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How to Use the Hotel Deposit Flow

A Hotel Deposit is paid by the customer to a reseller at a hotel. The rest of the booking fee is paid by the customer at the attraction.

Lucia Burin Sestakova avatar
Written by Lucia Burin Sestakova
Updated over 2 weeks ago

Customers, who paid a deposit and received vouchers from resellers at hotels, can come to you and pay the full amount of the voucher, while also purchasing new bookings.

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If you need guidance on how to activate and log into your device, read through our article How to Activate a Terminal.

Prerequisites:

  • The 'Allow Deposit' checkbox is enabled on the desired products.

  • The desired resellers are whitelisted on the Location.

  • The Location has at least one of the 'Allowed Settlement Methods' enabled.

  1. In the Ventrata terminal app, go to the Sales tab.
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  2. Tap the Hotel Deposit button.
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  3. Select the reseller you are doing the booking for.
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  4. Scan a voucher or press Skip to manually select the product.
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  5. Fill in the booking form for the product.

  6. Press the Add button.

  7. On the Delivery Method page, select the delivery mode by tapping the green button:
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    • Ticket Per Person (default value) - one ticket for each person in the group

    • Single Group Ticket - one ticket for the entire group
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  8. Select delivery method:
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    • Print Tickets - if a printer is available, you can print out the tickets

    • Send via SMS - select country code and enter phone number

    • Send via Email - enter email address

    • Send via QR code - a QR code is generated on your device after the tickets are paid for, the customer can take a picture of it and keep the ticket(s) on their phone

    • Scan City Pass - guidance in the next step​

  9. If the Scan City Pass delivery method was selected, select each order and scan the customer's City Pass.
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  10. Press the Continue button.

  11. Set the deposit amount. This is the value the customer was charged for the voucher by the reseller and will be subtracted from the full amount of the product.

  12. Press the Update button.

  13. Press the Continue button.

  14. Select a payment method:


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    You have the option to split payments into several equal parts. Tap the 'Split payment' label to select the number of parts, then select the payment methods.


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    • Card

    • Cash - enter the amount received from the customer in the 'Amount tendered' field, in the next step the app will calculate the change for the customer

    • Gift Card - scan the card's QR code or enter its reference number using the app keyboard

    • Other - manually enter the method's reference number in the 'Reference' field
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  15. Press the Pay Now button at the bottom of the page and request the selected payment method from the customer.
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  16. Once the tickets are delivered and paid for, a confirmation page is shown and a new order can be placed on the device.
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