Select Maintenance > Hardware > Drink Dispensers to access this function.

Drink dispensers make it possible to more accurately account for every liquor drink poured. This eliminates the potential for employees to over pour or forget to ring up a drink. It may also help when identifying other shrinkage methods such as spillage.

Set up the drink dispenser per the documentation included with it by its manufacturer. Remember that any drink dispenser ID (or PLU, as some companies may call them) must match an Item ID in the Aloha system. If the ID does not match, a message like ‘Item #### not found in database. Notify Manager’ appears.

The following table shows the supported drink dispensers and their communication parameters:

Drink Dispenser types

Click the New drop-down arrow to select from a list of drink dispenser types currently supported in the Aloha POS system.

Drink Dispensers tab

Use the Drink Dispensers tab to determine the number and name used to identify the record, and to establish the communication parameters. You establish your own naming conventions; however, we suggest the drink dispenser name be descriptive of the hardware or reflect its physical location.

Group Bar: Settings

Name — Identifies the drink dispenser.

Terminal — Indicates the terminal to which the drink dispenser connects.

Port — Indicates the port on the terminal to which the drink dispenser is physically attached.