Turn on seating status with third-party reservation apps
About seated status
With Square Restaurants, you can integrate and use third-party reservation apps (such as OpenTable) to improve waiter workflows and streamline the beginning of service. With Seated Status enabled, Square Restaurants automatically creates a new bill when you mark guests as seated in your booking platform, so your waiters can begin taking orders straight away.
Before you begin
You can enable seated status from your Square Dashboard. To enable seated status, you need to connect a third-party reservation app from the Square App Marketplace.
Enable seated status
Once your Square Restaurants account is connected to an existing third-party reservation app, you can enable seated status from your Square Dashboard.
Sign in to Square Dashboard and go to Settings > Restaurant settings > Service settings > Seated status.
If applicable, select a location with a third-party reservation app connection.
Toggle Seated status ON.
Click Save.