Route orders to the kitchen with Square KDS and Square for Restaurants
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About routing orders
Routing orders from different order sources to your Square KDS increases your staff’s efficiency to prep orders with the relevant order information available for each kitchen station.
Before you begin
Download the Square KDS app on a compatible Android tablet.
You can set up order routing from your Square Dashboard and Square KDS app. You have two options for routing orders to your Square KDS:
Route orders from Square POS devices
Route online orders
Square KDS is only available on Android tablets.
Option 1: Route orders from multiple POS devices
Route orders from multiple points of sale
You can set up your Square KDS to filter which Square POS devices (with Square POS and Square Restaurant POS) to show incoming tickets.
- Sign in to your Square Dashboard and click Settings > Device Management > Devices.
- Select your device then, next to Assigned modes, click Manage.
- Select Routing > Source & fulfilment.
- Toggle ON View point of sale orders.
- Select Edit next to Receives orders from.
- Toggle ON which points of sale send orders to this kitchen display.
- Click Save.
Option 2: Route online orders
You can set up your Square KDS to filter online orders to show incoming tickets.
- Sign in to your Square Dashboard and click Settings > Device Management > Devices.
- Select your device then, next to Assigned modes, click Manage.
- Select Routing > Source & fulfilment.
- Toggle ON View online, kiosk and delayed fulfilment orders.
- Click Save.