How to sign in the tablet#
For: Owner | Admin (or anyone setting up the tablet on-site) You’ll need: The email and password from How to add a kiosk device, the physical tablet, and a network connection.
You’ll open Shiftavo on the tablet in its browser, sign in with the kiosk credentials, and leave the terminal page running.
Sign in#
On the tablet’s browser, open
https://app.{{ app_name|lower }}.com/kiosk/terminal/(replace with your shard URL).The browser is redirected to the sign-in page. Enter the email and password from the kiosk-device success page.
Sign in.
The tablet lands on the terminal page — a grid of cards, one per person with a shift at this location today that hasn’t ended yet, plus anyone clocked in here.
Pin the page#
How you make the page persist depends on the tablet:
iPad / Android tablet — use the browser’s full-screen or “kiosk mode” so staff can’t navigate away. Most browsers have a setting under ‘Add to home screen’ or ‘Kiosk mode’.
Set a long screen timeout so the tablet doesn’t lock itself between punches.
Disable auto-update prompts that would interrupt the page.
Verify it worked#
The grid shows the names of the people with a shift here today that hasn’t ended yet. Once every shift has ended and nobody is clocked in, it reads “No people scheduled here today.” instead — that’s normal.
After a few minutes, the device’s ‘Last seen’ column in Planning → Management → Kiosk fills in with a timestamp. (The green/red badge next to it is the separate ‘Status’ column — Active or Disabled — and it’s green from the moment the device is created, so don’t read it as a sign-in signal.)
Tip
The tablet stays signed in across reboots as long as the browser keeps its cookies. If you clear the browser data, you’ll need to sign in again — using the same email and password.
What if I lost the password?#
You can’t recover it. Rotate it — see How to rotate or replace a kiosk device.