A second screen needs no server and no extra infrastructure. It is another printer as far as the POS is concerned.
How it works
| Route in the POS | Goes to | Address |
|---|---|---|
| FOOD | Hot kitchen | 192.168.1.50 |
| DRINKS | Bar and coffee | 192.168.1.51 |
| DESSERT | Desserts | 192.168.1.52 |
Setting it up
- Set up each screen on its own tablet or PC, following Connect your POS to the kitchen display.
- Give each one a different fixed IP address.
- In the POS, add each as a separate printer.
- Route the categories you want to each printer.
Every screen needs its own licence, and all of them must be on the same network as the POS.
What each screen keeps for itself
The Virtual, Display and Sound tabs belong to each screen. Switch on the Virtual Printer and choose the POS System on every screen, not just the first.
The Kitchen tab is shared by every screen at the venue — it says Shared across all devices at this location. Change the bump mode or the all-day items on one screen, and the others pick it up.
When every screen shows every docket
A screen with sync on sends each docket it receives to the server, and every other screen at the venue with sync on shows it too. POS routing then decides which screen receives a docket first, not which screens show it.
Sync is the Enable sync switch under Settings → Account → Sync to Server — see Check this screen's licence, sync and app version. It is on by default. To keep a screen to its own dockets, turn it off on that screen. The switch then reads Local mode — orders stay on this device, and the screen shows only what the POS sends it, with no orders from the server.
The switch cannot be turned off when it reads Required — integrations are configured for this location, for example at a venue that takes mypreorder online orders. A screen on a Standalone licence always keeps its orders to itself.
Naming them
Name each printer in the POS after the screen it drives — KDS Hot Kitchen, KDS Bar — rather than
leaving it as Printer 2. Routing becomes far easier to follow later, especially for whoever has to
change it next.
If a screen is off
Most POS systems let you set a fallback for when a printer cannot be reached. Point it at another kitchen printer or the receipt printer, so that kitchen information is never silently lost when a screen is switched off or drops off the network.