Attention! The protel Air upgrade in Summer 2020 brought about changes to the user interface and also to many functions. You can find the updated instructions for them in the new protel Air Online Help. Please note: The migration process is still ongoing. Therefore you may still be able to use some functions as described in this Online Help. For this reason, we will not delete this Online Help yet. If you have any questions, please contact your support!
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The Arrivals list displays all guests arriving on a certain day or within a certain set time period. By means of the Context Menu, you can check in a guest or Cancel an arrival. And it is just as easy to find additional information about the guest or reservation.
The departure list is automatically accessed for today's date.
Displaying the primary guest's language
The language column issues the primary guest's language from the profile:
Example
HINT: The Language column always shows the primary guest's language and not the language of guests who are not the primary guest!
You can display the language column by using the Show or hide columns function.
Open the Arrivals list by means of the "Lists > Arrivals" menu points.
The arrivals list displays all of the expected arrivals occurring on a certain date. The protel Air date (today's date) and the expected arrivals are specified. You can change the display by selecting another date. Tomorrow's departures can be seen today.
With the aid of the filter functions, you can limit the displayed departures based on certain criteria. For example:
Room: Display at room level. Rooms are displayed only once, even if the room is booked for one or more guests. This is useful if you would like to check in all guests for a particular room at the same time. Guests: Display at guest level. Every guests is listed separately. A room, reserved for several guests, will be displayed more than once (once per guest). Select this option if you would like to check in one guest of a room booked for several guests. |
You can search for the name of a guest profile. You don't have to enter the entire name. While entering the first few letters of the name, protel Air shows you the reservations whose guest or booker begin with the letters you have typed in. |
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Search for either the reservation number or the group number. |
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This is where you enter a room description when you are explicitly looking for a certain room. When entering the name of the room type, only the reservations for this room type will be displayed. |
Filter for the status of a reservation, e.g.: Arrivals, which have been checked in today: Select the "Checked in" check box, for the Status and uncheck all the other check boxes. |
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Arrivals which were planned for today and cancelled: Select the "Checked in" check box, for the Status and uncheck all the other check boxes. |
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Upon request, you can display only arrivals in the arrivals list which have a certain VIP code. Activate the VIP codes check box located in the list of additional filters . You can then select the code in the VIP code filter. After clicking on search , only arrivals which have this code will be displayed. |
As you can see, there are quite a number of possibilities. Additional information about the filtering possibilities in the active list can be found here.
As soon as you change filter criteria in a list, you will have to refresh the display.
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[Lists > Arrivals list]
The room status is displayed in the Room status column so that you know whether or not a room is ready for check-in.
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Clean |
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Checked |
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Touched |
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Dirty |
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Being cleaned |
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Out of service |
Open the reservation dialog box for the respective arrival by double-clicking in a field whose column has NOT been underlined.
A simple click of the mouse in the field with the underline column, enables you to change the contents of the field (see below: Edit displayed contents).
By means allotted buttons in the window below, you can execute the following actions for one or more of the marked reservations - the same actions can also accessed via the context menu (right mouse click).
Opens the guest profile for an allotted guest. The button is only active when a guest has been saved for the reserved room. Clicking the button opens the respective guest's profile (not that of the booker!). In the arrivals list, the allotted guest will appear in the "Last name" i.e., "Guest name(s)" column. "Gastname(n)" displayed. |
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Select an arrival and open the respective reservation. This will take you to the reservation summary where you have access to all of the other details of the reservation. |
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Checks in a selected arrival. With the aid of multiple selection , you can easily and conveniently execute a group check-in. If a room is blocked for the guest and it is dirty, the message "Room is not clean, do you really like to continue?" is displayed. If no room is blocked for the guest the Room assignment screen appears where you can assign a room. |
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The check-in for a previously checked in arrival will be reversed. You can only cancel a checked-in reservation if the guest has checked in today and does not have a balance. To be able to use the function, the arrivals list needs to display checked in reservations (select the "checked in" box in the status dropdown list). |
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Cancel one or more reservations by clicking this button. |
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Only works for arrivals which have been cancelled today or in the future. [Reset] undos the cancellation. To undo a cancelled room, you will need to make the room visible in the reservation list: To do so, select the cancelled check box located in the status selection list located to the top right of the window. |
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For
room type reservations without allotted rooms, access room allotment
to allot a room for the arrival.
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To print the arrivals list, click on the sub-task entitled "Print". The list will be printed exactly in the same way as it appears. Click on the "Registration form" sub-task to print a registration form for the selected guest. Print as Excel list: Exports the Arrivals list in Excel format. |
As you can see: the possibilities are endless. Further information on filters in active lists can be found here.
The contents of columns with underlined column headers can be edited inline.
Learn more about inline editing:
Click into the underlined field for the column you would like to edit.
Change the contents of the field which you have clicked on.
Click <Enter> to adopt the changes.
This enables you to change:
arrival and departure dates
room
rate code
a comment / edit existing comments
Requirements: To view the respective column, it must have been selected in the Column settings.
Open the arrivals list and click on the column of the reservation for which you would like to change the room.
A list then opens. The list shows all of the available rooms for the reserved room type.
Helpful: The room status will also be displayed.
Further information about filters and display options for the active lists can be found here: Elements & functions > Active Lists > The structure of active lists