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  1. The VAT rates applied cannot be extracted through the rates/getall API call or any other calls yet.

    This is the "Tax Rate" field shown when you view a rate in the Mews website.

    Due to various changes over the last year, this is crucial to have for reporting.

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    Hello from the Mews product team. Thank you for your suggestion, we have updated your request and set it as one to be upvoted by the Mews Community. Remember you can share a link to your request so that your colleagues can also upvote your suggestion.

  2. I have a comment regarding the possibility of grouping billing items by month.

    I really like this option, but it has a small flaw that should be corrected.

    The tourist tax is not linked to the night, but is charged the next day.

    The tourist tax + the night should be classified together.

    For example, for a stay straddling January and February 2022:
    17 nights in January for only 16 tourist taxes
    11 nights in February for 12 tourist taxes, the one of 31/01/22 appearing in the February invoice

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  3. I shouldn't have to create a separate adjustments account for each type of adjustment. If a night has already closed, and then the rate needed to be adjusted by a supervisor because of an error, then their adjustment should be just a Rate Adjustment - automatically contributing to room revenue. I shouldn't have to use the billing tab to then manually calculate rate vs tax breakdown, and post a separate "unbookable service" etc.

    Also, refunds / adjustments should be able to be posted to the specific reservations even if they are closed out already. It should be possible to open…

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  4. Mews rounds per item at the end down to 0.00 (inconsistent) dropping the 3rd decimal.
    Channel Manager rounds at the end down to 0.000
    US Taxes the Total Price.

    Leaves $0.01 at times from 3rd party booking engine to the PMS.

    Example:
    Rate = 299.00
    Tax @ 13.45% = 40.2155 (IBE 3rd parties round up/down)
    Total = $339.22

    However, Mews drops the 3rd decimal in the tax and returns $40.21. Therefore, the Total in Mews is $339.21 versus the IBE by 3rd parties (iHotelier and SynXis) which round up/down at the 3rd decimal.

    This results in some cases a $0.01…

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    Hello from the Mews product team,


    Thank you for your suggestion, we have updated your request and set it as one to be upvoted by the Mews Community. Remember you can share a link to your request so that your colleagues can also upvote your suggestion.


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  5. Is it possible to set up different tax rules by room type or rate plan? I am not seeing that we can alter our tax settings, but we need this functionality. We have certain third party TA's that are collecting and remitting part of the occupancy tax, so we need the ability to designate which taxes should be applied to any given rate plan and/or room type.

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  6. Allowing to group the same products together on a bill would make it clearer for the guest. For example, if a guest stays for 15 days, his invoice will include 15 times the 'local tax' product making the invoice lengthy and not easy to read.
    It would be better to simply display local tax x 15, for example.
    It could maybe be set for specific products when configuring them.

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  7. In Germany, we are legally required to send a monthly report of used and offered roomnights and nationalities to the authorities. In my last training, I found out that there is such a feature/integration already existing for Belgium, Switzerland and Italy etc. Can we please also have this for Germany so not every Hotelier has to check and calculate various reports to get all the information?
    That would be a great thing!! :)

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    Hi Trini,

    Thank you vey much for your feedback.

    We are currently looking into integration providers such as AVS to provide statistical information for properties in Germany and would greatly appreciate your insights with regards to this.

    Please contact me via email so that we can look into your request further? In the interim, this request has bene updated as one to be upvoted by the Mews Community.

    Thanks & regards,
    Aldair

  8. There is a specific "Counter" in Mews for the registration cards, but there is no report we can get sorted by Registration Card Number.

    In our case, we must register each guest (using a correlative registration number) at the time of check in.

    One of the reasons is that the Authorities / Country Administration requires from the hotel, a city tax report that consists in a list of guests sorted by registration number, that includes personal information and details of the stay.

    If we can get a list of invoices in Mews (using the Invoice Counter), why is it not…

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  9. When a rate group is created and the Automatic Deposit Settlement is default in the US, this creates a revenue items for taxation purposes. This is not used in the US and should not be the default setting. The Option of "Automatic Deposit Settlement" is regionally specific and not global. I believe this "Option" should remain an Option and not the default. This really confusing properties that are setting up rate groups. See help guide on this topic: *Note for properties in the United States, Australia and New Zealand: Do not select this feature, as you are not legally required…

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    Hello,


    We are adding this idea to be upvoted further by Mews community. Remember, you can share the link with your colleagues and anyone that finds this idea useful to be added to the roadmap. 


