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Cash Register
How to Use The Cash Drawer We understand that not all payments are cashless, which is why we created the cash drawer. Now you can easily keep track of all cash payments in your RoomRaccoon PMS. Here’s how: Click on the payments icon on the left side of your screen and select the the 'cash drawer' tab.  Select to view all reservations, paid, not paid or partially paid. 4. At the bottom of the page you will be able
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Ledgers
Ledgers When signing up for the financial report or the automatic accounting link, you indicate on which ledger accounts the information must be booked by the software. These ledger accounts are passed on via a google forms questionnaire that you receive from us. Special ledgers We ask you to create a RoomRaccoon Diary Ledger. This ledger is shown on the balance sheet and is used as a counter-ledger for all RoomRaccoon bookings. If a 'payment' is made on the booking details page
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Invoice prepayments
Invoice Prepayments In a situation where you have a group reservation and your whole accommodation is booked. You would most likely want to make a prepaid invoice. How to create an invoice for prepayments Click on the reservation in your calendar to open it. At the bottom left of your screen, you will find your documents. Next to the proforma invoice, you will see an icon of a paper with a pl
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How can I generate a partial invoice
How can I generate a partial invoice In a situation where you want to do a partial invoice maybe on a specific add-on that requires a prepayment, this is possible with RoomRaccoon. A partial invoice may also be issued when you are hosting events on your property and you’d like your guests to offer a deposit or down payment. How to generate a partial invoice Click on the reservation. You will find all the details regarding the reservation on this page. 
Working with DateV The Datev import is made up of two parts: Invoices (these need to be uploaded into DateV Rechnungswesen) Payments (These need to be uploaded into DateV Unternehmen Online. It is not possible to use the imports without DateV UO.) The files can be downloaded in the reports section under the "Accounting" tab: DateV is based on invoices. This means
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Adding, adjusting and deleting ledgers (revenue types)
If you are using our financial reports function or a direct accounting connection, you can add, modify and delete a ledger that is connected with a revenue type using the following steps: Creating a new ledger: Go to accommodation settings (key icon) Click on 'ledgers' at the top of your screen Click on 'new ledger' at the top right of your screen Enter a name for the revenue type, a ledger (number), a VAT percentage, and a VAT code Click 'save' at the top right of your sc
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How to find the subscription details
How to find the subscription details The billing page in your RoomRaccoon shows all information about your subscription and the invoices you receive from RoomRaccoon. Where can I find the billing page? open RoomRaccoon click on the gear icon in the left corner click on the billing tab What information can I find on this page? Your company data and ban
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How To Set Up A New Ledger
How to Set Up a Ledger Your ledgers allow you to allocate specific items that generate revenue, for example all add ons pertaining to transport will be allocated to your transport ledger, this in turn reflects in the revenue generated from transport within your financial reports and your accounting software. Once your separate ledgers have been created, your add ons (when selected within a reservation) will be automatically allocated to the correct ledger. This minimises staff input errors
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USA Taxes
USA Taxes RoomRaccoon now complies with USA Tax Rules, making managing your reservation taxes simple and easy with this new capability. What did we do? We have allowed our USA accounts to have more than 1 VAT/Tax rule and we’ve given you the freedom to name them as well! The date format is now in month/date/year (mm-dd-yy) The automatic confirmation emails which get sent to guests now show Net values Setting Up Your Taxes Login to your RoomRaccoon account. Cli
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How to Cancel or Credit an Invoice
How to Cancel or Credit an Invoice When a reservation is checked out, the invoice becomes final, making it no longer possible to change any of the amounts or details. If in the event you make a mistake, it is possible to credit your invoice so that you can delete invoiced elements from the account. Click on the reservation in question, scroll to the documents section and click on the add document icon. . 
How to issue an invoice for Airbnb reservations (PT) Airbnb invoices are usually sent directly to Airbnb however in Portugal, invoices are sent directly to the guest. To send an invoice directly to the guest you will have to send invoice form the reservation and fill in your guest details instead of those of the booker (Airbnb) How to send the invoice to the guest Navigate to the reservations y clicking on the calendar icon on your left Click on the reservation in question O
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How to make Changes in The Cash Drawer
How to make changes in the cash drawer The Cash Drawer is a stringent system to ensure security and transparency in front desk operations. Any changes or actions taken in the cash drawer are permanent and are recorded on the Cash Drawer agenda. Changes cannot be changed once recorded however to make changes on an error if you’ve overcharged for example you may create a credit note on the cash drawer. In the below register a cash entry of €455 has been entered which was meant to be €400 !
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How to Add Multiple Items to an Invoice
How to add multiple items to a reservation When creating invoices you are able to select different items to add to the invoices. All you have to do is create an invoice and select items linked to that reservation on the invoice. Open the reservation on your agenda Scroll down to documents on the reservation and click on “make a new invoice” Select the items to be added to the invoice. Here you
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All about the Accounting Dashboard
All about the Accounting Dashboard What is the accounting dashboard and where can I find this in RoomRaccoon? The accounting dashboard can be found on the right-hand side of the PMS and this will allow you to see how the accounting connection works. The screen will also show what has been pushed in terms of: Tax Invoice Revenue Payments Errors In Queue: This
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How to Manage Electronic Invoices
How to manage Electronic Invoices Checking the status of the invoice Once the invoice has been issued, check the status in the invoice overview Click on "Statistics" Open the "Electronic Invoicing" tab What are the statuses of an invoice? Red X next to the customer name There is some mandatory data in the customer card. Check the mandatory data here Waiting to be sent Inv
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How to issue an Electric Invoice (IT)
How to issue an electronic invoice If you have active Electronic Invoicing in RoomRaccoon you can issue invoices directly from reservations invoices are sent to the Revenue Agency (Exchange System) storage takes place directly in your fiscal drawer What is the mandatory data for issuing an invoice? To issue an invoice you must indicate all the mandatory data in the customer card (Booking holder) Name surname If a company name is requested, indicate the number of VAT If
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How To Activate Electronic Invoicing in RoomRaccoon (IT)
How to activate electronic invoicing in RoomRaccoon (IT) You may activate your electronic invoicing on account settings, all you have to do is fill in relevant information including your tax regime. Navigate to the Account settings by clicking the orange cogwheel on the bottom left of the screen. On property information fill in all necessary fields - Be sure that these are always kept up to date. Select your Tax regime. 
