Set up and sign in

Pairing a POS, signing in, the language and look buttons, logging out, and what a POS shows when it starts.

• Start the POSOpen FooodPos on a Windows PC or an Android device, what it opens on, full screen and F11, one POS per PC, keeping an Android Main POS running, and closing the POS with Exit POS.
• Set up this POS (the pairing screen)The first screen of a device that is not paired yet. The Pairing code box, the hint, Pair this POS, every message the screen can show and what to do, on Windows and Android.
• Connect to the Main POS (after pairing)The screen a Sub or Waiter POS shows once, straight after pairing, while it looks for its Main POS on your own network. Searching, Linked to…, Search again, Enter the Main POS's IP address and Continue without the link, and how kitchen displays, order boards and kiosks find their Main POS instead.
• Sign inThe POS's sign-in screen, part by part, on Windows and Android. The clock, the language and look buttons, which POS this is, Staff code and Password, Sign in, the PIN pad, Clock in / out, Exit POS, and how the screen chooses its first form.
• Sign in with the PIN aloneThe sign-in screen's PIN pad. Key your PIN with no staff code, the keys, Use a password instead, Sign in with staff code and PIN and Use the PIN alone, the wrong-PIN wait, and every message, on Windows and Android.
• Sign in with a passwordSign in on the POS with your staff code and password. How the POS checks a password itself so it works offline, when it needs the internet once, Enter and the on-screen keyboard, Use a PIN instead, and every message.
• When sign-in is refusedEvery message the POS sign-in screen can show and what to do. A wrong PIN or password, the wait after too many, a PIN that cannot be used, a POS that needs the internet once, and a person signed out by the cloud, on Windows and Android.
• The language button (EN / 中文 / BM)The POS's language button. One tap for the next language, saved as yours when you are signed in, the sign-in screen's own language, which language the POS speaks when you sign in, and what always stays in English.
• Day mode and Night modeThe POS's Day / Night button beside the language button. One tap for the other look, for the whole POS, kept on the device. Where it is, what changes, what stays light, and how Android follows the device until it is pressed.
• The on-screen keyboard and number pad (Windows)The Windows POS's own keyboard and number pad, for a touch screen with no keyboard. The key at the end of every box, the keyboard window, 123 to turn it into a number pad and ABC to turn it back, the number pad for amounts, the docked keyboard on the top bar, and what each box remembers.
• Log out and Exit POSThe two ways to leave the POS. Log out in the Settings menu, back to the sign-in screen with every bill as it was; Exit POS, on the sign-in screen and in the Settings menu, which asks Exit the POS? and says what closing costs, with Stay open and Exit POS; and what stays open after each.
• Unpair a POS with a one-time codeHow a POS is unpaired, since there is no Unpair button on it. A one-time Unpair code from the back office, typed in the Staff code box of the POS's sign-in screen; the POS sends what it holds first and asks Unpair this POS?; what is kept on the device; and every message on the way.
• This POS is no longer pairedThe screen a POS shows when the cloud stops accepting it. Why it happens (Re-pair, switched off, replaced), the screen part by part with New pairing code and Pair this POS, what is kept on the device until the new code is accepted, and every message.
• Replace a broken Main POSPut a new device in the place of a Main POS that is broken or lost, without pairing its Sub and Waiter POS again. Replace this Main POS in the back office, the new device's This POS replaces T01. Restore its backup copy?, Choose the copy, Go on without a copy, the steps that bring the Main POS back, what can be lost, and every message.
• About this POSTap the FooodPos logo on the table screen to see who the POS is registered to, when the free trial or subscription ends, the version it runs, which terminal and outlet it is, and its log for support. Where the version is shown elsewhere, and the round ! with Check for update when a newer version is ready.
• The POS status barThe slim line along the very bottom of the table screen and the sales screen. Each part, left to right - the terminal, the shift, the subscription and its standing, the link to the Main POS, the version, who is signed in, the clock, the addresses and the update !; what turns amber; and the buttons at the right of the top bar above it, with Clock in / out beside Refresh and Print log in the Settings menu.
• Notices at sign-inThe three notices a POS can show around sign-in. The subscription or free trial is nearly over (on a Main POS, at every sign-in, with OK); the restaurant's sales and stock were cleared by FooodPos (once); and work kept from an earlier pairing, on the table screen until somebody has dealt with it. Every sentence, and what to do.
• Screen direction (Android)Which way an Android POS's own screen may be held. Landscape, Portrait or Follow the device, in Settings, Hardware, Screen; the direction a phone or a new tablet chooses by itself; the back office's Screen direction that sets it for a POS; and how each screen is laid out held upright, on a tablet and on a phone.