A self-ticketing system designed to optimize queue management in physical stores by providing real-time queue visibility, efficient staff management, and an enhanced customer experience 

• Self-ticketing token system: Empower customers to seamlessly select their desired service and instantly receive a personalized, numbered token, streamlining their experience and ensuring an organized, efficient queue management process. 
• Transparent Token Display: Provide customers with real-time, clear visibility of their queue position and progress, keeping them informed and reducing uncertainty throughout their waiting experience. 
• Comprehensive Backend Token Management: The token management system's backend includes a comprehensive dashboard that provides detailed information about all generated tokens and their current states. It also facilitates service management, token interface configuration, counter creation, and maintains a complete list of all generated tokens. 
• Crowd-Free Counters: Efficient organization of queues, eliminating crowded counters and enhancing comfort for both customers and staff, resulting in a more relaxed and productive environment. 
• Priority-Based Service Management: Streamline urgent cases by implementing priority for services, ensuring that critical needs are addressed promptly and efficiently. 
• Hierarchical Service Listing: Clearly categorize and organize services into distinct levels, allowing customers to easily select and navigate their desired options with minimal effort. 
• Reduced Waiting Times: Achieve a smoother flow and improved communication to significantly minimize customer downtime, ensuring a more efficient and pleasant experience. 
• Enhanced Staff Productivity: Streamlined service delivery allows employees to focus on their tasks, leading to improved performance and overall productivity. 
• Token History and Status Management: Track and analyse token history and status to gain valuable insights into customer flow and service patterns, enabling data-driven decisions for optimizing operations 

 Figure 1 -Installation of Token Management 

To Install the Token Management System for Odoo, follow the steps below. 

Step 1: Navigate to Apps menu and search for "Token Management" from the search bar. 

Step 2: Click the "Activate" button on the availed search result. 

 Figure 2 – Admin panel configurations 

 Navigate to Settings -> Token Management Settings 

❖ Hierarchy for Services - This field determines how services are displayed within the token interface. If set to True, services are organized and presented hierarchically, allowing for a structured view with categories and subcategories. If set to False, all services are listed on the same page without hierarchical organization. This configuration helps tailor the user interface to either a detailed, categorized approach or a straightforward, flat listing based on your operational needs. 

❖ Show Token Overview - This setting controls whether the token overview screen is displayed when a token is generated for the selected service. If enabled, the overview screen will appear, providing a summary of the token details before proceeding. If disabled, the token overview will not be shown, and users will proceed directly to the next step without viewing the summary. 

❖ Set Priority for Services - With this configuration, the system will call the next token at counters based on the assigned priority levels. Once this setting is applied, tokens with higher priority will be served before those with lower priority, ensuring that urgent or high-priority cases are addressed promptly.

❖ Inherit Priority from parent service - If this option is checked, any changes made to the priority of a parent service will be automatically applied to its child services, ensuring consistent priority levels throughout the hierarchy. 

❖ No. of tokens to be displayed per page - User can configure the number of tokens to be displayed in a single page in Queue Counter display. 

Service: Admin/Manager can define and configure service by specifying their details, setting parent-child relationships, and assigning priority levels as needed. 

• Navigate to Service menu from the Token Management root menu. 
• All the services created will be listed here. 
• Admin/manager can click on NEW button to create a service or open an existing service to make any changes.

 Figure 3 – Service page 

•  Enter the name of the service in the column specified for Service Name. 

 Figure 4 – Creating a service 

• Code – A unique code to identify the service. Code can include letters, numbers, special characters, or a combination of all. This value will be used when generating the token as Token Sequence. 

 Figure 5 – Parent service listing 

• Parent service: Choose a service from the available services if applicable. All the available services will be listed when clicking on “search more” button, subjected to pagination. 
• Once done, Admin can save the service manually by clicking on save button icon on top or it will be saved automatically. 

 Figure 6 – Saving manually 

•  Priority for the service can be set based on the predefined available options; Low, Medium& High, having default value as “Low”. 

 Figure 7 – Priority levels

 5.1 Creating a new parent service 

• Enter the Parent service name which you want to create 

 Figure 8 – Creating new parent service 

•  A dropdown will be seen with the “create” option. 

 Figure 9 - Creating new parent service 

• Enter the unique code as mentioned above
• Clicking on SAVE & CLOSE button will create a parent service record. 

