CoinOpThe manual
Describes CoinOp 1.1.4, released .
All of CoinOp, screen by screen, with pictures of each one. Written for the person who has to run the venue on it rather than for the person who built it.
1Installing it
What to run it on, how to install it, and what the tills, the kitchen screen and the customer display are.
2Setting up a venue
The first two questions, the PIN everybody knows, and getting your own tables and consoles onto the floor.
3The floor
Starting and ending sessions, the four ways time can be sold, pausing, moving players, and drawing the room the way it really is.
4Rates
What an hour costs, by day and hour, per player or per station — with minimums, rounding, grace and long-session prices.
5The menu
Sections, categories, items and modifiers; where each item goes when it is ordered; and how the buttons look.
6Taking money
Sales, tabs, split payments, discounts, service charge, tips, refunds and the drawer.
7Kitchen and printing
Printers, routes, the kitchen screen, and what the ticket and the receipt say.
8The waiting list
A queue per kind of thing you rent, tonight’s bookings beside them, and calling people forward on WhatsApp.
9Gaming PCs (ggLeap)
Selling passes and seeing the PCs from the till, so the day-to-day stops needing the ggLeap admin site at all.
10Bookings
Taken at the counter or read from your own website — never both — with the fee that holds a table and comes off against a game pass.
11Customers and points
A record for the people who come back, points earned on the clock and spent on free table time, and the three messages CoinOp sends on your behalf.
12Tournament nights
A draw, matches called to real tables, the prize fund out of the drawer, and a bracket on a screen in the room.
13Staff and devices
Who can sign in, what each role may do, approvals, enrolling screens, and the customer display.
14The end of the day
Shifts and the business day they belong to, the drawer, the Z report, and the day’s takings emailed when the day ends.
15Licence, updates and backups
The trial, the subscription key, updating in one press, and what is backed up.
16Booking feed (for developers)
The one read-only endpoint a venue’s website exposes so CoinOp can read bookings.
Where the pictures come from
Every screenshot in here is CoinOp running, photographed by a script that signs in and presses the buttons a person would press. The venue in them is invented — its floor, prices, staff, customers and gaming PCs are made up for the purpose — because no real venue’s takings or customers belong on a public web page.
That also means the manual cannot quietly describe a screen that has stopped working: if the screen changes, the picture changes with it, and if it breaks, no picture comes out at all.