# Setting Up the Notification Screen

The Pickup screen is for your customers. The Notification screen is for your team: one glance from the bar tells them how deep the queue is, what the shift still owes, and which prep item is about to run dry.

> \[!IMPORTANT] Before you start
> The display needs to be paired first. See [Pairing a Screen with a QR Code](/back-office/screens/pairing-a-screen-with-a-qr-code), then come back here. Notification screens run at Pro locations.

## Point a display at the Notification view

Open **On Location > Screens > Device Settings** and set the display's **View** to `Notification`, then set **Display Location** to the shop it belongs to.

![The screen device list, with a display set to the Notification view and a calendar attached](https://ikhejtbmenrxkoctpysb.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/kb-screenshots/kb/setting-up-the-notification-screen/2/b7e722b5/1-setting-up-the-notification-screen-devices.png)

The display switches itself over within a few seconds. Notice that a **Calendar** column becomes relevant for this row once the view is Notification, which is covered further down.

> \[!TIP]
> Hang this one where staff look, not where customers do. It carries counts and checklist progress, not order names.

## What the board shows

![The Notification screen showing orders in queue, today's calendar, checklist progress, and running low items](https://ikhejtbmenrxkoctpysb.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/kb-screenshots/kb/setting-up-the-notification-screen/2/b7e722b5/2-setting-up-the-notification-screen-display.png)

**Orders in Queue and Items in Queue** count what is open right now at that screen's location. Two numbers, updating live, so whoever walks in from the back knows what they are walking into.

**Checklist Progress** shows a bar per checklist, with the count finished out of the total. Only lists that are **due now and not yet finished** appear, so a completed opening list clears itself off the wall instead of nagging all day, and a closing list stays out of sight until the evening. When there is nothing outstanding the card simply says so.

**Running Low** is the one that saves a shift. It lists prep items that have fallen to half their par or below, in amber, then red as they get closer to empty, with the amount remaining and a nudge to count and confirm.

**Calendar** carries today's events for whichever calendar that display follows, with the times and whatever note you keep on the event. A lunch group with a table held for them, an HOA meeting with the back room booked: the closing team sees it without anyone having to remember to mention it.

## Choose what counts as running low

Running Low is opt-in, category by category, so the wall shows the handful of things worth chasing rather than every ingredient you stock.

Open **Recipes & Ingredients > Recipes > Prep Categories** and use the **Notification Screen** toggle on each category you want watched.

![The Prep Categories list with its Notification Screen toggles](https://ikhejtbmenrxkoctpysb.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/kb-screenshots/kb/setting-up-the-notification-screen/2/b7e722b5/3-setting-up-the-notification-screen-prep-categories.png)

An item also needs a **par** set at that location. Par is what "low" is measured against, so an item without one has nothing to fall below and will not appear.

> \[!NOTE]
> The card is deliberately quiet. An item only appears once it is at half par or lower, which keeps a wall of amber from becoming background noise.

## Add a calendar (optional)

The Calendar card appears once your account is connected to Google, which is a tidy way to put deliveries, maintenance visits, and standing bookings where the team will actually see them.

Pick the calendar **per display**, in the **Calendar** column on **Device Settings**. That column only applies to screens set to the Notification view, which is why it sits empty for a Pickup row, and picking per display means a screen in the back room can follow a different calendar than one in the office.

Accounts that are not connected to Google simply see the board without that card. Nothing else on the screen changes.

## What you should see

A display that switched to the Notification view on its own, live counts for the right shop, checklist bars for whatever the shift still owes, a short Running Low list that matches the categories you flagged, and today's events if you attached a calendar.

***Account Level:** Pro*