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RELEASE NOTES

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Preface This document describes the new features, modifications and error corrections effected in Release 7.2.0.0 of WISH Front Office. This document also includes instructions for installation of these features at a site where WISH.NET Front Office is already installed. The installation activity must be carried out by a trained Systems Administrator who has knowledge of WISH Front Office and the relevant Microsoft products (Windows 2003/2008 server, SQL Server 2000/2008) and Crystal Reports from Seagate Technologies. Checklist of activities to be performed is part of this document. Please fill the checklist and forward a copy of the same to Prologic First. The upgrade / installation procedure is largely automated through ‘scripts’. Please read the installation instructions carefully and follow them diligently. In case of any difficulties, please record the problem faced in detail including any error messages encountered, the identification of the step where you encountered installation problems, etc. With the record of the difficulty faced, please call your Prologic First support office.

Contents This document is divided into the following sections.

1. List of new features, software changes and program corrections included in this release. 2. Detailed supporting technical write-ups where relevant. 3. Selected updates to the user documentation. 4. Technical installation instructions.

Important Make sure that Version 7.1.0 of WISH.NET is implemented prior installing this release. This release includes WISHFO 7.1.4.0 version of WISH Front Office Release. *** Note: From this version onwards, for count based statistics to be generated Room block must be specified along with Room Type (In Room Type Master) ***

Following New Feature/Modifications/Changes/Correction/Bug Fixes have been done in 7.2.0.0 release: Following Modifications/Changes have been done in 7.1.4.8 release:

Seq. Module Change Description See Also

1.

Cashiering

Posting routine has been changed to do Control Tax calculation based on Advance Control setup of whether to consider the entire Manual Rate or to consider only Room component specified in the manual rate in case the rate is inclusive of Meal components. New control code setting is introduced and by default the setting is for taking complete manual rate. The control code is CTMNRT which is by default set to Y.

LuxuryTaxCalculation

2.

Reports

In Manager Reports -> Competition Analysis TA/Corp Competition Analysis report is separated as

TA/Corp Competition Analysis report

LuxuryTaxCalculation.pdf

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“Travel Agent Competition Analysis” and “Corporate Competition Analysis Report”.

3.

Marketing -> Company / Agent Maintenance

In Company/Agent Maintenance, if Advance Control CONFRM = R then in Letters directory (under defaults Panel) it will show Reports path and if Advance Control CONFRM = W then in Letter directory it will show path defined in Advance Control "DOCDIR".

Company / Agent Maintenance

4.

Guest

If Guest is from Travel Agent / Operator/ Corporate then it will display Document format of that specific Travel Agent / Operator / Corporate Id under Documents Panel.

Guest TA/Corp Details

5.

Marketing -> Edit Guest History

Profile Id has been introduced.

Guest History

6.

Reports

In Archive Guest List (with / without Rate Details), new option "Cancellation Date" has been added to view past cancellations.

7.

Reports

New Folio Format "FC01R_ChargeSummary.RPT" has been added Under WishFO720\FrontEnd\Reports To add this report as part of Frontend, edit the MasterDropDownCodes.xml with the following content. Please refer to SAMPLE_MasterDropDownCodes.xml <FolioFormats> <CODE>FC01R_ChargeSummary</CODE> <DESCRIPTION>Folio Charge Summary Sample</DESCRIPTION> </FolioFormats>

8.

Guest

Forecast Revenue Modifications New control has been introduced in Advance Control – POPFCR (Populate Forecast Revenue Details). By Default this is set to ‘N’. When this value is set to Y then the revenue details are populated. Whenever Guest modification happens based on POPFCR, system will populate the Forecast Revenue details for the modified guest.

Upon Room Transfer based on POPFCR, the Forecast Revenue details are populated. Similarly on Night Audit Rate change option when Rate is changed, based on POPFCR the forecast revenue details are populated. If Inhouse guest is modified and the arrival date of the guest is prior business date then system will delete all the entries of that guest from arrival date onwards and then will populate the details. In case of Reserved guest it will delete all the entries

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pertaining to that guest from arrival date onwards and then populate. The population is only for CF and IH guests. Purge Program (No Show,Cancelled Guests, CO Guests, Group Members have been modified to purge these entries from the new table when data of the guest is purged). Utility program is available to populate these entries for one time or after some point of time, if user feel it needs to be re-populated as Rates have been changed then using this utility, this can be populated. In System Administrator -> System Utilities -> New Option "Populate Forecast Figures for Guest Id" has been added. This can be used for populate forecast for All guest if Guest Id = 0 else for specific guest. User should have the following access to populate forecast figures. Product -> FOFF Project -> NSUT Form -> SCN09 Function -> PFORECASTFIGURE

9.

Guest

Thai Tax modifications

a. Thai Tax Details Report has been modified to print void transactions immediately after main transaction.

b. At the time of posting If booking is through Corporate system will prompt the User with the message "Do you want to print Corporate address on Thai Tax Receipt?" if User choose Yes then it will print Corporate address on thai tax receipt else it will print Guest / Group address. If booking is through Travel Agent system will ask the User "Do you want to print Travel Agent address on Thai Tax Receipt ?" if User choose Yes then it will print Travel Agent address on thai tax receipt else it will print Guest / Group address. If booking is through Operator system will ask the User "Do you want to print Operator address on Thai Tax Receipt ?" if User choose Yes then it will print Operator address on thai tax receipt else it will print Guest / Group address.

Note: If Corporate / Travel Agent and Operator all exists then preference will be given for Corporate.

Refer to document ThaiTax720

10.

Management Statistics

Channel Statistics and forecast has been introduced under Management Statistics Screen.

Channel Statistics

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Following Corrections/Bug fixes have been done in 7.1.4.8 release:


1.

