2026-09-14 - bessa POS 6.1: Casablanca Integration and Restructured Settings

With bessa POS 6.1 the integration with the Casablanca hotel software is finished: technical acceptance has been completed successfully and the connection is available from now on. At the same time, the Sales Point settings have been reorganised – four clear categories instead of one long list, with no change to how anything works. On top of that come a printing queue that keeps printing when a printer is missing, a new sync status, and an operating status right on the welcome screen. In the bessa Manager, a diagnostics area for Bon routing, an audit log, and remote printer settings have appeared alongside.

🎯 The Highlights at a Glance

🏨 Casablanca: Acceptance Passed, Integration Available

In the 6.0 announcement, the integration with the Casablanca hotel software was still "available shortly". Now it is: technical acceptance by Casablanca has been completed successfully, and the integration is officially released.

If your business is connected, you charge open orders straight to a room managed in Casablanca:

• Current check-ins appear at the Sales Point next to your own room bookings – found by searching for a room number or guest name, or by scanning the guest's room card.

• The revenue goes to Casablanca and is settled on the room bill at check-out. A transfer receipt with a signature line is printed; it carries the same number as the hotel bill that was charged, so reception can match receipt, charge and bill unambiguously.

• The connection is configured once on the Main Sales Point and inherited by the Sub-Terminals. A Sub-Terminal only decides whether the connection is active on it.

• If the hotel system is unreachable, the Sales Point keeps working. A charge that could not be transferred is cancelled automatically and the order reopened – no half-charged state is left behind.

⚙️ Settings Reorganised – Everything Works as Before

From 6.1 the Sales Point settings are no longer one long list but grouped into four categories. Every action still does exactly what it did before – only the route there has changed. Nothing is dropped, nothing behaves differently.

• On a phone and on a tablet in portrait, Settings opens a category hub with four tiles. If something needs attention – a stopped service, a stuck print job, an incomplete signature setup – the affected tile says so.

• On a tablet in landscape, a navigation rail on the left carries the same four categories and the content appears next to it. The settings home shows a status overview that takes you straight to the view responsible.

• Open help and Open manager now sit once at the top of the overview instead of being repeated across categories.

• Disruptive actions – restart, exit, reset demo data and switching demo mode – run after an abortable five-second countdown instead of a confirmation prompt.

🆕 More New Features in bessa POS 6.1

• Printing continues even when a printer is missing – a print for a printer that is switched off, unplugged or plugged into a different port goes into the printing queue, is listed there, retried on its own and printed as soon as the printer answers again. Taking payment no longer waits for the printer to be found either.

• Sync status – "Sync now" becomes a page listing every data type with the uploads it still has waiting, and reporting when something is overdue. New: missing downloads are reported as well, so an article price or an order layout changed in the manager can no longer silently fail to reach the Sales Point.

• Operating status on the welcome screen – above the quick-start grid you see whether everything is in order; otherwise one note per open issue, which taps through to resolve it.

• Article search on the order screen – a new search button filters articles by name or number as you type and books the result with a single tap.

• Function key for meal and gift vouchers – the new PAYMENT function key settles a configured amount up front on a configured payment method, so only the rest has to be collected. What used to need a payment split is now one key press.

• Order monitor – a bon processed by mistake can be brought back via Recent, a dish can be held back until it is due, and a bon can be printed at its own station instead of sharing one central printer.

• Tip on the POSit 2 card terminal (Hobex SoftPOS) – the payment app asks the guest for a tip on the terminal itself, provided the function is enabled for your business.

• Cash count list on the Sales Point closing – the closing prints the counted denominations with quantity, value and total alongside the cash journal. A comment on the count is kept and appears in the cash journal and on the receipt.

• The amount handed over next to the change – the invoice screen and the customer display name the amount the customer handed over, so it can be checked before the change is taken.

• Built for Android 16 – the app therefore behaves as expected on the newest Android devices as well.

🧭 New in the bessa Manager

The bessa Manager has gained a fair amount since the 6.0 post at the start of July – above all where trial and error used to be the only way.

🔍 Diagnostics: See Why a Bon Lands Where It Lands

Under Manage → Diagnostics there are two new pages. Neither changes anything, prints anything, or triggers anything on the Sales Point – they read the current configuration and work out what follows from it.

