# Work from a tablet or phone

Chapter: Working from a tablet or phone
Who this is for: Counter, shop owner.
Trigger: Doing the daily path away from the counter PC.

## What the clip says

The same daily path works on a tablet or phone, just narrower. A Camera button sits beside the part punch, for a barcode scan. Photos get a Take photo button too, next to Add photos.

The daily path is the same ticket, customer, and inventory work described in the earlier chapters. On a phone
or tablet, a few controls change to fit a touch screen and a camera.

## Steps

- A **Camera** button sits beside any punch field on a touch device. Tap it, point the camera at the barcode, and the scanned value fills the field the same way a keyed scan would. 

- Under Comments, **Take photo** opens the device's camera; **Add photos** opens the file picker. Desktop only shows Add photos.

- The photo grid switches to two columns with full-width buttons on a phone or tablet, instead of the wider desktop grid.

## What happens to money and stock

Nothing moves. The daily path works the same; only the input options on screen change.

## Watch out for

- The camera scan button only appears on touch, coarse-pointer devices. A mouse-and-keyboard counter PC never shows it.
- Take photo (camera capture) only appears on phone or tablet. A desktop only gets Add photos, the file picker.

## Not yet

No dedicated tablet app. A tablet or phone runs the same site in a narrower window.

Updated 2026-09-16.
Also available as HTML at https://reedport.com/guide/tablet-or-phone/tablet-and-phone