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Settings → Printers & Labels (and related hardware options) is where you connect the physical devices at your counter — printers, scanners, and on Windows, keyboard shortcuts for faster billing.

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Understanding the fields

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Label/Receipt Printer Settings

  • Choose printer (Bluetooth) — Phone only. Pick from your paired Bluetooth printers. You must pair the printer in your phone’s Android Bluetooth settings first; BillBasket only lists devices already paired at the OS level.
  • Printer language (TSPL / ESC-POS) — Phone only. Sets which raw command format BillBasket sends. Most dedicated label printers use TSPL; simple receipt-style printers use ESC-POS. If a test print looks garbled, switching this setting and retrying usually fixes it.
  • Choose default printer — Windows PC only. Picks which installed Windows printer BillBasket sends labels to; if left unset, printing opens the normal Windows print dialog to choose each time. A USB label or receipt printer needs to be installed as a regular Windows printer (its own driver) before it shows up here.
  • Test print — sends a sample label to confirm the printer/format combination actually works, before you rely on it for real labels.
  • Template — the label content layout (e.g. “Name + SKU + price + barcode,” “Compact,” “Barcode only,” “Name + SKU + batch + vendor code”). Pick “…batch…” only if the products you print labels for actually carry batch numbers, since an empty batch field just leaves blank space.
  • Label size — the physical roll size your label stock matches; picking the wrong size prints text off the edge of the label.
  • Padding H / Padding V — inner margin as a percentage of the label’s width/height; increase these if content is printing too close to the label’s edge.
  • Copies per item — how many labels print per item by default.
  • Show price / Show batch number / Show store name — toggles for what appears on the label. Show batch number only prints anything for products that have a batch/lot number recorded.
  • Store code / Next number / Number padding (SKU/barcode series) — controls the auto-generated SKU format (STORE-CATEGORY-NUMBER), similar in spirit to invoice numbering series. Generate missing SKUs backfills a SKU for any product that doesn’t have one yet, using this series.
  • Camera (barcode scanning) toggle — Windows PC only, off by default. Turning it on lets you scan barcodes with your PC’s webcam instead of a dedicated scanner; a Choose camera picker only appears once this toggle is on, letting you pick a specific camera if the PC has more than one. A webcam is less reliable at reading barcodes than a proper scanner, so this is meant as a fallback when you don’t have one handy — it doesn’t affect a USB/Bluetooth barcode scanner “gun,” which works independently and needs no setup here.
On a phone paired to a Windows host (client mode), printer settings are saved on that phone only — it always prints to its own Bluetooth printer, independent of whatever printer the host desktop uses.

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Keyboard Shortcuts

Windows/desktop only. Each shortcut binds a key (grouped by category, e.g. Billing) to an action like “New bill” or “Go to payment.” Tap Change next to any shortcut to rebind it to a different key, or Reset to defaults to undo all your custom bindings at once.

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See it on your device

Label Printer Settings on desktop — the default-printer picker and test print at the top, and the Camera (barcode scanning) toggle below it, off by default as described above. Label design fields (template, size, padding) continue further down the same page.

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Try it: Sharma Kirana Store

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Pair a Bluetooth receipt printer on the phone

Suresh sets up a new Bluetooth receipt printer at the billing counter. On the shop’s phone, he opens Settings → Printers & Labels, pairs the printer in Android Bluetooth settings first, then chooses it in BillBasket and runs a test print.
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Set up the Windows counter printer

On the shop’s Windows PC, Rajesh installs the same model’s USB receipt printer using its Windows driver, then picks it as the default printer in Settings → Printers & Labels — no BillBasket-specific setup needed beyond that.
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Assign a shortcut for new bills

On the Windows PC, Rajesh opens Settings → Keyboard Shortcuts and changes the “New bill” action’s key to F2, so Suresh can start billing faster during rush hours.