Set up your floor plan and tables
Draw your rooms, add your tables, and set which tables can be pushed together.
Your floor plan is the picture of your restaurant that both the till and the reservations floor work from. Until it exists, neither of them can show you where anybody is sitting, so this is a job worth doing properly once rather than repeatedly patching up.
Go to Settings, choose your location, then Tables. Use a computer or a tablet rather than a phone, because you are effectively drawing your dining room and a phone screen does not give you enough space to do it accurately.
1. Create a floor plan
Click New Floor Plan and give it a name. Most restaurants only ever need one, but you can create more than one when a space is genuinely separate, such as a terrace that only opens in summer or an upstairs room you use for functions.
2. Add your areas
An area is a part of the room, such as Window, Bar, Garden or Upstairs. Click Add Area and name it. You need at least one area before you can add any tables, because every table has to belong somewhere.
Areas are not decoration. They are the words your team already uses when somebody says “the two by the window”, and having them on screen means everybody is talking about the same table.
3. Add your tables
For each table, click New Table and set:
- Name, which should be whatever your team actually calls it out loud: Table 1, T12, “Booth A”. A name nobody uses in real life will only cause confusion during service.
- Seats, which is how many people fit on it. Dinerly uses this when it works out which tables can take a booking of a given size.
Then place the table on the canvas so that the plan looks like your actual room, dragging things around until it matches. Click Save Layout when you are happy with it.
4. Table combinations
Table Combinations is where you record the tables you push together, such as 4 and 5 becoming a single table of eight for a large group. Setting up the combinations you genuinely use is worth the few minutes it takes, because Dinerly can then offer that eight to a party of eight trying to book online. Without it, the system only sees two tables of four and tells a perfectly good booking that you are full.
Keeping it right
If you move the furniture, update the plan the same week. A floor plan that no longer matches the room is worse than having none at all: your team will notice it is wrong, stop trusting what the screen tells them, and quietly go back to keeping a paper book that only one person can read.
Last updated 20 September 2026