Settings
The Settings page is where you set up the basics about your business — what it’s called, where it is, when it’s open, what tax you charge, where Zavo sends your payouts, and which venues sit under your account.
Most of these screens are set-and-forget — you’ll fill them in once during onboarding and only come back when something genuinely changes (a new VAT rate, a new bank, a new branch).
You’ll find the page in the left sidebar at the very bottom under Settings.
Settings is for business-level basics — the kind of thing your accountant might ask for. Things like your menu, floor plan, prep stations, and printers all live on their own dedicated pages under the Configuration group in the sidebar.
In the current release, only Tax Configuration (General tab) and the Payout Bank Accounts list (Payment Processing tab) persist to the server. Everything else on this page — Business Profile fields, logo upload, Regional Settings, Operating Hours, the My Profile card, and the password-change form — is currently a UI placeholder. You can type into the fields, but your edits reset when you reload the page. The rest of this guide describes each card as it will behave once wired up; anything marked (not yet saved) below is a known limitation we’re tracking.
The Settings page at a glance
Across the top, you’ll see the page title Settings with the subtitle “Manage your business settings and preferences”.
Underneath sits a row of three tabs:
| Tab | What it’s for |
|---|---|
| General | Your business name, logo, address, contact details, regional preferences (timezone, currency, language), opening hours, VAT rates, and service charge. |
| Payment Processing | A read-only view of your card processing fees, plus the bank accounts where Zavo sends your payouts. |
| Account | Your personal profile, your organization’s structure (brands and venues), and the option to close your account. |
Most of the editable settings (tax, opening hours, regional preferences) apply to the location you’re currently viewing. Use the location switcher at the top of the dashboard to choose which venue’s settings you’re editing.
General tab
The General tab has four cards stacked top to bottom — Business Profile, Regional Settings, Operating Hours, and Tax Configuration — followed by a Save Changes button at the very bottom.
Business Profile (not yet saved)
Your business identity and how guests reach you. Edits to these fields currently don’t persist — they reset when the page reloads. The Upload Logo button is also a placeholder and does not yet open a file picker. The fields here:
| Field | What goes in it |
|---|---|
| Logo | The dashed square on the left with the upload arrow. Tap Upload Logo to add an image. This logo is used across the dashboard wherever your venue is shown. |
| Business Name | Your trading name — what guests know you as. This appears on receipts and in reports. |
| Legal Name | The full legal entity name — e.g. “Zavo Hospitality Ltd” — used on invoices and tax paperwork. |
| Address | A single-line address for your venue. |
| Phone | Your main reservations or front-of-house phone number. |
| The general inbox where guests and Zavo can reach you. | |
| Website | Your full website URL, e.g. “https://yourvenue.com ”. |
| Business Type | A dropdown — pick whichever describes your venue best: Restaurant, Bar, Cafe, Fast Food, Hotel, or Nightclub. |
Your Business Name shows up on guest-facing things like receipts. Use the name guests recognise — keep the long ”…Holdings UK Limited” version in Legal Name where it belongs.
Regional Settings (not yet saved)
The defaults that drive how dates, times, and money are shown across the whole product. Edits to these dropdowns currently don’t persist — they reset on reload. For the currency that actually prints on receipts, use Format on the Printing & Receipts page, which offers a much wider list (28 currencies). Five dropdowns:
| Dropdown | What it controls |
|---|---|
| Timezone | The clock your venue runs on. Picks include London (GMT), Paris (CET), New York (EST), Los Angeles (PST), Dubai (GST). All shift times, reports, and bookings are shown in this timezone. |
| Currency | The currency symbol used everywhere prices appear — £ GBP, € EUR, $ USD, or د.إ AED. |
| Date Format | How dates are written — DD/MM/YYYY, MM/DD/YYYY, or YYYY-MM-DD. |
| Language | The language used in the dashboard — English (UK or US), French, Spanish, or Arabic. |
| First Day of Week | Whether your weekly views and reports start on Monday, Sunday, or Saturday. |
Operating Hours (not yet saved)
A simple weekly schedule — one row per day, Monday to Sunday. Edits currently don’t persist — they reset on reload.
Each row has:
- The day name on the left
- An Open / Closed toggle — flip to Closed for a day off and the time inputs disappear
- An opening time input
- The word “to”
- A closing time input
Closing times can roll over past midnight (e.g. 11:00 to 00:00 for a Friday night service that runs until midnight).
Operating Hours set the venue’s regular weekly pattern. One-off changes (holiday closures, special events) are best handled from your reservations and booking-page settings, not by editing this every time.
Tax Configuration
Your VAT rates and service charge — these drive how prices and totals are calculated on every order.
Four fields side by side:
| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| Standard VAT Rate (%) | The default tax rate applied to most items. In the UK, this is usually 20. |
| Reduced VAT Rate (%) | A lower rate for items that qualify for reduced tax (e.g. some takeaway food). UK reduced rate is usually 5. |
| Service Charge (%) | An optional service charge added to the bill — leave at 0 if you don’t add one automatically. |
| Pricing Display | A toggle — Tax-inclusive pricing (default) means the prices shown to guests already include VAT. Tax-exclusive pricing means VAT is added on top at checkout. |
Tap Save Changes at the bottom of the General tab to commit the tax fields. A green “Settings saved successfully” message appears next to the button when it’s done.
