Version History

These are the version changes we've made over the last year. You may want to search for topics by keyword.

* October 2007
* September 2007
* August 2007
* July 2007
* June 2007
* May 2007
* April 2007
* March 2007
* February 2007
* January 2007
* December 2007
* November 2006
* October 2006
* September 2006
 

What’s new in Fiesta Reservations?

Mods: = modifying the process
Tweak: = minor adjustment to the layout or processing
Added:= A completely new module has been added
Changed: = Usually refers change in setting up the procedure such as a data range or unit range.

All downloads at http://www.millennium3.ws/upgrades/upgrade.exe for those requiring a full upgrade or http://www.millennium3.ws/upgrades/m6.exe for updates of Fiesta only.

All modifications to the DOS version have ceased. We recommend to all sites still using the DOS version to move to Fiesta as soon as possible.


New Version 7.11.01 requires file rebuild on the People and Account files

Nov 2

Mod To POS report to allow payments and credits show on the report.

Mod To pabx Extension setup to make it easier to add diversions of calls to another room and a button to clear all diversions. What's a diversion? Let us say Mum & Dad are in one room and the kids are in another. Divert all call charges from the kids room to Dads room as he wants them on his expense account. Get the drift?

Mods Hundreds of them as we replaced one type of opening a file to a newer and more secure type.

Oct 29
Mod When attempting to drag a guest on the reservation calendar, if no guest selected then nothing will happen. Thanks Craig.

Oct 23
Mod Debtor Account window now refreshes automatically after making a payment.

Oct 20
Mod To POS report due to one suppliers incorrect logic in not understanding that two negatives make a positive.

Mod To Guest and other receipts. We have placed a button that will only appear if you use consecutive receipts and need to reset the receipt number. Very useful where you have gone to make a receipt and backed out. The system will increment the number automatically each time you attempt to use receipts. This option lets you reset to the last used. On each of the receipting module if you escape or cancel the operation, if the current receipt number stored on the control file is the same as the receipt being cancelled then it will be decremented by one. However, if you are on a network and another user has created another receipt while you are doing the same then it will not be decremented, but skipped.

Oct 18

Mod To Debtor Account window. This screen has been changed to store both outstanding and paid in a queue. This makes for very fast sorting when viewing. You will notice a vast difference when viewing paid accounts for debtors.

Mod Greg reported that the commission being calculated on payment of a debtor account was double dipping and showing more commission than was really correct. Luckily this did not affect much in the reporting. Thanks Greg.

Mod Sharleen reported that the guest account report occassionally showed the incorrect debtor when printed for the guest. That was an easy fix and is in this update.

Oct 15
Added Load balancing for use over networks. System will now attach itself to whichever cpu is free in multi core or multi cpu computers. This means if 5 sessions were running then one cpu might have 2 copies and the other have 3 on a dual core processor.

Mod Most windows users would be familiar with the use of the F5 key to refresh a window. It has been there since windows 2.1. On the reservation calendar of Fiesta if you cannot wait for the auto net refresh to take place every 20 seconds you can press the F5 key to do it for you.

Mod For pabx and pos enabled systems you can set the polling period by opening the PABX interface and select settings. Normally you would set to 30 seconds but if that is too often then you can change it anything between 1 and 240 seconds. However if you set to less than 15 seconds then you may find that polling is too often. The pabx interface will read in one call each polling period but the pos can read in up to 8 transactions per second and apply to guest accounts.

Mod Slight change to the ADSL Webtraf interface (only visible for Webtraf users) is a button to send a checkout notice to Webtraf to close the account and send back any current charge. Webtraf keeps charges up to date as the guest logs off the internet and posts these charges to the pabx log where they are read into Fiesta. We have set for a 5 second delay for this to happen.

Oct 11
New Version 7.10.04

Mods In elimination of 'Holds' and 'Release' throughout the programme we have replaced all of these with 'access' which does all of the background work of checking if a file is available, holding where required and releasing. It is all a part of Object Oriented Programming commonly called OOP. Small, proven to work black boxes do the work for you. It's a bit like subcontracting someone to do a job and he comes back to tell you it was done successfully. There were literally hundreds of these to be replaced throughout the programme.

Oct 8
Mod To reservation form when adding a new guest from the Reservation Calendar only. When you select the room to add the guest, the room will be disabled on the guest reservation form to prevent overtyping with another room. If you wish to change rooms then you MUST select the button to the right of the room code as that will show a list of available rooms excluding the one you currently have selected. Mod does not affect reservations made from the Guest List.

Oct 5

Slight mod to Housekeeping reports to sort by Unit then by Status.
Slight mod to POS interface to prevent adding dummy record every 20 seconds. POS report filters out dummy records.

Oct 4
Added New Entry Form for making repeat bookings for the same guest. Choose the number of stays and the interval in days anywhere from one day to 90 days, select the room type and the first room, set the room rate, decide on whether you wish to select the room or let the system do it for you then click the tick. This form is only available on the reservation calendars.
How about cancelling all of these forward bookings? Select the first booking and open the booking. Select the centre tab. On the lower right you will see the option to Cancel All. This works the same for Group bookings. All original bookings MUST have been made as a group or repeat booking for the delete to work.

Oct 2

Mod To the setup form for the Revenue Report. That form now saves to an 'ini' file instead to the manager file. Ini files are windows standards and do not require a separate file to store settings.

Mod To both the 1024x768 and 1280x1024 calendars you can now go directly to the Current Guests, Arrivals, Departures, Restaurant bookings, Bulk Stock Entry, PABX and POS from the calendar top menu options. (very top line). It is new menu option on both calendars.

Both the POS and PABX interfaces poll files every 20 seconds. You'll see an hour glass on the reservation calendars when this occurs to indicate processing is taking place. POS will now read in around 25 sales per second as against one every 1.8 seconds previously.

Mod To Guest Notepad. You can now access if from the button on the lower right of the Reservation Calendar just above the notepad itself. It is also available on the Scrolling Guest List. The Notepad also has the options to popup on checkin or on checkout plus you can print the note and hand to the guest or housekeeper or slip it under the guests door..

Mod To Guest List. That now shows if you have any 'D'iary messages for the guest or 'C'omments in the notepad.

Oct 1

Warning American Express now charge the merchant 3.5% of the value of any refund made to a guest on their Amex card. Is this another good reason not to accept that card? I understand that you cannot legally charge the guest the refund fee, but until a guest disputes that I would charge it.

Sep 30

Mod We have now completed the removal of all 'holds' in Fiesta and replaced with the newer and much safe option called Critical Sections. This should eliminate the problem of access error 5 where access is denied due to a file held over the network.

Mod To most of the scrolling guest screens, they have all been resized to fit more guests on the screens to suit the larger sites. These same screens can now be accessed while on the Reservation Calendars. See the menu on the top line.

Mod The pabx and point of sale interfaces have been redesigned to prevent the occasional Fiesta popup over another programme while working on the other program. POS will now read in around 25 sales per second as against one every 1.8 seconds previously.

Sep 27

Mod To reservation calendar to scroll the Features for each room as you move up/down the view.

Mod To Setup System. There is a date on the bottom of the first page where you MUST enter the date you started using Fiesta. This is important for retrieval of creditcard details from the previous DOS based version as card expiry dates were not stored there as an actual date and would stuff up on retrieval. By setting a date we can look at all old card details and reformat them to the international standard.

Sep 26

Mod To deleting a DNL. Just select the DNL on the reservation calendar and press the Delete key on the keyboard. This removes the background transaction as well. DNL's are currently removing twice as many rooms from the Availability table as they should. We'll be working on that over the next few days.

Mod To de-archiving a guest. All personal details excepting for the notepad are retrieved when you select a guest from archives. That includes all credit card details, company, address and marketing. We are still working on retrieving the notepad.

Added For sites with high resolution screens, you can now elect to use the 1280 x 1024 size reservation calendar.
This gives up to 50 days across the screen and up to 40 rooms deep. All the facilities of the 1024 x 768 screen are
working correctly. Play with it. You can setup your profile under Setup then Setup Staff/User. Select yourself and
then double click. On the second tab you will see the settings on the right side. Set to 1280 x 1024 and save. The
each time you log on your profile will recognise that you use the large calendar.

Sep 25

Mod To Debtor Account print. Previously the report either clipped leading zeroes off the BSB or added too many. That has now been set for 6 characters so BSB like 034567 will now print correctly.

Added New option to let any site become a Central Reservation site where you take reservations for any site but your own and collect a commission. System will take the depositfrom the guest, print a voucher for the guest and lets you email the other site with the booking. You could become another local travel agent.

Added Blacklisting. Now you can blacklist a guest and if you retrieve from archives a warning sign appears at the top of the archive screen. You can blacklist a guest by going to the third tab on their reservation form or by entering archives, select the guest and you will see the option at the top of the page.

Sep 24
Added Guest Converter to every guest type window. This lets you easily change a pre=paid account to a restaurant or accommodation booking. Or you made a mistake in entering a guest as Temp orary instead as Perm anent. The option will delete any accommodation charges you have entered and leave only payments. You will select the unit for the long stay guest, set the dates of the lease and set the billing period on the reservation form.


Mod To dozens of procedures that called the mansum file to update transactions. All calls to that file are now via one module to prevent lockups.

Sep 22
Mod File Change to allow entry of web site url for debtors, creditors and off site accommodation suppliers and tour operators.

Mod To Setup Form Global options to let management lock transactions for past dates.

Mod To Unit Account window. This screen lets you access the unit setup, room rates, service charges and standing charges. You can also access a guest reservation form and the guest account, along with the ability to print an owner statement. You can insert, change and delete room charges from this window. For Trust Account sites only.

Mod To the Debtors List to prevent deletions. You can archive a debtor but not delete.

Setp 20
Mod Changed owners room service charges to read the number of rooms to be serviced from the guests reservation form. This is to get over the possibility of the guest ratename not being in the room due to drag and drop or the users changing the names of the rates for each room but not updating the guest reservation with the new name.