Guest

Lease modifications for In-house Guest after Night Audit - when split happens the new amount that gets saved on old lease schedule was throwing exception, this has been fixed. In case of multi-lease entries, system not allowing to change the lease amount for future dates, this has been fixed. When User un-check the lease then it was not posting the adjusted amount on business date has been fixed. New message "You are going to change the lease amount. Do you want to continue ?" added to warn the User prior changing the lease amount. System Setup -> Parameter Setup -> Room Master Setup -> Annual Valuation Amount was not accepting decimal figures has been fixed

2.

FrontDesk

In particular upgrade of Windows 7 and Windows 8, Availability enquiry / House Position / Room Block and Rate Details are not getting refreshed, this has been fixed.

3.

Reports

Luxury Tax Register not showing as per Slots whereas the tax calculation is correct where the Tax is based on buckets."

4.

House Keeping -> Maid Assignment

In House Keeping -> Maid Assignment -> It was not showing guest details if room is assigned to maid, has been fixed.

5.

Guest

Thai Tax Fixes:

a. In Thai Tax setup, it was not printing the ta/corp details in case of posting even if ta/corp details exists has been fixed.

b. System was not printing "Copy : 1" on thai tax receipt even if no. of copies > 1, this has been fixed.

c. Thai tax receipt does not print Travel Agent, Corporate and Operator's address in case of postings for group / special account, this has been fixed.


6.

System Setup -> Report Setup -> Daily Sales Report

In Daily Sales Report Today figure and Last Year This Day figure are showing same, this has been fixed.

7.


Daily Sales Report with MIS Net of Vat set as N, the figures were not showing correctly, this has been fixed.

ThaiTax720.pdf


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8.

Reports

Detailed Provisional Occupancy Forecast report was showing incorrect Room Revenue Figures, this has been fixed.

9.

Groups

[PF29978] In Groups -> Rooming List -> Youth & Child Rate not picking correctly has been fixed.

10.

Task Details

In Task Details for a guest, Column “Alert Date Changed on” is not getting populated if User modify the Alert Date, has been fixed.

11.

Guest

[PF24061] When User edit the Room# manually then it changes the existing room type to concerned Room# Room Type, has been fixed.

Following New Features have been added in 7.1.4.7 release:


1.

Guest (Lease)

In Lease Schedule Screen, new option Print Lease Invoice introduced on the right click to print the lease invoice details. Following options has been added under Print Lease Invoice -> Selected Range - To Print the selected lease details -> All - To Print all details.

2.

License

License Check has been introduced against the number of Rooms licensed by the property

In case if the patch is implemented at the site without having a proper license key with number of rooms, then Night Audit will stop as the check has also been introduced in Re-create Availability apart from Room Master creation.

Following Modifications/Changes have been done in 7.1.4.7 release:


1.

Guest (Lease)

Lease modifications for Inhouse Guest after Night Audit. - If the guest has stayed for multiple months or multiple days and later it is realized that the lease amount for the past month or past days is not correct, then User allowed to change the lease amount. Previously it was not allowed. Restriction User cannot delete the schedule period if either period start or period end is before the business date. User can only modify the amount.


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New Advance Control "LSAMTE" has been introduced. If its value is "N" then system will work in existing way and Split lease transactions also allowed. If it is "Y" then system will allow amount modification and rest of the columns will be read-only. If LSAMTE = "Y" then Split Lease is applicable only under the condition mentioned below. System will allow to modify only if "RG" transactions exists in pre-configured folio (example 3), if transactions have already been transferred to another folio / account then amount modification will not work and User can use Split transactions to save the details provided Lease end date is greater than or equal to business date.

4.

Guest

Registration card report modified when printing for a date it will print Guest details alphabetically. Please refer to Reports “Sample_RC.RPT”, “Sample_RC_Details.RPT” and “SAMPLE_RC_GST_IMAGE.RPT” located in Frontend\Reports folder.

5.

Group

Group Screen has been modified to disable Download Details if Reserve Status of group is not In-house / Reserved.

Groups

6.

Manager Function -> Meal Plan Details

In Manager Functions, Meal Plan Details has been modified to display Percentage textbox if Advance Control "MPPERC" = "Y"

Meal Plan Details

7.

Reports

Forecast Reports "Market Segmentwise Forecast" and "Market Segmentwise booking for 10 days" has been moved to Site Specific Reports in Reports repository.

Forecast Reports

9.

Reports

In Manager Reports -> Forecast Reports Detailed Provisional Occupancy Forecast report modified to include new sub-report to view summarized details. New parameter Show Summary added in the screen. If Show Summary = "Yes" then it will show Provisional Occupancy summary for date range else not.

10.

Reports

In Manager Reports -> MIS Productivity Combined report modified to show ARR and Occ %. Note: This report is cross-tab report so ARR and Occ% in total have been suppressed to avoid data mismatch.

MIS Productivity Combined Report

11.

Cashiering -> Thai Tax

Thai Tax Receipt Report modified to print Guest / Corporate / Travel Agent and Operator's name & address details on thai receipt as per User's selection. By default it will print guest address or Group address depending upon which module it is being called from. In case of Special Account it will always print Special Account Name. Also in thai tax,


ThaiTax720.pdf


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no. of copies to be printed has been introduced based on Advance Control code "THATAX", For Advance Control "THATAX", Int Val should be 1 for Thai Tax installed and for no. of copies in Char Value after first pipe (|) sign, please define no. of copies e.g. 0152|2 where 0152 indicates hotel code and 2 indicates no. of copies.



1.

System Administrator -> System Control -> Parameters Control

Default Folio Type Description was not showing has been fixed. User has to configure MasterDropDownCodes.xml to get the description, please refer to SAMPLE_MasterDropDownCodes.xml located in Frontend\Config\Grid folder

Parameters Control

3.

FrontDesk

In Rate Enquiry - Rate Details / BAR Rate showing wrong details when selection is based on days has been fixed.

4.

Reports

In Manager Reports -> Competition Analysis System shows an empty report even after the room nights and revenue has been entered for the hotels has been fixed.

