POS Kitchen Display (KDS)
Live kitchen display for POS: station routing, prep status and timers on every order line
POS Kitchen Display (KDS)
Live kitchen display for POS: station routing, prep status and timers on every order line
POS Kitchen Display (KDS) turns any screen behind the counter into a real-time kitchen board, no extra hardware or Enterprise module required. Order lines are routed automatically to the right prep station by product category, then walked through a strict New to Served workflow with rush priority and a live elapsed timer, so nothing gets lost during the rush.
Key Features
Configurable kitchen stations
Define one or more prep stations (Grill, Bar, Dessert...), each mapped to specific product categories and optionally restricted to specific points of sale; a station with no category acts as the catch-all default.
Automatic category-based routing
Every order line is routed to the correct station the moment the product is added, walking the product's full category tree so a station configured on a parent category still catches its sub-categories.
Strict prep-status workflow
Each line moves New to Sent to Kitchen to Preparing to Ready to Served, with every transition validated so a ticket can never skip a step or go backwards.
Rush priority + FIFO queue
Mark any line as rush so it always sorts ahead of older, non-rush tickets in both the prep queue and the ready-to-serve queue.
Automatic dispatch on payment
Lines already bound to a station are pushed to the kitchen the instant the order is paid, with a manual Send to Kitchen action available for catch-up or re-sends.
Live OWL kitchen display
A Kitchen Display button inside the POS itself opens a station-grouped board with large Start/Ready/Served buttons and a running elapsed timer, built to be read from across the kitchen.
Backend kitchen-ticket monitor
A plain list view of every active kitchen line for floor staff or managers who don't have a dedicated kitchen screen, including an order-level rolled-up kitchen status.
Station load overview
Each station shows a live count of tickets currently pending or in preparation, computed from its routed order lines.
Use Cases
Screenshots
02 Kitchen Stations List
03 Kitchen Station Form
Why Choose This Module
Because the routing, workflow and queueing rules live in a small, independently unit-tested pure-python engine, the same logic that decides which station a line belongs to also drives the live OWL display and the backend monitor, so the two views can never drift out of sync.
Specifications
- Compatible: Odoo 18.0 / 19.0
- License: OPL-1
- Languages: 35+
- Author: Pokutsoft
- Dependencies: point_of_sale
- Support: support@pokutsoft.com
- Update date: 2026-07-13
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