The bookings floor plan

The floor plan is one of the two views of the table plan: go to Bookings → Table plan and choose Floor plan at the top. It shows exactly the same information as the list, drawn on your venue's actual layout — so you can see the shape of the room rather than a list of tiles. It's the view the table plan opens on. If you haven't built a floor plan yet, or your tables all sit on the same spot, it says so and offers you the list instead of drawing a room that would hide tables behind each other.

It uses the floor plan you built under Table Management → Floor plans. If you move a table there, it moves here.

Reading it

• The fill tells you whether anyone is on the table — free, occupied, a booking seated, or held.
• A red outline means the table's section is closed for bookings.
• The chairs round each table show how full it is. Every chair is the same size, and each table is drawn as big as its seats need — so a table for two looks small and a table for eight looks long. Grey chairs are free. When a booking is seated, a green chair is someone sitting in it and a red chair is one that party has but isn't using — three people at a table for four shows three green and one red. A table with only a till tab open keeps grey chairs, because we know it's in use but not how many are sat there.
• A seated table shows the guest's name in place of its own, so you can see who is where at a glance.

There's a key under the plan naming every fill, so you never have to guess what a colour means.

Those are two separate facts and a table can show both. A table with a party on it in a closed section keeps its occupied fill and gains the red outline — we never let a section setting hide the fact that someone is sitting there.

Held tables

A held table is drawn dark, so it stands out across the room. Nobody is on it: it's being kept for a party sitting somewhere else — usually one too big for a single table, seated on the main table with this one pushed alongside, or kept for a big booking with Book tables — or you've taken it out of service yourself.

Holding tables for a booking is not the same as closing a section below: it keeps only the tables picked, only for that booking's time.

Click it and the panel below tells you which table the party is on and how many of them there are. More about pushing tables together.

Opening and closing sections

• Click a table in a closed section to go to sections, where you can open it.
• Click a table in an open section to close that section for bookings.

Closing a section stops new bookings being taken for its tables. It does not cancel or move bookings you already have.

Taking a table out of use

Tables out of use sits below the plan on this view as well as on the list — a boiler goes mid-service and you're already looking at the room, so you shouldn't have to switch views to act on it. It works exactly the same in both places. How to use it.

"We can't draw your floor plan"

If your tables have never been arranged, they all sit at the same point on the plan — so a canvas would show one table on top of another and hide most of the room.

When we spot that, we say so instead of drawing a picture that would mislead you. You'll get a link straight back to the List view, which works without a floor plan at all. To get the drawing, arrange your tables under Table Management → Floor plans and come back.

If you have more than one site

A floor plan is one room, so when you run more than one site this page asks you to pick a site first (under the Tillable logo). After that it shows only that site's tables, sections, open bills and seated bookings. Another site's "Table 4" bill can never make this site's Table 4 look busy.

Related

• The table plan — the same occupancy as a list, what "as of" means, and how closed sections show up there.
• Floor plans — building and arranging the layout this page draws.