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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.

Who uses it:OwnerManagerCashierWaiterKitchenWhere:Windows POSAndroid POS
On this page

Every POS speaks three languages: English, 简体中文 and Bahasa Melayu. The language button shows the language on screen and changes it with one tap. Everybody can read the POS in the language they read best.

Where it is

  • On the sign-in screen, at the top right of the card, with the Day / Night button under it.
  • On the table screen, in the top bar, beside the Day / Night button and the Settings gear (⚙).
  • On a kitchen display, in its top bar. See Kitchen screen settings.
The table screen's top bar (Windows): the language button between the keyboard and Day / Night.
  1. EN: the language button, in the screen's language as that language writes itself: EN, 中文 or BM. Rest the pointer on it (Windows) and it says Language: English. Tap for the next one.
  2. ☀: the Day / Night button, always beside it. See Day mode and Night mode.
  3. ⚙: the Settings menu.
On Android

The Android table screen has the same buttons, less the keyboard: ⏰, 🔄, EN, ☀ and ⚙. On a phone held upright, the sign-in screen's EN and ☀ sit in the FooodPos band at the top, not on the card.

Change the language

  1. Tap the language button.
  2. The whole screen changes at once to the next language. Nothing typed or rung is lost.
  3. Tap again for the next one. It goes round: EN, 中文, BM, then EN again.
One tap is the next language, round and round.

Signed in: saved as yours

When you are signed in, the language you choose is yours:

  • It is saved on this POS at once, and sent to the cloud as your POS language. With no internet it is kept on the POS and sent later.
  • The next time you sign in, on this POS or any other, the POS speaks it.
  • In the back office it shows as your POS language, in your window on POS users. If two choices meet, the newer one wins.

On the sign-in screen: this screen only

Nobody is signed in on the sign-in screen, so a tap there changes that screen only, for whoever is about to sign in. As soon as someone signs in, the POS switches to their own language.

Each time the sign-in screen opens, it goes back to the POS's own default language.

Which language the POS speaks

WhenIt speaks
The sign-in screenThe POS's default: Default POS language in the back office (POS Terminal Settings, the setting, General). With none, English.
After you sign inYour own language: the one you last chose with the button, else your POS language from the back office, else the POS's default.
A kitchen displayThe language chosen on that screen, kept on that device. With none, the POS's default.

All of this is held on the POS, so it works offline too. A POS that was paired a moment ago may show English until it has received its settings from the cloud.

See POS Terminal Settings: General tab and POS users.

What stays in English

The button changes what the screen says. Some things are the same in every language:

  • Everything printed: bills, receipts, kitchen tickets, slips, X and Z readings. Paper always prints in English.
  • Your own data as it was typed in the back office: dish names, categories, modifiers, payment methods (Cash, Visa), order types (Dine In). Where the back office holds a second name for a dish, the POS shows it under the name, smaller, in every language.
  • A message from the cloud that the POS has no words for: it is shown as the cloud sent it, in English.

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