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Billing service

2026-02-04
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The following explains how to use the Billing Service and the differences between enabled and disabled billing modes.

  1. Go to Settings → Center Settings and set Billing Service to Enabled. (Figure 1)

Figure 1

  1. Billing enabled means you can use sessions and keep track of their spending and in general use all the functions related with billing and payments.
  2. If the billing service is disabled, the system will automatically create a guest account and start a session with unlimited time. When the client PC boots and reaches the iCafeMenu login screen, the session will start automatically with no time limit. (Figure 2)

Figure 2

  1. The actions will appear in the logs, but they will not affect the balance, and the reports will show a value of 0. (Figure 3)

Figure 3

  1. If you start a session with a member account while the billing service is disabled, the account will be assigned a very large number of hours  when the session starts. (Figure 4)

Figure 4

  1. If you later enable the billing service again, the same member account will retain a large remaining balance from the actions performed previously (Figure 5).

Figure 5

  1. In this case, you can manually refund the balance for each affected account.
  2. Therefore, it is recommended not to use member accounts if you plan to switch between enabled and disabled billing services.
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