To comply with Italian regulations, you can set up Italian fiscal printers to print all the legally required receipts using a fiscal printer that is authorized by the Italian government.

In this article you can learn about:

• System requirements
• Setting up the fiscal printer
  • Step 1: Connect the fiscal machine integration  
    • Exclude unnecessary bill counters
  • Step 2: Set up the printer in Mews
  • Step 3: Connect your fiscal printer to Mews Operations
  • Step 4: Configure the fiscal machine in the Epson software
    • Open the Simulatore Cassa
    • Update the IVA/VAT rates
    • Configure the departments used by Mews
      • Mapping table

System requirements

To use the Italian fiscal printer integration, you need to set up a fiscal machine integration, and one of the following printers:

• Epson FP81 II
• Epson FP90 III

Setting up the fiscal printer

Step 1: Connect the fiscal machine integration

1. In Mews Operations, go to the main menu  > Marketplace.
2. Under the categories menu on the left, click Legal environment.
3. Find the Fiscal machine integration and click Explore.

4. Click Connect integration.
5. Click Create.

Exclude unnecessary bill counters

You only need to report your receipts through the Italian fiscal printer, not your invoices or credit notes. To exclude unnecessary bill counters: 

1. Go to the newly created Fiscal machine integration 
2. Under Counters, select the counters you want to report from the dropdown. Note: Deselect your Fatture and Note di credito counters to prevent your invoices and credit notes from being reported and printed through the Italian fiscal printer. 
3. The printer ignores all the unselected counters. 

Disclaimer: Below picture is an example of a setup, which always needs to be consulted first with your finance team.

Explanation of the counters from the above screenshot:

• Correzioni: Counter not connected to the Fiscal printer and property can use it in case of wrongly posted items on open guest bills which cannot be cancelled anymore due to the Editable history window. For more information, you can check How to cancel stay products article.
• Fattura & Nota di Credito: Counters not connected to the fiscal printer. Fattura and Nota di Credito counters should be reported via the Fiscal registry. For more information you can check the Automate reports for the Italian fiscal registry article.
• Nota di Variazione: Counter connected to the Fiscal printer. Some properties use it for closing rebates of Ricevute. Always consult your finance team in case you wish to use this counter for such purposes.
• Ricevuata Fiscale: Counter connected to the Fiscal printer as Ricevute have to be reported to the tax Authorities.

Step 2: Set up the printer in Mews

1. In Mews Operations, go to the main menu  > Marketplace > My subscriptions. 
2. Locate your fiscal machine integration, and go to the settings.
3. Click Fiscal machines and click the + button.

4. In the Name field, enter a recognizable name for the printer, for example, "Reception Epson".
5. Leave the Identifier and Tax identifier fields empty.
6. In the Data JSON field, enter:

{

"Type": "EpsonFPII",

"ComplianceLevel": "2022"

}

Note: This update is necessary to meet the latest regulations, available from the 1st of January 2022.
 

7. Click Create and select the Enabled checkbox.
8. In the API URL field, enter the following:

• http://
• The IP address of your printer, you can see instructions on how to find this in the printer manual.
• /cgi-bin/fpmate.cgi?devid=local_printer&timeout=10000
• The final API URL should look something like this: http://IP_ADDRESS_OF_THE_PRINTER/cgi-bin/fpmate.cgi?devid=local_printer&timeout=10000.

Note: If you encounter an 'Invalid API URL' error, first ensure your IP address is accurate and there are no typos. If the error persists, remove the 0s immediately following each decimal point. For example, instead of 172.26.066.070, write 172.26.66.70.

9. Click Save.

Step 3: Connect your fiscal printer to Mews Operations

1. In Mews Operations, go to the main menu  > Marketplace > My subscriptions.
2. Locate the Mews Connector integration, and go to the settings. Note: If you do not have Mews Connector integration yet, click here.  
3. Under Connected devices, select the printer you just created.
4. Click Save.

Step 4: Configure the fiscal machine in the Epson software

Open Simulatore Cassa

1. Open the Epson software, EpsonFpWizard. 
2. Click Manutenzione. 

3. Click on the icon highlighted in green as seen below. 

 

 

Update the IVA/VAT rates 

1. Go to Strumenti > Programmazione > IVA / Nature > Aliquote IVA / Nature / Ventilazione to check your Alliquote IVA 

2. Make sure the table under Aliquote IVA Attuali, matches the following mapping table. Since these are the Mews required values, you need to update them to prevent issues.

3. If your values match, proceed to the “Configure the reparti used by Mews” step.  

In case, your values don’t match the above table, perform the following steps:

1. Do the daily closure.
2. Set all the VAT rates to zero.
3. Enter the new values as in the table above.  
4. Click on Impostare Aliquoti Attuali to save the settings.  
5. Now you can proceed to the next step of configuring the reparti.  

  Note: In case you have trouble updating the values please contact Epson support. 
 

Configure the departments (reparti) used by Mews

1. Go to Strumenti > Programmazione > Reparti.
2. Update the names of the reparti as you prefer. Note: You don't need to update all reparti, just the ones referenced in this guide. 

3. You need to set the iva, i. e. % and Tipo di vendita for each department as per the mapping table below. 

Note: Make sure to click  to confirm the values after filling in every department, to save. 
 

Mapping table:

Reserved*: These departments can have any values now but are reserved for Mews only for future use. 

You have now successfully set up your Fiscal printer and can exit the program by clicking on .