2026-07-06 - bessa POS 6.0: Hospitality, Cloud & Service Center

With bessa POS 6.0 we open the Sales Point up to hospitality businesses: guest rooms become an area of their own, with bookings, check-in/check-out and billing to the room. At the same time, printer and beverage-dispenser settings move to the cloud, a new device signs in within seconds via a QR code, and the new Service Center shows printer status and running services with their logs right inside the Sales Point. In the bessa Manager, discount groups, order sources and a log viewer for Sales Point logs have appeared alongside.

🎯 The Highlights at a Glance

🏨 Hospitality: Guest Rooms as Their Own Area

Alongside tables, from 6.0 you also manage guest rooms as a dedicated area – as a plain list, as a floor plan, or as a day-by-day booking timeline that scrolls endlessly into the future and jumps to any date.

• Bookings with check-in and check-out are created straight from the room overview – on the Main Sales Point and on satellite terminals alike. If two bookings overlap, the Sales Point warns you and, if needed, allows a deliberate "Create anyway".

• Assign a guest to a booking – the guest appears across the order and payment screens and on the receipt, and can be tapped and changed while ordering or taking payment.

• Billing to the room: open orders are charged via the new Room payment method to a checked-in booking – by searching for a room or guest, or by scanning the room card. No payment and no invoice are created: the articles are transferred onto the guest-room booking and settled together at check-out – so the revenue is recorded fiscally only once, with the room bill. A transfer receipt with a signature line for the guest is printed. Charging to a room requires the "Order at Room" permission.

• The NFC room card is acknowledged with a beep and an on-screen confirmation when scanned, and invoices show the service period (e.g. a room stay from check-in to check-out) when it spans more than the invoice day.

Open rooms, open tables and open counter accounts now each have their own view with an accurate count – keeping restaurant and accommodation cleanly separated at a glance.

For how to set up areas, rooms and order groups, see Areas & Order Groups.

☁️ Printer & Beverage-Dispenser Settings in the Cloud

From 6.0, your device setup is no longer tied to a single device:

• Printer settings live in the cloud – the configured printers, their roles, and the per-room and per-floor assignments are restored automatically after logging in on a new device or swapping a cashier, and can be viewed and changed centrally. The device reports the printers it discovers so you can assign them remotely.

• Beverage-dispenser settings live in the cloud – each dispenser's connection configuration (USB/serial or fixed IP), including per-room and per-floor settings, is likewise restored automatically and managed centrally. Existing local settings are migrated automatically on first start.

A device is therefore correctly set up again the moment you log in – with nothing to reconfigure. See Printer Settings and Dispenser Systems for details.

🖥️ Satellite Terminals Without Configuration

From 6.0 a satellite terminal is ready to use with virtually no setup: it adopts the Main Sales Point's print settings automatically. You only need to configure a printer on the satellite when it should behave differently from the Main Sales Point – for example with its own kitchen buzzer or a different number of copies.

You maintain the print setup centrally on the Main Sales Point instead of repeating it on every terminal. That means far less setup and maintenance, a faster installation and a faster device swap.

📷 Quick Connect: Sign In by QR Code

You now sign a new device in by scanning a short-lived, encrypted QR code – with no password to type:

• A satellite terminal scans the code shown on the Main Sales Point.

• A Main Sales Point scans a code generated in the web manager.

With a code from the Main Sales Point, the device is signed in as the same user who generated the QR code; with a code from the web manager, as the default user of the Sales Point. Either way it is faster and simpler than logging in by hand. That speeds up setup and makes swapping or adding a device far easier: all you need is access to the Main Sales Point or the Manager, without having to know the user's password.

🩺 Service Center Inside the Sales Point

The state of your Sales Point is now visible at a glance – no support call, no guesswork. Settings gains three new sections:

• Printer status – every configured printer with its width, connection type and live status; per row you see the role and room assignments, run a test print, or refresh the connection.

• Services – the status of each background service, why a stopped service isn't running, plus a restart. For any service you open its log directly – an on-device log viewer with a live tail, history on demand and filtering by severity, tag or text (colour-coded).

• Sub-terminal overview (on the Main Sales Point) – online status with the live and configured IP, a flag for active demo mode, and the connection status, IP and device details for each satellite terminal.

Notices, warnings and errors in the status menu are now tappable and take you straight to the screen that resolves the reported issue.

🆕 More New Features in bessa POS 6.0

• Customer discount groups – assign a reusable discount group to a customer; the discount applies automatically when booking and paying.

• Customer price levels – assign a price level to a customer; the prices in the cart are recalculated automatically, even when the level isn't currently active at the location.

• In-app language switching – choose German, English or Croatian right in the Sales Point, plus a light or dark appearance (or one that follows the system setting).

• Invoice preview during payment – print a preview for the items currently selected to pay, including the discount, redeemed vouchers and tip.

• Quick-start dashboard – the welcome screen shows a grid of the available functions; a function opens with a single tap.

• Card refunds with GP tom – GP tom terminals can now return money to a card, for example when paying out a voucher credit.

🧭 Also New in the bessa Manager

Alongside the Sales Point, the bessa Manager has moved on as well. Since the new Manager went live at the end of June, the following has been added:

• Discount groups as a page of their own – under Articles → Discount groups you create reusable discounts, either as a fixed amount or as a percentage, and assign them to a customer. Once a discount group is assigned, the standard discount is set to 0 and locked so the two cannot overlap. Details: Discount Groups.

• Price level straight on the customer – in the customer details you choose the pricing level that applies to this customer. When importing and exporting articles you also decide up front which pricing level is edited – its name becomes part of the file name. Details: Pricing Levels.

• Order sources – under Order settings → Order sources you define the channels orders come in through, such as a kiosk, a self-checkout, or the waiter app. Allowed payment methods can be restricted per source. Details: Manage Order Sources.

• Articles per menu category – the detail view of a menu category now always shows the assigned articles, with their real names and the actual count. On manually maintained Sales Points you add, remove, and reorder articles right here. Details: Manage Menu Categories.

• Read log files in the browser – in the control tab of a Sales Point, View opens the log full-screen in its own tab, unpacked and readable, with search and filters for time range, tag, and severity. The address is shareable, so you can pass a finding on directly. Details: Remote Sales Point Control.

• Customise columns in the payment list – which columns appear and in which order is up to you, and a row's actions are bundled into one menu. Details: Customise Lists.

• Order list: filter more precisely – the order list now filters by a specific person and by an article it contains; a granted discount appears as its own row in the detail dialog, and a refresh icon reloads the overview without reloading the page. Details: Orders.

• The session holds – the Manager renews your login in the background and no longer signs you out during a brief server load peak. If you open the Manager straight from the Sales Point, the session is kept as well.

All the details on the updates:

• bessa POS Version 6.0 Release Notes

• Areas & Order Groups – Help

• Discount Groups – Help

• Manage Order Sources – Help

• Customise Lists – Help

• Documentation Platform