Point of sale for hospitality · iPad
Kessl is an iPad point of sale for restaurants, bars, beach clubs and hotels. Every iPad keeps taking orders and payments on its own when the connection drops. Kitchen and bar tickets keep printing. The cloud reconciles the money the moment you’re back.
The menu, modifiers, floor plan, open checks and a payment queue all live on each iPad. It never asks the cloud before taking an order.
Receipt printers and kitchen or bar screens talk to every iPad over the venue’s own network, wired or Wi-Fi, so tickets print whether or not the internet is up.
Every payment is reconciled centrally. Reports run across outlets, and the back office works from anywhere with a browser.
A busy evening, three outlets, and the internet goes down for twenty-six minutes. Nobody waits for a spinner, nobody re-keys an order, and nothing is lost.
Orders flow to the kitchen and bar screens. The cloud keeps every terminal in step, and the manager watches the floor from the web admin.
ConnectedNew orders, cash and terminal payments are recorded safely on each iPad. Printers and kitchen screens on the venue network keep firing. Tenders that need a live line, like room charge, are held and say so.
OfflineQueued orders and payments sync in seconds. Receipts, reports and room charges are complete as if nothing happened, and the cloud has the final word on every total.
SyncedAn item knows whether it is food or drink. Ring it at the pool bar and it fires to the poolside grill; ring the same item in the dining room and it prints on the main line. Routing is set per outlet, not hard-coded on the menu.
Courses, seats, splits and a kitchen that sees every modifier. Built for the pace of a Saturday night.
Bars & beach clubsOpen a tab in two taps, hand it between bartenders, and keep pouring when the connection drops.
Hotels & resortsPost to the guest folio, price in local currency and settle in dollars, all on one clean bill.
Every restaurant, bar and grill on the site under one system, with routing and reports per outlet.
Most hospitality POS asks you to choose: a modern cloud system that leans on your internet, or an older on-site system that nobody can reach from home. Kessl was built to take neither trade-off.
| Kessl | Typical cloud POS | Legacy on-site POS | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orders when the internet drops | Full service on every iPad | Varies; often limited or read-only | Yes, from the local server |
| Payments when the internet drops | Cash and terminal payments recorded, then synced | Often held until you reconnect | Cash only, or a separate terminal |
| Kitchen and bar tickets offline | Keep printing over your own network | Usually stop with the connection | Yes |
| Back office from anywhere | Web admin, any browser, live figures | Yes | Rarely; usually on-site only |
| Several outlets on one property | One system, routing and reports per outlet | Often priced and set up per location | Separate installs to reconcile |
| Room charge to a hotel PMS | Built in, with a retry queue | Add-on or integration partner | Depends on the vendor |
| Hardware | iPads and the printers you already own | iPads, sometimes vendor terminals | Proprietary terminals and a server |
| Who sets it up | The people who built it, with your menu | Self-serve or a reseller | A local installer |
Full detail is on the features and hardware pages. The two right-hand columns describe categories, not any one product. If you’re weighing Kessl against a specific system, tell us which and we’ll be straight about where each one is stronger.
The web admin is where menus, prices, staff, printers and settings live, and where the day is closed. Managers can open it inside the iPad app too, with their PIN.
Tell us about the venue and we’ll set up a live demo on your own menu and outlets, on real iPads. No commitment.
Prefer email? hello@61westlabs.co.uk. Or tap through the interactive demo first.