Kitchen display, order board and kiosk on the Main
Let a kitchen display, an order board or a kiosk take its orders from the Main POS over your own network, with no internet of its own.
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A kitchen display, an order board and a kiosk can each get their orders from a Main POS over your shop's own network, with no internet of their own. Each one has a single place in the back office where its Main POS is chosen.
A kitchen display's setting
Edit KD1
🏷️ General🔀 Operation🍳 Kitchen
Gets its ticketsWhere this kitchen display gets the orders it shows, and where its taps go.
Through the internetThis screen gets its tickets from the cloud and needs its own internet. Every POS at the outlet that sends to its stations shows up here.1From a Main POS on your own networkThis screen gets its tickets from the main terminal chosen below over your own network, as a sub or waiter POS does, and needs no internet of its own. Its taps go back to that main, which tells the cloud when it can.2Main POST01 — Counter
3Linked: KD1 is getting its tickets from T01 on your own network.4
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- Through the internet: the screen gets its tickets from the cloud, with its own internet.
- From a Main POS on your own network: from the Main chosen below, with no internet of its own. Its taps go back to that Main.
- Main POS: the outlet's switched-on Main POS.
- The line under it: how it stands, or in amber why it still uses the internet.
- Save: saves it. The screen and its Main take it at their next contact.
Where each device is set
| Device | Where | The choice |
|---|---|---|
| Kitchen display | Edit, Operation, Gets its tickets | From a Main POS on your own network |
| Order board | Edit, the Order board tab, Gets its orders | From a Main POS on your own network |
| Kiosk | Edit, the Kiosk tab, Its orders go to | Main POS, and To the Main POS on your own network |
Link a kitchen display to its Main
- In the menu, under MASTERS, click Outlet, then Outlets.
- Click Edit on the outlet's row, then the POS terminals tab.
- Click Edit on the kitchen display (such as KD1), then Operation.
- Under Gets its tickets, choose From a Main POS on your own network, and the Main POS.
- Click Save.
A new device
- A kitchen display starts on the outlet's Main POS when the outlet has exactly one. With several, or none, it starts through the internet.
- An order board starts on the outlet's first Main POS.
- A kiosk's tab starts on the Main POS on your own network. It takes no orders until its tab is saved.
On the Main POS, its link panel lists them, such as 2 kitchen display(s) get their tickets from this POS: KD1, KD2.
If something goes wrong
- This outlet has more than one main terminal.: the screen shows only the chosen Main's orders. For a station every Main sends to, keep Through the internet.
- Cannot reach T01 on your own network. on a screen or board, or Ordering is paused. Please order at the counter. on a kiosk: check that T01 is on with FooodPos open, on the same network.
- T01 is on FooodPos 0.2.2, which cannot give tickets to a kitchen display yet: update T01 to 0.2.3 or later.