tech-pos guide

Everything the till, the kitchen screen and the back office can do, written for the people who use them — a cashier on their first shift, a server on a busy floor, an owner closing the day.

The tech-pos retail till mid-sale: search box, a ticket holding Avocados 4ct, the money side showing a $6.48 total, and the shortcut strip along the bottom.
The retail till mid-sale. Every screen in this guide is shown as it actually appears, not as a mock-up.

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Getting started

Company, store, register, product, first sale — in that order.

Roles & permissions

What each of the thirteen roles can and cannot do.

Every feature

The full list, including what is deliberately not built yet.

Selling

The retail till

Scanning, discounts, parked tickets, and taking cash, card, gift cards and points at the counter.

Refunds & returns

Find the original sale, refund all or part of it, and put the money back on cash, store credit or a gift card.

Scanner price accuracy

When the till scans higher than the shelf label, and what you owe.

Substitutions

Swapping an item a picker could not find, on pickup and delivery.

Receipts

Printing, reprinting, and editing the header and footer.

Cash drawer & day end

Float, cash in and out, the mid-shift check, and closing down.

Restaurant

Floor & tables

Table colours and states, seating guests, handing over a section.

Taking orders

Menu items, modifiers, kitchen rounds, and splitting the check.

Kitchen display

The pass: ticket cards, the clock, Start, Ready and Bump.

Bookings & waitlist

Phone bookings, the arrival countdown, no-shows and the waitlist.

Behind the counter

Products & menus

Products, variants, barcodes, CSV import, and per-store menus.

What sells together

Count your own receipts, or ask a model — two different buttons.

Stock & holds

On hand versus available, counts, transfers, waste and holds.

Deposits & eco fees

Bottle deposits and levies as their own line, and what comes back.

Suppliers & purchase orders

Suppliers, purchase orders, receiving goods and cost variance.

Customers & loyalty

Records, tags, store credit, house accounts, and points customers earn and spend at the till.

Promotions

Campaigns and coupon codes, and what a cashier can actually apply.

Reports

What each report counts, and what it deliberately leaves out.

Setting up

Companies, stores & registers

How a company, its stores and their registers fit together.

Tax

Rates, tax classes, inclusive pricing and the country presets.

Hardware & card machines

Scanners, receipt printers and card machines on the shop network.

Email, SMS & keys

Which provider keys unlock email, SMS and card payments.

Troubleshooting

The failures shopkeepers actually hit, with the cause and the fix.

About this guide

Every page describes what the software does today. Where something is not built, or needs a key or a document from a bank before it works, the page says so plainly instead of implying otherwise.