Note: This article is for third-party terminals and not Mews Terminals. You can learn how to set up a Mews Terminal S1 here, and a Mews Terminal S2 here.

If you're using a third-party terminal with Mews, you need to set up a few accounting preferences regarding how the system handles payments. Mews also offers an integrated Mews Payment Terminal. You can learn more about it here.

In this article you can learn the following about setting up payments on third-party terminals:

• Add the accepted card types.
• Set terminal payments to require receipt identifier

 

Add the accepted card types

1. In Mews Operations, go to the main menu  > Settings > Property.> Finance.
2. Click Accounting configuration.
3. Scroll down to the Accepted manual payment card types field, and select all the cards that you accept for third-party terminal payments.
4. To set default accounting categories for third-party terminal payments for accepting:

• Payments with accepted cards: Locate the Terminal payments section, and select the default accounting category for each accepted card type.
• Payments with unspecified card types: Locate the Unspecified card payment field, and select the default accounting category.

5. Click Save.

Set terminal payments to require receipt identifier

If you print your terminal receipts with an identifying number on them, you can choose whether or not you want your staff to add that number to Mews when they take terminal payments.

Tip: Not requiring the receipt identifier can significantly speed up check-in or check-out.

To set terminal payments to require receipt identifier:

1. In Mews Operations, go to the main menu  > Settings > Property.> Finance.
2. Click Accounting configuration.
3. In the Options field, from the drop-down menu select Optional credit card payment details.
4. Click Save. 

You can learn more about how to order and set up Mews Terminals here.