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Room Billing
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What is PMS ?
•
PMS = PROPERTY MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE/SYSTEM
•
Software who controls the complete hotel .
•Micros fidelio
•Hogotex
•Holodex
•LMS
•Micros Fidelio
•Lodging Link (PTI)
•Holidex (AutoClerk)
•Hilton 1
•Hilton 2
•Marriott proprietary PMS
•ASCII Serial Printer
Ramesys ImagInn PMS
Virtual XL Call Accounting System
(XETA Communications)
System 21
HOBIC – RS1
HOBIC – TSPS
HOBIC – TEST
HOBIC – 1BT2
HOBIC – OSPS
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Task of the PMS !
• What is this system doing ?
– CHECK IN / CHECK OUT information and
making an invoices !
• And how to connect to the system ?
– Serial V.24 connection (existing systems)
• Hobic (is standard for all PMS)
• Variant interfaces......
– TCP/IP (latest develoment)
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How to setup the USG
PMS
Internet
Room 101
Laptop
10BASE-T
Switch/DSLAM
USG
Router
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What is POSTING ??
• Posting = Sending information van a POS
(Point Of sales Terminal) to the PMS
central server
– “posting” is one way communication
– Except Nomadix has created togheter with
Micros Fidelio a two way communication
interface .
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Room Billing
1. Enable AAA for New Users
2. Select the Billing Options
3. Enable PMS
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Enable New Users
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Billing Options Setup
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Property Management System
Billing info is send before Authentication !
Billing info is send after logout !
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Pre Paid environment !
Time
Customer will be connected
untill the time expires
Customer
connects to
Portal Page
Customer selects
one of the PMS
billingoptions
After confirming the purchase
the Nomadix system Will charge
the PMS system immediately
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Post Paid environment !
Time
Customer will be connected
untill the time expires
Customer
connects to
Portal Page
Customer selects
one of the PMS
billingoptions
The customer will only be charged
If he is using the logout-Buttom
of the ICC/Logout console of
the Nomadix system.
The charging for the connected time !
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Property Management System
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(user experience)
5 Room Billing
(user experience)
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Posting
• After the confirmation screen the nomadix
will send the info to the PMS system
– Roomnumber
– Connection type
– Revenue
– Date stamp
– Time stamp
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In Room Port Mapping
In order to do In Room Port Mapping, please follow these steps:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Enable AAA
Enable In Room Port Mapping
Add the subscriber machine as a Permanent Subscriber
From the room, launch a browser and go to the following url:
http://usgaddress:1111/usg/roommapping
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In room Port mapping
 The In-Room Port Mapping feature is used most effectively when setting up the system for the first time (for use
with the 802.1Q VLAN protocol). With the IRPM you can go to the room, plug into the port and from there log into
a secure address on the USG™, see the port number that identifies that room and then you can add the port to the
USG’s port mapping table. This is a quick and easy way to identify the ports and takes out any guesswork on the
administrator.
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In Room Port Mapping
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In Room Port Mapping
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In Room Port Mapping
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In Room Port Mapping
The information enter for the room number becomes the
Location information in the Port Mapping List. This is the
identifier that is sent to the PMS so it must match what
the PMS has to identify the room. For example, if the
PMS identifies room 1 as 001, then 001 should be
entered as the room number. You will also need to select
the access mode for the room. Click Submit to save your
changes.
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In Room Port Mapping
Enter a location identifier in the Location field.
Locations can be assigned as an
alpha, numeric, or alpha-numeric value unless
a PMS interface is used (see
notes).
In the Port field, enter the port (the VLAN
ID when using 802.1Q 2-way).
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Tax Rate
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Tax Rate Functionality
Tax Rate Configuration and effect
• If the Tax Rate is configured for anything other than 0
it applies to all Internal billing. Including Credit Card
and PMS.
• The Micros Fidelio and MICROS POS systems have
separate fields for the Tax Rate.
• The Tax amount and total billed is shown in a new
purchase page.
• XML and EWS billing is not effected by the Tax Rate.
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Tax Rate Screen Shots
Configuration on Billing Options Page:
New Purchase Page:
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2-way Wired for Business (Marriott)
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2-way WFB Functionality
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•
•
•
WFB 2-way builds on the 1-way functionality with small additions
–
Adds a new verification page
–
Needs verification from PMS server to grant access to Subscriber
Billing Plan Configuration for WFB billing
Still have differences for WFB plan and non-WFB plan in the POST
Flow of Traffic
Conf sent to PMS
Ver sent to NSE
Post sent to PMS
Ver sent to NSE
ERR sent from PMS if any problems, could be sent on Conf or Post
New Labels (not WMI configurable)
aaa_label_microsWFBsuffix = ConfNumber
aaa_label_microsWFBexpiry = Expiration
Both of these are 4 Characters each
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2-way WFB Configuration
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2-way WFB Screen Shot
Note: The ‘ConfNumber’ and ‘Expiration’ labels can only be changed in
the current.txt currently.
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WFB 2-way Troubleshooting
• Serial port needs to be set as 7 Data bits, 2 stop bits, odd Parity.
• When WFB server first boots and connects to NSE it will do a
Data Dump that might take some time. Need to check the PMS
server to verify that the Data Dump has completed.
• Verify how the expiration date is entered into the PMS server
and match the format in the verification page.
• Check the WFB PMS Logs for all the communication back and
forth to verify that the correct messages are traveling between
the two systems.
• Check the billing plan being used to be sure what form the
POST should be.
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PMS charges
• PMS posting are stored into the Transact.dat
file in the flash.
• Layout
–
–
0047,
SUCCESS
Record number
number
07,31,10,00, 00086400,
00000014.95,
",1
date and time hours purchased amount
posted or not
0000,"NA ","NA ","910
not sure
room
","USG-
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Pin Layout PMS port
• Here is the pin assignment on the serial cable level.
• Here is the information related to DB-9
Signals at the DB9
1 - DCD
2 - RXD
3 - TXD
4 - DTR
5 - GND
6 - DSR
7 - RTS
8 - CTS
9 - RI
• We only use pins 2, 3 and 5 since we do no hardware flow control.
DTE
•
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End of this presentation