What hardware do I need?
The short list of devices, printers and connectivity to run Menulisa.
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You don’t need special tills or boxes. Menulisa runs on computers, tablets and phones you may already own — here’s the honest list of what helps.
The essentials
- One Mac or Windows computer as the main till — it runs the Menulisa POS app as the branch’s main terminal: it keeps selling when the internet drops and prints straight to your printers. A touchscreen PC or a laptop on the counter both work.
- Internet — reliable Wi‑Fi. The main terminal (and the additional terminals on its Wi‑Fi) carry on without it; phones, tablets and browsers need it.
- Guest phones — your customers’ own phones scan the table QR codes; you supply nothing.
Nice to have
- More tills — more Macs or PCs as additional terminals, or iPads and Android tablets running the POS online.
- Thermal printers — 80mm or 58mm receipt and kitchen printers. Network printers are the easiest; a USB printer works when it’s plugged into the main terminal’s computer (or a computer running the Menulisa Bridge).
- A cash drawer — plugged into the receipt printer, which opens it.
- A kitchen screen — any spare tablet or monitor at the pass to show the kitchen display.
- Waiter phones — staff phones with the Menulisa POS app for taking orders tableside and getting guests’ calls.
- A customer display — a second monitor on the main terminal, or an iPad facing the guest.
- Table tablets — Android tablets running Menulisa Menu, your menu on a stand that also works offline.
TipStart with one computer and grow from there. You can add terminals, screens and printers whenever you’re ready — nothing has to be bought up front. Only a browser? The POS runs there too, as long as the internet is up.
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