Mod Sites using Future point of sale systems and do not send a guest limit to the tills may have had a problem accepting a guest whose limit was negative. That has been modified.

Mod For all point of sale enabled systems, you can now set a global limit for all guests on the POS setup form. Set to zero if no limit in place. Limit is up to $99,999.00.

Sep 19 New Version V7.09.03

Added A new window on the Availability Table that lets you view the bookings for a specific date by Room Class. Set the date on the availability table and then click on View bookings and the only guests to appear will be those who are in house or will be in house on the date selected for the room class selected.

Mods To Point of Sale interface. This now lets you scroll all transactiond received from the tills for a specific date. You can also go directly to a guest account to make changes or print the list. The list can be sorted on screen by Time, Unit or Item.

Sep 15
Added New option for Trust sites where management has an agreement with owners to lease the properties and receive rent as a percentage of turnover instead of collecting a commission. For these sites you MUST set your commission rate to exclude gst. All other charges to owners will still carry gst where applicable.

Sep 11

Mod To POS interface. The Log report now includes all transactions received from the till even where the charge is not to a current inhouse guest. It has been locked to update every 30 seconds. Let me know if this is affecting anything.

Mod The reservation calendar on all active systems will in most cases update immediately a change has been made on one terminal. If it does not then it will after 10 seconds as long as the screen is active.

Mod To Reservation Calendar for refreshing the screen over networks. Previously we had this set to 30 seconds which has proven too slow. It is not set to 10 seconds which means that individual terminals will refresh their local screen at least once every 10 seconds keeping reservations up to date.

Mod To Guest Reservation Form. Wayne let me know that the Loyalty option wiped out the entry if used while entering a guest. That has been fixed.

Mod To rate value entry on Guest Reservation Form. Due to changes in our development software the ability to enter through the value before saving was lost. A work around has been done and all is back on track. You can enter through or just enter and save. In the latter case it saves a number of keystrokes. Save can be either clicking on the Tick or pressing Ctrl+Enter together.

Mod Checking a guest in is now virtually immediate. Previously we were regenerating the houskeeping schedules and this slowed down the process. As the schedules are created at the time of making the reservation there was no need for duplication.

Mod To printing a guest account. By setting your user profile you can elect to use a tagging option that lets you decide in advance whether you wish to include Accommodation (Yes or No) Sundries ( Yes or No), Payments ( Yes or No) and Phone calls ( Yes or No). In addition you can deselect any item so the system is completely up to you what you print. The options you choose are not saved. On the normal popup print option, you should set all options to Yes where possible when electing to use this system. The Setup Option is under Setup System, Setup Staff/Users. Double click on the staff chosen and on the second tab of the form you will see the option for Taging on Guest Accounts. Once set it will remain in force until you change it back. The setting is on the user profile so you can choose for some staff to be excluded from using it. Play with it and if you like the option then we will consider making it a global option.

Mod To Drag and Drop on Reservation Calendar. The system will leave the guest room rate as is. If you click on the Add One Day button, if the existing room rate does not exist in the new room, it will copy the existing last day charge rate and create a new charge from that.

Sep 09

New Model 7.09.02

Added When printing guest account, if you print from the Accommodation Tab, then the report will only show accommodation charges. No sundry charges, phone charges or payments will show. When printing from the Sundry tab, only sundry charges will appear. No package items, accommodation charges, phone charges or payments will be included. When on the Phone Account (F3 on the guest account) only phone charges will print on the phone account. When you print from the All tab then the usual option appear where you can select what you wish to print.

Sep 07

Mod On Guest Reservation form when entering the room charge, you can click on the tick once you have the rate entered. You only need to access the other fields below if you wish to enter a discount percent or the total charge. If you change the discount rate then you must tab to the total charge to 'set' the discount in. This mod is to allow those sites who want to offer discounts AND free nights. For my money I would rather just offer a discount OR a free night but not both.

Mod Forthose who book from the reservation calendar. If two users click on the same room to make a booking the first user in will lock that unit and a popup will appear on the other screen warning the user that the file is being used to make a booking and choose another room.

Sep05

New 'Critical Sections' added to the module for updating the guest folio and the account audit number. All calls for these now go trhough the one module instead of around 40 modules trying to do the same job. This speeds up the update process quite a bit.

Mod To the Housekeeping reports the Pax column is now Adults and Children.

Added To the Guest Archive lookup there is now a Tab on which help for the various options is detailed. The guests are listed by Surname, Firstname and date of arrival. All guests now show on the initial list. Click on the various tabs to locate by other means.

Mod To the pabx and pos interface. These items no longer popup Fiesta when they activate. That has caused some problems for several sites.

Mod Sharon reported that negative amounts on the guests account did not show. That was caused by the field width not wide enough to show. The totals were correct but the negative sign did not show. Now fixed.

Sep 03
New Version 7.09.01

Mod To bottom left of reservation calendar. The room class now appears as gold on dark blue.

Mod To Rate generator to allow these combinations. If you use Seasonal Rates, you can discount off these PLUS you can offer Free days at the same time. Time must be hard to do that but the option is now in place. When adding a discount to the guest reservation form either overtype the daily rate and tab through the next four money fields, or enter in the percentage discount and tab through or enter in the total value and Save. Tabbing after entry of the discounted amount is the key to regenerating the correct charge.
 

August 2007

Mod To housekeeping module when you open this form there can be a delay as the system builds the inhouse guest database. Don't panic, it will open!

Mod To printing debtor receipt. You now have the option for multi copies of the receipts. If you preview the receipt and then print, you have the choice of multiple printing or collating each copy and print one after the other. When finished you will be returned to the preview so if you have made a mistake in the number of receipts to be printed you can print again.

Mod To Petty Cash entry form to allow easy switching from a debit to credit instead of delete and re-enter. The Petty Cash report also has two columns for debits and credits which will make it easier to see the overall effect. The Petty cash in Fiesta is not compatible with the one in M3. M3 uses a single folio which over time results in a very large account file whereas fiesta creates a new folio each month.

Mod To ABS Census report as the original was not picking up the Room nights correctly.

Added Autoprinting of Permanent and Private guests accounts from the Permanent Tab on the guest List and from the Daily Report Menu

Mod To receipting, if the country in setup is not Australia then the Receipt message regarding legalities is blank.

Mod To Show Stats option on Reservation Calendar. This was not including permanent guests for sites with permanents. There are more mods to come on this one for dual keyed apartments when I receive the data from one such site.

Added Guest Archives lookup when making a reservation can now be searched by Surname, Agent, Car Rego, Unit, Folio or Arrival Date. Just select the appropriate tab. Guest Archives on the scrolling Guest Table also gets the same makeover.

Added Vacant rooms browse with an associated report for sites who want a list to show what is vacant right now. Great for sites who cater mostly for overnighters.   <<back>>

July 2007

Added Two new procedures and one setup screen for sites that have monthly standing charges to be billed against private guests such as phone rental or monthly cleaning charge. It is accessible via the Setup option and the two procedures that either add or delette are attached to the Add and Delete Room Standing Charges. When a STD charge is added to a private guests account it is a sundry item and as such when paid will come into the trust account as sundry income.

Added Four new screens for Trust Managers to view the unit charges as separate items. eg you wish to view all of the room service charges for one unit or you wish to view the standing charges or card or advertising fees. These are now attached to the Trust Wizards to help guide you through the balancing of your trust account.

Setup Access to staff passwords and staff setup has now been restricted to the system administrator called SYSTEM. To change any staff details or access you MUST logon as SYSTEM with a password of SYSTEM. If you do not do this you will be locked out of that area.

Added The ability to have four different images on your opening screen. These are rotated according to the seasons and must be called, summer.jpg, winter.jpg, autumn.jpg and spring.jpg. As the seasons change, so will the images. Have four different images of your business to whatever suits. They MUST be called as above to work. No upper case in the names. Image size should match the resolution of your screen. So for the normal size these days use 1024 x 678 pixels.

Mods To PABX data Collection module where Internet calls were not being costed. I found that this was due to including the old ISDN costing module which included decimal points as against the ADSL model which requires whole pulses. ISDN is finished.

Mod To printing debtor report. This module was very fast from the debtor detail screen but slow from the main debtor screen. Each is now FAST!

Mod To using MyLogo.jpg on all of the Guest and debtor accounts and owner statements. Some sites experienced a situation where the incorrect logo was compiled in. That was an error on my part in placing a logo in the folder where I was compiling the programme.

Mod To housekeeping Report Setup. There are now four 'erasers' to clear the housekeeper and room codes from the form.

Added To the Add Charge form on unit accounts. After saving the charge, you have the option to add it to all or selected units. Saves lots of time!

Mod Security Deposit entry now shows all payments and refunds made on a guest account using the Security Deposit System. Security Deposits are made against and ledger code that has the Special Flag set. These Special Ledgers let you take deposits against the ledger. Examples might be where you hire out surfboards or bicycles or require a deposit up front on a guests phone account. Even though all special ledgers will show (max of 10) on the security deposit payment form you should do them one at a time to show individually on the guests account. Bulk payment of security deposits will dissect to the correct ledgers.

Added Full unit inventory system that lets you record all items in every room with date of purchase, full descriptions including make, model and S/N, cost, Invoice, supplier, date sold and for how much. The report is based on each unit and can be printed for the unit owner at any time to show the history of the unit items for depreciation purposes.

Mod to Debtors lookup when making a booking and on the Debtors list. You now have the option of archiving a debtor whose account is zero. This does not delete a debtor and they can be reinstated at any time by selecting the Archive/De-archive button. When you select an archived debtor it automatically de-archives the debtor.

Mod To Debtors Screen. You can now export the debtor file into Excel. This is a name, address, owing file for Mail Merging. The Excel file is autoformatted for width so you can read all of the detail in each cell. The file is sorted by name. If anyone requires extra detail in this file from the debtors file, then contact me. support@millennium3.ws.

