit. Every page a button opens wears the same look as the bio page, with a bar at the top that leads back and keeps the quick buttons for directions, calls and hours in reach.

The last step happens in place. The inquiry button opens your own form, so a party request arrives with its date and headcount through your private event desk. Booking opens right on the page when Tableify runs your reservations, or sends the guest to the booking service you already use. Order online links to the ordering you have today.

Built from your account in seconds

Nobody writes a Smart Site from a blank page. It is set up from what is already in your Tableify account: your rooms, your upcoming events, your menus, your inquiry form and your locations become buttons in a sensible order, with the menu near the top. Publish, and the page is live within seconds.

From there you arrange it the way your guests use it. Drag buttons into a new order, add a link to anything else, and give each button its own photo, its own short line underneath and its own size. Suggestions from the rest of your account wait in a tray, ready to drag in when you open a new room or announce a new event.

• Seasonal buttons take a show-from and a hide-after date, so a holiday menu appears on December 1 and leaves after New Year's on its own.
• Past events drop off the page once they are over, so the page never advertises last month.
• A button that points at a room, an event or the menu changes when that room, event or menu changes.

Every tap, sent to your ad accounts

Here is what a plain list of links cannot do. Every tap on a button, a quick action, a social icon, the address or the phone number is sent as an event to the Facebook, Instagram and Google accounts set up on your site. Each one says which button it was and where the visit began: a table code, a social app, another site or a typed address. A tap on call or text counts as a contact on Facebook.

That changes what your ads can learn. A campaign that sends people to your bio link is no longer judged on clicks alone; the ad platform sees who went on to open the menu or tap to book, and can look for more people like them. You read those results where you already read your ads. If your restaurant switches on the cookie notice, tracking on the page waits for the visitor's choice wherever that is the rule. The notice is off unless you turn it on.

Kept out of search on purpose

The Smart Site is built for guests who already found you, so every Smart Site page is kept out of search results by design. That keeps it from competing with your real website for your own name, and search engines are pointed to the matching page on your website when you have one. When a guest searches for a party room near the river, the page that should answer is the room's page on your site, not your bio link.

Being named in a search or an assistant's answer is the job of your website and your Google listing: a page for each room, menus written as text, the same hours everywhere. The guide to showing up in AI answers covers what assistants read, and the Google Maps guide covers the listing. The Smart Site takes over one step later, when the guest has your name and opens your profile.

Your own address and your own look

The page sits on your domain, at /bio, so the link in your profile builds your name and nobody else's. There are four styles to start from, Standard, Letterpress, Editorial and Menu Card, then your own colors for the background, buttons and text, and a choice of which logo to show. The editor's preview is sized like the browser inside Instagram, so what you see is what a guest sees after tapping the link.

The footer carries your social icons, chosen from Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, X, YouTube, Google and Yelp, along with your address, your privacy and terms pages and a small Powered by Tableify line. Restaurants on the full Tableify Website get a Smart Site too, because a bio link and a homepage do different jobs.

Table codes can open it too

A QR code can point at any page you choose, and the Smart Site makes a good one for a front window or a bar top: the menu first, then the room for next month's party and this week's event. When a guest arrives from a code, the visit is marked as coming from a QR code, so those taps read apart from the ones that came from Instagram.

A scan is a scan, not a person: a table of six with one phone out counts once, and a regular who never scans is not counted. Once your Facebook and Instagram ad account is set up for it, each scan is reported there as an in-store visit, and the ad platform decides which campaign earns it. The walk-in tracking page covers the codes in full.

Smart Site or the full Tableify Website

Choose the Smart Site when guests reach you through social media, ads and the front door, and you want every one of those taps measured now. It is the entry plan, and Nora, the AI event manager, can be added to it any time to answer party questions for you.

Choose the full Tableify Website when you also want to be found: private event pages, local search pages (the full plans start with 50) and a site built for the searches planners make. The Smart Site comes with it, and so does Nora. Skip the Smart Site only if you would rather your profile link kept sending guests to a page they have to pinch and zoom. The checklist on whether Tableify fits walks through the choice.