39 | Venue Maintenance - Table Sections Setup

The article provides an overview of Table Sections configuration within Venue Maintenance.

To access Venue Settings, the applicable Operator Privileges will need to be enabled

Table Sections functionality allows Venue(s) to assign a unique name to each section within an area of the Venue

One such example would be a large Restaurant with a front seating section, a back seating section along with a separate Alfresco section outside

Multiple section(s) can then be linked to a single table group
Once linked, SmartPOS will prompt to the front-of-house staff to assign a section to every table and then print the section name on the kitchen receipts

To configure Table sections in BackOffice, navigate to the Venues, Stores & Tills under System Setup
Select the desired Venue and proceed to edit the selected Venue
Within Venue Maintenance, click on the 'Tables' to view the Table sections configuration options

Note: The form view within the 'Tables' tab has been enhanced to allow efficient navigation between different table related configuration and also to accommodate the new 'Table Sections' menu

To configure 'Table Sections', click on the Table Sections tab located within the bottom panel of the form

The Table sections is further categorized into four sub-section to facilitate the ease of setup and front of house operations, these include

Sub-section for configuring Prompt
Sub-section for configuring different sections
Sub-section for configuring to prompt when a product from a Product Sort group is added to a table transaction

Note: This is only triggered when NO Section(s) is configured and is only triggered for first product added from the sort group

Sub-section for configuring to prompt when a product from a Product Sort group is added to a table transaction

Note: This is only triggered when NO Section(s) is configured and is only triggered for first product added from the sort group

Configuring all of the above four sub-sections is not mandatory and only needs to be configured as per Venue's requirements

The prompt section allows to enter a desired / custom text to be used as label name when the prompt to enter a table number is displayed within the specified section instead of displaying the standard / default 'Enter Table Number' text
Each prompt text can then be used across multiple sections
To configure, at the bottom of the Prompt Group, enter a number in the 'Group' column and desired label name in the prompt column
An example for this could be to display the text as 'Stand Number' instead of Table number as below

The 'Sections' group allows to configure different sections which can then be linked to a single table group via the till function button for table open
To configure, enter a number at the bottom of the Section group in the 'Group' column and a desired section name in the 'Section' column to the right and hit the 'enter' key on the keyboard
For different section(s) which form part of the same table group in Bepoz, assign the same number to respective section

For example, if a restaurant area is divided into three separate sections, then all three sections must have the same number but with different section names

The 'Sorts' section group allows to configure a prompt to display when a product from a Product Sort group is added to a table transaction
To configure, select a number at the bottom of the 'Sorts' section group in the 'Group' column and enter a desired section name in the 'Sorts' column to the right

Types Sections Group

The 'Types' section group allows to configure a prompt to display when a product from a Product Types group is added to a table transaction
To configure, select a number at the bottom of the Types section group in the 'Group' column and enter a desired section name in the 'Types' column to the right

To display a Table Sections prompt on SmartPOS when a new table is opened, the standard Till function buttons for table open have been enhanced
To assign a section or multiple sections with same section number, enter the respective section number in the 'Sub-key' field within the Till function button for Table open

For example, if two different sections namely, Front Restaurant, Back Restaurant with Section Group = 2 has been configured in the Table Sections settings, then enter the value '2' in the Sub-key field