Cash desks
Revenue — Cash desks runs the tills and cashier shifts at the terminal, so cash and card taken at the desk settle into the same ledger as every other sale.
All modulesBORA Systems is a ferry operations platform built in Tallinn, Estonia — 33 modules across 6 functional categories, each on its own microservice with a local API. Certified to ISO/IEC 27001 and GDPR-compliant. As of 2026, in daily service across three regions: the Baltic, the Channel Islands and the Persian Gulf.
What does it do?
Cash desks is the till side of the operation — the physical desks at the terminal and the cashier shifts that run them. A sale taken at the desk opens against a shift, settles into the same ledger, and reconciles when the shift closes.
Because the desk shares the ledger, end-of-shift cash-up is a reconciliation against records that already exist, not a separate count to merge into the books.
How does it work?
Open
A cashier opens a shift at a desk.
Sell
Cash and card sales are taken against the shift.
Settle
Every desk sale settles into the same ledger.
Close
The shift closes and reconciles against the records.
What does it connect to?
Cash desks settles through Payment gateway and Ledger, and sells against Reservation.
Cash desks runs on the POS at the desk and exposes a local API for shift data.
Further reading on the BORA blog: One ledger for every channel: website, agency, kiosk and on board.
What are its limits?
What it deliberately does not do:
- Cash desks runs desks and shifts; it is not the operator's full accounting system.
- Cash desks handles terminal tills; onboard sale is the onboard POS's job.
Frequently asked questions
Does desk revenue need merging later?
No. In BORA's Cash desks module, cash and card taken at a ferry terminal desk settle into the same ledger as every other sale and reconcile when the cashier's shift closes.
Are cashier shifts tracked?
Yes. In BORA's Cash desks module every sale at a ferry terminal desk is taken against an open cashier shift, and the shift reconciles against the records when it closes.
Is this the onboard POS?
No. BORA's Cash desks module runs the tills at the ferry terminal; sales made at sea run on BORA's On-board PoS.
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