The Menulisa Bridge app
A small Mac or Windows app that prints what the main terminal can’t reach — or everything, when you have no main terminal.
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The Menulisa Bridge is a small free app for a Mac or Windows computer in the venue. It picks up print jobs from Menulisa and sends them to your printers — no print pop-up, no clicking during a rush. If your till is the Menulisa POS app running as the main terminal, it already prints by itself; the Bridge covers what it can’t reach.
When you need it
- No Mac or Windows main terminal — you run the POS in browsers, on iPads or phones. Then the Bridge prints everything.
- A USB printer on another computer — say a kitchen printer plugged into a mini‑PC under the pass. Only the Bridge on that computer can reach it.
- A backup — if the main terminal can’t reach a network printer the Bridge has printed to recently, the ticket goes to the Bridge instead.
You don’t need it for network printers or USB printers plugged into the main terminal’s own computer — the main terminal prints those directly, even offline.
Set it up
- 1Download the Menulisa Bridge for macOS or Windows from POS › Printing (or POS › Devices › Get the apps) and install it on a computer that stays on during service and can reach your printers.
- 2Open it, choose Sign in, then Open your Dashboard. The dashboard shows Connect a terminal for a Menulisa Bridge: check the code matches, pick the branch, give it a Bridge name and press Approve & connect.
- 3A computer without a browser? Choose Have a pairing token? and paste the token (or import the config file) from POS › Printing › Pair bridge.
- 4The Bridge finds the printers on its network and the USB printers on its computer. Printers already in your dashboard show up by their names; a new one offers Add it. On the dashboard the Bridge shows as Online.
What it shows you
- Each network printer can print a big number, so you can tell which box is which before you name it.
- Per printer, If it’s down, print on picks a stand‑in printer for when it stops answering.
- Activity lists every ticket and who printed it — Main terminal, Bridge or Bridge · fallback — with filters for each and for Failed.
- From the menu bar (or system tray) you can pause and resume printing.
TipOne Bridge per branch is plenty. Put it on the machine that is always on, not the one someone takes home. If the Bridge is off, the tickets that need it wait and print when it comes back.
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