Version 7.34.0

POS (Point Of Sale) Cash Sales, sometimes referred to as Outlet Sales, is a sale that is settled at a POS device / location, i.e. the transaction is not posted to a room or a guest. Our POS integration allows the set up of these cash sales to automatically be recorded in ResRequest. 

Once recorded in ResRequest, they are included in ResRequest’s Financial Interface batches. The accounts team sends these transaction batches to the General Ledger at month-end.

In this release, we have extended our POS integration so in addition to cash sales, payments taken at a POS location, for cash sales, are automatically recorded in ResRequest. 

Minimum length of stay (MinLOS) refers to forcing a user to book a specified number of nights in order to confirm their reservation. An advantage of implementing a MinLOS strategy is that it allows hotels to develop a relatively even occupancy pattern. This is especially appealing during peak occupancy periods, and as an effective way to encourage guests to stay longer.

Our new MinLOS feature introduces the capability for you to set up and manage these rules over a specified time period, for a minimum number of nights. This release introduces this functionality when making bookings in ResRequest, and it will be extended to our API and booking channels in a future release.

For more on this module, see our Online Help Guides on how to Set up MinLOS (Link Required) and Making a booking with MinLOS (Link required)

For customers using our POS (Point Of Sale) integration, we have added enhancements that make it quicker to set up POS Mapping in ResRequest. Features also provide more detailed POS information which makes it easy-to-reconcile POS reports and presents easy-to-read descriptions on customer invoices at checkout.

These enhancements include:

• A POS toggle on the Extra Category Code Table. Only items that belong to a POS category are available for mapping as POS Sales Items. 
• The Environment Setup Code Table shows which properties are linked to any particular property environment. Check-in to a property can only be performed in the environment to which the property is linked.

Block Bookings allow hotels to pre-book a large volume of bookings, with set departures and itineraries, based on commercially negotiated contracts with agents. 

We have added block booking enhancements to simplify the setup of Block Templates and to make it easier to select and work with blocks.

Features now available in Block Bookings are:

• Users tend to create block reservations with the block template name as a prefix. To streamline the process we are now automatically populating the reservation name with that prefix.
• If a user group has ‘Allocation expiry date’ checked in the Reservation restrictions > Allow overrides section, then when creating a block reservation those users are able to select block dates that have already expired.