Select Maintenance > System Settings > Skins to access this function.

A skin is a set of graphical elements, such as a designed color scheme, theme, background, images, buttons and controls, which give the interface a completely different look without changing functionality. The Aloha system comes preloaded with 28 skins from which you can choose. The skin you choose can remain static (always appear) or you can choose a skin for a specific occasion, such as the holiday season, or any other purpose. For example, you can use the Winter skin seasonally or you can use the Coffee skin if you operate a coffee shop. You can also create skins to your corporate standards, such as branding the skin to the colors used at your restaurant. For example, if the color scheme at your restaurant is gold and silver, you can create a skin that predominately uses the colors gold and silver.

The attributes for each skin are defined in EGI.cfg, located in the Data and Newdata directories; however, you need to make all your configuration changes for skins in Skin Maintenance and not directly in this file. If you wish to use a predefined skin without any alterations, you need only go into Stores and select a skin from the ‘Graphical skin’ drop-down list. If you want to change a predefined skin, or configure a skin from scratch, you must access Skin Maintenance and configure the attributes of the skin, including the menu and submenu areas, if desired.

The controls for customizing a skin are all Windows standard controls. For example, you can click any option requiring a color and open a Windows color-picker grid to select the desired color. If you decide to customize your own skins, we recommend you copy a predefined skin and make your desired alterations, so that no attributes accidentally get omitted.