How to accept order payments with e-Wallet
To make a prepayment or non-cash settlement without actual cards at office canteens, resorts or hotels, you can use e-Wallets
To make a prepayment or non-cash settlement without actual cards at office canteens, resorts or hotels, you can use e-Wallets. For example, there are cases when parents don’t want to give the child cash for lunch in the cafeteria. Instead, they top up the e-Wallet at Poster to use this money to pay for lunch at school.
All you need to do is to enable e-Wallet, top up the customer’s account and accept the payment with e-Wallet.
☝️ Deposit accounts are available in Business and Pro pricing plans:
- in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Poland and Armenia you can top up a deposit account only with cash;
- in other countries you can top up your guest's account with cash or by a wire transfer.
e-Wallet setup
To enable e-Wallet:
☝️ By default the tax is not applied for topping up a deposit account.
e-Wallet top up
☝️ You can’t top up your e-Wallet from the customer card at the management console. To transfer the funds (cash or non-cash) to the customer’s e-Wallet, top up e-Wallet from the point of sale.
To top up e-Wallet:
- Go to the Customer tab in the upper left-hand corner of the order window.
- Select the customer from the list and click Top up in the e-Wallet balance block.
- Enter the amount and click:
- Top up with cash and put cash into the cash drawer. Poster will add an income transaction to the cash shift;
- Top up with card and pay using payment terminal. After this, the transaction “e-Wallet top up” will appear automatically in the tab Finances → Transactions.
- Click Done.

Use e-Wallet for order payment
If the customer topped up their account and wants to use it, accept the payment using e-Wallet. To pay with e-Wallet:
How to check when a guest topped up their deposit account
To find out the date, time, and amount of a deposit top-up, open Finances → Transactions in the management console and filter transactions by the “Deposit top-ups” category.
A deposit top-up is displayed as a separate income transaction.
How to find a deposit top-up in financial transactions
- Open Finances → Transactions in the management console.
- In the upper-right corner, click the calendar and select the date or period when the guest may have topped up their deposit.
- Click Account and select Cash account. This is the cash account linked to the location.
- Click Category and select “Deposit top-ups”.
Poster will show all deposit account top-ups for the selected period.
Check a deposit top-up in a cash register shift
Once you know the deposit top-up date from the transactions, find the cash register shift in which it was recorded:
- Open Finances → Cash register shifts in the management console.
- In the upper-right corner, click the calendar and select the deposit top-up date.
- Open the required cash register shift.
- Find the transaction with the Income type and the comment «Client topped up the deposit account with cash».
Check the client's total deposit balance in the management console under Marketing → Customers.
☝️ If you delete receipt, which the customer paid with an e-Wallet, the written-off amount will be returned to his account.
View payment reports to figure out how often your customers pay with e-Wallets.

