Put the ordering app in your Dock on a Mac

Eleven steps and your ordering panel sits in the Dock as a program of its own, with new orders arriving straight away. You only ever click where the pink marker is.

Before you start

• Open the link we sent you in Safari — on your Mac
• Have your owner password ready — your staff sign in with their PIN instead

Tip

Notifications about new orders only arrive reliably from the installed program. Safari has no install button for this; the way in is the File menu. Chrome and Edge work differently and have a guide of their own.

1. Switch to “Owner”. Sign-in starts on the PIN keypad your staff use. Click “Owner” at the top.

   → The keypad is replaced by a password field.

   

2. Enter your password and sign in. Type your owner password and click “Sign in”.

   → Your panel opens.

   

3. Click your name, top right. Click your name in the top right corner.

   → A small menu opens.

   

4. Click “Install app”. In the menu, click “Install app”.

   → A note explains the next two steps.

   

5. Click “OK”. Read the note and click “OK”.

   

6. File → “Add to Dock”. In the menu bar at the top, click “File” and then “Add to Dock…”.

   → If the entry is greyed out, click once inside the panel window and open the menu again.

   

7. Confirm with “Add”. The window shows the name of your venue. Click “Add”.

   → The program now sits in the Dock at the bottom.

   

8. Click the new icon. Click the new icon in the Dock at the bottom.

   → The panel opens in a window of its own, without a browser bar. That is where you open it from now on.

   

9. “Options”, then “Allow”. In the top right corner, macOS asks whether the program may send you notifications. Move the mouse onto it, click “Options” and then “Allow”.

   → Without this permission it stays quiet later on, no matter what else you switch on.

   

10. Open “Notifications”. In the tab bar at the top, click “🔔 Notifications”. If you cannot see the tab, push the bar to the left with two fingers.

    

11. Switch it on. Click the “Turn notifications on” button.

    → Done. New orders and waiter calls now reach this Mac straight away, even when the panel is closed.

    

Caution

Do this on every device that should ring: notifications belong to the device, not to your account. And send yourself a test notification once, it is the only way to be sure everything arrives.

That’s it.