Shapes — and how to build a bar where every seat is its own ticket

• Square — the everyday table. 2 to 4 seats.
• Round — 2 to 8 seats, chairs all the way round.
• Rectangle — long tables and pushed-together runs, 4 to 12.
• Booth — benches on two sides, 2 to 6.
• High-top — a tall bar table with stools, 1 to 4.
• Counter — a long slab with stools along the front, 1 to 12. This is the bar shape.

Your bar has four stools along the front. Guests sit alone or in pairs, arrive and leave at different times, and each wants their own bill. You want it to look like one counter but bill like four tables.

A check belongs to a table, and a table has one open check at a time. One counter with four seats is one table — one bill, whoever is sitting there. That’s right for a family at a table and wrong for strangers at a bar.

1. 1In POS › Floor plan, press Add table › Multiple with Prefix B, Start # 1, How many 4, and seats 1.
2. 2Open each one and set its shape to Counter. A one-seat counter is deliberately narrow — a segment, not a slab.
3. 3Drag B1, B2, B3, B4 edge to edge in a row, then rotate the run so it sits against the wall where the bar is. Press Save in the bar at the bottom.

• On the map: one continuous bar front, four stools along it.
• On the POS: four tappable stools. Open B2 for the man who just sat down; B3 stays free for whoever’s next. Each settles on its own.
• On a ticket: B3, so the bartender knows which stool the drink is for.