You may sometime want to post certain charges on a regular basis such as daily or weekly to a guest's bill or to an AR account. For example, charges for a rollaway bed, valet service, or parking might be incurred each day of the guest's stay. The Fixed Charges feature enables you to identify these kinds of recurring charges so they can be automatically posted during the End of Day process. It also offers a convenient way to automatically post a fixed charge once, on a specific date.
For AR fixed charges, OPERA creates a new invoice each time the charge is posted by the End of Day process and OPERA automatically assigns an invoice number.
In general, fixed charges that are to be applied to a guest's bill are specified at the time the reservation is made or at check-in time. At check-out, it may be too late to specify fixed charges so they correctly affect billing.
Parent topic: Accounts Receivables