HandyCafe Video Tutorials

Short walkthroughs of the screens you use every day. Each one runs under three minutes.

Getting Started

Prepaid or Postpaid Sessions? HandyCafe General Settings

Set your currency, choose between prepaid and postpaid sessions and review the privacy options before you open.

Hide Menu Pages and Info Cards

Trim the server menu down to the pages your staff actually needs and hide the info cards you do not use.

Client Setup

HandyCafe Client Settings: Game Mode, Language, Idle Rules

Choose how every customer machine looks, what the customer can reach and what happens when a station is left idle.

Build Your Game Menu: HandyCafe Client Content

Add games, artwork, announcements and events, then push the whole catalogue to every screen in your venue.

Client Screen Themes and Layout

Pick a theme, set the tile shape and density, write your welcome message and choose what runs behind the grid.

Idle Screen Modes: Turn Empty PCs Into Ads

Standard, media, gamer and mix: four ways to make a waiting machine sell your games and your offers.

Install Games on Every Cafe PC

Add a title from the cloud catalog with its cover art already attached, then install it on the PCs you pick.

Members

Find Any Customer in One Search

Search, filter and sort your member list, then bring existing customers over with CSV import.

How a Member's Balance Gets Spent

Follow the money: balance top-ups, prepaid packages and how debt is tracked on a member account.

Member Loyalty Tiers, Logins and Game Licences

Reward regulars with loyalty tiers, manage member logins and hand out game licences from your account pool.

Staff and Permissions

Add a Cashier and Set Permissions

Create staff accounts and decide exactly which screens and actions each cashier can reach.

Logs and Records

Who Signed In and When

Filter thousands of server events by date, category, action and cashier, then export the result as a CSV.

Who Changed That Price?

Read every sale line by line, bring back a deleted one within 30 days and see the signed record of each change.

Maintenance

Database Backups and Restore

Take a backup, keep it somewhere safe and restore it when you need to move or recover your data.

New tutorials are added regularly.

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