Retail mode: shop wording, no restaurant screens

A till that speaks retail

SeroPOS started life in restaurants, and its default screens show tables, kitchen tickets and order types. A shop does not need any of that. Retail Mode hides the restaurant parts of the app and changes the wording, so a boutique, convenience store or hardware shop gets a clean counter screen without menus it will never use.

Turn it on in Settings with the Retail Mode switch. The home screen loses its dine-in, take away and delivery cards and shows a single New Sale button instead; on phones the start button reads Sell. The Admin hub subtitle changes to talk about your store, and every staff member on that till sees the same simplified layout.

What Retail Mode hides

Retail Mode removes the screens and buttons that only make sense in food service. Nothing is deleted: the data stays in your account, and the features return when you switch the mode off. This keeps the drawer menu short and stops new cashiers tapping into kitchen or table screens by mistake. It also makes training simpler, because the only path through the till is the one a shop actually uses.

Online and web orders from your catalogue still arrive through the cloud icon, so a shop that sells through a QR or web catalogue keeps its order queue. Only the food delivery platform bell is hidden, because it is a restaurant feature. The list below shows everything Retail Mode takes off the screen.

• Tables and the table grid
• Types of service (dine-in, take away, delivery)
• Kitchen tickets (KOT) and KOT Mapping
• Veg and non-veg food-type dots
• Kiosk Mode and KDS Mode
• Floor Plan Designer and KDS Cleanup
• The food delivery platform order bell

Checkout built around scanning

Retail sales usually start with a barcode. Plug a USB or keyboard-wedge scanner into the till and each scan into the search field adds the matching SKU to the cart. Phones and tablets can also scan with the built-in camera. Products with sizes or colours ask which variation to add, and open-price items ask for a price at the counter.

When the basket is ready, take payment with cash, a connected card terminal, a cheque or any custom tender you have set up. Split one sale across several tenders, take a deposit and leave a balance due, or charge a trusted customer's account up to their credit limit. Receipts print automatically or on request, with your logo and footer.

Everything else still works

Retail Mode changes the front of the till, not the back office. Products, categories, variations, taxes and price groups are still managed in the Admin hub or the web back office. Returns use the Return toggle on a cart line or a refund from Recent Transactions, and voids run on the card terminal when the sale was paid by card.

Open and close the register each shift with a cash float and a counted total, and print the daily sales report at the end of the day. Layout choices such as product button colours, QSR Mode on larger screens and the 30 app themes are all available in Retail Mode, so you can tune the counter to your store.