This page describes the Local Machine Payment Modes setting. This setting is located in the Point of Sales and Restaurant modules, but this description focuses on its use in the Restaurant module. Please refer here if you need a description focusing on its use in the Point of Sales module.

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The Local Machine Payment Modes setting should contain a list of the Payment Modes (i.e. the payment methods) that can be used on each Local Machine (i.e. on each till, cash machine or device). This setting is in the Restaurant and Point of Sales modules.

You should list payment methods in the Local Machine Payment Modes setting if you will need waiters and bar staff working with Bar Tabs to be able to receive payment from a Customer using more than one payment method (e.g. cash and credit card) in a single window. Follow these steps:

In the POS Buttons setting, add a "Pay" POS Button to the Bar Tab window.
In the Local Machine Payment Modes setting, list the payment methods that can be used on each till or device. For example, if you have three tills that will accept cash and credit cards, you will need to list these payment methods separately for each till in the setting, as illustrated below (in this example, one till will also accept cheques):

In each row, specify the Payment Mode (i.e. the payment method), the Local Machine (i.e. the till or device on which the payment method can be used) and the Label. The Label is the text that will identify each payment method to the waiters and bar staff. For each Payment Mode that represents credit card payments, use 'Paste Special' from the CC Type field to choose the credit card type. For the Payment Mode that represents cash payments, enter your home Currency in the Currency field. You don't need to specify a Drawer.
When a waiter or member of bar staff clicks or touches the "Pay" button, a 'Payment' window will open. This window will contain a separate field for each payment method that can be used on the till or device (i.e. the payment methods that you have listed for the till in the Local Machine Payment Modes setting):
The waiter or member of bar staff should enter the value of the payments made using each payment method in the relevant Amount fields and then click or touch the [Proceed] button. The payments will be added to the Bar Tab.

Note that there only space in the 'Payment' window for a limited number of payment methods. Bear this in mind when deciding whether to offer waiters and bar staff a "Pay" button as you may end up with too many payment methods for the "Pay" window. If so, you may decide not to offer waiters and bar staff a "Pay" button and instead offer them separate buttons for each payment method (e.g. separate "Cash" and "Credit Card" buttons). It will still be possible to receive payments made using more than one payment method, but not in the same window.

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