topic Re: Button Font Size: Toast Go2 in Restaurant Operations

Button Font Size: Toast Go2

Sdaniel — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 17:07:16 GMT

Hi everyone!

Seeking help on how to adjust the button font size. With the switch to the new POS, our item names appear shortened. We have a few items that have similar names, and it's caused a few mistakes. Any help/ideas are appreciated! 🙂

Here is what we already tried:

1. Adjusting menu grid dimensions

2. Adjusting font size on Toast-Go

3. Changing POS names

Re: Button Font Size: Toast Go2

au79teahouse — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 04:20:42 GMT

Go to Android home screen > settings > Display > Click Advance > Check the "Font Size" and "Display Size"

Re: Button Font Size: Toast Go2

rcmck — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 04:55:24 GMT

Font size won't have any affect (seems to be hard coded in new ui for go) but display size could be pushed to small, everything in the ui will be a little smaller but I think still usable. Another thing you could do is adjust the grid size in device setup, definitely will give bigger buttons and more room for text but the trade-off will be more swiping depending on your menu size.

Re: Button Font Size: Toast Go2

au79teahouse — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 05:14:15 GMT

You are correct. Font size actually has not effect on the UI. However, the display size does. Could it be different app version? I feel everything is smaller since the update, like the resolution is higher and it makes the font smaller. We are running 2.70 Build 8.

Re: Button Font Size: Toast Go2

Sdaniel — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 14:09:43 GMT

Hey! I've already tried all of this as mentioned in the original post. Nothing seems to work, unfortunately.

Re: Button Font Size: Toast Go2

rcmck — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 16:55:42 GMT

Your grid size is higher than the default, have you tried 5 x 4?

Re: Button Font Size: Toast Go2

Sdaniel — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 15:16:50 GMT

Hi!

This is an example from a different location that emailed over the weekend: This was never really an issue before we switched to the new POS.

Re: Button Font Size: Toast Go2

au79teahouse — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 22:27:10 GMT

We don't have this issue at our location. Have your tried to reinstall the app on your handheld?

Re: Button Font Size: Toast Go2

seanmsulli — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 21:23:12 GMT

We have the same issue. I'm learning to like the new update, but it is a bit cluttered on the handhelds.

Re: Button Font Size: Toast Go2

Sdaniel — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 14:33:40 GMT

I have yet to try this. Thanks for the suggestion! 🙂

Re: Button Font Size: Toast Go2

Sdaniel — Thu, 16 May 2024 18:00:23 GMT

Hey everyone!

Wondering if anyone has found a solution aside from using the default menu grid size? Not every one of our locations likes using the default grid size, they would like to be able to use a different grid size with more buttons.

Re: Button Font Size: Toast Go2

rcmck — Thu, 16 May 2024 18:07:07 GMT

You can push the display size under settings to small instead of the default, this will get more text visible but all of the UI will be slightly smaller and buttons might be harder to touch.

Re: Button Font Size: Toast Go2

Sdaniel — Thu, 16 May 2024 18:11:46 GMT

Hey! Thanks for the tip, but this was one of the first settings we adjusted, and unfortunately didn't seem to work on the Toast Go 2. These are the instructions we followed, but if you have a different article that you can share that would be great!

Adjust the Font Size on Your POS Device (toasttab.com)

Re: Button Font Size: Toast Go2

rcmck — Thu, 16 May 2024 18:40:55 GMT

Not font size, the actual display size, you can go to small and it definitely has an affect. Also I don't know if you utilize the POS name on menu items and modifiers a lot but if you can shorten names for just the POS in some spots it can be helpful, I always did this anyways even before this was an issue so I have less items being truncated now.

Re: Button Font Size: Toast Go2

Sdaniel — Thu, 16 May 2024 18:43:57 GMT

Yes, I oversee our menu build and therefore I have already started shrinking down the names of some of our items so that servers can easily read these names, but I was hoping that Toast would have a better solution. It doesn't really make much sense to be able to adjust the grid size if Toast recommends the default.

Do you have insturctions on how to adjust the display size?

Re: Button Font Size: Toast Go2

Sdaniel — Thu, 16 May 2024 18:45:10 GMT

I am pretty sure our R&D location had played around with the display size, I recall seeing the page of the picture you shared, but don't have the instructions to get to that page.

Re: Button Font Size: Toast Go2

rcmck — Thu, 16 May 2024 19:08:22 GMT

Same area that font size is found under the system settings > display

Re: Button Font Size: Toast Go2

rcmck — Thu, 16 May 2024 19:17:51 GMT

Yeah, go to home screen, settings icon, display > advanced settings > display size