• If the reservation is still active, post the transaction the same way as you posted the deposit.  On the deposit screen, enter the payment as a CREDIT by typing the minus sign before the amount (such as "-100.00").  If a credit card was used for the deposit, then you can use this same "card on file" for the refund.  For the cancellation or no-show fee, you will use a charge code such as CFEE.  If the no-show fee should be taxed, then your charge code  must begin with RC such as RCNS.  The charge code must have the room tax field populated with your first tax such as RT1 or RT.  You CANNOT void an advance deposit.  You do not need to enter a minus sign when entering a CHARGE code.
  
    
• If the guest has already been checked in you can post directly to the guest's folio.  The refund will be a CREDIT to the appropriate payment type.  Remember to type a minus sign in the amount field. fee should be a charge code and you do not need to type a minus sign for the charge code.
  
    
• If the reservation did not have a deposit and the reservation went into Guest History as a cancellation or no-show, then you can do one of two things:  Create a master folio for the guest and process the payment and fees; or make a reservation and post the deposit and fees, remembering to cancel the reservation.  However, this goes into the guest's history records as another cancellation.

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• There are three reasons names will print on this report:
  • A reservation was cancelled without its deposit being cleared.
  • A reservation was a no-show and there is a deposit that should be cleared.
  • There was an error in the posting of the deposit or the automatic transfer into the guest folio.
    
    
• If the reservation was cancelled or the guest was a no-show, bring up the reservation, save it, and then click "Deposit".  On the Enter Advance Deposit screen, you need to zero out the deposit.  This may be a refund, a charge such as a cancellation or no-show fee, or a combination.  Use the appropriate code(s) to post the payment refund or charge.  If you are posting a payment refund, enter a minus sign after the amount.   If you are posting a charge, do not enter a minus sign after the amount.  When the deposit sum is zero, the system will ask if you wish to cancel the reservation.  Answer Yes.
  
  
• If the reservation has already gone into Reservation History or if the guest was checked in but the deposit did not process correctly, you cannot post an advance deposit offset or refund.  Instead, you will post directly to the Advance Deposit Master Folio.  Do not post  directly to the Advance Deposit Master folio for any other reason unless advised specifically by Execu/Tech.  Go to Post Folio and click "Enter Folio Number" or type F in the room number field and press Enter.  At the prompt, enter the Advance Deposits Master folio number.  In the Code field, use a valid payment code such as ADF (Advance Deposit Forfeit), ADA (Advance Deposit Adjustment) or other existing and valid charge code.  Looking at  your "Advance Deposits Remaining for Cancellations & No-Shows" report, enter the CONF-NUMBER into the "Reference" field.  You must enter it exactly as shown on the report including leading zeroes.  If the amount is a credit on the report, post the amount without a minus sign.  If the amount on the report is a debit (does not have a minus sign) post the amount with a minus sign.  If there are multiple entries for this guest on the report, you will need to handle each line separately on the Post Charges screen.
  
  
• It may take a few nights for the name to stop printing on the report but if you posted the transaction correctly, it will stop.  If you still see the guest on the report, look at the existing entry or entries and look at the correcting posting you did.  The sum of them should be zero.
  
  
• Click HERE  for more information on cancellations and no-shows.

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• Do Not simply change the guest's credit limit if there is a credit card preauthorization.  Doing so will not increase the authorized fund amount.
  
  
• Bring up the guest's folio.  Click "Authorize Card".  A prompt will ask for an additional amount to authorize.  NOTE that the amount should be the ADDITIONAL amount, NOT the total amount. 
  
  
• You cannot preauthorize a second card without first voiding the preauthorization on the existing credit card.  You will see a "void preauth" button at the bottom of your screen. 
  
  
• You can, if necessary, preauthorize a second card if you split the folio.  Answer "Y" in the "split folio" field.  A popup will allow you to process a preauthorization and set a credit limit for a second card.  This guest will now have two folios, a primary folio and a secondary folio.  Room and tax charges post automatically to the primary and incidental charges post automatically to the secondary folio. 

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• You might have lost your network connection and accidentally deleted your shortcut while it was trying to connect.
  
    
• You might be under a different Windows login.
  
  
• Click HERE  for more information.

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• Something is wrong with the credit card number as it was entered.  A "Luhn test" is used by some credit card companies to distinguish valid card numbers from possible randomly entered numbers.  Typically when you receive this message, the number of digits is incorrect or there is an invalid character.  The solution is to enter the card number again, and if possible to ask the cardholder again for the number.
  
  
• This message is returned to us by the credit card processing gateway and Execu/Tech can do nothing about an invalid card number.
  

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• You might be in the wrong company.  If so, go to System Maintenance < Select Another Company.  At the prompt, enter the two-digit company code, such as 01.  If you do not see System Maintenance, ask someone with full Execu/Tech permissions to log onto Execu/Suite and do this.
  
    
• Your company file might be corrupted.  To fix or re-create it, go to System Maintenance > Select Another Company.  Click "Company Set-up".  At the prompt, enter the two-digit company code.  Most likely this is 01 (zero one) but ask management if you are not sure.  Make sure you enter both digits such as 01.  There is no Company 1 for example,  If you do not see System Maintenance on your menu, ask someone with full Execu/Tech permissions to log onto Execu/Suite and change the company.
  
    
• Click HERE  for more information.

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• After you type your User ID press Enter.  If the cursor does not move to the Password field then the ID is not accepted.  If the cursor moves to the Password field then the ID is OK.
                 
  
• You might be in the wrong company.
    
• Your caps lock might not be on.
    
• Your num lock might not be on.
    
• Your workstation might be disconnected from the network.  Contact your IT manager.

