Novtel Hospitality Version 5.2.0.5 Released on 2010/07/29 (Upgrade)

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Issues resolved and new features:

Grid:

Change the Tooltip transparency to make the content more visible – Location: right-click on grid (Room number) and selecting ‘Detailed Description’


Status changes:

Change colour of Status – ‘Departed’

Added Status – ‘Fully Paid’


Remove Pastel balance from Reservation tooltip.


Added the following to the bottom of the Grid display:

Individual Reservations:

Reservation Balance
Invoice Total
Receipt Total
Deposit Forfeit Total
Deposit Refund Total
Deposit Paid

Group Reservations paid by the Group will show zero balances and totals for the individual Reservation. This information is only available by clicking on the Group container.

Group container (virtual room)

Group Balance
Group Invoice Total
Group Receipt Total
Group Deposit Forfeit
Group Deposit Refund
Group Deposit Paid


Note: This financial data displays on a left mouse click with the mouse pointer on the specific reservation.

Reports:

Items not linked to a Pastel:

This report is now also available at Reports - List

Bednights Repost:

Fix report to work with Group virtual room and to calculate and display Group additional costs. Previously only Reservation additional costs were taken into account in this report.

Reservation Details:

Made some general changes when cancelling a reservation to incorporate the refund and partial refund of deposits with and without the limitation of first settle or reverse outstanding amount on reservation.


Un-Update:

Un-updating a Reservation changed to create a Credit Note to Pastel as a reversal of the Invoice.

New checkbox – Apply Tariff towards Reservation:

Added this control to assist with Group reservations. ‘Check’ or ‘Un-check’ of this control will apply Accommodation tariff and Service Charge on accommodation towards Reservation or Group. When updating the Reservation the Group additional costs are dynamically updated with the Service Charge   


Front desk Cashup:

Fixed - After a money count is done,  if there is an "In House Total"  this shows as the "Shortage Amount" on return to the Shift Cash Up screen and also gets posted to the Pastel GL account for that user/

Service Charge:

Fix the generation of a zero (0) value Service Charge line where Service Charge is not applicable on Payouts, Credit Notes and in POS transactions.


Groups:

Added a Group ‘container’. It is not necessary to create this ‘container or ‘virtual room’ as it is created when adding a Reservation to a Group. The format is ZGROUPxx where xx starts with 01. In the event of more than one Group reservation in the same reservation period a new ‘container’ will be created to accommodate the additional Group reservation.

Un-update:

Un-updating a Group changed to create a Credit Note to Pastel as a reversal of the Invoice.





Group configuration:

Group members can be added to the Group according to the following criteria:

-   Group responsible for payment
-   Group member responsible for accommodation
-   Group member responsible for additional costs
-   Group member responsible for accommodation and additional costs

Details on adding a Group member:

Group responsible for payment

Option 1

Add member with the same Customer code as entered at Group Details General tab.

Deposit if entered will be applied towards Group account

Option 2

Un-check ‘Apply Tariff to Reservation’ and ‘Apply Charges to Reservation’ where the Customer code is not the same as entered at Group Details General tab.

Deposit if entered will be applied towards Group member account and checking ‘Apply Tariff to Reservation and/or ‘Apply Charges to Reservation’ will be required.

Group member responsible for accommodation

Customer code not the same as entered at Group Details General tab.

Check ‘Apply Tariff to Reservation’ and un-check ‘Apply Charges to Reservation’

Deposit if entered will be applied towards Group member account

Group member responsible for additional costs

Customer code not the same as entered at Group Details General tab.

Un-check ‘Apply Tariff to Reservation’ and check ‘Apply Charges to Reservation’

Deposit if entered will be applied towards Group member account

Group member responsible for accommodation and additional costs

Customer code not the same as entered at Group Details General tab.

Check ‘Apply Tariff to Reservation’ and check ‘Apply Charges to Reservation’

Deposit if entered will be applied towards Group member account

Reservation Payments:

Fix not to show Groups with zero balances on selection.

Restaurant/Bar:

Remove message “The cash drawer is not enabled for this user." as this creates problems when not using a Cash Drawer.

Setup Cash Drawer:

Fix error when saving to database

Add New Charge:

Fix an error when adding a charge on a new installation from a ‘Clean database’. This error occurred on some ‘Clean database’ with a setup of ‘Use Tax defaulting’ to ‘No’. The system was changed to allow adding a charge irrespective of the Tax setup at Setup Company Financial.

The following charges must be created for a new installation with ‘Create Item in Pastel’ un-checked.


-   Bar/Restaurant In House Charge Code
-   POS/Shop In House Charge Code
-   POS/Shop In House Payout/Credit Note

Once done select the above codes at Setup Company Financial and change ‘Use Tax’ to Yes. Once this is done it will be possible to save the Company details.