2019 Release Notes

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Deployment

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Online Booking:

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Deployment

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Front Office:

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Deployment

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Front Office:

• New Feature: default charging instructions are now available for your companies and channels to be applied automatically on reservations’ billing screen.
• New Language: the French language has been added among the supported languages for Folio printouts.

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Deployment

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Front Office:

• Continuing the updates on the reservation hold feature, now Kwentra System are configured to send an automated email to the guest’s email address whose reservation was canceled based on to the on-hold date and time settings and the guest profile details.

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Point of Sale:

• New Feature: now the item groups from the waiters’ cashiering screen will be populated in alphabetic order.
• Kwentra users can now easily modify the items order in a given menu from menu settings.
• An on-screen keyboard with multiple languages is now available across all POS screens that might need text input, languages supported are English, Arabic, French and Dutch.
• Using the customer display screen on POS, guests would see images right next to their invoice.
• New Feature: a new button has been added to the CCV payment dialogue to help clearing the printing queue and avoid halting the printing flow.

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Back Office:

• New feature: when using the Pay to City Ledger option on any billing posting for a travel agency reservation you can now save time on verifying the billing postings going to the Account Receivable and have them automatically verified.

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Reports:

• When running the balance sheet report, a new filter for the dates is following month/year picker rather than an explicit date.

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Deployment

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Deployment

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Front Office:

• New Feature: now you can add commission to be included in the rate and apply it on the Sales Channel level.
• New Feature: Rate Code Definition is now dependent on the Channel level and Company level.
• New Feature: now you can apply rate restrictions on a specific rate category rather than applying it on the rate code itself.
• New Feature: now you can have different room types under the same group reservation.

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Integrations:

• New Payment Gateway: we’re currently on the route to complete the partnership with Adyen to facilitate payments flow for bookings made from the property’s website.

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Deployment

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Front Office:

• New Added Field added: a new field has been added to the payment screen that allows credit card records on billing postings, produced receipts and folios.

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Reports:

• Revamp to the Revenue and Occupancy Statistics Report where it shows more revenue details with a new addition of the Channel Column to the report.
• New Report: now you can run a daily Meal Plan Report to have a visible understanding to your kitchen needs and daily supplies. The report is broken down per guest and how many meals are required for each day per guest type.

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Deployment

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Front Office:

• New Integration: we’re proudly announcing the launch of our HSIA integration with _________ wherein your guest would get the privilege to use the Wi-Fi services with easiness without the need from your end to send the guest’s information manually.

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Back Office:

• New Added Search Fields: new General Filters added to the Accounts Receivable tab to have granular search results.