Mods To copying or Room Rates, Owner Rates and Standing charges module to make it easier to use.

Mods DNL if checked in was leaving the DNL folio behind attached to the unit, preventing further checkins to that room. Now fixed. Do NOT Drag and Drop or Cur and Paste a DNL. Always delete it using the delete key. Then create a new DNL for another unit.

Added: 3 monthly Australian Bureau of Statistics Census Report. In Reports Historical section of Reports.

Mod To emailing of Guest Confirmation letters. you can now select an attachment from a list of prewritten documents. These should be saved in the mmate folder for easy lookup. Format can be Word, Excel, Publisher, Text or PDF. Whatever you select will become the default attachment for confirmation letters until it is removed or changed.

Mod: In Setup main screen on the second tab there is an option to change the way the guest account is addressed. It is called Company Switch and is on the lower right side. Set to Yes if you normally enter the Company Name on the left side of the guest reservation form and you wish the system to address the account to the debtor and not the guest. Set to No for normal operation.

Added: Guest Bond System for long term guests on tenancy leases

Added: Lost Property module to record and keep track of property left by guests. Keeps track of all items left behind by guests. Meets legal requirements.

Added: Added ADSL interface to allow costing by WebTraf or by Netcom system.

Mod: To housekeeping reports to trap the occasional missed room.

Mod: To FTP option to send data. Many sites do not have the expertise to setup the inbuild email server so we have defaulted the return email to us to use Outlook.

Mod: On Guest Account for sites who normally print the account automatically on checkout, that bypassed the email option. We have a new button on the guest account that will email via Outlook.

Mod: To the Guest Housekeeping services window. You can now enter in the date from which you want the service to start. This is to let those using weekly services to schedule the day the services is to be performed. eg. A guest comes in on a Saturday and is staying for 3 months and you want to service the room every Wednesday. On the new entry just set the start date to the following Wednesday and each week it will be automatically scheduled for the Wednesday.

This same window now lets you schedule guests out to 250 days after arrival. Great for long stay where you do not wish to have guest as a permanent on a lease.

Mod To Trust Owners report screen. You can select any number of months to print an owner statement. Normally this is one month but you can set it for up to 12 months where the owner requests a statement for the full period. Just set the start date and then spin up the required months. Works well with non pooled sites but we are working on the pooled statement to handle more than one month.

NZ This entire week was spent in New Zealand at Mount Maunganui. Here we updated the system for Lindy and Russell and spoke with a number of other apartment managers from the area. Fiesta with Infoden Logger, is ideally suited for their purposes and we expect to do more installs in that region and later to the entire NZ market.

Mod Changes to the HK reports to make sure that they report the diary messages correctly. We have opened up the ability to attach housekeepers to each room and run the HK reports by the Housekeeper range. At The anchorage Apartments we setup two teams, the North and South Teams and then attached the correct team to each room. This creates the ability to move housekeepers from one team to the other depending on workload. A Couple of other small glitches in these reports were also corrected.

Mod To the three HK reports. All were skipping over the first diary note and printing from the 2nd not on. This has been fixed.

Mods Are under way to the Guest Confirmation Letter that will be emailed. The current version creates a 3 page report for attachment to the email if you use the full text capabilities of the header and footer messages of ten lines each. We are working to reduce this to just one and should be available in the next week or so.

Mod We have to rewrite the View of the guests cleaning schedule as it only caters for one full screen. Ok for short stays but useless for long stays. This screen will be rewritten to place scrolling into it.

Mod Printing Guest statements has had a slight change to the method of printing. If you place a company name in the Guest Company field on the left side of the Guest Reservation Form, then the printout will place the company name on the guests statement with the guests name moved to the right side. This is because more and more company reps are paying by a company card and the account rightly belongs to the company, not the guest. If you have any problems with this, I will place a global setting on the setup to allow you to set it up whichever way you prefer. Let me know!

Mod To the Main Guest List. If you select Contract, the Archive tab is now on the list. Previously you have to have it set to expand to include it as standard.

Mod For Trust account users. The entry form for an owner payment was not recording the method of payment if transfer (eft) was selected. It would add in correctly but not report on the receipts dissection report at the bottom.

Mod Previously we had guest services out to 90 days to cater for long term guests. This bombed out if a guest was staying for a longer period. We have extended this out to 250 days without any changes to the file structure.

Mod Because our ISP introduced a new server range we had to move over to the new servers. This required a change of address and password for those using our FTP facility to store their data on our web server. That is now working in the Backup section of Fiesta.

Mod We have removed the 'Hold' request on files when looking up data as that would sometimes slow the system over networks as the second or more terminals waited for the first to 'release' the held file.

Mod The update file that is used throughout the programme to create guest folio numbers, transaction numbers, pabx updating and Resonline is the only file that has hold and release on it to prevent two persons accessing it at the same time. The delay is only 1/10th of a second at the maximum before it is released. PABX and Resonline each access if at a minimum of every 30 seconds.   <<back>>

Mod Room Block can now be done for a range of rooms. Select the StopSell option on the Reservations window and enter in the first room with dates and the reason. Then save that one. On the window you now have the option to copy that to any number of rooms and the ability to remove it from any number of rooms. This option really creates a guest with the surname of STP and will block the room from bookings until deleted. It also blocks the room from being included in the upload to Resonline for the period of the block. STP guests are not retained on file so will not appear in archives.

Mods To our Electronic Booking Office. When downloading a booking, it checks for the room rate and if it does not exits then it create a new rate for the unit/room selected. In addition it now checks all rooms of the same roomclass and if it does not exist then it will add the same rate to these rooms.

Mod To Fiesta Reservation Calendar, Drag and Drop. If the room rate in the original room does not exist in the room where you have dropped the guest, then it will create a matching rate in the new room. This is to keep the roomrates in line with what you have charged the guest.

June 2007

Added: All of the Fiesta Wizards are back in the Trust Accounting Module. Wizards are designed to walk you through each step in completing your trust account end of month and achieving a balanced system. These are our old reliable 2004 wizards repackaged and presented in a new and innovative way. We think you'll like them.

New Version 7.06.05 which means that you MUST download the full package.

Mod This is due to two additional fields placed into the unit file to cater for calculating owner income when a unit it taken out of or placed into a pooled income system. Obviously applies only to managed trust accounting sites.

Mods Mid winters day. Shortest daylight of the year. Fixed a few reports that appeared to not report the correct number of people. Found the problem was actually on the guest reservation form not adding up the adults, kids and babies to give the total. The HK reports were not reporting the checkin and checkout times correctly.

Mod: To Eboff. Previously we were relying on Resonline to overwrite the Resbook.csv file that is the list of reservations downloaded from the internet. Now, after reading in this file, we empty it, ready for Resonline to reload. This gets rid of any possibility of re-reading the old resbook data and trying to create new reservations when they already exist.

Tweak To housekeeping reports. I had forgotten to turn back on the option to print the summary at the bottom.

Added: Converters to convert a booking to either a prepaid voucher or restaurant, to convert a prepaid voucher to either a restaurant or residential booking and an option to convert a restaurant booking to either a residential booking or a pre paid voucher. The converter from residential booking to the others will void any room charges.

Added: Pre payments are now 'on the list.' The Alt F2 combination or click the prepay button lets you add security deposits or prepayments.

Mod: The Show Stats screen has been expanded to show arrival phone numbers or amount owing on current or departing guests.

Mod: To the Arrivals report with a change of the phone number shown. As this report is used basically at the last minute to check for late arrivals it makes sense to place the guests own phone number on the report.

Mod: To the package add module. We have locked the system into Include only, which means that when you add a package it will always subtract the value of the package from the accommodation value. So make sure that any room rates that are carrying packages are priced to suit.

Mod: To File Manager Module to allow refreshing of the encrypted Manager file. This is a one record file that holds all of the system settings and is open through most of the programme. It has a higher potential for 'locking' if you have a power problem or outage. This mod is to take the pressure of support to rebuild this file for you.

Mod: All three housekeeping reports have had a slight change to the options. If you select not show arrivals then if an arrival is occurring on the same day as a depart then the SVC column will show DepArr. If you select show arrivals = Yes then a separate line will be printed for each arrival.

Added For non trust account sites, a new module for agents who send you guests, do not collect a deposit or full payment up front and then send a bill for commission. For trust sites Fiesta automatically generates a debit against the owner, payable to the agent. At the end of the month in the generation of cheques it collates these debits into one cheque. At the same time it generates a debit against management payable to each owner for the commission the manager would be collecting on the amount being paid back to the agent. (Stops double dipping on commission). Non Trust sites commission payment to agents are generated in the account for the LEDGER and in each agents account. To pay the amount to the agent you go to the agent account and pay them off when it suits as you are not bound by the law like trust sites are. We are generating a report that details all unpaid commissions to agents to help.

Mod Slight mod to the pooled unit report in m3 to accommodate two sites requests.

Mod: In Setup User profile a new option has been added to set the Arrive, Depart and InHouse colours on your reservation calendar. Whatever choice you make there and save will be reflected on your login. For sites not using passwords select SYSTEM as the user and change that.

Added An extra line at the bottom of the reservation calendar to show the date for each day across the calendar. This matches the one at the top. The ShoHols (Show Holidays) button will hide this and turn on holidays. HideHols will hide the holidays and show the date.

Changed: The header on the Reservation calendar now has much larger fonts for the month and the date. This neatens up the overall view. The large calendar has the same features but still needs some neatening up. For those with 1280 x 1024 screens you can set your system to use this view by setting under Setup then Setup User. On the top right size you will see the option to change calendar size.

Changed: Late arrivals now show in yellow until they have been checked in or cancelled. Its a good on screen reminder.

