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Settings — General Settings

Feature Overview

General Settings contains miscellaneous restaurant-wide configuration options that don't belong to a more specific category. Think of this as a catch-all for operational preferences and toggles that affect how the system behaves globally — from rounding rules to behavioral defaults that influence the guest experience and staff workflow.

How It Affects the System

  • Changes made in General Settings apply restaurant-wide and may affect POS behavior, reporting defaults, or guest-facing experiences depending on which specific settings are updated.
  • Because this section consolidates a variety of options, each toggle or field has a direct impact on a specific part of the system. Review each setting's label and description carefully before making changes.
  • Settings here save automatically — there is no separate Save button required for most fields.

Prerequisites / Requirements

  • Restaurant edit or view permissions are required.

Step-by-Step Guide

Accessing General Settings

  1. Navigate to Settings > General Settings.
  2. The page displays a list of toggles and fields for various restaurant-wide preferences.

Updating a General Setting

  1. Locate the setting you want to change.
  2. For toggle switches, click the switch to turn the feature on or off.
  3. For text or numeric fields, click into the field, update the value, and click outside the field to save.
  4. Changes apply automatically after a short delay.

Common Troubleshooting / FAQs

Q: I changed a setting in General Settings but the behavior on the POS hasn't changed. Some settings require the POS app to be restarted before they take effect. Ask staff to close and reopen the Katalyst POS application on the affected device. If the behavior still hasn't changed, navigate back to Settings > General Settings to confirm the change was saved correctly.

Q: I'm not sure what a specific setting does. Each setting in this section is labeled to indicate its function. If the label is not sufficiently clear, contact Katalyst support with the name of the setting in question — they can explain its exact effect on your restaurant's configuration.