Redeeming Loyalty Awards for Rate (Free Night Stay) (Video Transcript)

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With an Oracle Hospitality OPERA Cloud Service, Loyalty subscription,

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or when the Loyalty Membership Configuration OPERA Control is active with the OPERA Cloud

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Customer Loyalty Tracking Cloud Service,

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you can redeem member award points for rate awards; offered based on specific validity

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dates, the member's tier or level, and other factors.

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Once redeemed, the Points Available value in the profile membership is updated based

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on updates or cancellations.

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An Award record is also created for each night on the profile membership panel.

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Let's get started!

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To redeem a stay, the available points balance must be sufficient to cover all nights.

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If the member does not have sufficient points for any of the available awards, no Awards

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appear.

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To redeem the awards...

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In the OPERA Cloud menu, click Bookings, Reservations, and then click Look To Book Sales Screen.

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You can enter the caller and contact information, which is available when the Caller Information

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OPERA Control is active.

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or

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Click New Reservation and in the search panel, complete the following:

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Enter the reservation stay details

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or

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in the Name field, enter the name and search for the loyalty member profile.

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The Member Number field is populated automatically when Auto Populate from Name is checked in

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the membership type.

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Now, Select the Redeem Awards check box to indicate an Award reservation.

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Note: When you check this check box, the Rooms field is set to 1 and disabled.

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Click Search and the Minimum Stay Availability panel displays a list of the available Awards

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rates and the points per night.

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or

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Click the More Display Sets link to view the available Awards rates and the points per

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night.

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Then, click the rate and room type cell to select for the reservation.

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Click Select.

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The Stay Information panel displays the Total Points Deducted and the Remaining Points Balance.

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To Update or Cancel Rate Award Redemption...

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When changing the Rate Code, the deducted points are credited less any cancellation

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penalties

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and the award appears as cancelled in the profile membership Award List panel.

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In the OPERA Cloud menu, click Bookings, Reservations, then click Manage Reservation.

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Select the reservation in the search result, then click the I Want to . . . menu, Reservation,

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or click the confirmation number to open the Manage Reservation screen.

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Update the stay details as needed.

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When cancelling an Award reservation, the deducted points are credited less any cancellation

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penalties

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and the award appears as cancelled on the profile membership type Award List.