Design your floor plan with drag and drop

Draw the room the way it really looks

The Floor Plan Designer opens from the side drawer or from the Table Selection screen. It has three tabs: Tables, Elements and Floor. On the Tables tab you add a table and drag it to where it sits in the room. Double-click it to open Table Properties, where you set the table name, its shape, the number of seats and its width and height. A four-top by the window and a long banquet table can sit side by side at their true sizes.

The Elements tab holds about 30 fixed objects such as a cash counter, bar, entrance, restroom and booth, plus custom text. These do not take orders, but they make the map readable. A server on their first shift can see that table 12 is the one next to the restroom, without asking anyone.

Tidy layouts in a few minutes

Object Controls let you move, align and delete whatever you have selected, so rows of tables line up instead of drifting. If you rearrange the room for a private event or a summer patio, Clear All empties the canvas and you can rebuild from scratch. The Floor tab sets the background and pattern colours, which is a simple way to mark different areas of the restaurant.

When the layout is right, press Save Floor Plan. The plan is stored on the server rather than on one device, so it survives a tablet swap or a reinstall. You do not need to redraw it on each till. If you change the layout later, open the designer again, make the change and save, and every till picks up the new version.

• Tables tab: add tables and set name, shape, seats and size
• Elements tab: counters, bars, entrances, restrooms, booths, text
• Floor tab: background and pattern colours
• Object Controls: move, align, delete, Clear All

From the designer to the dining room

Once a plan is saved, choosing Dine-in on the home screen opens the floor plan instead of a plain grid. Each table shows its status in colour, its seat count and the server's name. Staff tap a free table to start an order or a busy one to open its bill. If no plan has been drawn yet, SeroPOS falls back to a table grid view, so you can start selling before the map is finished.

Because the plan lives on the server, it works across a server till and its client tills on the same network. A host stand, a bar terminal and a server's tablet all look at the same room. When the host seats a party, the table turns red on every screen, so two servers never try to seat the same table at once.

Who can edit the plan

The Floor Plan Designer is part of the Pro plan. Editing is protected by its own admin login, Floor Plan Designer Access, so a server cannot move tables around by accident during a busy service. Everyone else simply uses the saved plan from the Table Selection screen. Owners and managers who know the login can still adjust the plan between services.

The designer is a restaurant tool, so it is hidden when a till runs in Retail Mode. Tables themselves, with their seats and booking duration, can also be managed per location in the web back office under Tables. There you can add tables before you draw them, so the designer already has every table ready to place.