# Introduction - Advanced POS UI

### Overview

The Maitre’D Advanced POS User Interface (UI) elevates the merchant experience with Maitre’D by enhancing the look and feel of both the front and the Back-Office with a new intuitive and modernized interface. It not only offers a modernized menu and back-of-house editor experience, but new screens for all the Maitre'D features you love, like staff time and attendance and financial reporting.

### Improved Front-of-House and Back-Office experience

The Maitre’D Advanced POS User Interface (UI) is designed to take advantage of modern POS hardware featuring high resolution displays and multi-touch capability. High graphic quality is achieved by improving the resolution of the POS user interface, and by enabling support for most modern image formats, including Scalable Vector Graphics (\*.svg), which provides outstanding image quality at any resolution. It provides a visually appealing interface for order taking with light and dark mode and a modernized editor experience for Back-Office operators.

### Point of Sale Interface

Compared to the Legacy Point of Sale Interface, the Advanced Point of Sale User Interface uses modern graphics and displays more information to the user.

**Legacy POS**

![Legacy POS Interface](https://documentation.payfacto.com/POS/MaitreD/Fulldoc/assets/images/Chap05/AdvancedPOS-UI/01-OLD-POS.png)

**Advanced POS User Interface**

![Advanced POS User Interface](https://documentation.payfacto.com/POS/MaitreD/Fulldoc/assets/images/Chap05/AdvancedPOS-UI/01a-NEW-POSLight.png)

### Light mode vs. Dark mode

The Advanced Point of Sale User Interface can be used in light mode for well-lit areas, or in Dark mode to reduce eye strain and provide better contrast.

**Light mode**

![Advanced POS User Interface - Light](https://documentation.payfacto.com/POS/MaitreD/Fulldoc/assets/images/Chap05/AdvancedPOS-UI/01a-NEW-POSLight.png)

**Dark mode**

![Advanced POS User Interface - Dark](https://documentation.payfacto.com/POS/MaitreD/Fulldoc/assets/images/Chap05/AdvancedPOS-UI/01b-NEW-POSDark.png)

### Preferential Screen Editor

The Advanced POS User Interface comes with a matching Advanced Preferential Screen and Screen Layout Setup interface to improve the user-experience when setting up screens.

**Legacy Preferential Screen Setup**

![Legacy Pref Screen Setup](https://documentation.payfacto.com/POS/MaitreD/Fulldoc/assets/images/Chap05/AdvancedPOS-UI/03-OLD-PrefScreen.png)

**Advanced Preferential Screen Setup**

![Advanced Pref Screen Setup](https://documentation.payfacto.com/POS/MaitreD/Fulldoc/assets/images/Chap05/AdvancedPOS-UI/03a-NEW-PrefScreenEdit.png)

### Button Properties

Buttons are easier and faster to configure with the Advanced preferential screen setup interface. Button properties are on the same screen as the screen layout or preferential screen, allowing changes to be seen in real time.

**Legacy Button Properties**

![Legacy Button Properties](https://documentation.payfacto.com/POS/MaitreD/Fulldoc/assets/images/Chap05/AdvancedPOS-UI/04a-OLD-ButtonProperties.png)

**Advanced Button Properties**

![Advanced Button Properties](https://documentation.payfacto.com/POS/MaitreD/Fulldoc/assets/images/Chap05/AdvancedPOS-UI/04b-NEW-ButtonProperties.png)

Related Topics

1. [I](https://docs.maitredpos.com/maitred/maitred-complete-online-documentation/chap-5-configuring-and-managing-work/advanced-pos-workstation/introduction-advanced-pos-ui)[ntroduction - Advanced POS UI](https://docs.maitredpos.com/maitred/maitred-complete-online-documentation/chap-5-configuring-and-managing-work/advanced-pos-workstation/introduction-advanced-pos-ui)
2. [Prerequisites - Advanced POS UI](https://docs.maitredpos.com/maitred/maitred-complete-online-documentation/chap-5-configuring-and-managing-work/advanced-pos-workstation/prerequisites-advanced-pos-ui)
3. [Supported Image Formats](https://docs.maitredpos.com/maitred/maitred-complete-online-documentation/chap-5-configuring-and-managing-work/advanced-pos-workstation/supported-image-formats)