Posts Tagged ‘Hospitality’

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Issues resolved and new features:

Grid:

Added Account Balance (Pastel or Local if not integrated) to the tool tip that comes up when you point to a departed reservation on the grid.

Added the User Defined Fields to the Tooltip on right-click on grid (Room number) and selecting ‘Detailed Description’

Credit Note:

Added the option to do Credit Notes towards In-House Group reservations.

Added functionality to select a Multi-store location per line to enable passing correct Credit Notes on Invoices utilizing the recently added additional Multi-store for Restaurant/Bar staff.

Charges:

Added ‘Recipe Item’ and ‘BOM Code’ to accommodate “Manufacturing”

Pastel Interface:

Added the option to enable BOM (Manufacturing) or disable.

Note: Enabling this option is at the moment only functional for testing and not available for commercial use.

Reservation Payment:

Limit the number of character on the Credit Card number to Max 20.

Short/Over Journal processing:

Incorporate the following changes to accommodate all users allowed to do cash based transaction and cash based credit note transactions.

@ Interface Pastel:

Short/Over Account must be entered on POS tab if ‘Posting of Shortage/Over Journal by Supervisor Shift Cashup’ is checked on Setup Company – POS tab. All Short/Over will be posted towards the Short/Over Account if Gratuity GL Account as described below is not present.

@ Setup Users/Passwords:

By entering a ‘Gratuity GL Account’ on the Restaurant tab (only available for Restaurant/Bar Staff) this account will be used for processing the specific Staff member’s Short/Over.

Setup Users/Passwords:

Custom user permission

Merge user permission on Setup Company and 3^rd Party Interface to allow or disallow a ‘Custom’ user accessing Setup Company and Interface.

Reports:

Utilization report:

Remove check box “Show Disposed Rooms”

List Availability Report:

Fix ‘From’ and ‘To’ time picker

Rental Statistics Report:

Remove this report from the menu as it is not used

Current Activity Report

Fix error incorrectly displaying the RA number instead of the Reservation number on Departure. This error was due to previously changing the report not to show the RA number.

Restaurant & Diet

Change to populate values from the ‘Adults’ and ‘Children’ entry on Details Reservation General TAB. Report sort order changed to place ‘Adults’ first and then the ‘Children’.

Usage Report:

Change Category to Guest Tariff

Income Projection:

Remove the Paid status from selection.

Deposit Transaction listing:

Change to accommodate the changes made in handling deposits.

Reservation Details:

Deposit Refund:

Fix Amount Refunded displaying incorrectly when Deposit refunded in total.

Made some changes to dynamically display Deposit Refund and Forfeit on the Financial tab.

Added an option not to cancel the individual reservation when refunding the deposit.

Added the option to refund a deposit in part without cancelling the Reservation.

Added a checkbox ‘Apply Charges to Reservation’ on Financial tab to accommodate Group members responsible for own expenses.

Restaurant:

Made the necessary changes to incorporate Multi-store on the Extra/Component Item level.

Group Additional Cost Allocation Manager:

Change to dynamically update Service Charges when opening the Group Additional Cost Manager.

Fix an error occurring on Service Charges when moving line transactions from Group Reservation to Group and back.

Added the following Captions to accommodate ‘Deposit Refund’ and ‘Deposit Forfeiture’ on ‘Group Reservations’ and ‘Group’:

-      Deposit Refund Total

-      Deposit Forfeit Total

Added ‘Room Rental’ Caption to the Group Reservations to accommodate the new option to apply ‘Room Rental’ on a Group Reservation towards the individual Reservation.

Issues resolved and new features:

Group:

Fix when changing ‘Duration Charged’ to NOT dynamically update Reservation end date and Grid after saving Reservation.

This is used for a longer stay shown on the grid than at ‘Duration Charged’. Example – Guest stays 14 days and gets 2 days free. Show on grid 14 days but only 12 days at ‘Duration Charged’.

Reports:

Restaurant & Diet

Fix to show only selected day’s records.

User/Password:

Fixed an error encountered when editing a Bar/Restaurant User with Gratuity code not entered.

Fixed an error encountered when not populating and using Multi-store code 2.

Fix to only make Setup – Users/Passwords – Restaurant TAB ‘Gratuity GL Account’ required…

if Setup – Company – POS TAB ‘Posting of Shortages/Surplus by Supervisor Shift Cashup’ is checked

and Setup – Interface – Pastel POS TAB ‘Short/Over Account’ is left blank.

