Stayntouch Invoice Customization

We have found it difficult to send out system generated invoices to event and/or banquet clients, as the charges and descriptions are not organized in an easy to read manner. Therefore, we have been manually recreating invoices in Excel that give the client a cleaner and more organized list of charges.

Attached is an example from an event.  We have included the system generated invoices from SNT and our own customized invoices reflecting the exact same charges so you can visually see how we would like the invoice to look. We would this to be something your developers could look into updating for us and could you provide an estimated time frame and cost?
Our specific needs are outlined below:  
  1. We want to change descriptions after they have been posted in SNT, but we can't manually change the order in which they appear on the invoice.  For example, items appear by date in the order they are posted.  We would like the capability to group them by description or charge code or in any order we chose.  Is that possible?
  2.  The total charges on a SNT generated invoice are listed on the last page, bottom right corner of the invoice.  We only need Total Charge, Total Credits and Balance listed.  We do not need the tax break out.  Can that be removed?:image  





Forum User

Completely agree.  The invoice is tremendously confusing, and often requires the staff to explain the breakdowns nearly line by line, which is a true waste of time.

I love the look of the Sample Invoice.  Very clear.  We do need tax details, but just a subtotal at the bottom would be more than sufficient to most properties.  

Not sure I like the Proposed invoice.  We don't need guest name or confirmation on every line, and it would be better to get rid of the tax in every line, and just put a subtotal at the bottom, like mentioned earlier.

Forum User

Bump.  This is increasingly annoying, especially the line by line taxes as well.

Forum User

I agree. The tax breakout at the bottom is unnecessary and confusing for clients.

SNT Team

The Claremont Hotel would like the ability to customize what fields display and the look/feel on all invoices. 

Forum User

Agreed as well on the part of the properties I represent. A large volume of guest billing questions come through to our call line due to this specific formatting issue. Stay N Touch could avoid a great amount of confusion by allowing a customizable or adjusted format as indicated below.

Current sample display format (as of 10/24/2023):

Total Charge   $1,228.02
Total Credits  $1,228.02
Net Amount  $1,002.50
Balance   $0.00
Resort Fees  $99.80
Lodging Tax  $50.16
Sales Tax  $75.51
F&B Tax  $0.05


Proposed display format (or customizable option if available):

Net Amount  $1,002.50
Resort Fees  $99.80
Lodging Tax  $50.16
Sales Tax  $75.51
F&B Tax  $0.05
Total Charge   $1,228.02
Total Credits  $1,228.02
Balance   $0.00

Forum User

Seems like a pretty easy thing to fix and would help with clarity. Please consider making this change! 

Forum User

This would highly reduce billing questions for our services. The ability to organize invoices in multiple ways would be extremely helpful for a team member reviewing a bill; they can be complicated and difficult to understand, even for people that are in bills daily. 

Forum User

Updating the format to allow customization would drastically improve the guest experience. 

Current sample display format (as of 10/24/2023):

Total Charge   $1,228.02
Total Credits  $1,228.02
Net Amount  $1,002.50
Balance   $0.00
Resort Fees  $99.80
Lodging Tax  $50.16
Sales Tax  $75.51
F&B Tax  $0.05

 

Proposed display format (or customizable option if available):

Net Amount  $1,002.50
Resort Fees  $99.80
Lodging Tax  $50.16
Sales Tax  $75.51
F&B Tax  $0.05
Total Charge   $1,228.02
Total Credits  $1,228.02
Balance   $0.00

Forum User

Yes, this would help us a lot with billing questions.  

Forum User

Totally agree that this is a necessary change. It should be a quick change for the SNT team to implement that has broad implications for billing. I'm not sure why this hasn't already been changed. 

Forum User

This change would be super helpful for all Front Desk Team Members. 

Forum User

This would be a great help to better clarify guest bill & charges! 

SNT Team

The Maven at Dairy Block would like to see more bill layout options and ideally more customizable bill layouts / formatting - particularly for group and account invoices. The current invoices are different than their legacy PMS invoices and they preferred those as they found them to be more visually appealing; they would like the ability to customize the content that displays and how the content displays.

SNT Team

Botanic requested adjustments in layout / look & feel / font / colors etc. to match brand standards. Also requested by Zoku, Hotel FranQ and Hotel Hubert

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