The Save Changes button at the bottom of the General tab currently only saves the Tax Configuration values (standard VAT rate, reduced VAT rate, service charge, and pricing display). Business Profile, Regional Settings, and Operating Hours edits are not submitted when you tap Save.
Switching between Tax-inclusive and Tax-exclusive changes whether the prices on your printed and digital menus already contain VAT. Make sure your menu prices match your choice — guests find unexpected tax at checkout very confusing.
Even if everything on your menu is at the standard rate today, having the Reduced rate set correctly means you don’t have to come back here when you add a new takeaway item later — you can just tag the item with the right rate from your menu.
Payment Processing tab
The Payment Processing tab has two cards — Card Processing Rates (read-only) and Payout Bank Accounts (editable).
Card Processing Rates
A read-only summary of the card fees you’ve been quoted. Two side-by-side tables:
- In-Person — fees that apply when guests pay at a Zavo terminal or at the table.
- Online — fees that apply to online orders or payment links.
Each table has three columns:
| Column | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Card Type | The category of card: Debit, Credit, Business, International, American Express. |
| Rate | The percentage fee taken from each transaction of that type. |
| Auth Fee | A small fixed amount added per transaction for the card authorisation. |
If you haven’t finished onboarding, you’ll see “Fee plan unavailable. Complete onboarding to view your rates.” instead.
This card is a reference only — you can’t change your rates from this screen. Speak to your Zavo account manager if you’d like to discuss your fees.
Payout Bank Accounts
Where your payouts land. The card title sits at the top with an + Add Account button on the right.
Each existing account is shown as a row with:
- A small bank icon
- The bank name (e.g. Barclays)
- A row of status badges — see the legend below
- The last four digits of the account number, then the sort code in NN‑NN‑NN format
The status badges you might see:
| Badge | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Primary (grey, with a star) | This is the account that currently receives payouts. |
| Verified (green, with a tick) | Zavo has confirmed the account details and it’s safe to use. |
| Pending (grey, with a spinner) | The account is waiting to be verified. Payouts can’t be sent here until it’s done. |
| Invalid (red, with a cross) | Verification failed — check the details, remove it, and add it again. |
To the right of each row sit the action buttons:
- Set Primary (only on verified, non-primary accounts) — sends future payouts to this account instead of the current primary.
- Trash icon (only on non-primary accounts) — removes the account.
You can’t remove the primary account directly — first set another account as primary, then remove the old one.
Once you confirm Set Primary on a different account, the next payout from Zavo will go there. Make absolutely sure the new account is correct and that it belongs to your business.
Adding a bank account
Tap “+ Add Account”
Top-right of the Payout Bank Accounts card. A dialog opens titled “Add Bank Account”.
Type the bank name
The high-street bank that holds the account, e.g. Barclays, HSBC, NatWest, Monzo.
Enter the account number
Eight digits, no spaces. The input only accepts digits — letters or punctuation are ignored.
Enter the sort code
Six digits, no dashes — e.g. 123456 not 12-34-56. The display will format it back into 12-34-56 once it’s saved.
Tap “Add Account”
The dialog closes and the new account appears in the list with a Pending badge while it’s being verified. Once Zavo confirms the details, the badge turns into a green Verified.
Removing a bank account
Tap the Trash icon at the end of any non-primary row. A confirmation dialog asks “Are you sure you want to remove this bank account? This action cannot be undone.”
Tap Remove (red) to confirm or Cancel to back out.
Account tab
The Account tab has three cards — My Profile, Organization Structure, and Danger Zone.
My Profile (not yet saved)
Your personal account details — separate from the business profile. Edits to the Full Name / Email / Phone fields currently don’t persist, and the Update Password button does not yet submit anything. The displayed values are placeholder defaults and may not match your actual signed-in user.
The card has two columns:
Left column — your contact details:
| Field | What goes in it |
|---|---|
| Full Name | Your name as you’d like it to appear in the dashboard. |
| The email you sign in with. | |
| Phone | Your direct number — used by Zavo support if they need to reach you. |
Right column — change your password:
- Current password
- New password
- Confirm new password
- Update Password button
If something needs urgent attention with your account or payouts, support will try your phone first. A current number saves a lot of back-and-forth.
Organization Structure
Zavo arranges your business in three layers:
- Organization — the top-level company that owns everything (e.g. “Zavo Hospitality Ltd”). You only have one.
- Accounts — brands or sub-businesses under the organization (e.g. “Zavo Italian”, “Zavo Sushi”). You can have several.
- Locations — individual physical venues under each brand (e.g. “Soho”, “Shoreditch”). You can have several per brand.
The card shows them as a tree:
- The organization sits at the top in a grey card with an Owner badge on the right.
