Kessl Anchor
Every POS goes offline-first these days. The part nobody tells you is that an outage isn't one thing — whether your floor keeps working as a team, or splits into isolated tills, depends entirely on which connection actually failed.
Pick a scenario, and switch Anchor on or off. The connection lines show exactly what keeps talking to what — nothing here is simplified for effect.
Anchor can't reach the cloud, so nothing reconciles centrally right now — but every iPad, printer and kitchen screen keeps talking to each other exactly as before. New checks, kitchen tickets and tab transfers all move across the floor in real time. The moment the line comes back, Anchor pushes everything it queued.
Every iPad, printer and kitchen screen stays in sync with the cloud and with each other. This is how service runs on an ordinary day, with or without Anchor.
With Anchor, every iPad keeps talking to every other one over your own network — new checks, kitchen tickets and tab transfers all move in real time. Nothing reconciles with the cloud until the line returns, but nothing on the floor waits for it either.
This is the one outage Anchor can’t route around — it lives on the same network as the iPads. Every device keeps taking orders and cash payments on its own, but none of them can see each other until Wi-Fi is back.
It doesn't make the internet faster and it can't guess at data it hasn't seen. What it does is give every device in the building someone local to talk to.
Anchor doesn’t store a copy of your menu and hope it’s close enough. It’s an always-on relay on your own network: every iPad talks to Anchor first, and Anchor talks to the cloud. That’s what lets it keep the floor in sync when only the cloud connection is missing.
Without Anchor, an iPad only ever talks straight to the cloud — so losing Wi-Fi and losing the internet look identical to it: either way, it’s on its own. With Anchor in place, those two failures genuinely diverge, and only one of them is invisible to your staff.
The moment the internet returns, Anchor pushes everything it queued to the cloud and pulls everything it missed. Nobody re-enters a check or re-runs a report.
Kessl Anchor is early access — a fanless mini PC we install and manage, wired to your router.