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• Execu/Tech reads your Windows computer date.  If a transaction shows an incorrect date, check the date of the computer on which the transaction was posted.

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• You have reservations with room type assignments but not room number assignments.
                            
• You have blocked more rooms by type for a group than you have picked up with reservations.
                            
• The "number of rooms" field in the room type setup does not match the actual number of rooms of that type.

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• Charge code restrictions are listed on the Charge Code setup  page.
  
  
• Payment code restrictions are listed on the Payment Code setup page.

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• Specific master folios are created to handle POS sales and receipts so that the Food & Beverage or Retail sales and other data can be included on your audit and statistics reports.  Once night audit Reorganize Files has completed, there is no longer a need to keep these records in the folio.  Therefore, the folio clears automatically when the
  balance is zero.  The balance should always be zero.   
  

• If the balance is not zero, the folio will not clear.
  
  
• If the folio does not clear it can become corrupted due to the high number of records accumulated.
  
  
• On the Final Recap we list clearing folios that do not have a zero balance so that the auditor or management can zero out the folio so that it will clear the following night.
  • To know how to zero the folio, look at each POS check's transactions.  The POS check or ticket number will be in the REF column.  Each transaction for the check will be in sequence.  The folio's balance must be zero after each check has been closed. Look for the first check whose transactions do not equal zero.  You can click on the ticket number to bring up the POS check.  Look to see what was on the check but did not post to the folio.  For example, if there was a tip on the closed check but the tip did not post to the folio, the folio will be off by that amount. 
  • From the folio display click Post to go to the Post screen.  Use your tip charge code (such as FTIP) to post that transaction.  The folio balance should be zero afterward.  If it is not, then look for additional tickets that did not post properly.
    
    
• Why does this happen?  The most common reason is a network communication failure during the posting process.   In POS the check might have closed properly but did not post correctly to the folio.
  
• The night auditor should look for this each night.  This is rare but should be attended to promptly.  Otherwise, your POS master folio might contain hundreds or thousands of records that you will have to dig through.
  
  
• If the night auditor is unwilling or unable to do this, management should assign the appropriate person.
  
  
• You should never post to a POS master folio under any other circumstance.

See also Master Folios . 

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• A clearing charge is used by the system when a POS check or ticket is closed to a guest room or master folio.  The system posts a credit to the POS master folio (which zeroes out the check and closes it) and a debit to the guest or master folio, which is a charge.  The guest or master folio now includes this charge, as it was not paid in the POS outlet, and the guest will owe it at check-out if the advance deposit was not sufficient to cover it.  On the charge journal the sum will be zero because both a credit and debit posted.  If the sum is not zero you should determine why (for example, did someone post something manually using that code?).  Clearing codes should
  never be posted manually unless advised by Execu/Tech.  These do not represent revenue codes.  See Charge Code Setup .
  
  
• A clearing payment code is used by the system when a reservation with an advance deposit is checked in.  The system posts a debit to the advance deposit master folio and a credit to the guest folio.  This clearing code is DEPU and you should never use it.  You also should never post manually to the advance deposit master folio.  See Payment Code Setup .

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You may use these fields however you wish but the following is typical for most hotels. 

• A market segment is a demographic, or represents the type of guest (such as Corporate) or reason the guest is staying at your facility (such as Wedding) or reason the guest is staying in your city (such as Sports).  See Market Segment Codes Setup .
  
  
• A source of business defines how the guest heard about your hotel, or the reservation referring channel.  Examples include Website, Friend, Travel Agency, and Expedia.  See Source of Business Codes Setup .
  
  
• You may optionally assign specific market segments to sources of business.  For example, if you have a market segment Spring Break, you might have the sources of business College Newspaper and School Blog.  Those two sources of business can be applied only when the Spring Break market segment is selected.
  
  
• Market segments and sources of business can be included (some or all) in WebRes for your guests to select.  The prompts would be something like, "Reason for visit" and "How did you hear about us?"
  
  
• Market Segments and Business Sources are part of your statistics data and print on your AM Report.  This lets you see, for example, that 22% of your room nights on a particular date (or MTD or YTD) were corporate guests.

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21. How can I track commissions for reservationists?         

The easiest way is to set them up as Travel Agencies .  This will automatically calculate number of nights, total revenue, and commission based on the commission rate set up for the employee.  By default this tracks room charges (RC) only, but the system can be configured to track additional charge codes.  

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• Blocking rooms is when you enter the number of each room type you wish to set aside for each night.  For example, you need 10 QQ rooms and 8 K rooms.  These are entered in the grid which you access by clicking "Block Rooms" on the group setup screen.
  
  
• Soft blocking is when you set aside specific rooms, such as 101 and 103, for the group.  You will NOT enter these into the Block Rooms grid.  On the Block Rooms screen you will click the "Soft block rooms" which will bring up the tape chart where you will click each room for each date.
  
  
• Neither blocking nor soft blocking creates a reservation.  It simply sets aside the quantity of rooms per type or specific rooms, pending input of reservations. 
  
  
• Rooms blocked but not picked up by the group's cut-off date will return to inventory on that date and will no longer be part of the block.
  
  

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• Use these steps to post a REDUCTION a posted amount, not to add an additional amount.
  
  
• Go to the Post Folio (Post Charges/ Payments) screen for the folio.  Click the Adjustment button.
  
  
• To adjust a charge, enter a valid charge code and enter a minus sign after the amount. 
  
  
• To adjust a payment, enter a valid payment code and DO NOT enter a minus sign after the amount.
  
  
• After you press Enter at the OK? prompt, your cursor will return to the Code field.  You have completed the adjustment.
  
  
•  You may check the balance at the right side of our screen or click Display to view the adjustment.

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See also:  Common Mistakes