Managing Reservation Billing

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In this video you will learn how to post  charges, make payments, view the guest's folio,  

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and manage the billing options for a reservation.  Let's get started. First to find the reservation  

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click front desk and then in-house. Enter the  room number and click search. Next click the  

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arrow to open the I want to menu. On the I  want to menu I can access actions related  

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to this reservation including the action to  check out early, edit payment instructions,  

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set up routing instructions, or to go to the  profile, or the reservation. In this example,  

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I click billing to go to the billing details  for this reservation. I can click the split view  

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option to view window number one and window number  two side by side, or I can click the arrow to open  

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a list and select a different billing window to  view in the panel. Next to add a charge to the  

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reservation I click post charge. Each reservation  has up to eight separate billing windows.  

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Now click the code magnifying glass to select a  code from the list and then click select. In this  

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example, the billing window number two is selected  and I enter one thousand dollars as the price.  

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I could change the quantity but in  the example I leave the quantity as  

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one and then click apply charge. Now I can see  on billing window number two the one thousand  

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dollar banquet beverage charge is applied.  I click the information folio to preview,  

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print, download, or email an information folio for  this reservation. In this example I select email

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add an email address,

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and then click save. Then I click process to  send the folio by email. I can click the vertical  

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ellipse to view more options for each billing  window including edit posting, transfer posting,  

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or to generate an interim folio. To add another  reservation in billing I click other reservation  

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and then click add a reservation. Now I can  click search. Select the check box next to the  

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reservation you want to add and then click select.  Now I see the reservation is added and I can  

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switch between the two reservations. To transfer  charges between billing windows or reservations  

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select the check box of the charges you want  to transfer and then drag and drop the posting  

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from one window to another window or to another  reservation listed. To post a payment to a window  

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click post payment. Now window 1 is selected.  If needed I can click any window to post another  

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payment. Next I enter the amount 1058.80. I can  select any payment method from the list and then  

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click apply payment. Now I can select preview,  email to print for a pdf version or to email  

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and then click process. Now I see the billing  window number one is paid with a zero balance.