Is it safe to give an app your email password?
What an app password actually grants, why where it is stored matters more than who stores it, and five questions to ask before you type one in.
How to print orders for two locations from one online shop
Split the notifications in your shop rather than routing in the printer. One mailbox and one phone per branch, with nothing central to fail.
Why our order tickets print two times, not one
Every ticket shows when the order was placed and when it printed. The gap between them is the most useful diagnostic in the system.
When the kitchen printer stops and nobody notices
Paper, sleeping printers, battery managers and expired passwords. The ways order printing goes quiet, and why failing silently is worse than failing.
We reinstalled our app and it printed 63 old orders
An Android backup restored a bookmark onto a new phone and three weeks of orders printed themselves. What caused it, and what a printing app should do about it.
Why your email password will not work in an app (and how to fix it)
Your provider stopped letting apps sign in with your ordinary password. How to create an app password on Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo and your own domain.