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How to run SmartPOS

The topics support is asked about most, grouped by when you need them. We will walk you through any of them on a call — a remote session is usually faster than reading.

Getting started

Install at the counter

Running the setup, and pointing a second terminal or the waiter phones at it over the LAN.

Activate your licence

Entering the key, and reading what your plan includes and how much of each limit is used.

Restaurant profile and printers

Name, tax details, receipt layout, and which printer each KOT station uses.

Build the menu

Categories, items, variations, add-ons, pictures and taxes.

Service

Taking an order

Order types, rounds, variations and add-ons, and what reaches the kitchen.

The floor plan

Areas and tables, running tables, transfers and merges.

Splitting and merging bills

Splitting down to the item, and putting two tables onto one bill.

The kitchen screen

Live tickets per station, and marking work done.

Waiter phones

Signing a phone in, what a waiter can do, and the limit on how many at once.

Money

Opening and closing the register

Counted float, cash in and out, X mid-shift and Z to close.

Payment modes

Cash, card and the rest, reconciled separately on the report.

Offers and loyalty

Discounts by rule, and points or stamps redeemed at the counter.

Reports and exports

Sales, items, hourly and staff reports over any date range.

Running the place

Staff and roles

Owner, manager, cashier and waiter, and what each may open.

Attendance and payroll

Daily attendance, month sheets, payroll periods and payslips.

Delivery orders

Swiggy and Zomato through the Delivery API, in the same queue as the counter.

Backup and restore

Scheduling backups, and putting the restaurant data back.

Prefer to be shown?

We set the software up remotely — your item list, printers and tax rates — and stay on the call until the first bill prints.

Book a setup session

Something is broken

Open a ticket with your licence key and a screenshot of what you are looking at. That is usually enough for us to find it without asking anything.

Open a ticket

It should do X

Tell us the thing you keep working around. It goes on the list the roadmap is built from.

Request a feature

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