 Figure 10 - Filters

•  Filters – Clicking on this will show the inactive and add custom filter tab. Admin can view all Inactive services and if needed can add any custom filter to the list. 

 Figure 11 – Group By 

• Group By - Admin can view the services based on parent services and priority. 
• Add Custom group – Any customised group can be added to the list. Click on the apply button once selected. 
• Favourites - User can save the current search by adding it to the favourites 

 Figure 12 – Action button 

•  Action – Clicking on the box field of any of the service listed will display the Action button. Admin can export the data, Archive or Unarchive the field with this menu. 

 Admin can create new queue counters and view/manage the existing queue counters with this menu from the dashboard. 

Navigate to Queue -> Counters -> New. 

 Figure 13 – Queue counter page 

• Counter name - Enter the name of the counter. 

 Figure 14 –Creating new counter 

• Sequence – Specifies the order of display for counters in the TV display page. Records with lower sequence values will be displayed first. “0” will be preset as the default value for each counter. Admin can enter the required numerical value here. 
• Responsible person – Clicking on the responsible person will gives the list of all the users available. 

Once assigned, the responsible person can manage the counter. 

• To create new user and to assign the user role, navigate to Settings > Users & Companies > Users. Refer Fig.15 for more details. 

 Figure 15 – Users List View 

• To create a new user profile, click on New button and add the necessary details. 
• To update an existing user profile or to set access role to any user profile, open the desired user profile and make the necessary changes. 

 Figure 16 – User access roles 

• User Roles 
  • Manager – Allows access to whole Token Management settings, records and data. 
  • User – Limited access to records, such that the user is allowed to access only the data for which he/she is responsible. 
  • Token Public User – Allowed access to open the Token Interface menu 

 Figure 17 – After creating a new counter 

Once the counter is created, Admin can view the created counter on the screen. (refer fig - 15) 

• Click on the Start Processing menu and choose the required services for the counter. All the services will be listed by default. 

 Figure 18 – Selecting services for the counter 

• Admin can clear/remove the unwanted services and select the only services as per the services offered in the selected counter. 
• User can select multiple services by clicking on “Seach more” from the dropdown list where all the services are listed and then using the selecting the Services using the check at the left. (refer fig - 17). 

 Figure 19 – Creating a new service 

• Click on “New” button to create and configure a new service. 
• Click on the Start Processing button to activate a new session to the counter. 

 Figure 20 – Selecting services from the list 

 Figure 21 – Created counter 

 Figure 22 – Queue processing/Sessions list view 

Queue Processing menu list the details of session against all the counters. Session details such as Counter, Session Ref., Session Opening and closing time and Status are few of the columns displayed in the List view. 

• Queue Counter – Name of the counter. 
• Session ID – Session reference. 
• Responsible – User responsible for the session. 
• Opening date – Queue Session opening time. 
• Closing date – Queue Session closing time. 
• Status - Status of the session. 
• All the details shown here can be exported to xlsx format by clicking on the Download button on the top left corner of the list view. 
• Users can make use of the Search Panel at the right top corner of the page to filter the records and to organize records by applying group by option in the search panel. Dropdowns available will be Session ID, Queue counter and Responsible person. 

 Figure 23 – Search bar 

 Figure 24 – Search Filters 

 Few search options are as follows 

• Open – Applying Open filter will filter the records and list all the sessions which are in “In progress” stage. 
• Today – Lists the sessions which are opened today. 
• Add Custom filter – A custom filter can be used to search details based on any conditions set by the user. 

 Figure 25 – Group By 

• Group By
  •  User – Applying Group by Users will group and display the records based on the Responsible user of the session. 
  • Counter – Similarly, applying Group by Counters will group and display the records based on the Counter for which the session is opened against. 
  • Add custom group – User can apply Group options based on the applicable fields from the list.

• Favourites – User can save the current search by adding it to the favourites. 
• Tokens listed can be viewed as a list or in Kanban. 

 Figure 26 - Kanban view 

• Action - Clicking on any counter will display the “Action” button on the top. This can be used to Export the details. 

 Figure 27 – Action button 

•  Users can customise the export result by adding new field or by deleting it to get the required result they want. They can either export into xlsx or csv format. 

 Figure 28 – Export data 

 Figure 29 – Token Interface page 

Token Interface menu is used to view and create a new token interface. Already created interfaces will be listed here. The generated tokens are displayed on the counters, providing a clear view of the current queue and token statuses. 

