Connect a Printer

When using your IoT Box in Odoo, you could need to use a printer. Doing so is easy and convenient as it can be done in a few steps. Then, you can use it to print receipts, orders or even reports in different Odoo apps.

Connection

The IoT Box supports printers connected through USB, network or Bluetooth. Supported printers will be detected automatically and will appear in the Devices list of your IoT app.

Note

The printer can take up to two minutes to appear in your devices list.

Link the Printer

To Work Orders

You can link Work Orders to printers via a Quality Control Point to print labels for manufactured products.

To do so, you need to create a Quality Control Point from the Quality app. Then, you can select the correct manufacturing operation and the work order operation. In type, choose Print Label and hit save.

Now, each time you reach the quality control point for the chosen product, a Print Label button will appear.

To Reports

You can also link a type of report to a certain printer. In the IoT app, go to the Devices menu and select the printer you want to set up.

Now, go to the Printer Reports tab.

Hit edit and then, click on Add a line. In the window that shows up, check all the types of reports that should be linked to this printer. Click on select and save.

Now, each time you click on Print in the control panel, instead of downloading a PDF, it will send it to the selected printer and automatically print it.

Print Receipts from the PoS

You can link a printer to your Point of Sale app so you can print receipts directly from your PoS.

Doing so is really easy. Go to your Point of Sale app and open your Point of Sale settings, under Configuration. There, click on Edit and check the IoT Box feature. Then, choose your Receipt Printer from the dropdown.

Now, you will be able to print different kinds of tickets from your POS: receipts, sale details and bills.

Receipts are printed once the order is validated. The process is automated when you enable the feature in your PoS configuration.

Sales details can be printed by clicking on the printer icon on the navbar at the top of the PoS. It will print the details of the sales of the current day.

As for the bill, it is only available in restaurant mode. In your restaurant settings, activate Print Bills and a Bill button will appear in the left panel of the PoS.

Print Orders in the kitchen

In restaurant mode, you can send order tickets to the kitchen.

To do so, go to the PoS app and open your PoS settings. Then, tick Order Printer.

Now, go to the Printers menu. Hit create, select the printer from the dropdown and, in the Printer Product Categories field, choose all the categories of products that should be printed on this printer.

In the PoS, when you add or remove a product from one of the selected categories, the button Order will be green. If you click on it, the IoT Box will print a receipt on the corresponding printer.