Added: A new Group Arrivals Report that lists arrivals by the Group Code. Groups require that the Group master code be setup on the very first booking for the group as that will be applied to all following members if using the multi room option when making the booking. Otherwise it must be added to the second page of the Guest Reservation form individually.

Project We are working with WebTraf to provide a system of ADSL costing where on checkin, WebTraf will read a file, create a guest account and open a screen asking the operator whether they want one of three different billing systems they use. Whichever system is chosen, the final account will show up in the guest phone account but reports in the Revenue Report under INTERNET. The same applies to the Netcomm interface. If you handle ADSL lines into guest rooms then you should investigate one of these systems to put money back into your phone system. WebTraf is supplied by www.webtraf.com contact jeff@webtraf.com. Netcomm is supplied by independent specialist computer people Australia wide or contact John Whitfeld [JWhitfeld@cvt.net.au] who supplies in the Sydney region.

Added: A Maintenance Report that shows all maintenance between two dates. Option to show outstanding or completed coming up soon.

Mod: Printing of Current Guests Accounts Report. Four new fields to show Arrival and Departure date and breakup of opening balance into Sundry and Accommodation for sites tracking carried forward accommodation. You will also find a complete breakdown of all takings for the day similar to on the Revenue Report. Suggested by Jossette.

Mod: Current Guest Table now shows charged, paid and balance. Suggested by Jossette.

Tweak: To Rate Generator to prevent generation of blank charge lines on guest account.

Mod: To Guest Reservation form, a button to clear the Deposit required by date and the amount of deposit. Wendy's idea.

Mod: Printing Guest account, if you elected to print only one line for phone, that switch was not working.

Mod: To PABX interface for Maintenance reporting from the guest room. All maintenance dialed in is placed on the Maintenance Report, but not a DNL. eg: You might have a number of maintenance items setup starting with *51 or *52 etc. All numbers must be in the range of 51 - 99. The Housekeeper just picks up the in room phone, dials * followed by the appropriate number. Lets say the code for leaking tap in hand basin might be *52 and the item entered in the Maintenance Setup as Leaking hand basin tap. This would show up on the maintenance report with the date, the unit number and the item. This report would be printed out whenever required. It is on the daily Reports Menu.

Mod: To PABX interface for Stock Sales in Minibar via the guest phone. Stock items for minibar are coded as 01 to 50 and preceded by either the '*' or the '#'. For long stay guests items can be entered via the guest phone. For either of the above to work your pabx must be capable of accepting calls starting with * or #.

Mod: To Maintenance Entry Form with a new option to block the room (DNL) or just a warning on checkin with the option to move the guest to another room if the maintenance has not been done.

Added: ADSL costing for sites using the Netcomm interface. It requires an interface supplied by Infoden to link into Fiesta's Call accounting.

New Model: Version 7.05.04   <<back>>

May 2007

Added: Vista and XP Manifest to Fiesta and eBoFF. We have not activated UAC in Vista as that would force users to place their data in a fairly inaccessible location. UAC (User Access Control) is a problem that will not go away. We either have to force reinstallation of every site to Microsoft specific location on your hard drive or we turn UAC off and set ti a location of our choice.

Added: To Guest receipting form an option to enter the guest card details if not yet entered on the reservation form. Also added the ability to enter the agent P/O number if payment method is by Agent.

Changed: Guest packages can be entered on the Reservation form or on the Guest Account. The big difference now is the speed. Either option now runs as fast as the old M3 version.

Mod: The Arrivals report now has the guests booking phone number on it for late arrivals.

Mod: The PETTY and Z_POS rooms and guests will NOT be generated if you have the Petty Cash option in SETUP, set to No. If you do not wish to use the petty cash system or the over the counter sales system then set the option to No. Normally the PETTY room and guest is generated if it does not exist when you start the programme. The same applies to the Z-POS room and guest as both of these are used for over the counter sales and MUST exist for the system to work. Do NOT delete the REFUND room in your system as that is used to move all guests to when refunding a guest prior to arrival.

Added: Guest Message Report added. For sites who wish to print diary messages for their guests. Deliver and slip under door.

Added: To Bulk Stock Entry a button to access the selected guests account.

Mod: To Bulk Stock Entry a button to make sure that all current inhouse guests are showing. Takes 5 - 10 seconds to refresh.

Tweak: To Guest Arrival screen. The F3 key was not working. It is now.

Mod: HotKeys on buttons on Guest Arrivals and Departures updated

Mod: A module we call ChekRes was not working correct. Thanks Wendy. That has been corrected and is available under File/Edit, then Utilities then Update InHouse Guests. It is also on the Bulk Stock Entry. See above.

Tweak: To Debtor Account as we found some recipients of the RFT file on an email, because of differing RTF readers, some characters would be truncated. These fields have been widened. Also on printing you have the option of outputting standard print, plus XML, HTML or Text file. HTML is for use with windows browsers, XML is for persons using XML or RSS readers and text is in Notepad format. any of these can be emailed as separate items. If you do not print from the previewer then these items are not generated.

Mod Fiesta Toolbar has a new Tab with your daily reports on it. There are also some new options on the Interface tab. Power and Video on Demand coming soon. VOD interface is an optional extra from InfoDen the suppliers of Logger and Saflok interfaces. Power will be the interface for caravan parks to cost electricity for tenants. That is already in M3 and we now have to port it over.

Mod: On Agent Setup From under Financial Tab. At the bottom is a new field to enter in your agents supplier code. This is printed on Debtor/Agent Accounts. Required by GTA Gulliver Travel and others.

May7th Resonline interface sorted again! It appeared that their programmers changed their programme to not delete the file generated by eboff after reading it. It would read the very first instance but not subsequently. So to fix that I have modified eboff to delete the resalloc.csv file before it is generated each polling period. It is part of the new download.

Added: Visual indicators now show on entry forms which field you are on. Highlight is either Yellow or Orange. Orange indicates compulsory fields that you must enter to complete.

Added: XP Manifest which makes the programme look and feel like any other XP based programme is now built in. No change when your screens are set to Classic Windows.

Added: On Guest reservation (hidden from non trust sites) an option to set the number of rooms to be serviced for charging cleans back against owners. Initially the option will pick up the number of rooms off the unit file after selecting the unit, and if the rate selected does not have the same number of rooms embedded then a popup will warn you to set the option on the reservation form correctly. This is to counteract the incorrect selection of guest charge rate for a 2 or more bedroom apartment.

Added: On the reservation form, (hidden and running in the background) is a routine to check that your folio number is not equal to one. This can only occur if your mansum.dat file has been locked. You will always receive a warning "Access denied: error 5" when this occurs. It means that something has locked the file. This file is in constant use, checking guest folios, transaction audit numbers, pabx and pos interfaces. It is by far the busiest file in the system. If you have a computer glitch at the time this file is being written to the hard drive then the file could be left locked.

Mod: To trust accounting receipting to prevent duplicates of receipt numbers. When you complete the payment, the receipt number is generated in less than .001 of a second. Previously in M3 we generated the receipt number up front just in case another terminal on the system tried to create another receipt. Now we just hold the transaction file for .1 second and then release it. That's the beauty of 32 bit processing.

Mod: To HK reports. Wendy found that using the line spacing between rooms could in certain cases generate an extra line for the room. Not what was intended.

Added: Licensing System now in place. In the last 30 days prior to your license running out Popups will occur as you log in telling you the date due and the option to print the account for payment. If the system is not updated by the due date, Fiesta will immediately cease to operate. This is in line with our policy of supplying the software on a yearly renewable license that also guarantees you full support and all updates and improvements. Relicensing requires that you pay your fees and send us your manager.dat file for updating or letting us log onto your pc and updating the file there.

Mod: On the Ledger setup form the option for tagging each ledger with the sub code for ACCOM was faulty. Now fixed.

Added: On Guest Reservation form under the Housekeeping a new button to setup the Housekeeping schedules.

Added: Debtor Account report now has an area to add a note that is specific to the debtor. Enter in the details in any one debtor setup form under notes and you can copy the same note to all debtors. This then becomes non specific. However, you can then enter on each debtor in turn and modify any specifics you wish to change.

Added: To match the above there is now an option on the debtor list to add either a general note from the messages file or from the debtor notepad or both.

Mod: Sorting is now enabled on the debtor report to sort by transaction date, Guest name, Folio or unit.

Added: On Arrivals Screen you will find three new tabs for All arrivals for today, Still to arrive today, Arrived and checked in today and all Late Arrivals for past dates. There is also a matching report for the late arrivals for past dates and all arrivals for the day selected.   <<back>>

April 2007

Mod: To Revenue Report; added number of guests to report.

Mod: To Guest Rate lookup. If you have no rate for the season and you change the season to a rate that is not zero then that will change the guests season to match the rate and the charge will be that selected.

Tweak: On Archive Guest lookup there is a large horizontal button across the top of the tabs that switches between archived guests and current guests.

Mod: To Setup and to Guest Reservation form. You now have the option to turn off the use of Express checkout globally. This under Setup System, General Setup on the lower right. Just set accordingly and save. If you are using Xpress Checkout and you do not have either a valid credit card entered or a valid debtor then the system will not accept xpress checkout from the guest.

Mods: To most reports, you now have the ability to print to whatever printer you like, even pdf writer if installed.

Tweak: Petty Cash report now reports for the correct date range

Added: Reservation Calendar in the middle right at the bottom you will find the Rego and Confirmation print buttons. Just select the guest and click the button.

Mod: Font size on the options on the Tabs on the Main Menu have been taken up a notch for more clarity.

Tweak: To Guest Housekeeping Schedule to allow you add a housekeeper to the room. Good for sites who wish to print the housekeeping report for each HK.

Mod: To Resetting Guest Services. Have added Streaming to speed up the process by about 10 times and a counter so you can see how many have been processed. Additionally, if services have not been scheduled then it will look at the guest rate and reschedule according to the rate schedule.

