CONSUME ALLOWANCE WHEN NOPOST OR POST STAY FLAG Application Setting

Group. CASHIERING

Type. Parameter

Application.

PMS

ORS

Description. Package Allowance consumption for In-House Reservations overriding No Post flag up to the allowance balance only when consumption posting via an interface, overage will not be generated. In case of manual postings against allowance, overage will be generated.

Package Allowance consumption for Checked out Reservations on the day of departure until End of Day if Post Stay Charging privilege is assigned. If No Post is checked then consumption posting only up to the Allowance balance will be accepted from an interface, Overage will not be generated however in case of manual postings against allowance overage will be generated. If No Post is not checked then after allowance consumption, Overage will be generated as applicable for interface as well as manual postings.

Internal Name. CONSUME_ALLOWANCE_WHEN_NOPOST_OR_POST_STAY_FLAG

Property Determination. Activation of this application parameter will allow consumption of package allowance in the following two scenarios:

For an In House reservation with package allowance that has the No Post check box selected.
For a Checked Out reservation with Post Stay privileges and a package allowance remaining on the day of the reservations departure, the package allowance will be available for consumption as long as the appropriate transaction code is used up until the End of Day procedure is run for that departure date.

This functionality is beneficial for properties that have a pre-deposit policy prior to check in where the guest must pay for all or part of the room and tax as their deposit. When this occurs, the reservation has a No Post status and incidentals cannot then be posted to the room. This parameter would allow for the package allowance to reconcile at the end of the business date and reservations that have already checked out would still be able to charge incidentals to the reservation that would then post towards the package allowance.

Activation / Inactivation Rules.

This parameter can be activated only if RATES > ADVANCED PACKAGES is active. The parameter cannot be deactivated if any Package element is configured with Valid until C/O EOD check box checked.

Available Values.

Y (Yes)

N (No)

Add On Licenses/Country Specifics.

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Other Application Settings.

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Affected Areas

Menus / Screens / Fields.

Cashiering>Billing>Payment

Cashiering>Fast Posting

Cashiering>Post It

Cashiering>Cashier Functions>Batch Posting

Kiosk/Point of Sale Systems

Reports & Report Forms.

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Permissions.

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Notes.

When this application parameter is active, this functionality does NOT reference the value defined for the Postings option on the IFC Postings Tab.

When an interface posting consists of multiple transactions that refer to multiple transaction codes in OPERA, for OPERA to accept the entire check/set of transactions and post against allowance for a reservation with No Post flag, each of the individual transaction codes must have an allowance in OPERA or setup as alternates for the transaction code that has the allowance. If the total of all the postings from interface on one check exceeds the available allowance, OPERA will reject the entire posting from interface even if one of the transaction codes has an allowance. So essentially this will behave as all or none process where OPERA will accept the entire check/set of transaction from interface and consume allowance or reject an entire check as no Overage can be posted to a reservation with No Post flag when posting is from an Interface.