• Configuration Overview – an expandable tree of the venue: which Sales Points and sub-terminals exist, which printers are attached to them in which role, and how the order monitors are set up. A printing group without an assigned printer is flagged explicitly – the most common silent misconfiguration.

• Bon Routing Preview – you pick Sales Point, area, and articles and immediately see which Bons the order would split into, which printer each Bon would go to, and which monitor shows what. If a Bon falls back to the receipt printer or is delegated to the main Sales Point, that is highlighted as a warning; Show decision path lays out the whole chain.

This also makes visible what happens out of sight on the Sales Point: announcement Bons, the Bons of a course call, status printouts from the order monitor, and the time offset with which a dish appears on the monitor. The same analysis is available as the Bon routing section in the detail view of every real order.

📋 Audit Log: Who Changed What

Under Reports → Audit Log you find every recorded change – filterable by time range, type, action, and user, with action, type, and user accepting multiple values. Clicking the info icon opens the change details with a before/after comparison that shows only the fields that actually changed by default.

If only one object interests you, you do not need the overall list at all: articles, Sales Points, locations, users, and customers each have an Audit log tab in their own dialog showing their history.

🖨️ Printer Settings From a Distance

The printer setup has lived in the cloud since 6.0 – now it is editable in the Manager too. The Printer settings tab in the Sales Point dialog shows the Sales Point's printers, the assignment per role and printing group, and separate overrides per room and per floor. Every assignment knows exactly three options: Automatic, Do not print, or a specific printer. For the "Invoice" role, "Do not print" is deliberately absent – it must always be possible to print an invoice.

A sub-terminal is also offered the main Sales Point's printers, marked Main Sales Point.

🆕 More New Features in the bessa Manager

• Preparation-time reports – Preparation time/time and Preparation time/day show count, average, and median per article, optionally against a stored target time with its deviation. You correct the target time right in the report, without opening the article. See Reports.

• Order monitor: filter individual articles – an article group no longer has to go onto a monitor whole or not at all. While editing, you deselect which articles of the group appear there. See Order Monitors.

• Dashboard across all locations – businesses with several locations aggregate their key figures via All locations; the Dashboard remembers the selection per company. Open orders are split into customer accounts, tables, and rooms, and are now totalled in full – beyond 25 open items as well. See Dashboard.

• Operating status and log viewer – the control tab of a Sales Point shows a colour-coded operating status at the top that separates connector problems from Sales Point problems. Log files open with View right in the browser, with search and filters for time range, tag, source, and severity. See Remote Sales Point Control.

• Lists the way you need them – showing and hiding columns and reordering them by dragging is now available in orders, invoices, payments, articles, article groups, Sales Points, locations, and companies. New alongside: the User, Source, and Sub-terminal columns – plus a filter for an individual sub-terminal. See Customise Lists.

• Article maintenance – values that deviate from the article group are tinted in the list; fallback articles in System product groups are write-protected; and import errors name the affected line number in plain text. See Articles.

• Vouchers – the new Company data page supplies the details for company-wide voucher invoices; a voucher can be created without mandatory recipient data; and a transaction with an invoice offers the same downloads as the invoice list. See Company Data for Invoices.

• App & customer loyalty – under App settings you maintain the referral program, the email design, and your app's three home-screen images in one place. Customer cards can now be released specifically for referral and birthday. See App Settings.

• Online ordering – a daily menu can be duplicated with all its dishes onto another date, the guest can choose their own pickup number at the kiosk, order and opening times may run past midnight, and menu categories of a connected Sales Point can be enriched online – image, day restriction, translations. See Import the Daily Menu.

• Handling – you arrange order screens by their drag handle; the first one counts as the main screen. Plus: a notice about a new version with Reload, an account switch through a searchable, keyboard-operable list, and a calendar that starts on Monday everywhere. See Displays.

All the details on the updates:

• bessa POS Version 6.1 Release Notes

• Charging Orders to a Room in the Hotel Software – Help

• Settings – Help

• Diagnostics – Help

• Audit Log – Help

• Manage Sales Point Printer Settings – Help

• Documentation Platform