Mod: To wide housekeeping report. It now shows alternating white and light grey bands to make the report easier to read.

Added: To both the Arrivals and Departure screens the ability to add diary notes. Arrivals, Departures and HK reports will print these notes.

Tweak: To Postcode lookup form. We have added a VCR type control to the lower left for easier browsing line by line or page by page.

Added: New Report for Trust managers detailing owner information from the current active owners.

Tweak: Revenue Report now shows Average return for room night for rooms occupied and for the building.

Added: To Main Menu under Guests you'll find an option for Vacant. This is the same form that pops up for WalkIn on the reservation calendar and is for those sites who prefer to use the Guest Control Centre instead of the Calendar to make reservations. Initially it displays what is availability for today. To set the start date for the future just double left click on the Start Button, set the arrival date, set the days stay and you'll see immediately what is available for the period. Click on make reservation to past the room and the dates onto the Reservation form.

Tweak: Marketing reports have been the same in structure for over 10 years and during that time no-one has picked up the fact that the percentage for turnover was not correct. In fact, a long way not correct. Now it is correct. This might show apathy in general towards marketing.

Tweaks: Reservation Calendar (1024 x 768) name of day dropped out if changing from Room view to Class View. Fixed.

Tweak: Guest Arrivals and Departures screens the blue bar effect dropped the colouring of the unit number to indicate the guest was either still to checkin or checkout. Fixed.

Tweak: To opening of Main Menu, the lookup to start the pabx and pos interfaces held the manager file open longer than necessary. Fixed.

Mod: Many sites with new pc's have dual core processors. This can cause major problems with threading throughout a programme. To obviate this we have set the programme to use only one core of the cpu leaving the other core free for other purposes.

Tweak: Revenue Report phone calls not in correct day if end of day setting is not = midnight. Fixed.

Fixed: The InHouse guest report on the Current Guest Window now only shows the inhouse guests for the day, while the Current Guest Accounts report shows the checkouts, checkins and stays for the day.

Added: The Postcode lookup can be viewed now by either postcode or suburb. By adding the extra key to this file the problem where you had two towns by the same name in different states and the system always defaulting to the first has been eliminated. NZ sites can add in their postcodes as they go until we obtain a copy of the NZ postcode file. NZ Post will sell it to us for $1000 but it is not in a format we can use or easily converted.

Added: On the Guest Reservation form you now have the option to accept the scheduled servicing for cleans and linen changes or by setting the options you could have (1) No cleans and No Linen changes or (2) No Cleans and Scheduled Linen Changes or (3) No Linen changes but Daily Cleans or (4) leave blank on making the booking for the scheduled services to kick in. There is also a View Button where you can open up the servicing schedule for the guest and make changes to the days when services are required. This button is only available after you have made the booking, not while you are making it, as at that stage the guest booking does not exist. This option will be very helpful where you wish to override the scheduled services. Previously you had to wait until the guest arrived before you could make these adjustments.

Added: To many of the browses such as the Guest Lists (6), OverDue Deposits Browse, guest and debtor accounts, we have added what is known as the GreenBar effect except that it is a pale blue bar. This makes it easier to read across the window when there are many lines to view.

Added: On Guest List we have now added the same Daily Stats Snapshot of the business. Button is on the top right.

Tweak: To Managers Ledger report for Trust Sites

Tweak: Ledger and Revenue Report may not print where there have been no transactions for the day. Fixed.

Tweak: Debtor Account payment by cheque in last edition was throwing up an invalid message. That is fixed.

Added: Password Logon. This picks up the previous passwords from M3 and applies them to Fiesta. If you leave your front desk and wish to log out, just click on the option on left of the top line. No-one gets access unless they have a vaild password and userid combination. You can turn off the whole password section by going to Setup, then Setup system. On the Second tab at the bottom right you will see the option to use or not use passwords. By not using, you give everyone the same access levels to all parts of the programme. Over the next few weeks we will be updating the profile for each user (which a supervisor must set), to restrict users from different areas of the programme.

Changed: EzeNet now can send allotments out to 2 years in advance to Resonline. When telling your colleagues about your system do not forget to tell them that Fiesta, EzeNet and Resonline all work together to make on line bookings fully automatic.

NEW: We have developed a toolbar replacement for your Google and Yahoo toolbars. This toolbar will eventually have in addition to all the features you'll see on the webpage, a section dedicated to Fiesta and our users. This will have access to downloads, on line help and discussion forums. There will also be an RSS news feed that will alert you when a new item has been added. Every Resonline user should have this toolbar installed as a matter of course as it contains every site available on Resonline giving you instant access for guest enquiries for other areas. New sites are being added automatically every day.

The Toolbar will be an essential tool for support and sales for you. It is being distributed Australia wide. We expect to have over 100,000+ toolbars in circulation by Christmas this year.    <<back>>


March 2007

Changed: eBoff has been renamed to EzeNet. exe. Please change the name on your icon properties from eboff.exe to ezenet.exe.

Added: New Guest browse that shows outstanding deposits. As long as you enter in both the amount of deposit required and the date it is required then the browse will show all guests who have deposits due and the due date. We will be adding a report for overdue deposits later on.

Changed: EboFF users need to set their software to use 'Run of House' instead of Use Allotments.

Tweak: On StopSell form the unit number will be automatically placed to eliminate selection.

Tweak: On Reservation Calendar and Guest List if you attempt to delete a DNL guest you will be asked if the Maintenance is Completed. If Yes is selected then the date of completion is set to the date of the original date set for completion. When deleting a STP guest, no warning is shown as you are just removing the Stop Sell on the room.

Tweak: Cheque entry form when paying off a debtor account will force you to enter a number to prevent incorrect processing. If you do not enter a number or click on the cross then the transaction will not be processed.

Tweaked Reservation calendar for drag and drop. One site reported that on dropping a reservation the screen refreshed to something other than by room number. That has now been fixed.

Mod: Big Mod on Room Rate generator. As the majority of guests now pay by credit card, direct deposit or cheque, we have removed the rounding feature but have compensated by extending the guest percentage discount out to 4 decimal places. This has allowed a more accurate calculation where daily charges might have to be divided by a prime number such as 7,11,13 etc. This is very evident where rates may change over a seasonal rate change, and you have offered a free night and further discount. Not likely but possible. It also works where you have rates based on different days of the week such as Friday and Saturday nights with a premium. On the Reservation form, the normal non discounted figures are on the right for comparison.

Mod: The PABX interface was causing some problems with a few sites as it was holding a file open and when the reservation system tried to access that file you would get a file error message. We believe it has been fixed but only time will tell.

Tweak: The Reservation Calendar Report now has the daily percentage occupancy across the bottom.

Deposits: Agent deposits now show the discounted value where an agent has a discount on accommodation. This applies to both M3 DOS and Fiesta payment forms for both guests and debtors.

Availability: Tweaked the Availability screen to show actual occupancy for each day. This is on both M3 and Fiesta. Occupancy is based on units set to anything other than Pvte on the unit setup form.

Resonline: For all Resonline users Eboff our Electronic Booking Office now treats all rooms as available on line unless you have less allotments for ROL than the total available. This means that you can take advantage of all of the Last Minute bookings automatically. Eboff links seamlessly with Resonline to make bookings as painless as possible. As you make local bookings the online availability is kept up to data and as guests book on line their reservations flow directly into Fiesta to save transcription errors. Fiesta, Eboff and Resonline is the perfect partnership.

Tweaked: View of Guest Payment form is now operational. The option is on the payment tab of a guests account. Lets you view how it was paid, when, by whom and what ledgers involved.

Added: StopSell. Anyone know what that is? It lets you stop selling any room for any reason. Similar to DNL, but DNL is designed for Maintenance Items. The option is on the right option buttons on the Reservation Calendar immediately below DNL. This stop sell at room level. It will be extended to let you copy the same StopSell to a range of rooms for the same period. Hotel Managers use it to block out a range of rooms to hold them for confirmation or for VIP's.

Added: Automatic Lookup for agent allotments on making a booking. This form will tell you how many rooms you have of the type selected, how many the agent has allotted, the number the agent has used and left to use, the total used and the balance left for all to use.

Mod: The Room class Browse was not showing whether the class was available for booking or not. The associated update form has been modified also.

Tweak: The Rostering report has been tweaked to give the correct total occupancy rate.

Tweak: DNL's are not included in Occupancy on the Revenue Report.

Tweak: The Daily Reports Menu only requires one click to access instead of two as before.

Changed: Rate generator not calculating Flat Rates correctly. All fixed.

Mods: Rate generator was not taking into account those sites where a different charge is made for different days of the week. Both M3 DOS and M6 modified. Major mods to take into account those sites who charge different prices on weekends and might discount as well. M3 and Fiesta show the same figures for flat rates but where the rate is changed on a daily basis (weekday rates) or where the rate changes over a season change there may be slight differences in the final amount by a few cents. This is due to differences in rounding on 16 bit systems (M3) and 32 bit systems (Fiesta).

Added: Guest Reservation Form. For those sites who wish to overtype the value of the nights stay, OR set the discount percentage OR set the physical amount of discount OR Just enter the total charge required. Alternatively by just entering any one of the above figures and clicking on the green Tick, the form will be completed and the correct figures applied.

Added: Creditors Summary Report for sites who use the Creditor Module. This is similar to the Debtors O/S summary and shows Opening, charged, paid, balance then 30, 60 and 90 days overdue for payment.

Added: Creditors Due Report to keep tabs on what invoices are due for payment.

Added: The Trust Account menu now has the ability to reprint receipts and setup the owner service charges and standing charges.

Mod: Print/email guest accounts to debtor has been refined since placing autoprint into the system.

Mod: Auto checkout printing of guest accounts will now email direct to guest if an email address has been entered else it will print. If the account goes to an agent/debtor then if you have entered an email address on the debtor setup it will go automatically by email.

