The stock of tables allows you to calculate the availability of your restaurant based on tables or table groups.
It allows for the selected number of covers:
- Not to exceed the total capacity of the restaurant
- Not to exceed the capacity of the time slot
- To allocate available tables or table groups
Here is the list of steps for its application. You will also find a summary video at the bottom of the article.
1. Create your rooms: Detailed article
2. Add the tables to your floor plan: Detailed article
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Be careful to define the number of covers offered per table correctly.
If you want a table for 2 PAX to only accommodate 2 people, set Min and Max to 2: - Conversely, if you want a table for 4 PAX to be bookable for 2 people, set Min to 2:
3. Configure table groups:
- Table groups allow you to link available tables based on a booking request : A booking for 6PAX can be assigned to a group of 2 tables (4PAX and 2PAX).
- Go back to the following page: Settings>bookings> Rooms and tables
- On the relevant room, click on "Manage table groups" :
- Click on "New grouping"
- Select the tables that can be linked to the reservation.
- Define the minimum and maximum number of covers that can be accommodated :
4. Define assignment preferences
- Assignment preferences indicate the order in which tables should receive bookings.
- Go to the following page: Settings>bookings>Assignment preferences
- The tables contain the following information:
- Related room
- Capacity in number of people
- Reservable (white) or Non-Reservable (black)*
- Organize the desired assignment order with drag and drop :
In this example, we've decided to place tables 1 and 10 coming from the dining room, after the group they are part of, because we want to keep those two tables, in order to have availability if a booking is taken. We prefer to assign tables that are not part of a group first for small bookings.
*It is possible to hide non-reservable tables
5. Activate the stock of tables :
- Go to the following page
- Enable the table stock option:
- Once the procedure is completed, confirm the activation of the table stock: