Tabern

Kiosks

Set up a Rewards Scanner for staff and full-screen menu displays for guests.

Video walkthrough coming soonThe written steps below cover everything in the meantime.

A kiosk is a screen at your venue that runs in a browser, usually a tablet or a TV. Tabern has two kinds, and you create both in Customers → Kiosks:

  • Rewards Scanner: a staff screen, unlocked with a PIN, for checking members in.
  • Full-screen Menu: a guest-facing display that shows your published menu. No PIN.

Create a kiosk

  1. Open Customers → Kiosks in the dashboard sidebar.

  2. Under Add a kiosk, choose Rewards Scanner — PIN kiosk or Full-screen Menu — public kiosk, then click Continue to details.

  3. Enter a Kiosk name, such as Bar counter or Dining room menu, so you can tell your screens apart.

  4. For a Rewards Scanner, enter a 6-digit PIN. Each scanner needs its own PIN; two kiosks can't share one.

  5. Click Add kiosk. The kiosk is enabled right away and appears in the list below the form.

  6. Click Open kiosk display on the new kiosk, then open that same page address on the device you'll use as the kiosk.

Rewards Scanner kiosks

  • Staff unlock the scanner with its PIN. Five wrong PINs lock it for 15 minutes.
  • Once unlocked, the scanner stays unlocked for up to 8 hours as long as the page stays open. Refreshing or closing the page asks for the PIN again.
  • The scanner works only while your rewards program is active.
  • Scanning, approving, and reading results are covered in Scanner operation.

The menu display shows your published menu as ambient signage for a wall, window, or counter. It moves to the next page of items every 12 seconds. If you have several menus, it rotates through them, and guests can tap a menu name to switch. It checks for newly published changes about every 30 seconds, so you don’t need to reload it after you publish.

Click the settings icon on a menu kiosk to open Display settings:

  • Hide header: removes your venue logo, name, and clock to make room for the menu.
  • Hide menu categories: removes the menu and category chips above the items.
  • Fixed menu: Rotate all menus, or lock the display to one menu.
  • Categories on display: appears when you pick a fixed menu. Tick only the categories you want shown, or click Show all.

Click Save settings. The display picks up the change on its next refresh.

Manage kiosks

Each kiosk in the list shows its name and an Enabled or Disabled tag, plus these controls:

  • Open kiosk display: opens the kiosk’s screen in a new tab.
  • Display settings (settings icon): menu kiosks only. See above.
  • Reset PIN (key icon): scanner kiosks only. Enter a New 6-digit PIN and click Save PIN. This signs the scanner out right away and clears any lockout; staff unlock again with the new PIN.
  • Disable / Enable: click the disable icon, then Disable? to confirm. A disabled scanner is signed out right away; a disabled menu display switches to “Menu unavailable” on its next refresh. Click the enable icon to turn it back on.
  • Delete (trash icon): only shown while a kiosk is disabled. Click it, then Delete? to confirm. Deleting is permanent.

Tips

  • The menu display shows your published menu. Publish menu changes for them to appear.
  • Mount the scanner where staff, not guests, can reach it.
  • Give each screen its own kiosk so you can disable or reset one without affecting the others.