5.

Manager Functions -> Rate Management

In Manager Functions -> Rate Management, getting an exception while saving rate details for More and Room Rate has been fixed.

6.

Groups

In Group Screen, once User save the group booking through Corporate / Agent / Operator then it is not allowing to the User to modify it to none has been fixed.



1.

Cashiering

In Cashiering, Void charges has been modified to show Folio No.



1.

Group

Group Screen not displaying and working correctly on a particular upgrade of Windows 7 and Windows 8, while selecting specific group from search, it was not loading the group details into Group Screen has been fixed.

2.

Archive Guest

In Archive Guest Screen, search was not working and system is not


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responding when click on search on particular upgrade of Windows 7 and Windows 8, has been fixed.

3.

Guest

On the day of checkout if POOO is marked then status of room was not becoming POOO, has been fixed.

4.

Cashiering

System is not calculating luxury tax if there is no terms, has been fixed.

5.

System Setup -> Report Setup -> Daily Sales Report Setup

In Daily Sales Report Setup, it doesn't save charge code details for sub-total has been fixed.



1.

Guest

Guest Screen modified to have Document Save Option for Other Documents. It will save the documents in Advance Control Path "SDFCR".

Guest Documents

2.

Reports

In Parameter Reports -> Report "Corporate Master List" has been modified to print Market Executive Name in place of Code in the details.

3.

FrontDesk

New option “print” has been added in Planning Rack on Right click to print the Planning Rack details.

Planning Rack

4.

Reports

In Manager Reports -> Forecast Reports -> Report “Occupancy Chart” (MF03.RPT) has been modified to show saleable figures column and to show Sub-Total and Grand total for Group and Occ %.

Occupancy Chart

5.


In Daily Sales Report Setup, If User modify the Line Type and if that record have some formula then on save it will open formula screen so that User can setup new formula.

6.

Reports

Archive Guest List Report (with and Without Rate Details) has been modified to view/print the Guest Details based on new options ie. Cancelled Only / No Show Only / Turnaway Only.

7.

FrontDesk -> Floor Plan Enquiry

New option “Print” has been added in Floor Plan on Right click to print the Floor Plan Enquiry details.

8.

HouseKeeping -> Maid Assignment

New option “Print” has been added in Maid Assignment on Right click to print the Maid Assignment details.

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9.

Reports

Productivity Reports has been modified to have new filter parameter to print the details for a particular executive. Following reports modified : (a) "Corporate Productivity (by Executive)" (b) "Travel Agent Productivity (by Executive)" (c) "Corporate Productivity (by Executive) Combined" (d) "Travel Agent Productivity (by Executive) Combined" Above mentioned reports also have an option to print the reports for 6 months (Default) and this option has been made visible off which is now modified to change it to visible on so that User can choose the no. of months to view the details. Restriction If the user gives bucket range of more than 6 months, then the same may not fit in one A4 page in such a scenario the print out may not be as desirable by the user. If the user gives bucket range of more than 6 months, then the same may not fit in one A4 page in such a scenario the print out may not be as desirable by the user.

10.

Archive Guest Screen

In Archive Guest Screen, Print Voucher option has been introduced on Right click in View Charges Panel. Following report has been modified to print the archive voucher details. a) For Cash Receipts, please refer to --> SAMPLE_CASH.RPT --> SAMPLE_CASH-2.RPT b) For Foreign Currency Receipts, please refer to --> Sample_CASHFX.RPT --> Sample_CASHFX-2.RPT c) For Cash Paidout, please refer to --> SAMPLE_PaidOut.RPT --> SAMPLE_PaidOut-2.RPT d) For Allowance Voucher Report, please refer to --> Sample_allow.rpt --> Sample_allow-2.rpt e) For Miscellaneous Voucher Report, please refer to --> Sample_misc.rpt --> Sample_misc-2.rpt Note: Sample reports mentioned above located in Frontend\Reports folder.

Archive Guest Details

11.

Guest

In Lease Setup, if Guest is early checkout then it prompts the User with message "You are going to early checkout the Lease. Do you want to release future postings and post them today?"


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12.

Guest

Report "Registration Card" modified to have New Field "ta_name". Please refer to Reports Sample_RC.RPT, Sample_RC_Details.RPT and SAMPLE_RC_GST_IMAGE.RPT located in Frontend\Reports folder



1.

Guest

Guest Screen not displaying and working correctly on a particular upgrade of Windows 7 and Windows 8. While loading Guest screen, screen is loaded with Black background and controls are not positioned at correct location and on click on Search button "Object Reference not set to an instance of an object" error message appears, has been fixed.

2.

Guest

In Guest Screen, in case of Crystal Report Document Printing Document such as Confirmation Letter, Amendment Letter, Cancellation Letter, Invoice and Other Documents are not getting saved has been fixed.

3.

Special Account

In Special Account - FX encashment, error occurred when show for selected guest checkbox is ticked, has been fixed.

4.

Cashiering

Cashiering - In Fx-Encashment certificate, duplicate rows are getting printed in multi property scenario, has been fixed.

5.

Daily Sales Report Setup

In Report Setup, Daily Sales Report Setp - system not allows to add any field in formula has been fixed.

6.

Archive Guest.

Archive Guest Screen not displaying and working correctly on a particular upgrade of Windows 7 and Windows 8.

7.

Reports

Report “Archive Transaction Register” doesn't show Room No for cancelled / No-Show guest has been fixed.

8.

Cashiering

In case of Day use if there is early check-out then system prints date etd instead of actual departure date on folio has been fixed.

9.


In case of multi-property scenario if the mis-period setup is different then DSR mtd and ytd figures are not correct has been fixed.


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10.

Reports

In Transfer to A/R Report, if Advance Control PADSS = "N" then it was showing credit card number in encrypted format has been fixed.

11.

