Outlets

An outlet is a physical place you sell from. The POS will not open until one exists. The outlet decides what the cashier can take payment with and what address the order is billed to.

Open the screen

Go to DevDiggers Plugins → MultiPOS → Outlet.

In the free version this tab opens the outlet form directly. There is one outlet, so there is no list to browse and no Add New button.

Pro feature

More than one outlet is Pro. Pro turns this tab into the list above, with Add New, per-row Edit and Delete, a bulk delete, and Assign Stocks and Kitchen View buttons per location.

What an outlet decides

Four things, and all four land on every order the outlet sells.

• The payment methods a cashier can take. Only methods assigned here appear at payment.
• The billing and shipping address on the order. A POS order is addressed to the shop, not to the customer. A counter sale happens at the shop, so that is the address tax should be worked out from.
• The tax rates that apply. Worked out from the outlet’s country, state, city and postcode against your WooCommerce tax table.
• Whether tables exist. Only a Restaurant/Cafe outlet has a floor plan.

The form

• Outlet Name is a label for you, such as Downtown Branch. It appears on the outlet picker the cashier sees.
• Operation Mode is Retail/Grocery Store or Restaurant/Cafe.

Restaurant/Cafe adds the Tables screen to the terminal sidebar, the Select Table control in the cart, and the Dine in / Take Away choice. Retail/Grocery hides all three.

Pro feature

The Pro form adds two fields here: Inventory Management per outlet, and Invoice Template so each location can print its own receipt design.

Location and contact

Eight fields, and all but Address Line 2 are required.

Field	Required
Address Line 1	Yes
Address Line 2	No
City	Yes
Country	Yes
State/Province	Yes
Postcode/ZIP	Yes
Phone	Yes
Email	Yes

Get these right the first time. They print on every receipt and they decide the tax rate on every sale. A wrong postcode is a wrong tax figure on hundreds of orders before anyone notices.

The address is also what a customer reads on the receipt when they want to bring something back.

Configuration

Payment Methods is a multi-select of the Active methods from Configuration → Payments. At least one is required.

This is the field people forget. A method that is Active but not selected here never reaches the POS.

Dining Tables is a multi-select of the Active tables from Configuration → Tables. It is ignored unless the mode is Restaurant/Cafe.

Outlet Status is Active or Inactive.

Set it to Inactive to close a location temporarily without deleting anything. Its orders and transactions stay where they are.

The header buttons

The screen header carries Visit POS, which opens the terminal in a new tab. Use it to check your work.

Kitchen View

Kitchen View is a per-row action, not a header button, and it appears only on a row whose Operation Mode is Restaurant/Cafe. The Retail/Grocery row beside it has no such button.

It opens that outlet’s Kitchen Display in a new tab. Each outlet has its own, so a kitchen only ever sees its own orders.

Pro feature

Kitchen View and the screen behind it are Pro.

Editing later

Everything on the form can be changed, and changes apply to new orders only. Past orders keep the address and payment method they were created with, which is what you want for your records.

Where to go next

• How to Set Up Your Outlet for a walkthrough.
• Payment Methods to define what you can assign here.
• Assign Stocks for per-outlet stock.