 Click on New button from the kanban view and enter the details of the Token Interface in the specified columns. 

 Figure 30 – Creating a new Token Interface 

• Name – Name of the Token Interface. 

NEW SESSION button will be visible for all the interfaces for which there is no active session. 

Clicking on NEW SESSION will create a new session against that Token Interface. 

User can click on "Resume" button in the Kanban to open a Token Interface which has not been closed. 

 Figure 31 - Token Interface 

Generate Token: Selecting a service will generate a corresponding token with a Token Number against the selected service and will be redirected to the mentioned Token Overview page based on the configuration. 

 Figure 32 – Generated Token 

• Cancel: Clicking on this button will cancel the generated token. 
• Print & Close: Generate a printout of the generated token for reference and redirects to the Token Interface page. 
• Close: Clicking on Close button will redirect the page to Token Interface without generating a printout. 
• Token Printout: Obtain a printout of the generated token for reference 

 Figure 33 -Token Print 

Admin can close any interface by clicking on “close” button. (Refer fig- 27) 

 Figure 34 – Session closing 

Clicking on END SESSION button, will move the status of the session to Stopped. 

 Figure 35 – Interface session moved to stopped state 

Then needs to click on close session tab, finally the session will be closed and now in the interface menu it will be seen as “New Session”. 

 Figure 36 – New session update 

 Figure 37 – Token Interface Sessions 

Both Admin and Counter users have access to view the status of Token Interface sessions. However, Admins can view the status and details of all sessions across the system. In contrast,Counter users can only view the status and details of sessions for which they are designated as the responsible user. This session view contains Token interface name, Session ID, Responsible, Opening - closing date and status. Filters, Group by and Favourites are available for Admin to customise the view results 

 Figure 38 – Tokens list view 

• • All generated tokens are visible here, regardless of their status. By default, the list is filtered to show only tokens that were generated today. 
  • Clicking on any token will give the detailed view. 
  • Admin can view the token status and can cancel the token if needed. 
  • Only tokens in the draft can be cancelled, those which are in progress or done cannot be cancelled. 
  • Admin can move the token which are in ‘In progress’ status to ‘Done’ from here 

• Token No - Shows the token no of the customer. 
• Service – Associated service regarding the token number can be seen here. 
• Processed by – Responsible person handling the token (administrator or person set by the administrator). 
• Date – Date by which the token processed. 
• Progress Time – Time taken to move the status of a token from ‘In progress’ to ‘Done’ stage. 
• Status – 

 Figure 39 – Token details 

• All token-related information is accessible here. The 'Customer Query' and 'Feedback' columns allow Admins and token-responsible users to view and update customer queries and feedback as needed. These columns serve as reference points for managing and tracking interactions. 
• All the updates made on the token will be seen on the right side of the screen. 
• Admin can send message to the followers of respective token or can send any log note also. 

 Figure 40 – log note/ send message 

 Figure 41 – Listing of tokens and Call Next button 

• Service-Based Token Listing: Tokens are organized and displayed on the counters according to the selected services. Each counter shows tokens based on the specific services configured for that counter. 
• Token Listing: The generated tokens are listed on the counters. 
• Call Next Token Button: The calling of the next token is determined by the priority assigned to the service. If priorities are set, the system will call the highest-priority token next. If no priority is applied, the system will use the FIFO (First In, First Out) method to call the next token in line. 

 Figure 42 – Listing of tokens and Call Next button 

• No Next Token Note: If there are no tokens remaining to be called, a notification will be displayed to inform users of the absence of the next token. 

 Figure 43 – Counters Display Screen 

• Display: The current token at each counter is highlighted on the TV display, providing customers with real-time status updates for each counter and enhancing overall queue management visibility. 

 Figure 44 – Dashboard 

Token management dashboard offers a comprehensive overview of the system's performance. 

• Historical Data: Track performance trends over the past week, month, and year. 
• Visual Insights: Utilize pie and line charts for easy data interpretation. 
• Real-Time Metrics: Stay updated with today's queue status, missed tokens, and total served and left. 

• Odoo Community Edition: v16.0 

•  English 

Version: 1.1.0: September 2024 

• Bug fixes and improvements. 

Version: 1.0.0: August 2024 

• Initial version. 

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