Combining multiple tables for large groups
When no single table is big enough, Puntify suggests the free combinations and blocks all the tables in the group.
When you need it
A booking comes in for 10 people and your biggest table seats 6? By combining tables, you can book the group across two or more tables placed together, all blocked for that time.
Step 1 — Mark the combinable tables
In Floor plan or in the list of resources, turn on Combinable with other tables for the tables you can put together. You can select more than one and tap Make combinable. On the floor plan, combinable tables show a chain symbol.
Step 2 — Book the group
In the agenda, tap New appointment > Resource, enter the number of people, the day and the time. If no single table is big enough, the list of tables shows Multiple tables at the top: for example “Table 3 + Table 6 + Table 2 · 10 seats”. The best suggestion is marked Recommended. Suggestions use at most 3 combinable tables from the same room.
Step 3 — Or choose yourself
With Choose the tables yourself… you select up to 8 tables, even ones that aren't combinable or are in different rooms. A counter adds up the seats and an amber warning tells you if there aren't enough, for example “At most 18 free seats at 20:30: not enough for 30 people”.
Occupied tables
A table that's already booked appears dimmed with the time (“Table 4 booked until 22:00”): if you choose it, a red message appears and you can't save. If two people book the same tables at the same moment, only one booking goes through.
Where you see the combination
- In the agenda, in the planning view (“with Table 4”), in emails and in Google Calendar, the names of all the tables appear.
- In the booking details you can tap Change tables.
- In Register the added tables also show as booked: tapping one opens the bill of the main table, which is the first one in the name.
Good to know
For now, tables can only be combined when you enter the booking yourself in the agenda. A table that's already combined for a group can't be booked for other customers at the same time. See also The agenda: new appointment and editing and Managing resources, tables and floor plan.
