Adjusting Elements in the Bar Tab Window
This page describes the adjustments you can make to the appearance of the Bar Tab window so that it best suits your requirements.
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The 'POS' and 'POS Appearance' cards in the Local Machine setting in the User Settings module contain various options that you can use to change and move the elements in the Bar Tab and POS Invoice windows. As the Local Machine setting is stored separately in each client database, you will need to make these changes on each till or device (or you can have different settings on each device). If a device will have a live-sync connection with the server, you can make these changes in the Local Settings setting in the Technics module before connecting the device to the server. The changes will then be sent to the device as part of the synchronisation process.
The following options are available on the 'POS' card in the Local Machine setting:
For brevity, only the options that are used in the Bar Tab window have been mentioned in the descriptions below. Some of these options are also used in the POS Invoice window: please refer
here for details. Similarly, only the Local Machine setting has been mentioned, without referring to the Local Settings setting.
- Hide Quantity on POS Invoice
- As waiters and bar staff add Items to a Bar Tab, two quantities will be updated: the number of units purchased by the Customer, and the number of different Items purchased by the Customer. If you select this option, the number of units purchased by the Customer will not be visible in the Bar Tab window:
- Hide Item Code on POS Invoice
- By default, when a waiter or member of bar staff adds an Item to a Bar Tab, its Item Number and Name will both be shown in the Bar Tab window. Select this option if you don't want the Item Number to be shown, making more room for the Name:
The following options are available on the 'POS Appearance' card in the Local Machine setting (you can also find these options in a separate Local Machine Appearance setting in the User Settings module, illustrated below):
- Panel Size
- The panel is the area in the Bar Tab that lists the Items that have been added by the waiter or member of bar staff. You can choose to reduce the size of the panel if you need a larger button area. If you select this option, you may need to reduce the Panel Font Size using the options below as well.
- Panel Font Size
- Use these options to set the font size of the text in the panel. If you need to use a size that doesn't have its own option, enter that size in the Panel Font Size field below.
- Buttons Position
- Use these options to specify whether the button area should be placed on the left side of the Bar Tab or on the right. If you choose the Right option, the Bar Tab will appear as follows:
The Buttons Position options also control the position of the numeric keypad in many of the windows that pop up when waiters and bar staff click or touch buttons in the Bar Tab window.
- Button Width, Button Height
- By default, the buttons in the Bar Tab window will be 93 x 50 pixels in size, excluding the border (98 x 55 pixels including the border). If you need the buttons on a particular till or device to be a different size, enter that size in pixels in these fields.
- Label Font Size, Label Font Size (WIN)
- Specify the font size that is to be used for the button labels. You can use either field on a Windows till or device, but only the Label Font Size field on devices with other operating systems.
- Enable Pictures on Buttons
- Select this option if you would like the buttons in the Bar Tab window to contain images or pictures, instead of text labels. Please refer to the description of the POS Button Pictures setting here for more details.
- First Field Font Size, Second Field Font Size
- Use these fields to set the font size of the text in the two fields above the panel. If you leave these fields empty, the font sizes will be 20 for the first field and 30 for the second on small screens and 30 and 50 respectively on larger screens.
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