Setting up a venue

Each venue is set up once, under Config. What you choose here decides how the reports are grouped, so it is worth doing before the sales arrive.

What makes a venue

Timezone. Reports are grouped by the venue’s own local day, not by your browser’s and not by UTC.

Currency. The code and the symbol the reports show.

Shifts. When your trading begins. Every ticket falls in the shift that started last before it, and the first shift of a day is where the day begins — which is why a 03:30 ticket belongs to the evening that opened at 17:00. A shift set for one weekday replaces the every-day ones for that day.

Point of sale. Which POS in the catalogue prints here. The vocabulary its tickets are read with follows from this.

Capture mode. Paper or database. Switching it means the sales read the other way have to go: a venue is read one way, or the same sale lands twice. The server tells you how many that is before doing it, and captured tickets are never deleted by this choice.

Tills

Every till has its own key. The agent on that computer sends with it, and the server uses it to know which venue the capture belongs to, whatever the payload claims.

The key is shown when you create it. It can be disabled: the till retries and nothing is lost meanwhile.

A venue read from its database

It has no tickets to show — none are captured — so the console leaves that section out for it. Its sales come from the POS mirror and appear under Orders like any other.