Reports

In case of reports, it prompts user to enter values for parameters if combo's value is blank. E.g. In MIS Statistics report, if User put some blank value in place of code and clicks on Ok then it prompt User to enter value for that parameter. This has been fixed.

12.

Reports

Provisional Occupancy Forecast throwing division by zero error has been fixed.

13.

Reports

Archive Transaction Register doesn't show Room No for cancelled / No-Show guest has been fixed

14.

Guest

In Lease Setup Lease modified to check lease end date with one day less than Departure Date.



1.

Night Audit.

System allows to back-up the report in ANSI Format. Following settings needs to get applied to back-up the report in ANSI Format. In WISH.CFG, Set Value of REP_CSV_EXPORT_GROUPSECTION to 1 i.e. REP_CSV_EXPORT_GROUPSECTION=1 Set Value of REP_CSV_EXPORT_REPORTSECTION to 1 i.e. REP_CSV_EXPORT_REPORTSECTION=1 Please refer to Sample_WISH.CFG located in Frontend\Config Folder In Night Audit XML’s e.g. BKUPREP2.XML, add the following tag for specific report. <EncodingType>2</EncodingType> Note: If Value is 2 or 3 then it will backup the report in ANSI Format else in UTF-8 Format.

2.

Guest

Guest Screen modified to add Purpose Of Visit Combo as part of Police Details. It will read the details from xml file.

Purpose of Visit

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3.

Reports

Report based on Archive database by Purpose of visit with total number of Guests per visit. Report "PVISIT.RPT" To add that Report in Site Specific Reports, refer to following Section

<SubReport> 11 <Seq>11</Seq> <Id>RR01K</Id> <Name>PVISIT.rpt</Name> <Desc>Purpose Of Visit</Desc> <RPTWORDFLAG>R</RPTWORDFLAG> <CONNECTIONTYPE>0</CONNECTIONTYPE> </SubReport>

and add the following parameters

 <Params> <Seq>1</Seq> <RptSeqId>RR01K</RptSeqId> <Label>Date From</Label> <CtrlType>PFIPL.WISHControls.PFDateControl</CtrlType> <CtrlName>cmbDateFrom</CtrlName> <CtrlHelp></CtrlHelp> <Default>#BD</Default> <Validation></Validation> <ValidationMsgNo></ValidationMsgNo> <ValidationMsg></ValidationMsg> <Visible>True</Visible> <RptParamName>@date_from</RptParamName> </Params> <Params> <Seq>2</Seq> <RptSeqId>RR01K</RptSeqId> <Label>Date To</Label> <CtrlType>PFIPL.WISHControls.PFDateControl</CtrlType> <CtrlName>cmbDateTo</CtrlName> <CtrlHelp></CtrlHelp> <Default>#BD</Default> <Validation></Validation> <ValidationMsgNo></ValidationMsgNo> <ValidationMsg></ValidationMsg> <Visible>True</Visible> <RptParamName>@date_to</RptParamName> </Params> <Params> <Seq>3</Seq> <RptSeqId>RR01K</RptSeqId> <Label>Property Id</Label> <CtrlType>PFIPL.WISHControls.PFCommonDrop</CtrlType> <CtrlName>cmbPropertyId</CtrlName> <CtrlHelp>72</CtrlHelp> <Default>#PROP</Default>


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<Validation></Validation> <ValidationMsgNo></ValidationMsgNo> <ValidationMsg></ValidationMsg> <Visible>False</Visible> <RptParamName>@property_id</RptParamName> </Params> <Params> <Seq>3</Seq> <RptSeqId>RR01K</RptSeqId> <Label>Purpose of visit</Label> <CtrlType>PFIPL.WISHControls.PFXMLDrop</CtrlType> <XMLFileName>MasterDropDownCodes.xml</XMLFileName> <DataTableName>PurposeOfVisit</DataTableName> <CtrlName>cmbPurposeVisit</CtrlName> <CtrlHelp></CtrlHelp> <Default></Default> <Validation></Validation> <ValidationMsgNo></ValidationMsgNo> <ValidationMsg></ValidationMsg> <Visible>False</Visible> <RptParamName>@purp_desc</RptParamName> </Params>

4.

Reports

[CRM Ticket PF22557] Archive Revenue Report is printed with option Net Revenue then was printing only 0. Net Revenue is applicable only if VAT setup is installed

5.

Cashiering

[CRM Ticket PF12332] 1. Folio Printing modified to Hide Export button in Crystal Report Viewer to prevent the user to change Folio Amount. 2. In Folio printing Print to File Option to show only "PDF" if User doesn't have the access. User should have the following access Product -> “FOFF” Project -> “NFOC” Form -> “FCN100” Function-> “HEXPR”

Folio Printing

6.

Group / Special Account

[CRM Ticket PF14838] User Access has been added in Group and Special Account for Transfer Charges. User should have the following access Product -> “FOFF” Project -> “NGST” Form -> “FDN01” Function-> “XFERCHG”


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7.

History

[CRM Ticket PF16467] In History linking form - More Columns added to filter records Following columns added MobileNo Business Contact Home Contact Identification# Identification Type EmailID Birthday Membership Card Type Membership Card # Membership Card Expiry

History Linking

8.

Reports

[CRM Ticket PF22382] Report "Travel Agent Master List" has been modified to print Market Executive Name in place of Code in the details.

9.

Reports

[CRM Ticket PF23225] Report "Corporate Productivity (by Executive) Combined" modified to have Corporate ID as Input Parameter. Report "Travel Agent Productivity (by Executive) modified to have Travel Agent ID as Input Parameter.

10.

Reports

[CRM Ticket PF23300] Report "Registration Card" modified to have New Fields "domicile_code" & "domicile_code_desc". Please refer to Reports Sample_RC.RPT, Sample_RC_Details.RPT and SAMPLE_RC_GST_IMAGE.RPT located in Frontend\Reports folder

11.

Daily Sales Report

Daily Sales Report to have an option to print City Ledger transaction total.