Both of the above emailing systems place the email into the sent box after sending. you need to have ClickYes installed. That is sitting in your mmate working folder. The file is called Cysetup.exe.

Mod: Guest payment form Add Card Charge option was not refreshing the guest charges correctly. This is now fixed.

Mod: Big Mod! The Group Handler now requires that you MUST have your ledgers setup with the Sales Group. The Sales Groups are attached to every debtor account to let you bill only charges that fit the group. eg. All ACCOM, BEVERAGE, PHONE, SUNDRY and OTHER items. Once these are setup you can use the Group Charge option in the Group Handler to move the guests accounts to the debtor. Go to your Ledger setup and you will see the options. You can only select one option for each ledger. Stock Items MUST have the correct ledgers attached to each stock item for correct reporting. This mod applies only to Fiesta and does not affect the DOS version.

Say a guest in a group incurs phone charges, pay that charge off on the guest account before transferring to the debtor account as only the balance is what is transferred. Alternatively, on checkin, charge off to the debtor account and then on checkout all you have left to process are the few other charges incurred by guests such as phone calls and minibar items.

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February 2007

Mod: Setup Guest Charge rates is now on the Setup Menu along with Setup Owner Charges for Trust sites

Mod: Package Setup did not match the DOS version. Now it does.

Tweak: The Revenue Report was tweaked to reset the date of phone calls for calls made prior to End of Day and place them into the correct trading day.

Mod: Reprocess Deposits from any date forward. This option under the Utilities menu lets you reprocess all deposits to make sure that the date absorbed is correct.

Added: To reservation forms for Restaurant, Staff, Prepay and Permanents guests the ability to use the emergency checkin, checkout, cancel options. These are all on the second Tab.

Added: To Reservation form for restaurant to add the number of tables required. This will split up the booking into a separate account for each table. It is up to you to allocate the number of guests for each table. Suggestion is to divide the total guests by the tables to get the average.

Added: To Restaurant Guest List the ability to show all past guests in surname order. Activated the Delete Key to cancel bookings.

Mod: Reservation Calendar will show all rooms that have the Bookable Y/N set to 'Yes'. This means that your dummy rooms used to move guests around can now show on the screen as long as the setting is correct..

Addition: Housekeeping reports are available in a smaller font. Just click on small and the standard report will have 8pt font instead of 10.

Addition On Tab 2 of the Reservation form you will find the pickup and arrival times for those sites running pickups from airports, railway stations and bus depots. A report is to follow.

Mod: The Deposits Held report while working was not 100% correct for the month of arrival. That is now fixed thanks to The Blond.

Mod: Housekeeping generator for mid cleans was failing on some guests. That has now been fixed.

Mod: F6 messages on the housekeeper reports now working

Mod Reservation form Postcode auto fill is working to automatically fill the postcode and state when you enter the suburb/town. If it does not exist it will popup the postcode entry form for you to add it in.

Mod: Reservation Calendar Drag and Drop was not clearing the guest from the moved from unit. That is now fixed.

Mod: Reservation Calendar appearance to show current date and unit selected in larger type. Top line of the screen has been modified to make the Group Handler and Calendar reset options more easily accessible.

Added: Petty Cash Report

Added: DNL option on Reservation calendar lets you enter a maintenance item against the room. You can either cancel the DNL by cancelling the DNL reservation (delete key) or click on DNL button, select the item and click on Done. This will free the room for letting.

Changed: Current Guest List can be run for any day. If you select a day other than the current day it will switch tabs and bring up arrivals, departures and inhouse for the date selected.

Changed: Revenue Report was not working for one site. That has been fixed.

Added: Maintenance Items. Setup your maintenance items with codes running from 50 to 99 and a 35 character description. You can use this when entering maintenance against a room or with suitable PABX your housekeepers can dial up problems by entering the hash symbol followed by the code. Our PABX interface will recognise this as a maintenance item, look up the appropriate item and create a maintenance item against the room.

January 2007

Added: Staff information has been dramatically increased so that you can keep full records on each staff member including a log to cover any discussions related to work description, warnings etc. The header of each entry is date and time set and are presented in consecutive order, so you can scroll through to select and add or make changes. A report to cover a range of dates is in the mill. Password is IZZUCS

Added: Option on payment of guest account to automatically print guest statement. The option will only appear if the current date is the date of departure. The setup for this is under Staff Setup at the top of the Main Menu. Use the above password for access.

Changed: Layout of the Reservation calendar has changed dramatically.

Changed: Reservation form Company entry is no longer linked to the Agent/debtor who is paying the account. Agent detail now shows to the right of the entry field.

Changed: Reservation Form Postcode lookup while great if the postcode existed or the town existed otherwise you could not enter in a new postcode/town. This has been changed to let you click on the small button to the left of the Suburb and select. If it does not exist, then select Add and place it into your database. The other option is to just ype in the postcode and town disregarding the lookup.

Added: Maintenance Block can be applied to any unit on the Reservation screen by selecting the option on the right or by pressing Alt+M
This allows you to add the start and end dates, the reason for the block, the priority of the maintenance (1, 2 or 3 with 1 being the highest) and Done or not done.

Profiles: User profiles are being updated and the current options let you set what you want to appear on both the guest Reservation Calendar and the Guest Control Centre. There is also two options to let you print guest accounts immediately on paying off the account. As long as all of the print options are set then a normal guest statement will print. Troy has been haunting me for this one. If the account is charged to a debtor then the debtor account may print depending on how you have the options set.

Backup Module: Now has options to download latest version of Fiesta and associated modules.

Remote Support: We have completed our remote support module and that can be downloaded from the Backup module. Save it to your desktop as it is required there to make it easy for you to connect to support.

Creditors: The new creditors section included, Invoice Entry, View Current, Past or History for each creditor, Tag and pay accounts, History Report and Current Accounts report. Payments flow through into outgoings in the Revenue Report. For Trust sites

Completed: The new Debtor Support document is working and should be used to support your Debtor Statement by supplying all of the detail for each guests account. You need to print/email just two documents instead of many.

ModS: Guest payment form when paying a Counter Sale was defaulting back one day after the end of day setting. That has now been fixed.

Mods: The Debtor List now has the up/down keys working along with Incremental entry of the Debtors Code to lookup. This is actually a new browse form and has an additional TAB to show Current Accounts. The initial tab is for all debtors. Column sorting is enabled to let you sort as you wish. A few of the buttons on this form at the bottom still need reports.

DO NOT USE: The new Creditors invoices are under construction along with reports to give you a Current Creditor Report, Creditor History report and Payment Slip. You will be able to enter purchases and pay them off against the creditors accounts. This is a big addition and should be ready by 21st January.

Added: Rostering Report ranged by date up to one month in advance, Gives details of all stays, arrivals, departures, occupancy and cleans. Designed for sites who wish to know in advance the services required for housekeepers and for chefs to estimate how much food to hold at a particular time.

Changed: Lookup for Agents and Companies on the reservation form has two options for each. Type in the code and it will automatically fill in the name if it exists or use the button and lookup. The button lookup also allows you to add or change debtors details on the fly.    <<back>>

December 2006
Changes: Lookup Agents and debtors on guest reservation form. you can either enter in something (correct or incorrect) and TAB to force a lookup or click the button to the right to select. The view shows all the details of each agent as you scroll through to select.

Changes: The Reservation Form no longer has the second tab with the guest credit card information. Just enter it on the main form by pressing Alt+C. Do not forget to save!

Mods: Lots of changes to browses where you can sort by the column instead of using a tab. Debtor Account is a good example.

Mod: The Agent Account Report now only has 6 characters for your BSB. This prevents too many leading zeroes appearing on the account.

Fixed: When adding Card charge on the Guest Payment form, previously was setting the receipt to zero. That has been fixed.

New: A report that details all charges to a debtor to be sent or attached to the Statement instead of printing each guest invoice. We are calling it Statement Support document. Some mods are still under way on this report.

Mod: Title field now lets you type whatever you like up to 10 characters or select from the drop list.

Mod: Threading of all global variables removed to improve stability in some areas.

Mod: File Drop options where you previously clicked on a stock item or a marketing field all now have auto complete which forces a lookup of the file as you type and if the result is invalid will popup a form for you to insert a new item. There are several hundred of these in the programme and if your favourite is not yet updated, then it will be in the future.

Mod: Inserting a guest from the Guest List forces the correct parameters to the reservation form before saving the guest to the data file.

Mod: On the Guest list where you wish to lookup by room number the entry is now a drop list for easy selection or you can type in for immediate locator.

New: On the Guest Control Centre screen you can click on the column headers to sort by the header. eg if you have selected the Stay Tab and you want all guests in room number order, then click on the column called Room.
To sort by the Folio number that can be in ascending or descending order. The same applies to arrival and departure dates.

Changed Guest Receipting form to allow overpayments of accounts on purpose to cover extras while in house. Then refund overpayment on departure.

Mod: Stock add form on guest account has a different stock lookup. Type in the Stock Code and press the Tab key to accept. If correct no lookup will occur, but if not complete then it will force a lookup.

Mod: The F8 key on the Guest Control Centre and the Reservation calendar now both lookup the availability for the current day.

Mod: On the Guest reservation form, the first option now is a blank. Overtyping at this stage is not an option.

This was the week a massive power surge took out a refrigerator, VCR, DVD player and corrupted my primary hard drive. After a complete rebuild and reload of all programmes, around 70gigabytes, the system is back up and running as of yesterday.

Mod: The Agent payment form while working for normal full amount payments, underpayments and overpayments, it stuffed up on underpayments where you wished to retain the balance. Karen in Mackay found that one for me.
The system now stores the original transaction with the value reduced by the shortfall and creates a new transaction dated the same as before, so it does not affect reports. The receipt is only for the paid amount.

Mod: The Agent lookup form on the reservation form was acting up. This has now been fixed so clicking on the agent will definitely select the agent for you. The agent information also now shows so if you have multiple codes for the same agent in different towns, then it is easy to select.

