Introduction

Vertical Markets, Food & Beverage

VikRestaurants is an extension born to build a complete reservations system for your Joomla website.
Designed for any kind of restaurant, from the most simple to the most classy one.
Structured in two main sections: Restaurant and Take-Away.
Create your Menus with the food that can be ordered online with Delivery or Pickup services.
Draw your Rooms/Areas, compose and customize your Menus and draw the Tables.
Accept reservations online and guarantee your clients and yourself an accurate management of your tables at any working shift.
The program is fully customizable to let your clients pick the Room/Area or the Table. It is also possible to hide the possibility of choosing a Room/Area or the Table.
Deposits can be different in some days of the year and can be collected via credit card or other payment methods.
Here is a list of the most important features:


VikRestaurants is an extension born to build a complete reservations system for your Joomla website.
Designed for any kind of restaurant, from the most simple to the most classy one.
Structured in two main sections: Restaurant and Take-Away.
Create your Menus with the food that can be ordered online with Delivery or Pickup services.
Draw your Rooms/Areas, compose and customize your Menus and draw the Tables.
Accept reservations online and guarantee your clients and yourself an accurate management of your tables at any working shift.
The program is fully customizable to let your clients pick the Room/Area or the Table. It is also possible to hide the possibility of choosing a Room/Area or the Table.
Deposits can be different in some days of the year and can be collected via credit card or other payment methods.
Here is a list of the most important features:

  • Take-Away Menus Management with Products Variations (i.e. Pizza Pepperoni - Extra Large)
  • Take-Away toppings on your food to pick additional ingredients
  • Take-Away Deals (i.e. with 1 Pizza you get a free Can of Coke)
  • Take-Away Areas to restrict the addresses allowed for delivery
  • Take-Away Stocks to handle the remaining quantity of your products
  • Front-end TakeAway Cart Module
  • Delivery or Pickup for Take-Away Reservations with the possibility of adding additional costs
  • ICS Export function for Calendars like Outlook, iCalendar and Google Calendar
  • CSV Export function for spreadsheet applications like OpenOffice and Excel
  • Live Map management for your operators
  • Change the code/status of a reservation from a list of pre-installed options
  • Allow the customers to reserve a table in 30 seconds through the Quick Reservations module
  • Rooms/Areas Management
  • Tables creation with Drag & Drop
  • Shared Tables (tables where more people can seat together)
  • Accurate Reservations Management from the Administrator section
  • Working Shifts: define if your restaurant is open in some shifts (brunch, lunch, dinner etc..) or continuously (from 12pm to 12am for example)
  • Publish your interactive menus with Sections and Products
  • Deposit per Reservation or per Person
  • Extendable Payment Framework: let the users pay for the deposit with any kind of payment gateway
  • PayPal, Offline Credit Card, Pay on Arrival are the pre-installed payment methods
  • SMS notifications for customers and/or administrators
  • Special Days: show different Menus for some special occasions and apply different values for the Deposit
  • Coupons: give your clients discounts on their reservations
  • Custom Fields: create by yourself the information to be provided before saving the Reservations
  • Reservations Type: choose whether your clients should be able to select a Room/Area, a Table or nothing (in case you want to give them the table that you want)
  • Customizable Date and Time Format (mm/dd/yyyy, dd/mm/yyyy, yyyy/mm/dd - 12 or 24 hours)
  • Closing Days: define your closing days with a lot of options (every Monday, on Chirstmas, the second week of July, the whole month of August etc..)
  • Custom Currency
  • Customizable eMail for the clients through a template file
  • Statistics: a detailed page in the administrator with the total earning of your restaurant and your take-away
Functionality
Has served every single purpose that I've thrown at it.
Ease of use
Despite it's many settings and options, the layouts of each make finding those settings and putting them to wor a breeze.
Support
There is not enough space here for the praise that the E4J support team deserves. Their answers are timely and concise.
Documentation
The documentation leaves a tiny bit to be desired. Still haven't been able to clarify what the 'is nominative' setting on custom fields does
Value for money
This is a super great value for the money.
I used this to: Managing the online ordering system of a small health-food restaurant.
Functionality
Tons of functionality from a basic booking system to online table management and ordering with SMS and email confirmation.
Ease of use
Despite the huge amount of options this extension is very easy to use. The instructions are clear and it's easy to understand the workflow.
Support
Support is excellent. Difficult questions are answered quickly and helpfully by the author. Modifications to the extension are assisted also
Documentation
Excellent documentation both in the extension and online
Value for money
This was replacing a monthly paid system and as such represents good value for money, especially when you consider the range of functions.
I used this to: Replaced a paid system for a busy pub/restaurant. Integrates easily in to their workflow and provides greater flexibility than the previous system. A good investment.
Functionality
There are a lot of options here. You can have basic products, or multiple options and topping variations that can affect prices.
Ease of use
Very straight forward for the most part. What questions I had were answered with the video tutorials and then it all made sense.
Support
Support is fast, and any issue or question I had was quickly answered.
Documentation
Good documentation and video tutorials
Value for money
Good value because it works.
I used this to: for a client site. they wanted the ability to have online reservations and paid online ordering. with the optional stripe.com integration this is a powerhouse of a program!
Functionality
VERY Powerful, many scheduling features, and seamless PayPal integration
Ease of use
Set this up for my wifes Bagel Business, as a to go portal, and it took 20 mins start to finish to implement.
Support
Requested 3 customized changes in the code, Dev Team responded in under an hour in one case. Each time giving exact detail.
Documentation
Very accurate and easy to follow implementation instructions.
Value for money
I would gladly pay for this value again on future sites.
I used this to: We used VIK restaurants as a to go portal for our Bagel Business. Very functional and easy to use. Well worth the money. Automated emails are fantastic and easy to customize. Support is the best I have seen on any extension I have used in the last 5 years.
Functionality
Module très complet, s'adapte à toutes les situations. Utile à la fois comme interface unique de gestion des réservations ou en complément.
Ease of use
Pas difficile à prendre en main grâce à la doc et aux tutos vidéo.
Support
Excellent support, rapide et efficace. Bien au dessus de la majorité des supports d'extensions Joomla !
Documentation
Value for money
Au top
I used this to: Installé chez plusieurs clients restaurateurs.
Nous avons eu des difficultés avec la mise en place des envois automatisés de SMS aux clients. Le support effectué par Matteo a été d'une grande aide.
Je recommande vivement.
Functionality
It is by far one of the best extensions I have tried, I use it for my Catering Business and it's working great
Ease of use
Very easy to configure and make it work
Support
Best Support Ever, they have responded all my requests in matter of hours, even helped me with modifications to the code.
Documentation
Value for money
Worth what you spend on it and more
I used this to: Catering Business, Take away orders and online event booking.

