| Check / order |
The guest's open restaurant record, identified by order number. It may contain several rounds before payment. |
| Guests (covers) |
Number of guests on a dine-in order, entered as Guests; not an automatic bill split. |
| Waiter / server |
Person assigned to service the dine-in order and receive service attribution. |
| Cashier |
Authenticated POS operator recording sales/payments, which may be someone other than the waiter. |
| Register / shift |
The till and its open trading session, opened with Start service and closed with End shift, including opening and counted cash. |
| Not sent / Not printed |
An item saved on the order but not yet dispatched. The kitchen screen shows it greyed as Held. Auto-fire can skip this stage. |
| Fire / send / dispatch |
Release items for preparation and consume their configured stock. Send is the Kitchen Display label; Confirm & Print is used for paper/combined orders. |
| Prep station |
Configured preparation destination such as kitchen or bar; it is not an automatically selected physical printer. |
| KDS / bump |
Kitchen Display System; bumping marks preparation ready, not paid or served. |
| Pass |
Where ready food waits to leave the kitchen. Picked up marks it served on the order. |
| Preparation batch |
Saved dispatch, change or cancellation snapshot used to recover paper copies from Print history. |
| Reprint |
Another copy of saved information, not another dispatch, sale or stock movement. |
| Settlement / paid receipt |
Recording the sale/payment and its receipt; separate from presenting an unpaid bill. |
| Even split |
Evenly on the payment sheet: equal shares as payment rows on one sale and one receipt. |
| MoMo |
Mobile money. Recording the method/reference in POS does not verify the external transfer. |
| GHS |
Ghana cedi currency code. Check the register currency before using a worked amount. |
| Void / refund |
Authorised correction of a recorded sale/payment, not ordinary unpaid item removal. |
| X-Report |
Current-shift operating summary, printed with Print X report on End shift or opened from the register page; it does not close the shift. |