Added: All scrolling windows will let you use the scroll wheel on your mouse for fast scroll up and down.

Added: Popup window showing the blocking guests details if you try to extend a guest and another is in the way. The window also has an option to move the blocking guest. This pops up a small version of the reservation calendar where you can click, hold and drag the blocking guest to another room. If successful the screen will close automatically returning you to the guest reservation form. It is similar to the DOS version but much easier. 3 days work in this one.

New: Drag and Drop on the Reservation calendar lets you move a guest around the screen, not just up/down. All of the background account is redated and room changed.

New: Network refreshing on the Reservation Calendar. Every 10 seconds the system will refresh the view. This means that if you have say three terminals on the front desk, the maximum time for refreshing the view is 10 seconds but more likely around 5 seconds. So when one terminal makes a booking from the calendar, all screens will be refreshed with the new details within 5 - 10 seconds. With more terminals it is faster again. We will later on have an option for you to set the refresh time, but we feel that 10 seconds is a good tradeoff and keeps network traffic to a minimum.

Modified: Refund of Guest Overpayment form now places a negative credit on the guest account instead of a debit to balance. If a guest has overpaid and you wish to refund the account, when you select Pay Acct or press F2 you will be taken to the refund form and not the payment form.

Mod: Arrivals and Departures reposts now have the option to sort by Unit or by Guest at the time of printing.

Mod: Guest Table in Guest Control Centre. The Room Tab now gives you the guests by room in arrival sequence.

Mod: Guest Table above. Inserting a guest from here on completion it will return to the new guest on the list.

Mod: F7 Add Stock from the Guest List or from the Reservation Calendar was not adding in the date or quantity.

Mod: The Bulk Add was doing the same as above. Both have been fixed.

Mod: Printing of guest rego forms now has the ability for guests to add in Car Rego and License number.

Mod: Deposits Held report was not capable of showing deposits greater than 99,999.00 now it is 9.9 million. This is to accommodate Real Estate sites.

Mod: Guest receipt form now allows you to backdate a receipt.

Mod: 3 Way balance has had any money held back from owners added to the second section.
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November 2006

Notice: All sites wishing to take advantage of the new windows model MUST have at least a 1024x768 resolution screen and be using standard sized fonts.

Changed: Short term change until some sites upgrade their older pc's. Some still use older vga screens with low resolution and the Debtor Account screen has been reduced in size to accommodate this on a short term basis.

Fixed: The occasional lockup when accessing a guest account was traced back to the pabx module. If no record was found to update in that module, the system just sat there, requiring a hard shut down. This might require further modification.

Mofified: Reservation calendar scroll buttons were 2 days out. That has now been corrected.

Modified: The Guest Browse has now been changed from File to Page Load which makes a virtually instant lookup. File load forced all records to be loaded. The layout has also been modified to show the room first followed by the surname. This allows instant sorting by room number of the inhouse, arrival, depart and stay forms. Just open the page and click on the column header and it is instantly sorted into room number.

Added: We found a couple of sites who had maximized the screen picture while they had another minimized. When they close the programme and re-opened it, the screen they had minimized was not available and for all intents and purposes, the option for that screen no longer worked. To get around that we have an INI editor on the Files/Utilities menu option. However, that was a real pain as it meant that your saved positions no longer worked. After researching the web and leaving requests to other developers for help in this, all but one replied and said lock the windows where you want them to stay, but one lone developer in South Africa (the one who supplies with the File Manager module) came to the rescue with a template that will not let a window go out of your screen picture area. Wow! The problem was solved perfectly. The best part was that I use the same template for other uses but was not aware that it would lock windows to the screen. No money, just time and frustration.

Modified: Guest Registration form will not show the total charge or any deposit where the account is being charged to a debtor.

Added: Sorting of the columns on the Guest List, Current Guest List, Arrival, Departure lists. Not all columns are active. On the Guest List some of the columns have a double sort available. eg. You could click on the top of the Arrival column and while holding down the Ctrl key click on the top of the Surname column and the list will be sorted by data and surname.

Added: Full security tracking which means that you will need to enter your user name and password. This lets us track who did what whenever. Currently disabled. You need to access the following after startup to install a user called SYSTEM. Go to Setup on the top menu. From the drop list select Setup User/Staff. This will popup the staff list. Select Insert and add a new user with a User ID of SYSTEM, Password 'System' and a level of 9. In the other options turn off whatever settings are not required and save.

Added: Full profile setup for the Reservation Calendar and the Guest List. After you log on, on the top line seletc Setup then near the bottom select Setup User. This will opoup a form to complete. Turn on or off any items that you do not require to show whan you are using the system. This system will be enhanced further over the next few months to include options that will allow a Super User to limit staff access to various windows and reports. We intend to setup a form that lets the Super User setup set the options that will automatically apply according to the users access levels.

Modified: Bulk charge to exclude non guest rooms such as z-pos, petty, staff etc.

Modified: Charge generator to eliminate a second charge adding into the guest account with no name on it.

Mofified: Reservation Form to prevent forcing of a title.

Modified: Revenue report to prevent a 2nd print of the detail band.

Modified: Guest Payment Form to force Card Type onto Guest reservation details payment method.

Modified: Owner statement sent without preview. Requires ClickYes installed and running to place emails into Outbox.

Added: Placed a button the Debtor Acount linking back to the guest account. Very useful for checking or reversing incorrect debtor transactions.

Mofified: The Debtor Account screen now shows the running total of all accounts tagged for payment. This total is carried forward to the payment form along with the link to all tagged accounts for correct processing.

Added: The ability to move a guest account from one debtor directly to another debtor. Easy mistake correction.

Modified: Autocheckin was checkingthe guest in but not attaching the guest to the unit. Now Fixed.

Modified: Lookup for Guest Type was not working. Now Fixed.

Mofified: The Marketing lookups, the Room Class lookup and the Rate lookup on the Guest Reservation Form are now locked in place. Which means that if you drag them elsewhere they will pop back into the correct place. This is a move to prevent users moving them off screen and locking up the entry form when the lookup is selected.

Mofified: The Guest account in the C6 version as opposed to the C5 version is now working correctly. In the porting over of the module one routine was apparently copied three times which resulted in a wakky report.

Added: Trust sites may require the ability to charge owners a once per month Room Service Charge based on a percentage of receipts. Calculation is very similar to that used for adding an Advertising Fee based on turnover.

Changed: DOS version of M3 is now fully compliant with the Windows version and can be run concurrently. Software arrived from our database suppliers to fix a minor problem. Oddly enouhg they had fixed the problem several years back and omitted to tell everyone! Upgrade arrived from the U.S.A within 4 days of ordering.

Added: Bulk add Breakfast/Dinner charges without having to access a guests account. This system is available from a number of areas such as the Reservation Calendar, Guest List (Stay), Current Guests and the Main Menu. All inhouse guests appear. Select the guest, select the item, add the charge if not already defined and Save. The form will reset ready for the next add. Press Escape to exit if no further adds.

Changed: The Cash Sale window has been renamed Counter Sales because you can pay off the charges to any method available, even to a debtor account. It stays in continuous add mode until you cancel or press escape. This module acts like a Cash Register, letting you add items to the sale and when finished pay them off in any way you choose. You have an option to print the receipt at the time of payment. Trust sites can print a trust account receipt.

Modified: The Unit Owner Rate Setup From has been modified to prevent entry into the Management Percentage field where you have amounts in the charge rate. This is to prevent inadvertant generation of service charges based on percentage of turnover.   <<back>>

October 2006

New:- Reworked the large reservation calendar for 1280 x 1024 pixel screens. Both the standard calendar and the large version have full font sizing for each of 8, 10 and 12pt fonts. Large screen features up to 50 units on the screen at once. At startup there is an appreciable delay as all of the cells are filled from the database. After that this screen is as fast as the smaller version. A total of 14,000 cells are filled initially for site with 50 or more rooms. A page down on the large reservation window will scroll down 50 rooms at a time. We have tested this over our network (peer to peer) and it is fast, so it is well suited for the larger site who probably will be using Server 2003 and Terminal Services.

Investment: Over the past few months we have invested heavily in the future of this programme with the purchase of a number of add on modules that will allow us to print to PDF, RTF, XLS or XLM, which means that you will eventually be able to take your choice when printing or emailing accounts to debtors and unit owners. In house now and working on the upgrade. Probably around 6-8 weeks away.

Additional modules we have are for development of our Fiesta Web Server that will let prospective guests and travel agents log onto your site securely and make reservations in real time, and another module that lets you FTP your data on a daily basis to one of our larger servers for off site secure storage. These last two will have an annual upgrade and maintenance fee, still to be determined. We will advise you when these are available but not within 9 months due to other development works in progress.

Another new module will let us synchronise data over networks to keep your views up to date. Coming up in the next few weeks.

Fiesta Toolbar customized for each site. What's a toolbar? It sits at the top of your Internet or Windows Explorer screens and gives you one click access to all of the Microsoft Office suite. It also contains links to the Fiesta website for downloads and error reporting via our on line reporting module. We will also have a full password protected WebLog, commonly called a Blog, where users can log on and ask each other questions and leave messages for our programmers. Built in Radio Tuner with station selection and volume control. You can add as many stations as you wish. Built in RSS News feeds direct from Ch 7, 9 and the ABC to keep you up to date. In addition your guests will be able to download and install it for their own personal use as it also incorporates a built in links to MySpace, World Time Clock, Music Downloads. If they click on your name on the Toolbar it will take them directly to your website where they can make reservations. We have a Tell a Friend system built in so they can tell others about your wonderful site and install your toolbar themselves.

The Toolbar has a pop up blocker, email notifier and local weather users can set for anywhere in the world. The Toolbar does not violate any privacy laws and does not record the users IP or browsing habits unlike other commercial browsers on the market.

