Day mode and Night mode
The 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.
Every POS has two looks. Day mode is light: white and pale grey, dark words. Night mode is dark: deep blue-grey grounds, light words, easier on the eyes in a dim bar or a night shift. One button changes between them, at once, for the whole POS.
Where the button is
The Day / Night button is always beside the language button:
- On the sign-in screen, at the top right of the card, under EN.
- On the table screen, in the top bar, between EN and the Settings gear (⚙).
A kitchen display has its own in its top bar, and an order board in its staff menu. See Kitchen screen settings and The order board's own settings.
- ☀ / ☾: the look in use: the sun for Day mode, the moon for Night mode. Rest the pointer on it (Windows) and it says Day mode. Tap for Night mode. or Night mode. Tap for Day mode.
Change the look
- Tap ☀ (in Day mode) or ☾ (in Night mode).
- The whole POS changes to the other look at once. Nothing typed or rung is lost.
- The button now shows the other picture.
The look belongs to this device, not to a person. It stays through a log out, another person signing in and a restart, and it needs nobody to be signed in. It is never sent to the cloud, so each POS keeps its own.
What changes
In Night mode, the screens' grounds turn dark and their words turn light: the table plan, the sales screen, the bill, the windows and the menus. Colours that mean something keep their meaning: the green of money, the amber of a warning, the red of a refusal, the colours your back office gave dishes and tables.
Some things stay as they are by day, in Night mode too:
- Paper shown on screen: a receipt, a bill or a slip drawn as it will print.
- QR codes, on their white ground, so phones can read them.
- The customer display, the screen that faces the guest, keeps its own look.
On the sign-in and setup screens, the logo's half of the screen turns dark too, and the FooodPos logo sits on a white plate of its own. The sign-in card turns dark with the rest.
A Windows POS that has never been switched starts in Day mode.
Until somebody presses the button once, an Android POS follows the device's own dark theme setting. After the first press, the POS keeps its choice, whatever the device is set to.
The sign-in card always stays light, in Night mode too: on the sign-in screen only the button's picture changes. The POS behind it is in the look the button shows.
If a tablet cannot draw the ☾ symbol, the button shows a crescent moon emoji instead.