Set up and use your floor plan

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A floor plan isn't just a nice picture. Done right, it tells your whole team who's sat where, who's due next, and which table can take a walk in right now. In the next couple of minutes, I'll show you how to set one up in Tablez and how to use it on a busy night. Open Edit Floor Plan. Press Add Several. Choose how many tables, how many seats and the shape. Round, square, rectangle or booth. They all appear at once. Then add the room itself. The bar, doors, windows, a fireplace, the toilets. They're just drawings so they're never booked. Now drag everything to where it really is and pull the corner to resize. Click a table to set its name, its seats and a fill order, so online bookings fill your best tables first. You can add more rooms too, like a garden or a function room, each with its own tab. Then press save layout. Online bookings go straight onto a table for you, using your fill order, then the smallest table that fits. that fits and if you like you can let customers pick their own table on the booking page. Now the live view. Open floor plan and it updates by itself every 20 seconds. Dark green means seated. Amber means reserved or booked soon and a dotted table needs cleaning. Each table shows who's on it, how many and when it's free. Someone walks in tap a free table put in how many and press seat walk in now. Done! When a booking arrives tap their table and press seat them. When they leave press finished free the table. It's marked as needing cleaning and anyone on the waitlist here is that a table's come free. Once it's wiped down, tap markers clean. You can also move a booking to another table or join two tables for a big party. The floor plan comes with standard at £9.99 a month and every member of staff can use it on a tablet behind the bar or from the staff app.

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