Table management
Written by Anna Bigdan
Updated at June 4th, 2021
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Set up Tables
table map- To set up tables, click on Restaurant on the left pane menu.
- Under Restaurant, click on Seat Map.
- Switch off Use Seat Map by clicking on the toggle button.
- Once Use Seat Map is made as NO, it will bring up an option saying Manage Tables here, click on it.
- This will open the Table List.
- One can create a table using the Add Table section on the right side of the screen.
- Enter the required details.
- Minimum - defines the minimum number of guests required for that table to be made available to book.
- Once done, click Save.
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Edit a Table
- Once the Seat Map is turned off, you will see a new option called
Tables under Restaurant in the left pane menu.
- Clicking on Tables in the left pane menu, it will open the Table List.
- Click on the Edit button for any table that you want to edit.
- Make the required changes and click Save
- Once the Seat Map is turned off, you will see a new option called
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Delete a Table
- Go to Table List, click on the delete button for the table that you want to delete.
- Click the Delete button in the delete confirmation pop-up box.
- To delete multiple tables, select the checkboxes of the tables you want to delete.
- Click on the Choose Action button and click Delete Selected.
- Go to Table List, click on the delete button for the table that you want to delete.
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Create Merged Tables
- In the left pane menu, click on Restaurant.
- Under Restaurant, click on Merge Tables.
- This will bring up the Merged Table List.
- One can create a merged table using the Add Merge Table section on the right side of the screen
- Enter the required details.
- In the “Tables for Merge” drop-down field select the tables you want to merge.
- Once done, click Save.
- Merged Table is used to create a combination of the existing tables to handlelarger capacity. When a merged table is booked for a particular time slot, the tables included in that merged table will not be available for booking for the same time slot. From E.g. if merged table Merge 1(from the above image) is booked for 11 AM slot for today, then Table 3 and Table 8 will not be available for booking for 11 AM today.
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Edit Merged Tables
- Go to Merged Tables List.
- Click on the edit button for the merged table that you want to edit.
- This will bring up the Update Merge Table page.
- Make the required changes.
- Once done, click Save.
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Delete Merged Tables
- Go to Merged Tables List.
- Click on the delete button for the merged table that you want to delete.
- Click on the Delete button in the delete confirmation pop-up box.• To delete multiple merged tables, select the checkboxes of the merged tables you want to delete.
- Click on the Choose Action button and click Delete Selected.
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Blocks
Blocks are used to block all the tables for a specific time period on the front-end website. It can be configured to be recurring.- Click on Restaurant on the left side pane menu.
- Under Restaurant, click on Blocks.
- This will open the Block Tables list.
- One can create Blocks using the Add Block section present on the right side of the screen.
- Enter the date from which you want to add a block.
- Enter the time slot that you want to block.
- In the Repeat drop-down list, select Daily.
- If you want to block a particular time slot for just one day, then enter the same date in the End Recurring on date field or enter number 1 in the Or Repeat field.
- Click Save.
- Now if you go to the front-end website, you can notice that the time slot which has been blocked does not show up.
- In the above image, the time slot for 10 AM to 11 AM for 25/09/20 has been blocked. The blocked time slot does not show in the frontend website as shown in the image below. One can see that the 10 AM slot is not shown.
- (Note: If you want to block the tables for another time slot for the same day, add another block with the same date)
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Recurring Types
- When adding blocks, the blocks can have different recurring types that can be set in the Repeat field in the Add Blocks section.
- When Repeat is selected as NONE, the block becomes inactive.
- When the Repeat field is set to WEEKLY, Setting an END Recurring On date would repeat the block every week from the Date that has been set till the End Recurring On date.
- Or choosing to enter a number in the Or Repeat field, would repeat the block every week from the set date, for a specified number of times.
- Any specific week alone can be excluded by entering that date in the Excluded Date field.
- When the Repeat field has been set to CUSTOM, we can make the block to repeat every specified number of days.
- Enter the interval between two successive blocks, in the
Each field. For E.g. if Each is set to 2 days, the block will become active every two days. - If you wish to end this repeating cycle by a specific date, enter it in the
End Recurring On-field. - Alternatively choosing to enter a number in the Or Repeat field, would repeat the block every specified number of daysfrom the set date, for a specified number of times.
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Edit / Delete Blocks
- Go to Blocks list and click on the edit button for the block that you want to edit.
- This will change the Add Blocks section on the right side of the page to Update Block.
- Change the required details and hit Save
- To delete any blocks, go to Blocks list and click on the Delete button for the required block.
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Settings
Under Settings - Reservation Options, Reservation Form, Terms & Conditions, Notifications, and Reminders can be configured.
