Opera Versions

This POSXML8 interface will only work with Opera Cloud and Opera on Premises 5.0.05 and above.

A few older version would work. Those are listed below.

Enhanced Room Enquiry

The new interface has the following added values returned when doing a room enquiry

1. Res Number
2. Arrival Date
3. Departure Date
4. Company Name
5. Group Name
6. Rate Code Name
7. Balance of account
8. No Post
9. Credit Limit
    

Product Group / Discount / Tax / Service Charge

The interface can send up to 16 Product Groups (Department in xnPOS)

Each Product group will have their own associated Discount / Tax / Service charge and Discount

Cover Posting

Number of Covers are sent to Opera during bill settlement

Gratuities

Gratuities are set as a Department in xnPOS but is sent separately to Opera.

This means that this does not use one of the 16 Product Group and can be set as number 17.

No Post

The No Post is now being returned at time of Room Enquiry and visible in the BL (Blocked) in xnPOS, marked with a *

If a posting is being made to a No Post Room, xnPOS will return an error message to the user (Message coming from Opera)

Xposting (Cross Posting)

Opera has a special feature called xPOST which allows the POS to post to another property.
All settings are done within Opera interface. There is no change on xnPOS Configuration or settings.

Credit Limit

Opera returns a Credit Limit, if any has been set on the guest folio.

Opera allows a credit Limit override, if set on the guest folio.  xnPOS can with a Manager function override the credit limit.
When a user is posting to a room that exceed the credit limit, a prompt will as the user for (1)

• Partial Payment (2)
• Override Credit Limit (3)

Override Credit Limit

When a user selects override Credit Limit, manager approval would be required before proceeding.

The room charge will then be posted 

Partial Payment

When Partial payment is selected, xnPOS will automatically use the credit limit amount as Room Charge and will leave the balance to be settled in another form of payment.

Room Key Enquiry

The interface support Room Key enquiry.

The POS Terminal would need to have a Key Card reader (Magstripe, NFC).

The information (key card) will be read and passed to Opera.

Please note that this would need to be validated on site by site and will depend on Key card system used.