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Halls, arranging the room, and keeping the map honest

Split the venue into areas, lay tables out to match reality, and know what to do when the room changes.

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The map is only useful if it looks like the room. Halls split a big venue into the areas staff already use — Indoor, Terrace, Bar, Upstairs — and each hall is its own canvas to arrange.

The scenario

You’re moving the two-seaters from the window to make room for a long table for a private dinner on Saturday, and on Monday you’re moving them back.

Halls

  1. 1Press Add hall and name it. Rename or reorder halls from their tabs. Every table lives in exactly one hall.
  2. 2Move a table between halls by editing it and choosing the new hall — its history and QR code come with it.
  3. 3On the POS, halls are the tabs across the top of the floor view, so a waiter working the terrace sees only the terrace.
  4. 4In All halls, drag a hall to where it really is — beside another, under it, or into another hall’s gap. It lines up with the halls around it and keeps the usual space (hold Alt to place it freely); tap a hall for Open hall, Turn 90° and ⋯. A hall whose walls close a room takes their shape — even with its walls left off the floor plan. Tidy up puts the halls back in rows, and the POS All tab shows them the way you placed them.

Arranging

  • Drag to move. Tables snap so rows line up without fiddling.
  • Rotate with the handle when a table sits at an angle in the real room. The chairs turn with it.
  • Resize by seats — a table’s footprint follows its seat count, so an 8-seater draws bigger than a 2-seater. You don’t set a size; you set the seats.
  • Nothing overlaps — chairs included. That rule is what stops the map drifting into a cartoon.
  • Sofas and swings are seats — push a sofa, bench, armchair, lounge corner or garden swing up to a table with its seat side and the chairs it touches give way: it’s their seat on the POS floor and in 3D. A sofa with its back to the table leaves the table its chairs.
  • Save — moves and turns wait in the save bar at the bottom (listed as Save layout) until you press Save, or Discard to put everything back. Adding or removing a table saves any pending moves first.

Saturday’s private dinner

  1. 1Add a Rectangle table, Long1, seats 10. Drag the window two-seaters aside for it.
  2. 2On Monday, drag the two-seaters back and delete Long1 — or deactivate it and keep it for next time. A deactivated table disappears from the POS but keeps its place and its history.
TipOnce you press Save, the new layout shows on every POS within a few seconds. You don’t have to tell staff to refresh — but do tell them a table moved, because their muscle memory won’t have.

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