# Setting Up Tablets and Their Devices

The tablet app is what your team touches all day. Setting one up is three decisions: where it sits, which shop it belongs to, and which tickets it should show.

## What tablets do for you

**On Location > Tablets > Tablet Info** is the orientation page: what the tablet app covers on your plan, from the KDS order board to checklists, prep, and waste.

![The Tablet Info page](https://ikhejtbmenrxkoctpysb.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/kb-screenshots/kb/tablet-info-and-devices/3/f69996cb/1-tablet-info-and-devices-info.png)

## Add a device

A tablet adds itself. Log in on the device for the first time at the tablet app address, then come back to **On Location > Tablets > Device Settings** and refresh. The device appears in the list, ready to configure.

![Tablet Device Settings with device name, display location, and routes](https://ikhejtbmenrxkoctpysb.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/kb-screenshots/kb/tablet-info-and-devices/3/f69996cb/2-tablet-info-and-devices-devices.png)

| Column               | What to set it to                                           |
| -------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Device Name**      | Where it physically sits, for example "Airport KDS Station" |
| **Display Location** | The shop this tablet belongs to                             |
| **Routes**           | Which slices of the menu it shows                           |

**Device Name** is click-to-edit, and a device with no routes shows **Click to add a route** until you give it one.

> \[!TIP]
> Name devices after the counter, not the hardware. "Bar iPad" tells the next person where to go; "iPad 3" tells them nothing at 6am.

## Routes decide what it shows

A tablet with no route shows everything, which is fine for a single-station shop and unworkable for two. Set up your routes under **On Location > Tablets > Routing** first, then attach them here. One device can carry several, so a small shop can run bar and kitchen on one screen and split them later without redoing anything.

## What you should see

Every tablet in your shop listed with a name someone would recognise, pointed at the right location, and showing only the tickets that station makes.

***Account Level:** KDS & Pro*