Automatic sign-out

Why a terminal signs you out by itself after a while, and when it won't.

Your manager can set a terminal to sign you out by itself when nobody has touched it for a while. That keeps the next person from ringing things in under your name.

#How it works

• Every touch, anywhere on the screen, restarts the timer.
• If the screen isn't touched for the set time, the terminal goes back to the sign-in screen.
• Right after you Send an order, pay a check, or finish a split, the terminal can use a different time set for that order type. That way a counter terminal can sign you out soon after each sale. Touch the screen and the normal timer takes over again.

Your manager picks these times. On some terminals it's switched off.

#When it never signs you out

• While you're inside an order.
• While you're on the payment screen.

On the handheld, it never signs you out while an order is open.

#Good to know

• Being signed out doesn't clock you out. Just sign back in with your PIN. See Sign in with your PIN.
• Items you haven't sent yet aren't lost to the timer, because it doesn't run inside an order. Leaving an order yourself is different. See Send to the kitchen.