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On-board PoS
Tickets and goods sold underway, settled into the same ledger as every other sale — the shop and the ticket desk on one system.
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BORA 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?
The on-board PoS is the point of sale that runs while the ship is at sea — the cafe, the shop, a ticket sold to a foot passenger who boarded without one. Everything it sells lands in the same ledger as a sale made at the terminal or online.
On-board PoS single ledger is the point: revenue from the crossing is not a separate spreadsheet to merge at the end of the day, it is already part of the same picture Reporting draws from.
How does it work?
Sell
Tickets, food, goods — sold at sea on the same catalogue and prices as ashore.
Settle
Every sale settles into the same ledger as every other channel, whatever the payment method.
Report
The crossing's takings are part of the same picture Reporting draws from — no end-of-day merge.
What does it connect to?
On-board PoS settles through Payment gateway and reports through Reporting, using prices from Dynamic pricing.
On-board PoS runs on standard POS terminals and card readers.
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:
- On-board PoS depends on the vessel's own connectivity for live card authorization; offline card sales fall back to the terminal's store-and-forward, within the operator's risk policy.
- On-board PoS is not a full retail inventory system for a large onboard shop — it handles ferry-scale catalogues, not a supermarket.
Frequently asked questions
Can it sell tickets as well as goods?
Yes. A foot passenger who boarded the ferry without a ticket can buy one at BORA's On-board PoS, settled into the same ledger as goods sold at sea.
How does it handle card payments at sea?
BORA's On-board PoS authorises cards live where the ferry has connectivity, and falls back to the terminal's store-and-forward within the operator's risk policy where it doesn't.
Does onboard revenue need merging later?
No. Sales on BORA's On-board PoS settle into the same ledger as every other channel, so the crossing's takings are already in BORA's Reporting.
See the on-board pos on live data
A 30-minute walkthrough, from a web booking to the ramp closing.
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