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Table Plan: floors and Copy plan

Add a floor to an outlet's table plan, set its code, name, size, grid and background, delete it, and copy another outlet's whole plan into a new outlet in one go.

Who uses it:OwnerManagerWhere:Back office
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A floor is one room or area of an outlet: the ground floor, the terrace, the private room. Each floor has its own tables and is a tab on the Table Plan, and a button on the POS's table screen.

This guide covers + Floor, Floor settings, Delete floor, and Copy plan, which fills a new outlet with the floors and tables of another.

Before you start

  • Your access group needs Table Plan Designer with Edit.
  • Save the tables of the floor on screen first (Save layout). Saving a floor reads the plan again, and tables drawn but not saved would be lost.

Add a floor

  1. In Room, Table Plan, click + Floor. The window New floor opens. (An outlet with no floor yet shows Create the first floor instead, with GF and Ground Floor filled in.)
  2. Type a Code, such as TER, and a Name, such as Terrace.
  3. Leave the size and grid as they are, or change them (see below).
  4. Click Save. The big green SAVED shows, and the new floor opens, empty. Add its tables with + Table.

The floor's window, part by part

Floor settings: the floor's code, name, size, grid and background, and what a taken table shows on the POS.
  1. Code: a short code for the floor, up to 20 characters. Two floors of one outlet cannot share a code. Needed.
  2. Name: the floor's name, up to 100 characters. It is the floor's tab here, and its button on the POS. Needed.
  3. Canvas width: how wide the floor is, in design units, not pixels: every screen scales the floor to fit, a 10-inch tablet and a 24-inch monitor alike. From 100 to 10000; a new floor is 1000.
  4. Canvas height: how deep the floor is, in the same units; a new floor is 600. Width and height together give the floor's shape: 1000 by 600 is a wide room, 600 by 1000 a long one.
  5. Grid snap: the step a dragged table snaps to, and the step an arrow key moves it, from 1 to 100; a new floor has 10. A bigger step lines tables up more easily; a smaller one places them more finely.
  6. Background colour: the floor's colour, behind the tables, here and on the POS.
  7. Background image URL: the web address of a picture to draw behind the tables, such as a sketch of the room, up to 500 characters. It is drawn here, on the wide layout, to help you place the tables. The POS draws the background colour only.
  8. On the POS, a taken table shows: minutes seated, a colour after so many minutes, and the member's name, on the tiles of this floor's taken tables. See Table Plan: what a taken table shows.
  9. Delete floor: in Floor settings only. See Delete a floor.
  10. Save: saves the floor. A problem is said in red inside the window, above the buttons.

Change a floor

  1. Click the floor's tab, then Floor settings.
  2. Change what you need, and click Save.
  3. If the floor on screen has tables not saved yet, the page asks first: The tables drawn on this floor are not saved yet and will be discarded. Press Cancel, then Save layout first, to keep them. Save the floor anyway? Press Cancel, then Save layout, then save the floor again.

Delete a floor

  1. Click the floor's tab, then Floor settings.
  2. Click Delete floor. The back office asks: Delete Terrace and its 4 tables? A floor whose tables have sales or bookings is kept and switched off instead: it no longer shows on the POS. With layout changes not saved, it adds Tables moved or added and not yet saved will be lost.
  3. Click OK. A floor whose tables were never used is deleted, tables and all: the page says Terrace was deleted. A floor with sales or bookings behind it is switched off instead: Terrace has tables with sales or bookings, so it was switched off instead of deleted. It no longer shows on the POS.

A switched-off floor stays among the tabs, faded. Its tables are switched off with it.

Copy another outlet's plan

A new branch is often laid out like the first. Copy plan copies every floor and table of another outlet into this one in one go, instead of drawing them table by table.

It is offered only when you have more than one outlet, and the outlet you are drawing has no table in service.

An outlet with no tables yet: copy the floors and tables of another.
  1. The line: says this outlet has no tables yet, and offers the two ways: draw them, or copy them.
  2. The outlet to copy from: every other outlet you have.
  3. Copy plan: copies, after one question.
  4. The note: each copied table gets a new QR code, never the other outlet's.
  1. Open the new outlet's Table Plan (choose it in Outlet).
  2. In the line …has no tables yet, choose the outlet to copy from.
  3. Click Copy plan. The back office asks: Copy every floor and table of HQ — Demo Kitchen into BR1 — Demo Kitchen Bangsar? Each table gets a new QR code of its own, so print BR1's codes from the QR Ordering screen before guests use them. HQ's plan is not changed.
  4. Click OK. The SAVED sign says what was copied, such as Copied 12 tables on 2 floors from HQ, and the floors appear.
  5. Print the new outlet's QR codes: General Setup, QR Ordering, Codes to print.

What is copied: every floor in service of the other outlet, and every table in service on it, with its code, name, shape, seats, place, size, turn, colour, text size, default order type, price level and upright place, and each floor's size, grid, background and taken-table settings. A floor here with the same code, such as the MAIN floor every new outlet starts with, is used rather than a second one, and takes the copied floor's name, size, grid and background.

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