Tables & the floorplan

Your tables are the backbone of the reservations floor. Under each venue’s Settings → Tables tab you’ll set the default rules for table bookings, define your seating areas, draw your floorplan, and manage combinations and blocking. The floorplan you build here is exactly what your team works on the live reservations grid.

The Tables tab has several panels: General, Pricing, Combinations / Blocking and the Floorplan editor.

General - table defaults

The General panel sets the rules that apply to table bookings unless a shift or access rule overrides them.

Setting	What it does
Table Bookings	Master switch to enable table reservations for the venue.
Default duration	How long a booking holds a table, from 1 to 4 hours (default 2h).
Default party size	The minimum (default 1) and maximum (default 10) covers a guest can book.
Smart reassignment	Lets the system move a booking to a better-fitting table automatically. You set the time from which reassignment can happen (default 06:00).
Smart duration	Automatically extends longer bookings - adds 10 minutes per guest over 4, capped at +1 hour - so big parties get a realistic sitting.

Seating areas

Seating areas group your tables into meaningful zones - for example Main Room, Terrace, Bar or Booths. Areas are used when you assign tables, when guests or profiles request a preferred area, and to group the reservations list by area. Define your areas here before you tag tables with them on the floorplan.

Grid colours

Grid colours let you set the colours used on the reservations grid - for example distinguishing statuses or areas at a glance - so your team can read the floor quickly during service.

The floorplan editor

The Floorplan panel is a visual editor where you lay out your venue to scale. It’s the same plan your team sees (read-only) on the venue’s Floorplan viewer and works live during service.

Rooms and floors

A venue can have multiple rooms or floors. Use the rooms dropdown to switch between them, and Manage to add, rename or remove rooms. Each room has its own layout.

Tools

The editor toolbar gives you:

Select - pick and move existing objects.
Tables - drop a new table; choose the shape as you add it: Round, Rectangle, Square or Oval.
Objects - place passive objects (walls, pillars, bars, doors, plants and other décor) that aren’t bookable but help your team orient.
Border - draw the room outline.
Save - commit your layout.
Zoom controls for working at detail or fitting the whole room.

Table properties

Select any table to edit its properties:

Property	Notes
Number	The table’s label, as your team refers to it.
Type	standard, low, high, booth or bar.
Shape	Round, rectangle, square or oval.
Size	The physical size on the plan.
Min / max covers	The smallest and largest party the table seats.
Area	Which seating area the table belongs to.
Colour	A colour for the table on the plan.

Min/max covers matter: they’re what lets the system (and smart reassignment) match a party to a table that actually fits.

Building a floorplan

Open Settings → Tables → Floorplan and pick or create a room from the rooms dropdown.
Use the Border tool to draw the outline of the room to roughly match its real shape.
Add passive objects - bar, walls, pillars, doors - with the Objects tool so the plan is recognisable to your team.
Add your tables with the Tables tool, choosing each table’s shape as you place it, and drag them into position.
Select each table and set its number, type, min/max covers, area and colour.
Set up any table combinations for tables you join together for big parties.
Select Save. Repeat for each additional room or floor.

Combinations

Combinations are two or more tables you routinely push together for larger parties. On the floorplan, Ctrl-select two or more tables and combine them. Once combined, the tables behave as a group on the reservations grid - moving one moves its siblings, and a large party can be seated across the combination.

You can also manage combinations from the Combinations / Blocking panel, which shows a grid by room with actions to Combine, Delete combo, Set type and Set area in bulk.

Blocking tables

Blocking takes a table out of service so it can’t be booked - for a reserved-for-walk-ins table, a broken table, or a section held back for an event. From the Combinations / Blocking panel you can Block and Unblock tables.

Blocked tables appear hatched on the reservations grid, and staff assigning a booking to a blocked table are warned before overriding.