Tables & Floors
Features
See the booking system at work during service.
Follow a Saturday evening at The Lantern Yard, an example restaurant, using the real app. See how you can assign tables, move reservations and handle changes during service.
Tables assigned for you
Type a party size and choose a time, and the table that fits best is chosen for you. When no suitable single table is available, two or three tables next to each other are merged, and the floor plan joins them so everyone can see the group. You can always choose tables by hand instead. Tables held for walk-ins are drawn in their own colour and kept out of automatic assignment and online booking.
Read our guide to planning which tables each booking will use
Take bookings on your own website
Add the booking form to your website. Guests choose a date and party size, pick an available time and leave their details. The booking appears in your reservation list for you to acknowledge.
Larger parties are asked to call you instead.
Everything that needs you, one tap away
New online bookings, guest cancellations, double-booked tables and seated parties staying past their time all gather under one filter. Tap it and the list shows only those. Each one leaves the list as you deal with it, and tap the filter again to go back to the full list.
Move a party with one drag
Drag a reservation from the list or its table on the floor plan onto another table. As you hold it there, you'll see whether the party fits, whether the table is already booked at that time, or why it cannot move there. Drop it on an allowed table to save the move and update the other devices.
Let guests change their own booking
Guests receive their booking details and a private link by email. Before their booked time, they can use it to change or cancel an upcoming booking. You'll see the update in your reservation list and floor plan without taking a phone call.
See which tables free up next
In the last fifteen minutes of a seated party's sitting, their table counts down the minutes left. If they stay longer, the table turns orange and counts the minutes over, and it pulses when the next party booked on that table is fifteen minutes away or already due.
Late arrivals, flagged
When a party has not arrived by their booked time, the label beside their table starts counting the minutes. Five minutes after the booked time, the table and the party's row in the reservation list turn orange and the party moves to Late, so nobody has to watch the clock.
Keep service moving when plans change
Seat an early arrival at another table while theirs clears. If that table is booked later, you'll see the conflict and a pulsing warning as the next reservation approaches. Once the original table is free, mark the first party complete and drag the later reservation across.
Only staff can accept a table conflict. Online bookings and changes made through a guest's link won't create one.
Set up your floor plan
Build your floor plan on a tablet. Add rooms, place tables and choose how many each seats. Drag tables into position, copy a row at once, and add walls, a bar and other features that help your team recognise the room.
Owners and managers can save a draft without changing the plan used during service. When you are ready, review and publish it. If a change would leave a booking without suitable tables, you sort that booking out before publishing.
Watch the full dining-room build (about 4 minutes)
Ready for Friday?
Set up your floor plan and start adding bookings the same day.