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Point of Sale systems (POS) need to be able to create charges (postings) in UlysesPMS. With UlysesPMS, postings are placed the property's rooms. Ultimately on a guest or company’s folio.

Hence, a POS system needs to post charges on specific folios. Please note that we can find diverse type of folios, ranging from room folios to passer-by folios to room folios.

The process

Firstly, the integration should use There are 2 ways of integrating a POS with Ulyses Cloud, either by sending charges directly to a folio or by sending them to an specific room

Method 1: Send charges to folios

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  1. (Optional)Use the get all services operation to retrieve all the services that the property has configured in
UlysesPMS
  1. Ulyses Cloud.
Following, the integration should use
  1. Use the get all folios operation to retrieve all folios where the POS can post charges. Once all folios are retrieved, the user (or the machine) will select over which client want to post a charge.
After that, the integration should use the
  1. Use the add posting operation to add a posting with a ticket and the currency used
. That would complete the process
  1. to an specific folioID
  2. Or add the posting operation to add a posting with a ticket to an specific folio Code. This is used specifically to enter postings to passerby customers.

Method 2: Send charges to an specific room 

  1. (Optional)Use the get all services operation to retrieve all the services that the property has configured in Ulyses Cloud.
  2. First, we will need to know which rooms are occupied and have a reservation allocated. This can be done easily by using this endpoint.
  3. Following, we will send the the charge to an specific room by using the following endpoint 


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If you have any doubt about the supported currencies, there's a get all currencies operation available.