Glossary

Hotel and restaurant glossary

Every term links to the feature that solves it.

Guest folio

The statement of a stay. It accumulates room and charges until checkout.

Master account

A single statement that groups several rooms or events of the same client, usually a company or an agency.

Corporate agreement

The billing instructions that define which charges the company covers and which ones the guest pays.

Revenue center

Every place in the hotel where something is sold: restaurant, bar, pool, room service, front desk. Each with its own cashier shift and its own report.

Shift close

The close of a cashier shift: how much sold by payment method, how much cash should be in the drawer and what the difference was.

Room charge

Moving a charge to the guest folio instead of collecting it on the spot.

Kitchen ticket

The order that goes from the server to the kitchen.

Modifier

A variation of a dish: how the meat is cooked, no onion, extra cheese.

Accounts receivable

What has already been consumed or invoiced and not paid. A future unpaid reservation is not receivables.

Aging report

Classifying what you are owed by how long it has been overdue.

Credit line

The maximum a company can owe before it has to pay.

Food and beverage per occupied room

How much each occupied room spent on food and beverage, on average.

USALI

The accounting standard hotels around the world are compared with.

Night audit

The hotel’s end of day: sales are consolidated, the business date rolls over and balances are left ready.

Product mix

How much of each dish sells and how much each one leaves.

Meal period

The blocks of the day with their own menu and prices: breakfast, lunch, dinner.

Consolidated cash

The day’s total across every revenue center. It is calculated, not opened.

Void

Cancelling the effect of a transaction without deleting it, with author and reason.

Item transfer

Moving items from one check to another while keeping their kitchen status.

Average check

How much each closed check leaves on average.

X report and Z report

The mid-shift partial and the final close of the day, respectively. In Inn the close is by cashier and by revenue center.

Handheld ordering device

The device the server takes the order with. In Inn it is any tablet or phone with a browser.

Kitchen display

The kitchen screen where tickets arrive.

ERP/PMS interface

The integration between a POS and the hotel system. The thing Inn does not need.

Module or add-on

A feature bought separately from the base system. In Inn they do not exist: everything comes in the package.

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