Daily Sales Report

12.

Folio

Folio Printing modified to Print Zero Folio based on Advance Control "FOLZER" = Y

13.

Reports

In Archive Reports -> Transaction Register, Following new reports has been added. -> Archive Deposit Received -> Archive Deposit Applied -> Archive Deposit Retain/Refund

Archive Reports

14.

Rate Management

Rate Management Screen modified to have Applicable for IRS Checkbox and to have option for the User to select specific Room Type or Rate Creation.

Rate Management


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15.

Reports

Report "Corporate Productivity (by Executive)" modified to have Corporate ID as Input Parameter.

16.

Reports

Report "Travel Agent Productivity (by Executive)" modified to have Travel Agent as Input Parameter.

17.

Cashiering

[CRM Ticket PF23816] In Post and Print Charges, System will set the Charge Code's default Price in Amount figure prior post.

18.

Guest

Guest / Group Screen modified to cater PCI Compliance modifications. (Credit Card Encryption). a.) Credit Card Length reduced to 18 from 20 characters because in database it can save upto 18 characters. b.) New Advance Control PADSS introduced, If PADSS = "Y" then it will display new link "View / Edit Card" on Guest Screen under Card Panel. If PADSS = N then it will not display any link. Following settings will be applicable on Guest Screen if PADSS = "Y" -> Credit card number will get displayed in XXXXXXXX1234 manner even if User have the following access of CCDSP Product -> “FOFF” Project -> “NGST” Form -> “FDN01” Function-> “CCDSP” -> If User doesn't have the CCENB access then "View / Edit Card" link will get disable. User should have the following access Product -> “FOFF” Project -> “NGST” Form -> “FDN01” Function-> “CCENB” Following settings will be applicable on New Screen "Credit Card Information" if PADSS = "Y" -> User should have the following access to view credit card number Product -> “FOFF” Project -> “NGST” Form -> “FDN01” Function-> “CCDSP” -> User should have the following access to edit the credit card details Product -> “FOFF” Project -> “NGST” Form -> “FDN01”

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Function-> “CCENB” c.) New User Access "CCCOG" added to view the Credit Card details for Checkout Guest. This access is applicable for Guest Screen and New Credit Card Information Screen User should have following Access. Product -> “FOFF” Project -> “NGST” Form -> “FDN01” Function-> “CCCOG”

19.

FrontDesk

FrontDesk -> Availability View modified to View Multi-Property Availability details based on Advance Control "MPAVAL", If User is from CRO department then it will also show Availability with Multi-property view.

Availability View



1.

Reports

[CRM Ticket PF24012] In-house Guest List By Terms (through Grouping) (With & Without Rates) not working fine with Sorting has been fixed.

2.

Reports

[CRM Ticket PF24941] Reservation taken today not working fine with Sorting has been fixed.

3.

Cashiering

Advance entries to General Ledger (GL) when advance is set to 'G' when applied the CR and DR entries for Guest Ledger control and Deposit Ledger control where going reversed has been fixed.

4.

Guest

Allotment Issue appearing in Guest Screen on Save Modification has been fixed.

5.


Daily Sales Report when printed Net of VAT is not considering property id.

6.

Management Statistics Information

Dashboard (Management Console) the graph selects data of all properties has been fixed.

7.

Reports

Guest Birthday List Report not showing details correctly has been fixed.

8.

MIS Update - Night Audit

[CRM Ticket PF18306]


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SP modified to update business on books table in mis to ignore dummy rooms and outside rooms for calculating the saleable figures.

9.

Guest

In case of Multi-property environment, Deposit is going to Advance Ledger then Refund posting picks up the date of another property.

10.

Guest History

In Edit Guest Guest History Form -> dates showing as System date for DOB / Anniversary / First Visit / Last Visit / Membership Expiry has been fixed.

11.

SystemSetup -> Parameter Setup

In GL Accounts Setup -> GL Code was getting truncated, it has 20 characters but only 10 characters are getting saved into DB.

12.

SystemSetup -> Parameter Setup

System allows to delete Transport Parameter and Service Type Code even if it is being used in Guest Screen has been fixed.

13.

Reports

Report "Inhouse Guest List by Floor" prompt User to enter Special Filter Indicator has been fixed.

14.

Reports

In case of Multi-property environment, Room Transfer report is not considering property id has been fixed.

15.

Guest

Room Type Code not allowed to freeze if Room Type Code gets used by Reservation or at some other place.

16.

Reports

In Trial Balance Report - Net Amount figure not showing correctly has been fixed.


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Following User Access have been added in 7.2.0.0 release: Following User Access have been added in 7.1.4.8 release:

Seq. Form / Function Description Recommende

d to

1.

Product -> “FOFF” Project -> “NSUT” Form -> “SCN09” Function-> “PFORECASTFIGURE”

In System Administrator -> System Utilities -> New Option "Populate Forecast Figures for Guest Id" has been added. This can be used for populate forecast for All guest if Guest Id = 0 else for specific guest.

Following User Access have been added in 7.1.4.5 release:

Seq. Form / Function Description Recommende

d to

1.

Product -> “FOFF” Project -> “NFOC” Form -> “FCN100” Function-> “HEXPR”

[CRM Ticket PF12332] New Entry to hide the export button in Crystal Report viewer Folio Printing to prevent the user to change folio amount.

2.

Product -> “FOFF” Project -> “NGST” Form -> “FDN01” Function-> “XFERCHG”

[CRM Ticket PF14838] Existing entry used to enable/disable for Transfer charges in Group / Special Account.

3.

