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Website Settings

Customize your restaurant's website — hero section, photos, gallery, custom sections, reviews, About page, brand colors and fonts, social links, analytics, and more — all from one screen.

What Website Settings Does

Your Dinevate website is already designed and optimized for you out of the box, but you can customize a lot of it from the Website Settings page in your Merchant Dashboard. This is where you change:

  • The big hero photo and headline customers see first
  • Your "About" story, custom sections, and gallery
  • Reviews shown on the homepage
  • Your social media links (Facebook, Instagram, etc.)
  • Brand colors, fonts, and logo
  • A YouTube video section
  • Tracking codes (Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel)
  • Translation languages
  • Whether the menu shows your original prices or the prices customers see when ordering

Heads up: Dinevate optimizes your website for search engines (SEO) automatically. The defaults are designed to rank well on Google. You can change things here — but only change what you understand. If you are unsure, leave the default and email us.

Getting to Website Settings

  1. Open a browser and go to dinevate.com
  2. Log in with your restaurant account.
  3. Go to your Merchant Dashboard.
  4. Click "Website Settings" in the left sidebar.

You will see your domains at the top (covered in the Manage Domain Records guide), then the full Website Settings form below.

Multi-location restaurants: If you manage more than one location, website settings live on your main location (the apex). Any change you save automatically applies to all your other locations. If you open Website Settings on a secondary location, the page will direct you back to the main one.

If you are on a multi-location apex, you will see a yellow notice at the top reminding you that your changes will roll out to every location.

At the top-right of the form, the "Discard Changes" button resets every field on the page back to what was last saved. Use it if you want to start over.

Custom Pages

The first card on the page is "Custom Pages". This is a shortcut to a separate area where you can build extra pages on your website — your story, daily specials, private dining, holiday hours, anything you want.

Click "Manage Pages" to open the Custom Pages editor. This guide does not cover Custom Pages in depth — they have their own dedicated workflow.

Translation Settings

Enable Translation

Turning on "Enable Translation" adds a Google Translate button to your website. Visitors can pick their language and see the entire site translated.

When you enable it, all supported languages are turned on by default. You can then uncheck the languages you do not want under "Available Languages". If you uncheck them all, every language stays available — at least one needs to stay checked to limit the list.

Why turn this on? If your area has lots of Spanish-, French-, or Mandarin-speaking customers, this opens your menu and ordering to them with zero extra work.

Show Regular Menu Prices

If you are on a Dinevate plan that adds a small online service fee on top of your menu prices, you will see a toggle: "Show your original menu prices on your Menu page".

  • ON — The Menu page on your website displays your prices exactly the way you typed them. The online service fee is added later, only when a customer actually places an order.
  • OFF (default) — The Menu page shows the price including the service fee.

Use this if you want your menu page to look identical to your printed menu. The fee is still collected at checkout either way.

Section: Hero

The Hero is the big section visitors see at the top of your homepage. Get this right — first impressions matter.

  • Hero First Title (H1) — The main heading. If you leave this blank, Dinevate generates an SEO-friendly title like "Best Mexican Food in Coral Springs, Florida" based on your cuisine and location. Custom titles override the auto title.
  • Hero Restaurant Name — Optional override for your restaurant's display name in the hero. Leave blank to use your real restaurant name.
  • Restaurant Header Text — A short tagline (under the title). Up to 100 characters. Examples: "Big Bites, big flavors, big cravings — All at Dinevate's Pizza."
  • OpenGraph Title — The headline that shows up when someone shares your website link on Facebook, iMessage, WhatsApp, etc. If empty, Dinevate uses your H1 / SEO title.
  • OpenGraph Description — The description below the title in social-media link previews. Up to 300 characters. Make it inviting — this is your free social-media advertisement.
  • Hero Background — Upload a high-quality, wide image (the photo behind the title). Bright, on-brand food photos work best. Avoid dark or busy backgrounds because the headline text sits on top.

Photo tip: Your hero photo is the single biggest visual on your site. Use a real photo of your food or dining room — not a stock image. Phone photos in good lighting work great.

Video Section

After the hero, you can add a YouTube video that auto-plays (muted) on your homepage.

  • Enable Video Section — Toggle ON to show the section.
  • YouTube Video URL — Paste the link from YouTube. Both https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxxxx and https://youtu.be/xxxxx work.
  • Header (optional) — A title above the video. Up to 100 characters. Example: "Watch Our Story".
  • Description (optional) — A short paragraph under the header. Up to 300 characters.

Great uses: a kitchen tour, a chef interview, a peek behind the scenes during a busy dinner, or a quick "thank you" message from the owner.

Main Sections (Custom Sections)

This is where you add custom homepage sections — three-to-five mini-features that tell your story below the hero. If you add at least 3 sections, Dinevate uses your custom ones. If you leave it empty, the default sections show.

You can have up to 5 main sections. For each one:

  • Section Title — Short headline.
  • Section Content — A paragraph describing it. Up to 950 characters.
  • Section Image — A photo for the section.
  • Button Text (optional) — Text on a call-to-action button. Examples: "Order Now", "Learn More", "View Menu".
  • Button Link (optional) — Where the button goes. Use /online-order, /menu, /about, or any full URL like https://....

Click "Add New" to add a section, the X button (top-right of each section) to remove one.

