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Adding/Editing Tables

For a tables-based account, you will need to create your tables for each of your seating areas. This will allow guests to book and have a table assigned to their reservation for an allocated time.

Tables:

To create new tables or to view and adjust the existing tables on your account, select the Availability tab from the menu bar on the left.

Select Tables from the sub-menu on the right of the screen.

You will see a list of your existing tables and can edit them or add new tables as needed.

To create a new table, select the Add new table button in the top right corner of the screen.

You can then update the following fields:

  • Table Name - this is only visible to you internally, so you choose what to call it. It is usually the table numbers. Guests are never able to see what table they have been allocated.

  • Online - Yes/No - should the table be available for online bookings or for internal allocations only. This will default to "Yes". A table can only be switched offline by the Dineplan Support team.

  • Seating Area - this specifies which area the table belongs to.

  • Min/max seating capacity - advises the online system what group size may be allocated to a particular table. You will need to indicate the smallest and largest number of guests that each table can accommodate.

  • Order the system will automatically allocate your tables according to this order of priority, but if left to zero, the system will use table numbers to determine an order.

Once you've filled in the necessary fields for your table, select the green Save Table button at the bottom of the screen to create it.

To Edit your existing tables, you can do this directly on the table list by clicking in the text fields and typing the new numbers or changing the seating area from the dropdown. These changes are saved automatically.

Please be careful when making changes as these are live and will affect your availability and the tables that you currently have assigned to bookings. If in doubt or you need to make tables not available online/offline please contact Dineplan support for assistance: support@dineplan.com .

Joined Tables:

Joined tables allow for more than one table to be grouped and allocated together to larger online bookings. If yourrestaurant is limited with smaller single tables but would like to accept larger bookings and can physically push more than one together, then Joined tables can be used.

To set up Joined tables, select Availability from the left menu bar and then Joined Tables from the sub-menu on the right.

Click on the “Add new table join” button in the top right corner.

Fill in each of the following fields - 

  • Name/No. is just a text field for the name or number to be given to the joined table. The most common is to simply put the table numbers that are being joined, e.g, 14,15,16.
  • Seating Area - select the seating area this joined table belongs to from the dropdown
  • Tables - select the relevant tables that are going to be joined together from the dropdown
  • Capacity - fill in the minimum and maximum capacities the joined table will be accommodating
  • Available Online - Yes/No - should this larger table be available for online bookings or for internal allocations only. This will default to "Yes". If you need a joined table to be switched Offline, please contact support@dineplan.com so that the team can assist with this update.

Select the green Save Joined Table button at the bottom to add it.

If you have any questions or need assistance regarding your tables, please send an email to support@dineplan.com