Product -> “FOFF” Project -> “NGST” Form -> “FDN01” Function-> “CCCOG”

New Entry applicable for Guest Screen and New Credit Card Information Screen. (PCI Compliance)


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“Company / Agent Maintenance” In Company/Agent Maintenance, if Advance Control CONFRM = R then in Letters directory (under defaults Panel) it will show Reports path and if Advance Control CONFRM = W then in Letter directory it will show path defined in Advance Control "DOCDIR". Go to Marketing -> Company/Agent Maintenance. Open any Corporate / Travel Agent and expand Default panel, If Advance Control CONFRM = R then it will show existing frontend reports path so that User can choose the confirmation letter / cancellation letter format. Refer to the following screen

If Advance Control CONFRM = W then it will show VODOC path. Refer to the following screen

Note: If Advance Control CONFRM = R For confirmation Letter Report - User use only existing report format such as CONFRM.RPT / SAMPLE_CONFRM.RPT so that same can get applied to Guest screen for print / view / email / fax / save. For cancellation Letter Report - User use only existing report format such as CANCEL.RPT / SAMPLE_CANCEL.RPT so that same can get applied to Guest screen for print / view / email / fax / save. If Advance Control CONFRM = W For confirmation Letter Report - User use only existing dot format such as cfcr.dot so that same can get applied to Guest screen for print / view / email / fax / save.


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For cancellation Letter Report - User use only existing report format such as cfcx.dot so that same can get applied to Guest screen for print / view / email / fax / save.

“Guest TA/Corp Details” If Guest is from Travel Agent / Operator/ Corporate then it will display Document format of that specific Travel Agent / Operator / Corporate Id under Documents Panel.

If Guest is through Corporate / Agent / Operator then screen will display the confirmation letter format in Format as specified for that Corporate / Agent in Corporate / Agent Maintenance. Please refer to the following screen

“Guest Documents” Guest Screen modified to have Document Save Option for Other Documents. It will save the documents in Advance Control Path "SDFCR". Please refer to the following screen


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“Purpose of Visit”

Guest Screen modified to add Purpose Of Visit Combo as part of Police Details. It will read the details from xml file. Edit the existing MasterDropDown.xml, Refer to XML "SAMPLE_MasterDropDownCodes.xml" located in Frontend\Config\Grid Folder and take the following section and add it as part of MasterDropDown.xml

<PurposeOfVisit> <CODE>Meet</CODE> <DESCRIPTION>Meeting.</DESCRIPTION> </PurposeOfVisit> <PurposeOfVisit> <CODE>Conf</CODE> <DESCRIPTION>Conference.</DESCRIPTION> </PurposeOfVisit>

Please refer to the following screen.

“Groups” Group Screen has been modified to disable Download Details if Reserve Status of group is not In-house / Reserved. Please refer to the following screen


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“Meal Plan Details” In Manager Functions, Meal Plan Details has been modified to display Percentage textbox if Advance Control "MPPERC" = "Y", please refer to the following screen

If "MPPERC" = "N" then the screen will be displayed in the following way


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“TA/Corp Competition Analysis report” In Manager Reports -> Competition Analysis TA/Corp Competition Analysis report is separated as “Travel Agent Competition Analysis” and “Corporate Competition Analysis Report”. Please refer to the following screen.

For Travel Agent Competition Analysis, report will be the following way.

For Corporate Competition Analysis, report will be the following way.


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“MIS Productivity Combined Report”

In Manager Reports -> MIS Productivity Combined report modified to show ARR and Occ %. Note: This report is cross-tab report so ARR and Occ% in total have been suppressed to avoid data mismatch. Refer to the following screen

“Parameters Control”

Default Folio Type Description was not showing has been fixed. User has to configure MasterDropDownCodes.xml to get the description, please refer to SAMPLE_MasterDropDownCodes.xml located in Frontend\Config\Grid folder And add the following content in MasterDropDownCodes.xml

<FolioType> <CODE>1</CODE> <DESCRIPTION>Summarized Folio</DESCRIPTION> </FolioType> <FolioType> <CODE>2</CODE> <DESCRIPTION>Detailed Folio</DESCRIPTION> </FolioType> <FolioType> <CODE>3</CODE> <DESCRIPTION>Group Folio Summary</DESCRIPTION> </FolioType> <FolioType> <CODE>4</CODE> <DESCRIPTION>Group Folio Detail</DESCRIPTION> </FolioType> <FolioType> <CODE>5</CODE> <DESCRIPTION>Change description summary</DESCRIPTION> </FolioType> <FolioType> <CODE>6</CODE> <DESCRIPTION>Change description detail</DESCRIPTION> </FolioType> <FolioType> <CODE>7</CODE> <DESCRIPTION>Charges in one line</DESCRIPTION> </FolioType> <FolioType> <CODE>8</CODE>


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<DESCRIPTION>Room charges in one line</DESCRIPTION> </FolioType> <FolioType> <CODE>9</CODE> <DESCRIPTION>Lease Folio</DESCRIPTION> </FolioType>

Refer to the following screen

“Archive Reports” In Archive Reports -> Transaction Register, Following new reports has been added. -> Archive Deposit Received -> Archive Deposit Applied -> Archive Deposit Retain/Refund

Refer to the following screen.


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“Occupancy Chart” In Manager Reports -> Forecast Reports -> Report “Occupancy Chart” (MF03.RPT) has been modified to show saleable figures column and to show Sub-Total and Grand total for Group and Occ %.

Refer to the following screen.

“Rate Management”

Rate Management Screen modified to have Applicable for IRS Checkbox and to have option for the User to select specific Room Type or Rate Creation.

Please refer to the following screen.

New Panel added along with Apply Same Rate to All Room Types checkbox – expand panel and it will show all available Room Types. Select the Checkbox to select room types For specific Room Types selection, first select the checkbox and then select the room types. Please refer the following screen


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Now Expand the Room Type Panel, it will show list of all available room types in the following way

Now select the Room Types, please refer to the following screen

Now Click Save, it will save the record and display the rates in the following manner


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“System Utilities” In System Administrator -> System Utilities -> New Option "Populate Forecast Figures for Guest Id" has been added. This can be used for populate forecast for All guest if Guest Id = 0 else for specific guest. Please refer to the following screen.