How to issue an electric invoice to a foreign customer (IT) When issuing an invoice to a non-Italian guest, you will need to fill in the information on the guest or the booker tab before creating the invoice for the guest. Fill in guest or bookers data and Save. Which data is necessary for the issuance of an invoice to a foreign private entity. Receiver code XXXXXXX (7 times X) Tax Code not
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How to see all the invoices created in a period of time
How to see all the invoices created in a period of time You can see all the invoices that have been created in a month or specific period on RoomRaccoon through the reservations. You can select the period and request to download invoices for that period. How to download the invoices for a select period. Click on the reservations icon. Click on the reservations list tab. Select the date
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How to link multiple reservations to an invoice
How to link multiple reservations to an invoice On RoomRaccoon you can link multiple reservations to an invoice in the case of recurring guests that come to your property. When you have recurring guests and you want to combine these reservations to one invoice you can do this by linking reservations. How to link reservations Open the reservation of the guest's next arrival date. Click on the 'link' icon of the reservation. Search the reservation by name or reservation number,
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How do I find the turnover by category
How do I find the turnover by category? On RoomRaccoon you can see the turnover of each room type and see which room type is bringing in the most revenue in your property. Where can I find the turnover by rooms? Navigate to the reports Click on Performance reports On the performance tab, scroll dow
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How to create an invoice
How to create an Invoice Invoices are automatically created on RoomRaccoon on the documents tab of the reservation. When a reservation is made a proforma invoice will be drafted which is an example of how the invoice will look when the guest checks out, it is therefore not a final invoice. When the guest checks out the proforma will be converted into a tax invoice. On this invoice, the invoice number will be followed by 'Check-out Invoice' in case parts of the invoice have already been invo
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How to issue an invoice
How to issue an invoice Invoicing is one way RoomRaccoon uses an integrated system to automate your processes and make it easy for you to send guests invoices. The process is done automatically when the reservation comes into the system. When the reservation comes into the system a proforma invoice is automatically generated and this invoice is generally what the invoice will look like at the end of the guest’s stay. Once you change the status of the reservation to check-out this will automa
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How to change the number format on your invoice
How to change the number format on your invoice You can change the format of numbers on your invoices by accessing account settings and choosing the correct format that suits your preference. How to change invoice number format Access account settings via the orange gear icon (bottom left) Scroll down to Invoice settings. On “invoice number formatting”, you can set a preference depending on how you want the number to show i.e don’t show the year number in front or put the ye
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How to send an invoice to a guest
How to send an invoice to a guest Once your invoice has been generated you can easily email it to your guest or print it out for them should they request for a physical copy. Follow the below steps to send the invoice to the guests email address. To email the invoice, go back to the documents section in the reservation and click “send invoice” to email it to your guest. RoomRaccoon will pr
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How to generate an invoice in a reservation
How to generate an invoice in a reservation You can easily generate an invoice directly from the reservation. All you have to do is choose a reservation and print the invoice from the invoice section of the reservation. How to generate an invoice from the reservation Access the reservation from your reservations agenda (calendar icon) Scroll down to Documents and find “Invoice”. Click on “Make new invoice”. 
How to Cancel a Receipt (IT) For Italian RoomRaccoon accounts, if you want to cancel a receipt after generating it, you can do so by following these steps. Open the reservation and scroll to the documents section Select the receipt to be canceled from the drop-down menu Click on the "Cancel Receipt" icon to cancel it RoomRaccoon will send you a pop-up message to confirm if you want to ca
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How to Manually Create an Invoice
How to Manually Create an Invoice You can easily generate an invoice directly from the reservation manually. All you have to do is choose a reservation and choose the option to make a new invoice. How to manually create an invoice from the reservation Access the reservation from your reservations agenda (calendar icon). Scroll down to Documents and find “Invoice”. Click on “Make new invoice”. ![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/61587d0079e73400/manually
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How to Invoice a Prepayment
How to Invoice a Prepayment On your RoomRaccoon reservation, you can create an invoice for the prepayment. To do this you simply need to create a new prepayment invoice. How to Invoice a Prepayment Access the reservation that you want to create a prepayment invoice for. Scroll down to invoice in the documents section and click on “create a new invoice” Add a short invoice description such
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Why Are My Client's Invoices Showing BTW Instead of VAT
Why Are My Client's Invoices Showing BTW Instead of VAT When your client’s invoice is showing in BTW instead of VAT this could be due to the language not being set up correctly in the booker profile. To solve this, simply change the language of the client in the Booker Profile. How to change the language in the Booker profile Click on your “Bookers” settings Next to the bookers name, click on the pencil option to edit information about the booker. ![](https://storage.crisp.chat/
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Can I Issue an Invoice With a Previous Date
Can I Issue an Invoice With a Previous Date All invoices that have been generated in RoomRaccoon are issued with the date when the invoice was issued and due to legal requirements, it is not possible to pick a different date. The invoice revenue will be always allocated to the month in which the invoice was issued. For example, the reservation had a check-in and check-out date in March but the invoice was only issued in April. The invoiced revenue will be assigned to April and not March.
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