Be specific. "We use fresh ingredients" is forgettable. "Family-recipe sauces simmered for 6 hours" is memorable. Tell visitors what makes you you.

Section: What People Say (Reviews)

Show up to 3 customer reviews on your homepage. All reviews display with 5 stars automatically.

For each review:

  • Name — Customer name (or initials, like "John D.")
  • Person Image — A photo to go with the review (optional but adds credibility).
  • Review — What they said. Up to 500 characters.

Use real customer feedback you have collected from Google reviews, emails, comment cards, or DMs. With permission, paste their actual words — authentic reviews convert better than polished marketing copy.

Click "Add New" to add a review, the X to remove one.

If you leave this empty, the default sample reviews are shown.

Section: What Makes Us Special

This section lets you add up to 5 short articles highlighting what makes your restaurant unique:

  • Article Title — Short headline.
  • Article Content — A paragraph about that feature.

Examples: "Our Secret Sauce", "Slow-Roasted Daily", "Family-Owned Since 1987", "Locally-Sourced Produce", "Dough Made Fresh Every Morning".

Click "Add New" to add one, the X to remove one.

Section: About (Homepage)

The About section appears near the bottom of your homepage. This is separate from the About Page below.

  • About Title — Headline. Defaults to an SEO-friendly title using your restaurant name and location.
  • About Content — A paragraph about your restaurant. Up to 500 characters.
  • About Section Image — A photo of the team, dining room, or signature dish.
  • Button Text / Button Link (optional) — Add a call-to-action like "Learn More" → /about.

If you leave the title or content blank, Dinevate uses an automatically-generated SEO version.

About Page

This is the longer story that lives on yourdomain.com/about — separate from the homepage About section above.

  • About Page Image — A larger photo at the top of the About page. Recommended size: 800x600 pixels.
  • About Page Text — Your story. Up to 1,000 characters. Use blank lines between paragraphs for proper formatting.

Tell your origin story, your mission, your favorite dishes, the family behind the restaurant — anything that builds connection.

Upload multiple photos to a Gallery section on your homepage. There is no fixed limit, but 8-16 great photos look better than 50 average ones.

  • Click the upload area to add photos. You can upload several at once.
  • To remove a photo, click the X on it.

Photo tip: Mix it up. Show your best dishes, the dining room, your team, behind-the-scenes moments. Avoid blurry, poorly-lit, or duplicate-looking shots.

"Contact Us" Section

Customize the photo shown next to your contact form on the website's contact page.

  • Contact Form Photo — Upload an image. A warm interior shot or a friendly team photo works best.

The contact form fields themselves (name, email, message) are managed automatically by Dinevate.

The Social Links card shows every social-media platform Dinevate supports (Facebook, Instagram, X/Twitter, TikTok, YouTube, etc.) and what is connected for each.

To edit these links, click anywhere on the Social Links card. You will be sent to a separate page (/website-settings/social-media) where you can paste each link.

Heads up: If you have unsaved changes elsewhere on the Website Settings page, a confirmation toast appears so you do not lose them. Click "Confirm" to leave anyway, or "Cancel" to stay and save first.

This is different from the Social Media Manager — that is the AI-powered posting and review tool. The Social Links card just sets the icons that link out from your website footer.

Tracking & Analytics

Add your own tracking IDs so you can measure visitors and conversions on your restaurant website. Both fields are optional.

  • Google Tag Manager ID — Format: GTM-XXXXXXX. Find it in your Google Tag Manager dashboard. This lets you run all kinds of analytics, conversion tracking, and remarketing through GTM.
  • Meta Pixel ID — Format: 15-digit number like 123456789012345. Find it in your Meta Events Manager. This lets you run Facebook and Instagram ads that track conversions on your site.

Once you save, the IDs are added to every page on your website and start tracking immediately. If you do not run ads, you can leave both blank.

Privacy note: Adding these tags shares visitor data with Google and Meta. Make sure your privacy policy reflects this if your local rules require it.

Branding (Logo, Colors, Fonts)

The Branding section lets you make your website match your real-world brand. From here you can change:

  • Logo — Upload your restaurant logo (used in headers, footers, and emails).
  • Primary Color — The main color used for buttons and accents.
  • Secondary Color — The supporting color used for backgrounds and dark text.
  • Font Family — Choose from a list of fonts. System uses the visitor's default device font (fastest loading).

Pick colors with strong contrast — light backgrounds with dark text, or dark backgrounds with light text — so your site stays readable. If your logo has a clear primary color, use that as your Primary Color.

Branding tip: Less is more. One bold accent color and one neutral works better than three competing colors.

Saving Your Changes

The "Save" button is at the very bottom of the page. Click it once you are happy with your changes.

  • A green success message means everything saved.
  • A red error message tells you what to fix (often a too-long field, a missing image, or a video URL we did not recognize).
  • The page reloads with your latest data after a successful save.

To roll back all unsaved changes, click "Discard Changes" at the top-right of the page.

Need Help?

Not sure what to change? Want a hand redesigning your hero or writing your About story? Open a support case from your Support Center in the sidebar, or email info@dinevate.com. Our team helps restaurants polish their sites every week — we are happy to do it for you.

Remember: Dinevate's defaults are designed to rank well on Google and convert visitors into orders. Customize where it makes sense for your brand, but you do not need to fill in every field to have a great website.