The floor map

A floor map is a simple, top-down picture of your dining room with every table drawn in. It is the backbone of the whole CRM: it tells Eighty-Six which tables you have, how many guests each one seats, and where they sit in the room. Because bookings land on real tables and your team watches the room during service from this same plan, getting your floor map right is one of the first things worth doing.

Before you begin

Your maps live on the Floor Maps page. Available on plans that include the floor map. You need the View maps permission to open the page and the Manage maps permission to create, edit, rename, activate, or delete a map. As the restaurant owner you have every permission by default; an employee only sees these once you grant them.

What a floor map is

Think of a floor map as a to-scale drawing of one layout of your restaurant. It holds three kinds of thing:

• Tables — each table has a number (like T1), a shape, a position in the room, and how many covers it seats (a minimum and a maximum). This is what bookings are placed on.
• The floor shape — the outline of the room itself: its walls, the edges of a terrace, the shape of the space.
• Grey areas — the parts of the room that are not seating: the kitchen, a hallway, a pillar, the bar. Marking these keeps tables from being placed where they cannot go.

You do not have to get all of this perfect on day one. A map can be as simple as a handful of tables on a blank canvas, and you can refine it whenever the room changes.

The Floor Maps list

The Floor Maps page shows every map you have created, each as a card. A card shows the map’s name, its size in pixels, and any badges it has earned:

• Active — this is the one map your restaurant is currently using (see The active map below).
• AI — this map was created for you from a photo or drawing by the AI scan.

Each card has buttons to Edit the map, activate it (the check button, shown only when the map is not already active), and delete it (the trash button). Hover over a map’s name and a small pencil appears — click it to Rename the map in place.

The Floor Maps page. Each layout you save appears as a card you can edit, activate, rename or delete.

How to open the Floor Maps page

1. Open Dashboard from the left menu — it shows your live floor.
2. Click the more-options button (the three dots) in the top-right corner of the floor.
3. Choose Configure Maps. You land on the Floor Maps page.

Tip

You will also visit the Floor Maps page during first-time setup — creating your first map is one of the guided setup steps, so bookings have real tables to sit guests at.

The active map

Eighty-Six always uses exactly one active map at a time. The active map carries the green Active badge, and it is the layout that:

• your live floor map shows by default during service, and
• your bookings and availability are worked out against.

You can keep as many maps as you like, but only one is active. To switch which one is active, open the Floor Maps page and click the check button on the map you want. It becomes the active map straight away, and the previous one quietly steps down — you will see a short confirmation that the map is now your active floor plan.

1. Go to the Floor Maps page.
2. Find the map you want to switch to.
3. Click its check button. The Active badge moves to that map.

Two ways to create a map

There are two ways to add a map, and both live at the top of the Floor Maps page:

Create New MapStart from a blank canvas: give the map a name and a size, then drag tables into place yourself. Best when you want full control.

Generate from ImageUpload a photo, drawing, or blueprint and let the AI scan draw a first map for you, tables included. Best for a fast head start.

Whichever you choose, the result is an ordinary map you can open and refine at any time — the AI scan simply gives you a filled-in starting point instead of an empty room.

Creating a new map from scratch. Name it and set a size — you can change both later.

Changing the map day by day

Restaurants rearrange all the time: a terrace opens in summer, tables get pushed together for a big party, a private room is set up for an event. Eighty-Six is built to keep up with that in two ways.

Edit the active map. When the room changes for good, open the active map, move or add tables, and save. The live floor and your bookings follow the new layout immediately. This is the right choice when the change is the new normal.

Keep several maps and switch between them. When you regularly flip between setups, save each one as its own map — for example Weekday Layout, Weekend Terrace, and Private Event. Each morning, make the map for today’s setup the active one with a single click on its check button. Nothing is lost; the others wait for the next time you need them.

On the live floor map you can also peek at any saved layout without changing which one is active: use the floor selector (labelled Select floor) in the header to view a different map. This is handy for comparing layouts or checking a plan for later, while today’s service keeps running on the active map.

On the live floor, the floor selector lets you view another saved layout without changing the active map.

Tip

Give each map a name that says when you use it — Weekend Terrace or Christmas Party — so the right layout is easy to spot when you switch.

Where to go next

Building a mapAdd, move, shape and size tables, draw the floor and mark grey areas in the map editor.

Scan a map with AITurn a photo, drawing or blueprint into a ready-made floor map in one step.

The live floor mapWork the room during service: table status, seating, and bookings at a glance.

Related

• Building a map
• Scan a map with AI
• The live floor map
• Service periods