User should have the following access to populate forecast figures. Product -> FOFF Project -> NSUT Form -> SCN09 Function -> PFORECASTFIGURE

“Forecast Reports”

Forecast Reports "Market Segmentwise Forecast" and "Market Segmentwise booking for 10 days" has been removed from Forecast Reports and moved to Site Specific Reports under Reports repository. If User willing to add those reports as part of Site Specific Reports then Please refer to Sample_RR01.xml located in Frontend\Reports\XML folder and add the following section as part of RR01.xml Add the following Sub-Report section in RR01.xml

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<SubReport> 12 <Seq>12</Seq> <Id>MFN01D</Id> <Name>RD03</Name> <Desc>Market Segmentwise Booking for 10 days</Desc> </SubReport> <SubReport> 13 <Seq>13</Seq> <Id>MFN01E</Id> <Name>RD04</Name> <Desc>Market Segmentwise Forecast</Desc> </SubReport>

Add following Parameters of above mentioned sub-reports in RR01.xml

 <Params> <Seq>10</Seq> <RptSeqId>MFN01D</RptSeqId> <Label>Date</Label> <CtrlType>PFIPL.WISHControls.PFDateControl</CtrlType> <CtrlName>cmbDate</CtrlName> <CtrlHelp></CtrlHelp> <Default>#BD</Default> <Validation>[GE#BD]</Validation> <ValidationMsgNo></ValidationMsgNo> <ValidationMsg>Date cannot be less than Business Date</ValidationMsg> <Visible>True</Visible> <RptParamName>@date</RptParamName> </Params> <Params> <Seq>3</Seq> <RptSeqId>MFN01D</RptSeqId> <Label>Property Id</Label> <CtrlType>PFIPL.WISHControls.PFCommonDrop</CtrlType> <CtrlName>cmbPropertyId</CtrlName> <CtrlHelp>72</CtrlHelp> <Default>#PROP</Default> <Validation></Validation> <ValidationMsgNo></ValidationMsgNo> <ValidationMsg></ValidationMsg> <Visible>False</Visible> <RptParamName>@property_id</RptParamName> </Params>  <Params> <Seq>10</Seq> <RptSeqId>MFN01E</RptSeqId> <Label>Date</Label> <CtrlType>PFIPL.WISHControls.PFDateControl</CtrlType> <CtrlName>cmbDate</CtrlName>


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<CtrlHelp></CtrlHelp> <Default>#BD</Default> <Validation>[GE#BD]</Validation> <ValidationMsgNo></ValidationMsgNo> <ValidationMsg>Date cannot be less than Business Date</ValidationMsg> <Visible>True</Visible> <RptParamName>@date</RptParamName> </Params> <Params> <Seq>10</Seq> <RptSeqId>MFN01E</RptSeqId> <Label>Compute Revenue</Label> <CtrlType>PFIPL.WISHControls.PFComboBox</CtrlType> <CtrlName>cmbcompute</CtrlName> <CtrlHelp>[P][Weekly-Y|Sixty Days-N]</CtrlHelp> <Default>Weekly</Default> <Validation></Validation> <ValidationMsgNo></ValidationMsgNo> <ValidationMsg></ValidationMsg> <Visible>True</Visible> <RptParamName>@weekly_breakup</RptParamName> </Params> <Params> <Seq>3</Seq> <RptSeqId>MFN01E</RptSeqId> <Label>Property Id</Label> <CtrlType>PFIPL.WISHControls.PFCommonDrop</CtrlType> <CtrlName>cmbPropertyId</CtrlName> <CtrlHelp>72</CtrlHelp> <Default>#PROP</Default> <Validation></Validation> <ValidationMsgNo></ValidationMsgNo> <ValidationMsg></ValidationMsg> <Visible>False</Visible> <RptParamName>@property_id</RptParamName> </Params>


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“Archive Guest List (with / without Rate Details)”

In Archive Guest List (with / without Rate Details), new option "Cancellation Date" has been added to view past cancellations. Refer to the following screen

Report will be displayed in the following manner as “Past Cancellation List”


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“Planning Rack”

New option “Print” has been added in Planning Rack on Right click to print the Planning Rack details. Please refer to the following screen

When User hit the “Print” then it will show the screen in the following way


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“Maid Assignment”

New option “Print” has been added in Maid Assignment on Right click to print the Maid Assignment details. Please refer to the following screen

When User hit the “Print” then it will show the screen in the following way


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“Availability View” FrontDesk -> Availability View modified to View Multi-Property availability details based on Advance Control "MPAVAL", If User is from CRO department then it will also show Multi-property Availability view. Please refer to the following screen

“Guest History”

Profile Id has been introduced in Edit Guest History, please refer to the following screen


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“Archive Guests Voucher Printing” In Archive Guest Screen, Print Voucher option has been introduced on Right click in View Charges Panel. Open the guest details in archive, please refer to the following screen and expand View Charges Panel

Expand the View Charges panel and right click on it then it will show the Print Voucher

Right Click on Cash Collection and click Print Voucher then it will print the guest details on printer name mentioned in advance control VOCPRN. Following report has been modified to print the voucher details from archive. a) For Cash Receipts, please refer to --> SAMPLE_CASH.RPT --> SAMPLE_CASH-2.RPT b) For Foreign Currency Receipts, please refer to --> Sample_CASHFX.RPT --> Sample_CASHFX-2.RPT c) For Cash Paidout, please refer to --> SAMPLE_PaidOut.RPT


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--> SAMPLE_PaidOut-2.RPT d) For Allowance Voucher Report, please refer to --> Sample_allow.rpt --> Sample_allow-2.rpt e) For Miscellaneous Voucher Report, please refer to --> Sample_misc.rpt --> Sample_misc-2.rpt Note:

1. Sample reports mentioned above located in Frontend\Reports folder. 2. To configure above mentioned reports such as Cash Receipt, Foreign Cash Receipt, Cash Paidout,

Allowance Voucher Report and Misc. Report, please refer to Charge Voucher Setup in parameter setup.

