Table sales report
The table report adds up sales for each table in your dining room over the dates you choose. It is a quick way to see which tables earn their floor space and which ones mostly sit empty.
Table report in SeroPOS
Sales per table
Each table you have set up shows its total sales for the period.
Any date range
Compare a Friday night with a Tuesday lunch, or look at a whole month.
One location at a time
Tables belong to a location, so you can run the report for each restaurant separately.
Uses your real tables
The report reads the tables set up under Tables in the back office, by name.
Fed by dine-in orders
Sales get a table when staff pick one on the till, from the floor plan or table grid.
Print or export
Print the list or export it to compare months in a spreadsheet.
Which tables earn the most
Not every table in a restaurant pulls its weight. The window booth may turn three times a night while the two-top by the kitchen door barely gets used. The table report puts numbers on that. Choose a location and a date range, and it lists the total sale for each table in that period.
You will find it in the web back office under Reports, as Table Report. It shows once the Tables module is switched on in Business Settings under Modules, which is on by default for new businesses. To read it, a user needs report access in their role and access to the location whose tables they want to see, so a floor manager can be limited to their own restaurant.
Where the table comes from
A sale is counted against a table when staff choose that table while taking the order. On the SeroPOS till, choosing Dine-in opens the saved floor plan, or a grid of tables if no plan has been drawn yet, and the server taps the table to start the bill. The All Sales list in the back office also shows the table on each sale, so you can check individual orders.
Takeout, delivery and counter sales are not given a table, so they do not appear here. That keeps the report about the dining room itself. If you want to compare dine-in with takeout overall, the daily sales report has an Orders by Type section that splits sales by service type, while the table report stays focused on how each table performs.
- Table name and description
- Number of seats
- Booking duration in minutes
- Location the table belongs to
Setting up tables well
Tables are set up per location under Tables in the back office, with a name, a description, the number of seats and a booking duration. Clear names help the report later. Names like Patio 4 or Bar 2 tell you the area at a glance, so you can add up a section yourself even though the report lists tables one by one.
If you change your layout for summer or add a patio, add the new tables before service so sales land on the right ones. Old tables you no longer use simply stop collecting sales. Keep table names stable where you can, so month-on-month comparisons stay easy to read and each table's history stays in one place.
Reading the numbers
Raw sales per table favour big tables, so read them next to the seat count. A six-top that takes twice what a two-top takes is earning less per seat. Look at the same tables across different date ranges too. A table that does well at lunch but poorly at dinner may need a different setup in the evening.
Pair the table report with the service staff report to see whether a strong table is strong because of where it sits or because of who usually serves it. Look at a few weeks before moving furniture around, as one busy night can make any table look good. The trend over a month is what tells you which tables are worth keeping as they are.
Frequently asked questions
How do I see sales by table?
In the web back office, open Reports, then Table Report. Pick the location and the date range. The report lists each table with its total sales for that period. You need the Tables module switched on and the right report access in your role.
Why is a table missing from the report?
The report lists tables that belong to the location you chose, so check the location filter first. Then check that staff are picking the table when they take dine-in orders on the till. Sales rung up without a table, such as takeout, are not counted against any table.
Can I see sales by section instead of by table?
The report lists tables one by one. If you name tables by area, such as Patio 1 and Patio 2, you can add a section up quickly from the list or in an exported spreadsheet. Clear table names make this much easier.
Does the floor plan affect the table report?
The floor plan is how staff choose tables on the till, so it decides which table each dine-in sale is recorded against. The report itself reads the tables set up in the back office. The Floor Plan Designer is part of the Pro plan; the table grid works on any plan.
Is the table report available on the Standard plan?
Tables and table service are part of Standard, and the table report is one of the standard back-office reports. The Pro plan adds the Floor Plan Designer for drawing the room, but you do not need it to take orders by table or to run this report.