{"id":698,"date":"2023-12-03T21:49:37","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T21:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e360hospitality.com\/?p=698"},"modified":"2024-03-16T02:53:31","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T02:53:31","slug":"opera_pms_advance_bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e360hospitality.com\/opera-free-training\/opera_pms_advance_bill\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Opera PMS Advance Bill?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\" style=\"font-size:16px\">Hotels post rooms, taxes, service, and any fixed charges on a nightly basis in normal cases. But there are instances when hotels post these anticipated charges in advance, then hotels use the <a href=\"https:\/\/e360hospitality.com\/opera-free-training\/opera-pms-what-is-opera-pms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Opera PMS<\/a> Advance Bill feature. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">In this post, we look at why the hotels choose to do so, and how it is done in Opera PMS. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why do hotels post advanced bills?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Simply put, the feature is used when a guest wants to settle his\/her bill and continue to stay until the check-out date as in the booking. This feature has no relation with the hotel deposits since it is used while the guest is in-house. For instance, if the guest is checking out the next day, he\/she wishes to settle the bill in advance and check out the next day without delays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Another rare instance can be that the primary paying guest is leaving earlier while his accompanying guest will continue to stay until the departure date. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Use Opera PMS advanced bill feature with caution<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">While it can be a very useful option in the above instances, it should not be used regularly as it inflates the hotel&#8217;s rooms revenue on the day when it is posted while deflating the expected rooms revenue for the other days &#8211; which falsifies the hotel&#8217;s ADR and revPAR &#8211; Key performance indicators for hotel industry. A little brief on these metrics below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">ADR, Average Daily Rate is used to calculate the average rate at which the rooms are sold for a given date.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">ADR example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"\">\n<li class=\"\">A hotel with 100 rooms <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Occupied number of rooms is 70  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Total rooms revenue is $15,000<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">To get the average daily rate (ADR): $15,000 \/ 70 = $214.28<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Now imagine, if you&#8217;re advance billing a guest with a room rate of $300 for 2 nights, it will add an extra $600 to the total rooms revenue which will be $15600 and this $600 belongs to the next days. Now the ADR will look at $222.85. At the same time, the next two days&#8217; total rooms revenue will be less. What is this happens on the last day of the month or the year? Monthly and annual revenue will go wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">ADR gets the average room rate, and RevPAR is used to calculate Revenue Per Available Room.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">RevPAR example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"\">\n<li class=\"\">Get the occupancy %. From the above example, 70 rooms occupied from 100 rooms is 70%.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">ADR is  $214.28 from our example above.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Multiply the ADR by occupancy percentage &#8211;   $214.28 X 70 = $14,999.6<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to use Advance Bill in Opera PMS?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-2 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7887df7828ebd9ef34c4cfc51d6cf29d\"><strong>Step 1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:5%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:95%\">\n<p class=\"\">Go into the guest bill<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"813\" height=\"601\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/e360hospitality.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/advance-bill.png?resize=813%2C601&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-703\" style=\"width:700px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/e360hospitality.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/advance-bill.png?w=813&amp;ssl=1 813w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/e360hospitality.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/advance-bill.png?resize=500%2C370&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/e360hospitality.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/advance-bill.png?resize=300%2C222&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/e360hospitality.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/advance-bill.png?resize=768%2C568&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/e360hospitality.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/advance-bill.png?resize=101%2C75&amp;ssl=1 101w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/e360hospitality.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/advance-bill.png?resize=480%2C355&amp;ssl=1 480w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/e360hospitality.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/advance-bill.png?resize=800%2C591&amp;ssl=1 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width:767px) 480px, (max-width:813px) 100vw, 813px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Click on the Settlement button. When the guest&#8217;s departure date is future, the button is &#8216;Settlement&#8217; or, the guest&#8217;s departure date is the same day, the button is &#8216;Check Out&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-4 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-25234f5bd88adae0d574e72b9e8242bf\"><strong>Step 2<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-3 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:5%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:95%\">\n<p class=\"\">You get the below options. Select Advance Bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"377\" height=\"353\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/e360hospitality.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/adv-bill-options.png?resize=377%2C353&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-704\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/e360hospitality.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/adv-bill-options.png?w=377&amp;ssl=1 377w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/e360hospitality.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/adv-bill-options.png?resize=300%2C281&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/e360hospitality.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/adv-bill-options.png?resize=80%2C75&amp;ssl=1 80w\" sizes=\"(max-width:767px) 377px, 377px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-6 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8d33048ee7354d0b332d629b8c134b68\"><strong>Step 3<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-5 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:5%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:95%\">\n<p class=\"\">Once you select Advance Bill and click OK, the below 3 options pop up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"413\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/e360hospitality.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/adv-bill-options2.png?resize=413%2C315&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/e360hospitality.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/adv-bill-options2.png?w=413&amp;ssl=1 413w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/e360hospitality.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/adv-bill-options2.png?resize=300%2C229&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/e360hospitality.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/adv-bill-options2.png?resize=98%2C75&amp;ssl=1 98w\" sizes=\"(max-width:767px) 413px, 413px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Here you choose if you want to post for tonight, which is a widely used option in cases when the guest prefers to settle his\/her bills a day before checking out to speed up the checkout process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">You can also choose Nights to add multiple nights, such as he the guest wants to <a href=\"https:\/\/e360hospitality.com\/hotel-glossary\/hotel-folio-what-is-a-perfect-hotel-folio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">pay the bill<\/a> more than a day in advance, or you can also select Entire Stay to settle an advance bill for the entire stay. These two options should be used with caution as explained above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-bda9601326979049d3b0d8456cda848f\"><strong>Step 4<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:5%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:95%\">\n<p class=\"\">Finally, the payment window comes up to complete the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"812\" height=\"551\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/e360hospitality.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/adv-bill-payment.png?resize=812%2C551&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-708\" style=\"width:700px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/e360hospitality.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/adv-bill-payment.png?w=812&amp;ssl=1 812w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/e360hospitality.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/adv-bill-payment.png?resize=500%2C339&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/e360hospitality.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/adv-bill-payment.png?resize=300%2C204&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/e360hospitality.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/adv-bill-payment.png?resize=768%2C521&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/e360hospitality.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/adv-bill-payment.png?resize=111%2C75&amp;ssl=1 111w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/e360hospitality.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/adv-bill-payment.png?resize=480%2C326&amp;ssl=1 480w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/e360hospitality.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/adv-bill-payment.png?resize=800%2C543&amp;ssl=1 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width:767px) 480px, (max-width:812px) 100vw, 812px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Note: The guest bill shows zero balance now, however, the guest is still checked in. Opera doesn&#8217;t stop any new postings that need to be settled when checking out. For complete technical details, visit the Oracle Help site <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.oracle.com\/cd\/E98457_01\/opera_5_6_core_help\/billing.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:60px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hotels post rooms, taxes, service, and any fixed charges on a nightly basis in normal cases. But there are instances when hotels post these anticipated charges in advance, then hotels<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"ub_ctt_via":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[56,55,54],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Staff Writer","author_link":"https:\/\/e360hospitality.com\/author\/staff-writer\/"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e360hospitality.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e360hospitality.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e360hospitality.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e360hospitality.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e360hospitality.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/e360hospitality.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1050,"href":"https:\/\/e360hospitality.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions\/1050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e360hospitality.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e360hospitality.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e360hospitality.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}