How-to · Setting up

Set up a tablet as a counter

The tablet shows a code. Type it on your computer. Nobody signs in on the tablet and nothing is typed on it.

A counter is a Merchant Display: a tablet at the counter, named, that people sign in to by PIN. The payment terminal, the Customer Display and the printer are added to it afterwards, from its own row.

On the tablet

Open Sparto on the tablet. A fresh install shows Set up this tablet with an eight-character code. In a browser, tap Set up this tablet as a Merchant Display or a Customer Display on the sign-in form to see it. Leave the tablet on that screen.

On your computer

1. Open Counters and tap Add a device.
2. Choose Merchant Display.
3. Name it, such as "Front counter".
4. Under Type the code the tablet shows, type the code and tap Add.

The tablet opens to the PIN pad within a few seconds. Its row on Counters reads active, with what kind of tablet it is and when it was last used. The code works for 5 minutes. After that the tablet says Code expired; tap New code for another.

If the tablet is in front of you

Sign in on it as a manager, open Counters, tap Add a device, choose Merchant Display, name it, and tap Use this tablet. The tablet is the counter at once.

What goes on a counter next

Under the counter's row, each device has a line: the payment terminal, the Customer Display, the printer, the drawer. Tap Add a device to the counter and choose what it is. See Pair a card reader, Add a Customer Display and Connect a receipt printer.

Sounds

A counter chimes when a sale is paid and sounds low on a decline or an unknown scan. Tapping an item is silent. On Setup, tap This tablet and untick Play sounds on this tablet to silence it, or choose a click or a buzz under On every press.

If a tablet is lost

Tap Remove on its row. On a Merchant Display signed in by PIN, Counters offers Sign in with your email and password first; the Merchant Display stays enrolled, and Lock brings the PIN pad back. Anybody signed in on it is signed out at their next press, and it cannot be used again until it is set up afresh.