Kiosk Zero: Settings Breakdown

📋 Overview

📺Kiosk Mode: Order vs Kitchen

• Order — When configured for orders, the tablet becomes customer-facing, allowing guests to select their station and what they’re ordering without a cashier's guidance

• Kitchen — When configured for Kitchen, the tablet acts as a KDS, displaying incoming Tablet and Mobile orders first.
• Staff can still place orders manually for customers if needed

⚒️Actions: Rebooting and Syncing

• Restart App — Quickly restarts the Kiosk Zero app. Great for troubleshooting or even helping your station changes quickly sync to the tablet.

• Sync Database — Pulls down menu/station changes you have made so they can quickly reflect on the tablet.

• Reconnect to Grid — Used when your kiosk may be failing the VPN/Grid Network Test. This allows the kiosk to reconnect to the Mashgin Grid.

• Sleep — Puts the kiosk in a temporary sleep state to conserve energy. Can be awoken by a guest tapping the screen to start an order.

• Hibernate — Puts the kiosk in a locked hibernation state to conserve energy and prevent any orders from occurring. Must be reopened by a manager to begin accepting orders.

• Power — Fully powers down the kiosk and can only be powered back on via the power button on the back of the screen.

⚙️Settings: All Kiosk Zero Configurations in One Place

• 🛒Checkout — Is where you’ll configure your Day Parts, Display Prompts, and any Accessibility functions. See Kiosk Zero: Screen & Sleep Settings for a detailed breakdown.

• 🧾Receipt Rules — Allows you to configure and set up Kitchen/Customer Receipt rules for all or varying stations, depending on your needs. See Kiosk Zero: How to Setup Receipt Rules for a detailed breakdown.

• 💳Payments — Is where you would configure your payment device(Credit Card Reader) if one were being used in your setup. This is typically handled by support or during the deployment of your hardware.

• 🖨️Devices — Here you can view all your connected devices, such as your printer(s).

• 🏘️Peers — Displays other Kiosk Zero devices on the same shared network.

• 🛜Network — Here is where you’ll configure your LAN or WiFi network, depending on your setup. You can also view your current network information as well as run network tests.

• 🔈Sound — Allows you to configure the volume of the Kiosk Zero Tablet

• 🖥️Screen Orientation — Lets you choose between Horizontal vs Vertical or reversed depending on your tablet mount and setup. See Kiosk Zero: Screen & Sleep Settings for detailed steps.

• 🗣️Language — Sets the primary language that’s set on the kiosk for all users. See Kiosk Zero: Language Settings for more details.

• linkInit Setup — Typically used during the initial deployment of the hardware. This sets the location of the device. You can also use this to change the location if the device ever gets relocated.

• 🚉Stations — Here you can configure which stations would be available on this tablet. See Kiosk Zero: Selecting Stations for guidance on selecting stations.

🔗 Relevant Articles

• Kiosk Zero: How to Enter Manager Mode

• Kiosk Zero: Manager Mode Breakdown

• Kiosk Zero: Language Settings

• Kiosk Zero: Screen & Sleep Settings

• Kiosk Zero: Kitchen Mode Breakdown

• What is Kiosk Zero?

• Kiosk Zero: How to Setup Receipt Rules

• Kiosk Zero: Day Part Management