Setting Up Night Audit

The Night Audit Settings allows users to configure the printer for printing reports, templates for automatic and manual night audits, deposits, remaining arrivals, and departures.

Navigate to Night Audit à Night Audit Settings.

Refer to the following table and fill in the fields:

Field

Description

Printer Configuration

Print Manager URL

The URL of the system where print manager is installed and configured.

Printer Name

When Get All Printers button is clicked, all printers connected to the system are displayed in the Printer Name drop-down list. Select a preferred printer to print the reports.

Once selected, reports that have result type set as Print will be automatically printed when the audit is run.

Printer configuration works only for On-prem instances of Versa and is not applicable for Cloud instances of Versa.

Manual Audit Template Configuration

Before Z Template

Select a default before Z template from the Before Z Template drop-down list.

Z Out Template

Select a default Z Out template from the Z Out Template drop-down list.

After Z Template

Select a default after Z template from the After Z Template drop-down list.

Auto Audit Template Configuration

Auto Night Audit Template

Select an Auto Z Out template from the Auto Night Audit Template drop-down list.

This field is available for selection only when the Enable Auto Date Roll toggle is enabled.

Cancel Code

Select a preferred cancel code from the Cancel Code drop-down list.

This field is available for selection only when the Enable Auto Date Roll toggle is enabled.

Enable Auto Date Roll

When enabled, the system date automatically changes to the next day after the night audit.

Set Auto Date Roll Time

The default time to be set after the date change.

This field is available for selection only when the Enable Auto Date Roll toggle is enabled.

Remaining Arrivals

Check-In

When selected, the reservations that are pending for arrival on the current system date are checked in. Select an action that must be performed on the pending check-ins. The following options are available:

  • Skip CC Auth - when selected, system skips the credit card authorization process for pending check-in reservations.

  • Continue On CC Auth Failure - when selected, the audit continues even when the credit card authorization fails on a reservation.

  • Move Arrival Date To Next Date - when selected, the arrival date on the pending reservations are moved to the next system date.

Cancel

When selected, the reservations that are pending for arrival on the current system date are cancelled at the time of night audit.

  • Skip Cancellation Fee - when selected, system does not post cancellation fee for the cancelled reservations.

  • Continue on Failure of Cancellation Fee - when selected, system proceeds with the audit even if the posting of cancellation fails on reservations.

No Show

Select the preferred option from the following:

  • Post No Show Fee to Reservation - When selected, a charge based on the cancellation policy will be posted to reservations pending for arrival during the night audit. 

  • Post No Show Fee and Collect Payment - When selected, a charge based on the cancellation policy will be posted to reservations pending for arrival, and the payment will be collected during the night audit.

  • Skip No Show Fee - When selected, no show charges will not be applied to reservations pending for arrival during the night audit.

Remaining Departures

Check Out

When selected, the reservations that are pending for departure on the current system dates are checked out at the time of night audit.

  • Check Out With Balance - when selected, system checks out reservations even when there is a balance on the folio.

  • Continue on Payment Failure - when selected, system proceeds with check out process even when there is failure on posting a payment.

Departure Day Extended to One Day

When selected, the departure date on the reservations that are pending for departure on the current system dates are updated to the next day at the time of night audit.

Deposits

Skip Deposit Due Collection

When enabled, the system skips the deposit due collections process for reservations with pending deposits.

Adhoc Configuration

Room Charge Failure Threshold (%)

Allows users to set a failure threshold percentage for the Post Room & Tax, Recurring, EOD package Component night audit task. For instance, if the failure threshold is set to 40%, during the night audit, 40% or more of the task fails, the entire night audit process will stop and an email notification detailing the failure will be automatically sent to the user’s email address. The email address can be configured in the Email Configuration section of the Night Audit Settings screen. If no email address is configured, the failure details will not be sent.

By default, the value is set to 100, which is also the maximum value allowed to be entered in this field. If the user exceeds the maximum value, the following message, Exceeds Maximum Value, will be displayed

Click Save.