Hospitality service
The Hospitality service is used when the POS is configured to be a hospitality POS. The service handles all of the table management functionality and has the layout of the table view within the service as well. It also handles all the functionality for split bills, transfers, station printing and etc.
Configurations
There area various configurations that need to be set so that the hospitality functionality will work as expected.
The functionality profile needs to be set as a hospitality profile, if that is not done then none of the hospitality functionality will work.
All the other hospitality specific functionality is explained in detail in the LS One online help.
Main functionality
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| ConcludeTransaction | This is called before the Transaction service Conclude transaction code is run. |
| GetDiningTableStatusText | Sets the texts on the tables depending on their status |
| IsTableLockedByCurrentTerminal | The code in this function is commented out and should only be used when absolutely necessary. See further comments and notes in the function itself. |
| PreparationForPayment | All payment operations call this function. All items that have not been sent already to the station printer will be printed (if they are printable) |
| RunHospitalityPart | This function is called by the POS when the user exists the POS to go back into the table view. Here all changes to the table are done and the changes are saved. |
| TransferTable | Runs the transfer table functionality using the SplitBill dialog. This function is not called untill the second table is selected i.e. the table to transfer to. |
| SendToStationPrinter | Used by the hospitality service itself and Central suspensions when they are configured to be printed on a station printer. |
| SetPrintingStatus | Goes through the items on the table and decides if they need to be updated so that they will be printed on the station printer. There are a few different overloaded versions of this function. |
| StationPrinter class | Takes care of the entire station printing functionality including creating the station printing receipt in code. There is some configuration that is used by the printing functionality please see the Printing station configurations for more information. |
POS Operations
Many operations in the POS directly call the Hospitality service. Here below is a list of all the operations and which functions they call
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Any payment operation | Calls functions FinalizeSplitBill, PostPayment |
| Change item comments | Calls function SetPrintingStatus |
| Clear item comments | Calls function SetPrintingStatus |
| Item comments | Calls function SetPrintingStatus |
| Item sale | Calls function IsTableLockedByCurrentTerminal |
| Set quantity | Calls function SetPrintingStatus |
| Split bill | Calls function SplitBill |
| Print hospitality type menu | Calls function PrintHospitalityMenuType |
| Void item | Calls function SetPrintingStatus |
| Void transaction | Calls function TransactionVoided |
Development pack
To find this service in the development pack go to DevPack\Source\POS\Services