“Folio Printing”

[CRM Ticket PF12332] 1. Folio Printing modified to Hide Export button in Crystal Report Viewer to prevent the user to change Folio Amount. 2. In Folio printing Print to File Option to show only "PDF" if User doesn't have the access. User should have the following access Product -> “FOFF” Project -> “NFOC” Form -> “FCN100” Function-> “HEXPR” Open the Guest and go to Post and Print Charges Screen, View the Folio. Please refer to the following screen


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If User has the access then it will show the folio in the following way and export button is visible on top-left corner so that User can export to desired format, please refer to the following screen and

Now, change the User access in through System Administrator -> Template Setup, please refer to the following screen


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Return to Post and Print Charges scree now User doesn’t have access then it will show the folio in the following way and export button will be hidden in top-left corner, please refer to the following screen

Similarly if user tries to export the folio to file and doesn’t have any access then only pdf export is available. Please refer to the following screen


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It will show only pdf to export the folio, please refer to the following screen

“History Linking” [CRM Ticket PF16467] In History linking form - More Columns added to filter records Following columns added MobileNo Business Contact Home Contact Identification# Identification Type EmailID Birthday Membership Card Type Membership Card # Membership Card Expiry Please refer to the following screen


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Scroll it to the right hand side and it will show all options mentioned before such as MobileNo, Business Contact, Home Contact etc. Please refer to the following screen

“Channel Statistics”

Channel Statistics and forecast has been introduced under Management Statistics Screen. Please refer to the following screen


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“Daily Sales Report”

Daily Sales Report to have an option to print City Ledger transaction total. Go to System Setup -> Report Setup Select Report type as Daily Sales Report Setup, Add Row as Line Type = “CL” and Table Code = “P”, please refer to the following screen

Click on Formula and choose Code as AR and add as part of right hand side grid. Click Ok and Save the report details.


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“Guest / Group PCI Compliance”

Guest / Group Screen modified to cater PCI Compliance modifications. (Credit Card Encryption). New Advance Control PADSS introduced, If PADSS = "Y" then it will display new link "View / Edit Card" on Guest / Group Screen under Card Details Panel. Card Number and Card expiry date will be disabled and new link “View / Edit Card” will be visible.

Guest Screen modifications Please refer to the following screen

Expand “Card & Voucher Details” Panel and click on “View / Edit Card” Link then it will display the following screen “Credit Card Information”. Input the Credit Card Details such as Card Type, Card Number, Card Holder Name and Card Expiry Date.

Click Ok and it will display Encrypted credit card details on Guest Screen then Click on Save Modifications to save the credit card details for Guest, please refer to the following screen


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Group Screen modifications Load the Group Details and Expand “Card Details” panel. Please refer to the following screen

Expand “Card Details” Panel and click on “View / Edit Card” Link and it will display the following screen. Input the Credit Card Details such as Card Type, Card Number, Card Holder Name and Card Expiry Date.

Click Ok and it will display encrypted credit card details on Group Screen then Click on “Save” to save the credit card details for Group, please refer to the following screen


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Note:

1. If PADSS = N then it will not display any link.

2. Following settings will be applicable if PADSS = "Y" -> Credit card number will get displayed in XXXXXXXX1234 manner even if User have the following access of CCDSP

Product -> “FOFF” Project -> “NGST” Form -> “FDN01” Function-> “CCDSP”

-> If User doesn't have the CCENB access then "View / Edit Card" link will get disable. User should have the following access Product -> “FOFF” Project -> “NGST” Form -> “FDN01” Function-> “CCENB”

3. Following settings will be applicable on Credit Card Information Screen "Credit Card Information"

if PADSS = "Y"

-> User should have the following access to view credit card number Product -> “FOFF” Project -> “NGST” Form -> “FDN01” Function-> “CCDSP” -> User should have the following access to edit the credit card details Product -> “FOFF” Project -> “NGST” Form -> “FDN01” Function-> “CCENB”

4. New User Access "CCCOG" added to view the Credit Card details for Checkout Guest.

This access is applicable for Guest Screen and Credit Card Information Screen User should have following Access. Product -> “FOFF”


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Project -> “NGST” Form -> “FDN01” Function-> “CCCOG”

5. Credit Card Length has been reduced to 18 from 20 characters because in database it can save

upto 18 characters.


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UPGRADE INSTALLATION CHECK-LIST & INSTRUCTIONS (Please fill this and fax it to Prologic)

Please refer Installation instructions.pdf for new installation procedure.

Activity Done at Done Y/N Necessary reports printed All users are logged Off Interface if any running is paused/stopped Backup of entire Database done on Disk Backup of entire Database done on Tape and Tape verified Backup copied to another PC Backup of Site specific reports/programs backed-up. E.g. Confirmation Letter, Cancellation Letter, Interface SP’s, etc.

Backup of Frontend of current running version taken Backup of Current version of Backend done (Scripts, Sps, triggers, reportsp, vodoc,etc)

Upgrade of Backend done Log file checked and verified (If any error found apart from ignore errors, please forward the log file)

Front end installed on the Master PC IF SMS is not installed then Front end Installed on all Clients SMS Installed and if WISH.CFG has been changed is it copied to all the Clients

Copied/Compiled Site specific reports/Sps (Please note that if any site specific programs have been changed as part of Upgrade then inform prologic before performing the upgrade to get the clearance to check whether site specific program will work or not after upgrade)

Backend upgrade successfully merged with the Older version. If not manually merge it. Merged?

Have gone through the list of features with the respective users Provided User Access on the functionalities to concerned Users. Start the Interface if any installed Release the system to Users

Name of the Site

City

Upgraded By

Upgraded On Signature

Client Coordinator Signature