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Issues resolved and new features:

Group:

Fix when adding a Reservation from Group Details – Reservation Tab to dynamically update Reservation Details with the correct Price per Room or Price per Person.

POS Retail:

Fix Receipt captions to display only relevant information for the different payment types.

Add option to make In-House Group transactions

Group Additional Cost Allocation Manager:

Fix not to show and calculate individual deposits.

Reservation Details:

Quick View:

Fix not to show previous Applied Deposit when creating a new reservation.

Fix changing ‘Duration Charged’ to dynamically update Reservation end date and Grid after saving Reservation.

Reservation Record Create Date:

Change the program to utilize the Windows regional settings in the date and time format.

Deposits:

Remove selection by Contract Number. Not used in Hospitality.

Reports:

Deposits

Remove Out of Date Contract Deposits report from menu.

Restaurant & Diet Report:

Fix to show only in house guests with an entry in their Restaurant & Diet record.

Money Count:

Added a 0.25 currency denomination for international use.

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Issues resolved and new features:

Restaurant/Bar:

Display size:

Resize of ‘Top’ buttons for 800×600 and 1024×768 with the incorporation of the ‘Bar Sales’ button.

Receipt and Bill:

Option added at Setup Company – POS – Print Bill/Receipt combination instead of Receipt

Un-checked prints Receipt

Checked prints Bill/Receipt combination

Account Payments:

Fix ‘Account Payments’  debit\credit balance which was showing in reverse. (v5.1.0.9)

Reports

Daily Activity Report:

Remove RA Number

Activity Report:

Remove RA Number

Multi-Store:

Fix the Cash consolidated Restaurant/Bar invoice to correctly handle Multi-Store transactions.

Multi-store management by Charges – ‘Bar Item’ and ‘Menu Item’:

Checking both ‘Bar Item’ and ‘Menu Item’ at Charges will result in the following:

When a Bar Staff member selects this item the multi-store will default to the Bar Staff member’s Bar multi-store.

When a Restaurant Staff member selects this item the multi-store will default to the Restaurant Staff member’s Restaurant multi-store.

POS Retail:

Fixed not to create a Service Charge line to Pastel when Service Charge is NULL.

Money Count:

Report:

Fixed Money count report to show ‘Shortage’ as negative.

Short/Over  journal automation:

Setup Company – POS – General

‘Posting of Short/Over by Supervisor Cashup’

Un-checked:

Do Journal manually as back office transaction

Checked:

When using this option it is important to note that Money Count procedures must be followed as the Short/Over on the Money Count determine the amount used for the Journal creation. Closing of a shift by the Supervisor will result in not passing a Short/Over Journal to Pastel. This can be corrected by doing a manual back office Journal in Pastel.

2 Options available:

Option 1

Entering an account at Setup Interfaces – Pastel – POS Tab- Short/Over Account  as well as an Entry Type for Short/Over.

This account will be debited and the Daily Takings Control Account will be credited in the event of a Shortage.

This account will be credited and the Daily Takings Control Account will be debited in the event of a Surplus.

Option 2

Leaving the account blank at Pastel Interface – POS – Short/Over Account will result in using the Gratuity account at Setup – Users/Passwords – Restaurant Tab.

This Gratuity account will be debited and the Daily Takings Control Account will be credited in the event of a Shortage.

This Gratuity account will be credited and the Daily Takings Control Account will be debited in the event of a Surplus.

Grid:

Status – In House

Allow setting Status to In-House for future bookings can now be managed:

Setup Company – General – Allow changing Status to In-House for Future bookings

Checked

Changing Status of future bookings to In-House allowed.

Unchecked

Changing Status of future bookings to In-House disallowed.

Novtel International Software Corporation was established in 1996 and has since grown to a multinational company with representation throughout South Africa and selected countries International. The company is a 3rd Party developer, specialising in seamless integration with leading accounting software locally and International. The following are the mainstream integrated software developed by Novtel catering for all size businesses by adding workstations as needed:

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• Property Management
• Hospitality
• Relations Management
• Vehicle Hire
• Point of Sale Restaurant
• Point of Sale Pub/Bar
• Point of Sale Retail Shop
• Self Storage Management
• Contract Manager

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