How to Process a Refund due to a Cancellation of a Holiday Booking - Deposit & Sundries Paid (Previous Period)
Overview
You may need to refund a Holiday Guest the total amount paid due to a cancellation of the booking.
This document will cover how to refund a holiday guest if only the deposit and sundries have been paid in a previous period.
For other instructions on refunding a holiday guest in a previous period refer the following articles:
- How to Refund a Holiday Guest – Rent Only Paid (Previous Period)
- How to Refund a Holiday Guest – Rent & Sundries Paid (Previous Period)
For instructions on Holiday Booking refunds in a "current period", please see this article.
How to Refund a Holiday Guest – Deposit & Sundries Paid (Previous Period)
Your Holiday Internal Accounts must have funds available in order to disburse the Deposit & Sundries. The Sundries must not have been disbursed.
Steps
1. Go to Holiday Bookings > Sundry Disbursement
2. Enter in the alpha index of the booking and press enter
3. Any sundry disbursements awaiting payment which includes Deposit & Sundries should appear in the window at the bottom of this screen
4. Click on the payment you wish to disburse (one by one). It should show on the left-hand side of the screen (under Disburse to) who it defaults to pay to.
5. If you wish to change who the payment is to be disbursed to, click on Edit Sundry-F6
NOTE: You will be selecting to disburse to the Tenant for all sundry disbursements
6. The following screen gives you the ability to be able to edit the payee of the disbursement
7. Remove the amount from ‘Disbursement to Creditor’ and make it 0.00
8. Populate the amount to be paid to the Tenant
9. Click OK
10. This will take you back to the original Sundry Disbursement screen. The amount should now reflect correctly to where it will be disbursed to
11. Click OK-F12
12. Rest Professional will create your tenant/booking as a temporary creditor with a payment method of CHEQUE
13. To process the payment/s immediately, go to Reports > Creditor > Remittance and Payment. Click on SELECT and choose the tenant (temporary creditor) and click NEXT
14. Click on Process and ensure you print the remittance advice, followed by the cheque
15. Ensure that you use Cheque Number 999999
NOTE: Follow the above steps for each Sundry Disbursement awaiting payment and complete the Creditor Remittance & Payment step using Cheque Number 999999.
To Process the Refund to the Guest
Steps
1. Go to Holiday Bookings > Booking Maintenance > Select the booking > Click on Sundries button > Add a new Sundry Payment as shown below for the Total amount to be refunded to the Guest and click on OK and then OK to save on Booking Maintenance
Rest Professional Holiday Bookings Sundries / Sundry Payments Setup
2. Go to Holiday Bookings > Rent Receipts > Enter in the alpha index of the Booking and press enter > Select Sundries Tab > Guest Refund > Enter the amount and click on OK. Complete the receipt as a Direct Deposit Payment Method under today’s date
3. Go to Holiday Bookings > Sundry Disbursement > Enter in the alpha index of the booking and press enter > Guest Refund Sundry Disbursement awaiting payment should appear in the window at the bottom of this screen
4. Click on Guest Refund and then click on Edit Sundry-F6
5. The following screen gives you the ability to be able to edit the payee of the disbursement
6. Remove the amount from ‘Disbursement to Creditor’ and make it 0.00
7. Populate the amount to be paid to the Tenant and click OK
8. This will take you back to the original Sundry Disbursement Screen. The amount should now reflect correctly to where it will be disbursed to
9. Click OK-F12
10. Rest Professional will create your tenant/booking as a temporary creditor with a payment method of CHEQUE. If you are required to pay this out by EFT rather then cheque, you will need to edit the payment details against the creditor. You can do this by going to Files > Creditor > Payments tab – Change the details as necessary and click OK-F12
11. This payment has now been added to the creditor run for payment. To process the Refund payment immediately, go to Reports > Creditor > Remittance and Payment. Click on SELECT and choose the tenant (temporary creditor) and click NEXT
12.Click on Process and ensure you print the remittance advice, followed by the cheque (if paying via Cheque).
NOTE: If you are paying the tenant by Credit Card you will need to ensure you use Cheque Number 999999.
13. If you have changed your payment method for temporary creditor to EFT you will now proceed to creating an ABA file through Transactions > Create File for Upload to Bank – select Eft(ABA) Payments and then click on PRINT F-12
14. The ABA file is now ready to be imported into your banking software.