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Calisto Kiosks

SWITCH FROM MEWS

Mews to Calisto Kiosks

Pick the job each kiosk does, set it up on any tablet at your own kiosk address, and run every screen from one list.

  • Serviced Apartments
  • Hotels & Resorts
  • Short-Term Rentals

Feature by feature

Calisto Kiosks beside Mews

  • 18 In both
  • 1 Only in Mews
Calisto Kiosks beside Mews, feature by feature
19 featuresCalisto KiosksMews
Check-In
Self Check-InCalisto: guest check-in finds the stay, takes the party's registration card and checks the guest in, with the stay's own steps (with Stays).Checked 28 paź 2026SourceYesYes
Self Check-OutCalisto: check-out is a step inside guest check-in, with the stay's bill paid on the screen's own terminal (with Stays).Checked 28 paź 2026SourceYesYes
Reservation LookupCalisto: the stay opens with its confirmation code, or the email or phone on it; a name search answers only initials and dates.Checked 28 paź 2026SourceYesYes
ID ScanningCalisto: the ID check is handed to the guest's phone, and the lead guest's card is read from their verified ID, fields only, never an image (with Stays).Checked 28 paź 2026SourceYesYes
Registration CardCalisto: the whole party's registration card, each guest's fields under the property's country rules, signed by that country's rule, with the front desk always offered.Checked 28 paź 2026SourceYesYes
Room SelectionCalisto: where the property lets them, guests choose a free room of the type they booked, or a higher type at its upgrade price, filtered by what differs between the rooms, on the kiosk or their phone (with Stays).Checked 28 paź 2026SourceYesYes
Minibar Charges at Check-OutCalisto: at check-out, guests add what they took from the property's minibar list before paying, and housekeeping checks it at the refill (with Stays).Checked 28 paź 2026SourceYesYes
Ordering
Room UpgradesCalisto: a room upgrade offered at check-in and put on the stay's bill (with Stays).Checked 28 paź 2026SourceYesYes
UpsellingCalisto: upsells at ordering, and a room upgrade at check-in, with the take rate measured net of the abandonment they cause.Checked 28 paź 2026SourceYesYes
Payment
Card Payment TerminalCalisto: each screen charges on its own certified cloud card terminal from the business's own payment provider; the tablet never sees a card (with Payments).Checked 28 paź 2026SourceYesYes
Pay on PhoneCalisto: a QR to the business's own payment page, and the screen moves on the moment it is paid.Checked 28 paź 2026SourceYesYes
Split BillCalisto: a table's check or a stay's bill paid whole or in parts, one card's part at a time.Checked 28 paź 2026SourceYesYes
Accessibility and Languages
Multi-LanguageCalisto: Language on every screen, with speech in the language on screen.Checked 28 paź 2026SourceYesYes
Look and Content
BrandingCalisto: the welcome headline, line and photos, light or dark over the business's brand kit, or a welcome designed in the editor.Checked 28 paź 2026SourceYesYes
Video on IdleCalisto: a designed welcome screen with live data (the menu, an offer, the waiting line, the Wi-Fi) plays until a guest touches it, its pages moving.Checked 28 paź 2026SourceYesYes
Setup and Hardware
Runs on a TabletCalisto: any tablet opens the business's kiosk address in its browser and signs in; nothing is installed.Checked 28 paź 2026SourceYesYes
Fleet
Kiosk LockdownCalisto: the tablet guide sets each platform's own lockdown: iPad Guided Access, Android app pinning, ChromeOS kiosk and Windows kiosk mode.Checked 28 paź 2026SourceYesYes
Multi-Kiosk ManagementCalisto: one kiosk runs on any number of screens, and a change to it reaches every screen running it.Checked 28 paź 2026SourceYesYes
Gaps
Room Key EncodingCalisto: guests choose how many key cards to cut and cut another later, on an ASSA ABLOY Vostio or Salto Homelok encoder, live once each maker certifies Calisto. Door codes, mobile keys and wallet passes work today (with Access).Checked 28 paź 2026SourceNoYes

What moves

Bringing your data from Mews

Your data is read in your own browser and sent to your Calisto account. Calisto never sees your login for the old system.

From an export file

Export your data from Mews and drop the file in. It is read in your browser and mapped onto Calisto.

  • Customers

    Guest/customer records

  • Reservations

    Hotel reservations

  • Spaces (Rooms)

    Room/space inventory

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Moving from Mews

Questions about switching

Can I keep my tablets?

Yes. Any tablet opens your kiosk address and is locked with its own operating system's kiosk mode, and nothing is installed on it. A screen that takes cards pairs a certified cloud card terminal from your own payment provider.

Where do check-ins, orders and sign-ins go?

Into the app that runs that job: a hotel check-in is the stay's in Stays, an order goes to Orderflow, a member's visit is Registry's and a visitor is Access's. A kiosk keeps no records of its own.

How do I set up the first screen?

Make a kiosk, or Set Up Every Kiosk for your kind of business, then open yourname.calistokiosks.com on the tablet and sign in, or approve it from your phone, and choose the kiosk it runs.

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Everything Calisto does here

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