In simpleERB, you can create a new table layout for customers; however, there are a few steps to take to ensure this is done efficiently and smoothly.
The most important thing is DO NOT delete your tables in your layout until you have moved over all the past and future bookings you wish to keep in your diary to a new date and table on your new layout. You can view our article here on how to correctly delete tables in simpleERB.
The most efficient way to re-create your restaurant table layout in simpleERB is to create a new restaurant area and table layout and still keep the existing restaurant area open in the interim. This will be extremely helpful for those larger party/function bookings you have in the system that may be rescheduled.
You can close off the current area to prevent customer bookings and you will still be able to move bookings about. You just need to remember to move them from the old area to the new area so tables are not being double booked.
The example image below is recreating a new area to replace the existing.
Remember: When adding tables to your new layout, you can only have one Table 1 in your account. In your new restaurant area, you will need to list the tables as 101, 102. Once all the bookings you wish to keep have been moved onto tables in the new area, you can then delete the old restaurant area/table layout and then edit your new tables back to your original numbers if you prefer to have singular table numbers.
For future bookings in the diary, you can change the date and table number ( using quick move or table layout clickable button) at the same time when moving to another date.
After moving and rescheduling future bookings in your diary, you can then close the old area here to stop any future bookings from being allocated to this. We suggest keeping the old layout for a bit until you are happy with the new one, and to ensure no bookings have been missed that still need to be transferred. Once you are happy with the new layout, you can then delete this and edit table numbers back to the original number. You can view our article on how to close an area here.
Important: You will also need to edit your advanced features that affect table numbers. For example; table joins, table ranking and closed tables.