The Fiesta Toolbar is available right now but you have to join the queue for customisation to your site. The cost for you and for your clients is free! It is purely a marketing tool designed to drive more clients to your business. By helping you, we are helping ourselves to gain market share. We give you a link to a page on one of our sites where all of the toolbar information is available and from where your guests will download the toolbar.

Built in help system that lets you write your own support notes as you use the system. This is a Right Click option on any item in Fiesta. You edit this form to suit yourself.

Built in help system replacing windows F1 Help. This will automatically load your browser giving you instant access to help just like any of the MS programmes. we are starting on that one next week.

24th October 2006:-

New:- Added entire Australia Post Postcode file to system for automatic lookup when entering Australian guest addresses. Type in the town or suburb and press the tab key and the system will automatically place the postcode and the state on the form.

New:- Added the capability to lookup Availability by class from either the Reservation Calendar or the Guest List. Select the room class and you can make a reservation/s directly from the availability lookup form. From the Reservation Calendar, select the date first to view availability by class on that day.

New:- Added Walkin button to the top of the Guest List. This pops up the rooms available by room number for the current day. Select the room and you will open up the reservation form with the date and room already in place.

Changed: The Guest Title option will automatically default to Mr. Just click on the field for all options to appear.

20th October 2006:- Version 6.104

New:_ To exit the programme a warning is now in place advising selecting Yes will close program. This is to prevent inadvertant closuer when a user clicks on the 'x' on the application mani window instead of a cascaded window which they wish to close.

New:- Rate generator modified to match the M3 generator for Free nights. Where you set a free night on the Rate setup form, this will always be applied to last day of the stay. If on the guest reservation form you override that with 2 free nights then that setting will take precedence and two free nights will be generated. Unless you have a rate setup as standard with one or more free nights it is safest to set them on the guest reservation form. This means that you can apply free nights to any rate you choose.

New:- Added Right Click drop menu option to the Reservation Calendar to access most of the guest functions.

New:- Modified the Owner Statement Preview options to allow selection of printer when viewing the report on screen. For those wishing to print to other devices such as PDF.

Changed:-It was reported that the 10 day view was resetting the top line (the header) of the view. What was actually happenning was that it would set the header width for coulnm one to zero. We have fixed that one, but the switch from a 10 day view to the four day view resets this line if the cursor is more than 4 days to the right of day one. This a bug in the template that colours the header and we are working with the developer of that template to get around it. Most users will not be switching too much from their designated view.

17th October 2006:

Resonline Interface: Reworked the auto section to take into account less than one minute intervals for autoupdating. Minimin setting is 10 seconds to give time for other processes to do their thing. Continuous = every ten seconds.

Changed: Reservation Calendar lost around 12mm of height to fit better on 1024x768 screens.

Added: Scrolling feature list to lower left of Calendar to show the room features as you scroll up or down the window. It also shows the number of pax alllowed in the room, and the number of single and double beds.

New:- On the Guest Reservation Form there is an option to set for Express Checkout at the end of the guest stay. The guest MUST either be paying credit card or Agent/Debtor. On the day of checkout, on the Departures Table press Xpress Checkout for all guests that have been set for auto checkout. System will pay off the balance of their account to either agent or card, print the account for posting, or if you have the guests email address on file then it will send by email. Then the guest is automatically checked out. For guests who are not Xpress out, a warning will popup asking if you wish to check them out, but this will only happen if their account is zero.

Notes:- When using the email options in Fiesta for sending bulk accounts, if you select Preview email then all of the emails will pileup on the taskbar. If you select Silent, then as long as you have installed ClickYes, the emails will be placed into the outbox of Outlook and be sent in the background. http://www.contextmagic.com/express-clickyes/ to download and install the software. It is also packaged in with all major upgrades.

New:- On the Reservation Calendar we have added a button to show or hide sub rooms. As there is a tab that always shows sub rooms, that tab is ideal for selling sub rooms or bunks in dorms for backpacker sites and lodges. When you select any tab other than the Show Sub Rooms tab then you can see all rooms or just the master rooms by setting this option. It remains the default until you change it.

Completed: The Forward Bookings Report will give you a detailed report of your forward bookings week by week for any period you specify. It gives you a comparison of walkins to overall bookings, how many booked ahead and how far ahead the bookings were. It's a great marketing tool. Look for it under Reports, Marketing on the top of the Main Menu.

You will need to download the new package and install from http://www.millennium3.ws/upgrades/upgrade.exe
Tell it to overwrite (a) for all files when asked. Then Start Fiesta, open File/Edit. Select DOS MMfiler, Select and Enter twice on each file to convert and build. This will force a conversion for the new file structure. Password for Manager is 7415963. Press Escape to exit on completion.


New:- Added the Group Handler. What's the Group Handler? It lets you select a Travel Group and do a bulk checkin. After checkin you can bulk bill their accounts to the Group Master Account which is really just another debtor account. Or wait until all of the sundry charges have been added during the stay and still bulk the lot to the one account. For Strata title apartments, each owner will be paid because each guests accommodation charge will go to the correct unit account. If all charges have been billed to the master account then you only have one account to process. Where guests are paying for meals, drinks, phone etc then you still need to process each guest account. You can access these directly from the Group Handler and check out each guest from the guest account form. You are then brought back to the Group Handler to process the next guest. The GH also lets you specify the charges that go to the Master Account. The charges are in different groups, Accom, Food, Beverage, Phone, Transfers and Sundries. These must be set for each group on the Travel Group Tab on the Guest Reservation form for the first Group Member when making the reservation or on the Group Handler Form as this is then duplicated across very group members form..

New:- For Clickers, I hade added Scroll Right and Scroll Left buttons on the top right of the Reservation Calendars. These mimic the Ctrl+right Arrow or Ctrl+Left Arrow Speed Keys and move the view left or right for the number of days in the view. eg. For 21 day view it will move left or right 21 days.

Changed:- We have moved most of the email functions back to MS Outlook after we were able to get our hands on a module that will place the report directly onto an email since MS stuffed up their original interface. We still do not trust MS in this area and will be working quietly in the background perfecting our own built in email server.

You will need to download the new package and install from http://www.millennium3.ws/upgrades/upgrade.exe
Tell it to overwrite (a) for all files when asked. Then Start Fiesta, open File/Edit. Select DOS MMfiler, Select and Enter twice on each file to convert and build. This will force a conversion for the new file structure. Password for Manager is 7415963.

New:- Completed the Sort Order for emailing or printing debtor accounts from the Debtors Ledger. Select from Date, Guest name, Folio, Voucher No or Unit number.

New:- Added routine to prevent a second or more Sundry Stock Line being generated.

New:- Petty Cash Module under construction to allow petty cash out or in and keep track of the results.

New:- Autocheckin now works withthe current days arrivals. Open the reservation form to check the details and if ok click on Autocheckin.

Spent the last week working with trust accounting sites.   <<back>>

September 2006

New:- Cash Sales Module added. This unit creates a unit called Z-POS if it does not exist, Creates a guests with the same name and checks the guest into the room. You can add multiple transactions to each sale and pay it off as normal, just like any guest account. At the beginning of each month it will check the current guest out and create a new guest and check in. This lets you keep a month to month transaction list of non inhouse guest sales. You can print out a report on the sales from the guest account like a normal guest.

New:- Added linking of interconnecting rooms to the standard reservation calendar. Book a sub room and it will prevent you booking the master. Book the master and you cannot book the sub rooms.

New:- Add emailing of owner statements without previewing via Outlook. You need to install ClickYes from http://www.contextmagic.com/express-clickyes/ to prevent Outlook standard warnings coming up for each email sent. ClickYes is supplied at no charge by the vendors.

New:- Added Agent Allotments. Lets you allocate rooms on a semi permanent basis to agents via a preset date range. Comes complete with Release back period.

New:- Added Allotment Usage Report to view or print that lets you see how an agent is performing against the allotments they have requested for a date range.

New:- Activated, tested and installed Auto checkin for individual bookings. Works only with walk in guests and arrivals for the current day.

Changed:-Stats display on reservation calendar was excluding some guests and giving an invalid reading. Now fixed.

New:- On Reservation Form there are two new buttons that let you clear either the Company or ChargeTo fields to blank. Use instead of clicking and using the spacebar or backspace key to clear.

New:- Added the complete SAFLOK interface for sites using magnetic card locks and SAFLOK encoders.

Changed: On the 2nd tab of the reservation form changed the emergency status option on the lower right to remove guests from rooms if makring then as checked out.

Added: A new key on Guests to enable reporting on a new report coming up. This forces a complete update of M3, Fiesta, Fiesta Utilities and eBoFF.

Fixed: The Current Guests Accounts report is now correct. Yours truly did not set the correct number of decinal points and the report was rounding incorrectly.

You will need to download the new package and install from http://www.millennium3.ws/upgrades/upgrade.exe
Tell it to overwrite (a) for all files when asked. Then Start Fiesta, open File Manager, Tag All and build. This will force a conversion for the new key file.

New:- Group booking on main reservation form. You’ve seen the option but it was disabled. Now try it with your next group or multi room booking. Enter the group details on the left, set the date (if not already done from the reservation calendar),

Set the number of rooms. 
Add a package if needed. Set the debtor if required.
Set the number of rooms.
Set the room rate.
Set manual or auto select. If manual you select which rooms you wish. If auto the system will do it for you.

New:- File Manager or MMfiler. Take your choice to rebuild your files. Select File Utilities and take your pick.
File Manager is as before. MMfiler, the DOS equivalent, is much faster and it rebuilds the data as well as the keys.
If you have not used MMfiler, just remember it is not mouse based. Just use the navigation keys and press Enter twice on each file. Escape when finished and you are back in windows. We are working on automating this option so you do not even have to select files.

Fix:- The Stats option on the Reservation calendar has been updated to read the number of rooms correctly. There still a few minor tweaks to come.

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