Configuration

There's three facets to configuring your CFD:

1. Basic configuration on our side.
2. Configuration in Contentful.
3. Configuration in Lokalise.

Basic configuration

Adding a CFD to your Station

Your CFD always lives inside a station. These stations are managed under Management → Infrastructure in the Admin.

A CFD only needs to be represented in your station, the connection settings are not required so we only need to set a Name and DeviceType, which should be CustomerDisplay.

Setting correct settings

There's a couple of setting which can affect the behavior of your CFD, POS and the pairing QR code.

Setting	Description
App:Customer:ShowVerifyOnCFDButton	Either true or false. Whether to show a button allowing employees to send user fields to the CFD for verification on customer creation.
Devices:UseNewConfigurationQrForCFD	Either true or false. Which QR to use for CFD pairing. Play around with this if your CFD doesn't recognize your QR.
Devices:UseNewConfigurationQrForCFD2	Either true or false. Which QR to use for CFD pairing. Play around with this if your CFD doesn't recognize your QR.
App:Customer:ShowSearchOnCFD	Defaults to false. When set to true, a search button will become available on the CFD for searching on consumers whether that is via a basket flow or a customer search.
App:CFD:IsPassive	Defaults to false. When set to true, interactive components are not displayed and can not be used on the CFD. The corresponding buttons on POS are also hidden.
App:CFD:CollapseBundles	Defaults to false. When set to true, bundles are displayed in a compacted form instead of expanded, with the latter revealing all order lines.
Customer:BlockChangeEmailAddress	Defaults to false. When set to true, employees and customers will no longer be allowed to edit customer email addresses after they've been created. This only impacts editing of existing records i.e. has no impact on new customer creations.

Permissions

In order to pair a CFD a user should have the permission Infrastructure with the scope view.

Downloading the CFD

The connection to your Contentful and Lokalise environments are hardcoded in your customer-specific CFD application. We will get you started with setting up Contentful and Lokalise environments and creating your specific CFD application. We will then supply a link or file for installation.

Pairing the CFD

You can pair your CFD to your POS using one of two methods:

1. From the Admin.
2. From the POS.

Pairing always uses a QR code which you can scan from the CFD. If your CFD is already paired to a different station, press the logo in the top three times to head to the scanner again. The POS will also be able to detect nearby CFDs that are unpaired right now.

Pairing from the Admin

To pair your CFD from the Admin, head over to Management → Infrastructure. Select your store and your desired station, and click Generate QR to generate a pairing QR.

Pairing from the POS

To pair your CFD from the POS, choose the three-dotted 'more options' button in the sidebar and scroll down until you see Set-up Customer Facing Display. Click this, choose your desired CFD and click Create pairing QR.

If a CFD had been previously configured for a station but is currently unpaired or unavailable, a message is displayed in the Basket and you will be redirected to set up your CFD.

note

Contentful data will not begin downloading until a successful connection has been established between your CFD and POS.

Contentful

All the images and videos are stored in Contentful. In Contentful, you have full flexibility of the content per country. Contentful also holds the configuration of the CFD in terms of colors, fonts and the logo.

Settings

In order to link your Contentful environment to your CFD, make sure to set the following settings:

Setting	Description
App:CFD:Contentful:SpaceID	SpaceID for your CF environment.
App:CFD:Contentful:AccessToken	Content delivery API AccessToken for your CF environment.
App:CFD:Contentful:Environment	Optional, to be used if you want to differentiate between environments that contentful offers.

note

CFD defaults to Contentful settings from EVA Cloud when available; otherwise, it applies the settings from Watchtower.

This rule applies both when initially configuring CFD and when pairing a previously paired CFD.

When in Contentful, three tabs are important:

1. Content model
2. Content
3. Media

Content model

You can view the content model as the template by which you create your different settings and screens for the CFD. The content model contains seven templates which we preconfigured for you. These templates are then used under Content to add your actual content.

Content

The content menu is where you create the actual content for your CFD based on the templates set under Content model. To add a new entry, click Add entry in the top-right of the screen and choose the template you want to use. Configuring the content should be pretty straight forward and self-guiding. When setting up new Content, using the following order is recommended:

1. Configuration
2. Locale
3. Country settings
4. Carousel slides
5. Idle screen
6. Payment complete screen
7. Customer validation screen

Of the above, only the last three represent actual screens.

Configuration

The configuration template holds all basic configuration settings for your CFD's appearance. These settings apply to all of your screens for all of your Locales and will only be set once. For Configuration, we provide the following stylesheet:

Locale

Except for the Configuration template, all templates are Locale-specific. A Locale is a language/country combination. Depending on the Admin configuration of the store in which the CFD is being used (LanguageID and CountryID), the CFD shows the correct content for the correct Locale. All other templates use the locale as an indicator for where they should be applied.

A Locale is always notated as en-HT where the first two letters describe the language and the first two letters describe the country (language-COUNTRY). Languages are notated following the ISO 639-1 standard, the country notations follow ISO 3166-1 alpha-2.

