Creating Pace Rules – TableCheck Help Center

Pace Rules will allow you to control the number of people and/or number of reservations arriving or within your restaurant at any given time.

Please note the following:

Online reservations made via TableCheck will be controlled by the pace rules.
However, in the case of manual reservations, only a warning will be displayed which can be overridden by the user.
It is possible to set the pace rule as mandatory for manual reservations as well.
It is possible to disable the warning message as well.

1. Proceed to the settings page by clicking the Setup wheel icon → Pace Rules

Please note the following:

Pace Rules setting is only accessible to users with the respective role permission.
The page may take some time to display after selected.

2. Click on the New Pace Rule button.

The page may take some time to display after selected.

3. Enter the number of groups and/or the number of people from the drop down list as desired select Create Pace Rule after completed.

Pace Rules have to be applied to a Sheet.
Click here to learn how to assign a Pace Rule to a Sheet.


Pace Rule Name	Give your pace rule a name to easily identify it.

Interval Duration	Please verify this against the online reservation time interval on your TableCheck page.

Capacity Groups / Capacity People	You may indicate the maximum number of bookings or people that can present in your shop at any given time.
Please note the following: Capacity number refers to number of diners present in the shop at any particular time, regardless of the time of their booking. Set the capacity at the base selection to apply the setting to all times, and set the capacity at individual time slots to apply the setting to specific times.

Start Groups / Start People	You may indicate the maximum number of bookings or people that can make a reservation at any given time.

Click here to learn the difference between Capacity Groups / Capacity People and Start Groups / Start People.

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