Kitchen printing and KDS
POS Cafe sends each item from Shopify POS, your online store and kiosks to the station that makes it: drinks to the barista, food to the kitchen. Print tickets on Epson, Star or Shopify POS receipt printers, or show them on Fresh KDS screens.
Works on any Shopify plan, with Shopify POS Lite or Pro.
BARISTA
FOR HERE · Table 4
Order #104410:42 am
Note: one extra hot
Kitchen screen2 orders
#1044 · For Here2:15
Table 4
#1045 · Drive Thru0:40
Vehicle: Blue Toyota Corolla
How it works
Orders from the counter, online ordering, Cloudshelf kiosks and open tabs all follow the same prep areas, so there’s one setup to maintain.
Create a prep area for each station that makes your menu, such as Barista, Kitchen or Smoothie bar.
Assign a prep area to each POS Cafe product, one at a time or several at once from Cafe Collections.
At each location, tick the prep areas every printer and Fresh KDS screen should receive.
Choose your setup
Use one option or combine them. An item goes to every printer and screen that has its prep area, so the kitchen can work from a screen while the barista keeps a printed docket.
An Epson or Star receipt printer collects tickets from POS Cafe’s print server over the internet.
Prep tickets print on the receipt printer already connected to your Shopify POS device.
Kitchen and barista display screens replace paper tickets.
Built for busy service
Send each round from a table or open tab with one tap. Only new items go to the kitchen, and the customer pays when they’re ready.
Online ordering and Cloudshelf kiosk orders reach the same printers and screens as orders at the counter.
Sizes, modifiers, the order type, the table and the order note, so the team makes it right the first time.
Print one item per ticket on a label printer such as the Epson TM-L100, and stick it straight on the cup.
Pause a printer when a station closes or the paper runs out, and resume it when you’re ready.
Check which printers are online, how many tickets are waiting, and whether any prep area has nothing to print it.
An offline printer prints its waiting tickets when it reconnects, and items a printer refuses at checkout go through normal order printing.
Send selected Shopify products added outside POS Cafe, to the right station as well.
In the POS Cafe admin
Add Epson, Star and Shopify POS printers, choose their prep areas, and pause or resume them.
Each printer shows whether it’s online and how many tickets are waiting, and the page warns you when a prep area has nothing to print it.
Questions
More features
Install from the Shopify App Store, set up your prep areas, and send your first kitchen ticket during the trial.