How to set the quota for the canteen card reader

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Update time : 2019-11-08 10:25:00

The canteen card reader refers to the charging system used in dining hall. The system is used to manage all the food outlets in the canteen, improve the speed of food sales, and at the same time improve the sanitation situation, save manpower, material and financial resources, especially at the peak of food sales. At the same time, quota consumption and times consumption are frequently used by canteen managers.
   
The canteen card reader produced by the independent research of Shenzhen Cardlan not only supports scanning code payment, but also has the function of IC card payment. How to set the quota for the canteen card reader? This article describes the steps of setting quotas in detail.

The consumption function of the card reader in the canteen from Cardlan: fixed consumption, free consumption, menu number consumption, time consumption and other consumption patterns.

Open the power switch of the dining hall card reader, the button enters the setting, after entering the setting mode, press down to turn over the key, find the consumption state, change free consumption into fixed or fixed consumption. In the fixed consumption mode, the operator is not required to input the consumption amount, and the payment is automatically deducted according to the preset amount when reading the card.

  Cashless life is gradually changing people's consumption habits, mobile payment has penetrated into every corner of citizens' life. For example, employees have higher demands for the convenience and wisdom of paying for meals in the canteen. Our company independently develops and produces a qr code scanning device to pay the canteen card, which provides a multi-payment service for employees' dining and further improves the dining fee payment experience.

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