Owner: install and set up
Installation, the setup wizard, tills and printers, backups, licence and updates.
28 topics
- Installing the serverOne PC in the shop holds the data and serves every till. Install it first.
- Installing a tillThe till app on every PC where you sell — it asks for the server's address once.
- Creating the owner accountThe first account, with every permission — made once, on the first start.
- The setup wizardFive steps after the owner account — your kind of shop, its details, its colour, and whether to start with sample products.
- Getting the shop readyThe till opens only when the shop has what it needs to sell — the list says what is missing.
- Business info, system and appearanceThe shop's name, address and tax ID on the receipt, the language and currency, and the brand colour.
- Branches and storesEach shop location is a branch; each branch holds one or more stores of stock.
- DepartmentsDine-in, takeaway, delivery — the first thing the cashier chooses, and it decides how the ticket starts.
- Ticket typesWhat a ticket must have before it can be sent or paid — a customer, an address, a scheduled time, or an entity such as a captain or a table.
- Ticket numberingNumber deliveries D-0001 separately from in-store sales, or restart the count every day.
- Payment methodsThe buttons on the payment screen — and which of them is drawer cash.
- Scale barcodesLet the till read the stickers your label scale prints — the product and its weight, price or count in one scan.
- Tills and pairingEvery till PC is paired with the server once — with a PIN, or by itself on the server PC — and gets its own receipt printer.
- One shift per tillEach till has its own drawer, shift and Z report — and the office sees the whole day in the Day summary.
- PrintersAdd a receipt or kitchen printer, choose how it prints, and test it.
- Print programsThe small program on each PC that drives its printers — whether it is running, and what it found.
- Kitchen routingWhich kitchen printer each category's order goes to, and whether the sending till prints a slip.
- Receipt templatesDesign the receipt and the kitchen ticket — blocks, logo, footer, QR code — with a preview of the real paper.
- Kitchen display setupKitchen stations — hot kitchen, cold station, bar — and which items each one gets.
- Floor plansTables (or rooms, or chairs) with their states, and the screens the till shows them on — a grid or your own drawing.
- Workflows and rulesWhat Major does by itself — deduct stock, print the receipt, free the table — and your own rules on top.
- Backups and restoreA backup every day by itself, one any time you ask, a copy off the PC — and going back to a chosen day.
- Data exportYour data is yours — any table as CSV, or the whole database as one file.
- The databaseWhere the data lives — on the server PC, or on a shared database server — and upgrading it.
- The licenceThe trial, the banner, sending your fingerprint, importing the licence — and what stays open if it runs out.
- UpdatesThe server updates itself, then each till updates from the server — the Update Center shows versions and history.
- The audit logWho did what and when — every sale action, price change, permission change — kept for a year.
- The server admin pageThe server at a glance — health, disk, backups, tills, pairing PIN and the licence — on one page.