Country settings

The country settings hold some basic settings that can vary between countries.

Field	Description
Country	Name for your country entry, the following notation is preferred: Netherlands (en-NL).
Locale	To which locale this entry should apply.
Display tax	Whether to display a separate tax line or not .

Carousel slide

Carousel slide holds all content for your idle screen.

Field	Description
Name	Name for your carousel entry, the following notation is preferred: Carousel slide (en-NL).
Content (image/video)	What content to be displayed on your idle screen.
Action button	Optionally select an action button to be displayed on the idle screen.
Title	Title on your idle screen.
Subtitle	Subtitle on your idle screen.
Locale	To which locale this entry should apply.

Idle screen

The Idle screen template is where you link your previously configured carousel slide.

Field	Description
Name	Name for your idle screen entry, the following notation is preferred: Idle screen (en-NL).
Locale	To which locale this entry should apply.
Carousel slide	Here you link your previously configured carousel slide.

Payment complete screen

The Payment complete screen template holds the content for the screen that shows upon payment completion.

Field	Description
Name	Name for your payment complete entry, the following notation is preferred: Payment complete screen (en-NL).
Content (image/video)	What content to be displayed on your payment complete screen.
Title	Title on your payment complete screen.
Subtitle	Subtitle on your payment complete screen.
Locale	To which locale this entry should apply.

Fallback Locale

Make sure to always have a Locale configured for en-EN. This will be your fallback Locale in case no Locale is available for the store you are currently in.

Giftcard balance checker

The customer facing display offer functionality for a giftcard balance checker. With this feature, customers can walk up to a CFD that's in Idle mode. They can click the Scan giftcard button and then scan their giftcard. The CFD will show the remaining balance of the giftcard to the customer.

Note

Please note, this only works if there is an integration with Intersolve.

Enabling the balance checker

In your carousel slide, select the Giftcard Balance checker as an action button and save your carousel slide. Please make sure your carousel slide is part of the correct idle screen. Restart your CFD App on the iPad. You will now see a button in the middle of the image or video that the customer can use to scan their giftcard.

Disabling the balance checker

To disable the balance checker, go to your carousel slide where the balance checker button is active. In the action button dropdown, select "No action button" and save the carousel slide. Restart your CFD App on the iPad. The balance checker is now hidden.

Customer information

When searching for a customer, scanning a customer card from the CFD, or adding a customer from POS, the customer information displayed on CFD will show only the first name.

If there is no available first name, the customer will only be notified that they have been successfully added to the order.

Subscriptions and inquiries

You can configure your own Subscriptions and Inquiries through Admin Suite.

A privacy statement is displayed below the title, informing customers about their rights and how their data is handled.

Hyperlinks

Employees can set hyperlinks for subscriptions and inquiries, as well as in their descriptions. These are then displayed on the CFD. When users click on these links, they will be directed to the specified page. This feature can be used to direct users to legal disclaimers or privacy policies.

To configure having a hyperlink in the description and its format, check the Subscriptions documentation, namely the Description field.

Generate a digital customer card QR-code

Tapping the Add to wallet QR button in the basket page of your POS or Companion App will display a QR-code on your CFD that contains a link. This link can then be scanned by the customers iOS device to add to his/her Apple Wallet. The link to the CRM page will contain the customers BackendID.

The QR card will contain a title and a subtitle:

• Title: Add to wallet

• Subtitle: Scan the QR below to add your customer card to your phone

All the fields above need to be filled in. If so, the QR-card block is visible. If one of the above keys is not filled in, the QR-card block is hidden.

Idle mode

When the internet connection drops and there is no Watchtower available to fall back on, if there is no update from POS after 2 minutes, CFD will enter idle mode.

Debugging modes

There are two debugging modes to help find bugs. One of the modes is in the CFD, the other is in the POS.

CFD debugging mode

To toggle the debug mode on the CFD, tap 5 times in the middle of screen. In the bottom left corner of the screen, a window will appear. You can turn this off by pressing on the 'x' icon.

Name	Description
Connection state	Whether the CFD is connected to POS or not.
Station ID	To which StationID the CFD is subscribed to and what the DeviceID is.
Latest message	What the latest message was the CFD received from POS.
Last Action	The last action state of the CFD.
Enable logs	When you tap this link, the logs are enabled. When you restart the app the logs are disabled by default.
Share logs	When the logs are turned on, you can share them with another device via airdrop or email.

POS debugging mode

To toggle the POS debugging mode go to Settings → Set-up Customer Facing Display. In the popup, tap the title five times.

After tapping the title of the alert five times, POS will automatically restart. When logged in again, the left menu bar will show the debugging icon. When you click on the debug menu item the debug view opens.

In here you will see the CustomerFacingDisplayHub. This contains information regarding whether a CFD is active and if so, to which station the Hub is subscribed.