- Indented underneath are your accounts, each in its own row showing the brand name and how many locations sit under it.
- Indented under each account are the locations themselves, each showing its name and address.
Tap the chevron icon on an account row to collapse or expand its locations.
The action buttons on each row:
| Button | On accounts | On locations |
|---|---|---|
| + icon | Adds a new location to that account. | — |
| Pencil icon | Edit the account (see note below). | Edit the location (see note below). |
| Trash icon (red) | Delete the account (see note below). | Delete the location (see note below). |
At the bottom of the tree sits an + Add Account button.
Tapping Edit or Delete on an account or location opens a dialog asking you to email or call Zavo support. This is intentional — these changes affect your reports, your accounting, and any historical data, so they’re handled by the team rather than self-serve.
The dialog gives you two buttons: Email Support (opens your mail app to support@zavo.com) and Call Support.
Adding a new account (brand)
Tap “+ Add Account”
The button at the bottom of the organization tree. A dialog opens titled “Add New Account — Create a new restaurant brand or account under your organization.”
Type the account name
The brand name — e.g. “Zavo Italian” or “Zavo Sushi”. This is what staff and reports will refer to the brand by.
Tap “Create Account”
The new account appears in the tree, ready for you to add locations underneath.
Adding a new location (venue)
Tap the “+ icon” next to the account
On the row for the account that should own the new venue. A dialog opens titled “Add New Location — Add a new physical location to one of your accounts.”
(If you’ve reached this dialog from elsewhere, an Account dropdown at the top lets you pick which brand to attach the venue to.)
Type the location name
A short, friendly name your team will recognise — e.g. “Soho”, “Downtown”, “Main Street”.
Type the address
A single-line address for the venue.
Tap “Create Location”
The new location appears under its account.
Save the manager PIN that pops up
A second dialog opens titled “POS Staff PIN Created” with the message “A manager staff account has been created for [your name] at this location. Please save this PIN — it will only be shown once.”
A PIN is shown in a large box, with a Copy button next to it. Write it down or copy it now — once you close the dialog, the PIN is gone and you’ll need to set up a new staff member from scratch to log into the POS.
Tap Done to close the dialog.
This PIN is what you (or whoever the manager is) will use to log into the POS at the new venue. There’s no way to look it up later — copy it the moment it appears, store it somewhere safe, and share it only with the person who needs it.
Danger Zone
A single red-bordered card at the bottom of the Account tab.
Inside, one row labelled Close Account — Permanently close your Zavo account, with a red Close Account button.
Tapping it opens the same support dialog described above, asking you to email or call Zavo support to close your account. Closing is irreversible and affects all your data, so it’s handled by the team in person.
Closing your Zavo account permanently removes all your menus, reports, guest data, and historical orders. There’s no way to recover any of it once it’s done — please make sure you’ve exported anything you need first.
Multi-location notes
A few settings on this page behave differently depending on whether you’re thinking about the venue you’re viewing or the whole business:
- General tab — Business Profile, Regional Settings, Operating Hours, and Tax Configuration are all configured per location. Use the location switcher at the top of the dashboard to pick which venue’s settings you’re editing.
- Payment Processing tab — Card rates and bank accounts are also configured per location, since payouts are typically scoped to the venue that took the payment.
- Account tab — My Profile is your personal account (the same wherever you are), and the Organization Structure shows the whole business at once.
Quick recap — the moves you’ll do most
These actions work today:
- Change your standard VAT rate → General → Tax Configuration → update Standard VAT Rate (%) → Save Changes
- Switch on automatic 12.5% service charge → General → Tax Configuration → set Service Charge (%) to 12.5 → Save Changes
- Switch between tax-inclusive and tax-exclusive pricing → General → Tax Configuration → flip Pricing Display → Save Changes
- Add a new bank account for payouts → Payment Processing → + Add Account → bank name, 8-digit account number, 6-digit sort code → Add Account
- Switch which bank account receives payouts → Payment Processing → on the new account row → Set Primary
- Add a brand-new venue under an existing brand → Account → Organization Structure → + icon next to the brand → name and address → Create Location → save the manager PIN
- Add a new brand → Account → Organization Structure → + Add Account → brand name → Create Account
- Edit or delete a brand or venue → Account → Organization Structure → Pencil or Trash icon → Email Support or Call Support from the dialog
- Close your Zavo account → Account → Danger Zone → Close Account → Email Support or Call Support from the dialog
These don’t persist yet — the UI is in place but edits reset on reload:
- Updating your business address, logo, legal name, phone, email, website, or business type (Business Profile)
- Changing timezone, currency, date format, language, or first day of week (Regional Settings)
- Marking a day as closed or adjusting opening times (Operating Hours)
- Updating your full name, email, phone, or password (My Profile)
Next steps
- Users — invite team members and decide what each can see in the dashboard
- Permissions — control what POS staff can do at the venue
- Devices — register the iPads that run the POS, KDS, and handheld apps
- Terminals — pair and configure your card payment terminals
- Billing — view your subscription, invoices, and payment method