Powerful Component



Posted on 21 October 2014
Great component - provides all necessary functionality for restaurant management. Support is fast and helpful - kudos!

It's Worth the Money



Posted on 07 July 2014
Very good extension and excellent support. Waiting for the next versions.
A full evaluation of the extension: 5 stars-

Using the extension for online reservations for a customer's website - he has 3 restaurants on one Joomla install. It works great - I needed some slight modifications and the developer helped out. Trustworthy, fast, friendlly and competent.



Courtesy and Honesty: 5 stars



Pros & Cons of the extension and its performance:



It does what it says! So far only using ot for reservations, it works as advertised.



Level of support received: 5 star support - he even customized a module for free to make it fit our needs. Thanks!!



Ease of usage and deployment: easy



Purpose of using the extension-

i use it for a restaurants site.



Level of difficulty: easy



Your experience level with Joomla and web technologies - very experienced, I made the world's first Mambo/Joomla template club

Great Staff e4j



Posted on 03 April 2014
This component is great, i use it only for take away solution, i used to make some change to make it find with our activity and that why the support e4j is the best i ever find since i work on joomla.

Thanks for all.
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Vik Restaurants

Version:
1.10
Developer:
e4j Extensions for Joomla
Last updated:
Feb 10 2025
4 months ago
Date added:
Nov 19 2014
License:
GPLv2 or later
Type:
Paid download
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Compatibility:
J3 J4 J5
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