    Best wishes

    Jovana

  10. Due to corona, German VAT for food was reduced from 19% to 7%. (There were other tax reductions already last year due to corona from 19-16% and mews handled everything fine).
    Now the problem is that the product "breakfast" includes both food and drinks and therefore has to have 2 splits of tax.
    I.e. if the total price is 15€, 10€ need to be taxed with 7% and 5€ with 19%. But in the mews products, I can only put one VAT Tax per procuct.
    So some German Mews hotels add an extra product after every booking of breakfast manually…

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    Hello all,


    This status update is part of our ongoing work to simplify and streamline how our UserVoice feedback forum operates. We are reducing the number of statuses to two (Idea to Upvote + Released) to help manage expectations about where each idea stands and to minimize the number of status updates required from our product teams. Our product team reviews everything you share, and we might reach out for more info if we need it. 


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  11. Create a possibility to select

    Rate - Default Rate tax rate
    Product - Default Product tax rate
    Deposit - Default deposit tax rate
    CancellationFee - CNX fee tax rate
    NoShowFee - No-Show fee tax rate
    on the Service entity.

    Use a multi-value just like on Accounting setup of enterprise.

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    This status update is part of our ongoing work to simplify and streamline how our UserVoice feedback forum operates. We are reducing the number of statuses to two (Idea to Upvote + Released) to help manage expectations about where each idea stands and to minimize the number of status updates required from our product teams. Our product team reviews everything you share, and we might reach out for more info if we need it. 


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  12. Would be easier to just add breakfast and city tax in case it's necessary than having to counterbook it with every single reservation where children are involved.

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  13. Move all the city taxes of all customers to the paymaster bill in one go.

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  14. Let's take for an example the hotel "Hôtel Golf Château de Chailly".
    After calling the "rules/getAll" and "products/getAll" we see that the product "6c5ed799-2e8a-4a18-8325-ac7a0086a886" is applied for "ResourceCategoryType" equals to "Room" and "Suite". But it's not added to the price displayed on the booking engine, for example, for tarif "7c58c0e7-64f2-41d6-aaff-ac6f00c31da1" and room "7599d179-e235-4894-9310-ac6f00c320ff".

    You colleague explained us that this product is the city tax. And as this product has the option Exclude price from offer so only the price of the room will appear on the distributor.

    But how can we know if the product has this option (Exclude from…

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  15. Would be nice to have a Rate Rules settings (as also Product Rules) to be able to make more tailor made rates. At this moment we use the Rate Rules settings to setup rates, but this results in wrong city tax, because the Product Rules settings are not included in the (hard coded) city tax calculation.

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  16. When making a new reservation in Commander, there is no way to see a breakdown of the product(s) included in the rate until after the reservation is confirmed.
    This is even more confusing when the product price is added to the rate. For example if the rate is EUR 100 per night and a compulsory city tax of EUR 1 per night is automatically added, there is no way for me to see instantly why I selected a EUR 100 but the total value of the booking is EUR 101.

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    Hi Peggy,

    Thank you for the clarification. We have updated your request and set it as one to be upvoted by the Mews Community.

    Remember you can share a link to your request so that your colleagues can also upvote your suggestion.

  17. We use resort fees at our property and have product rules in place so they are automatically attached to rate groups however this is never displayed on the distributor. It only appears once the reservation has been booked and can seem to some guests as a 'surprise fee' if they do not read the fine print.

    Would be best to have a resort fee option built or be able to include products on distributor without them being displayed as an addition to nightly rate but within the 'Fees and Taxes' section.

    The option to include price in offer does not…

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  18. We should have a unified solution for updating the cost of items that are outside of EHW or closed on a bill. For example in some Legal Environments, taxes are applied based on the length of reservation. Upon the change of length, taxes should be updated on all nights.
    This should be somehow reflected in reports and values such as average night rate etc.

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    Hello all,


    This status update is part of our ongoing work to simplify and streamline how our UserVoice feedback forum operates. We are reducing the number of statuses to two (Idea to Upvote + Released) to help manage expectations about where each idea stands and to minimize the number of status updates required from our product teams. Our product team reviews everything you share, and we might reach out for more info if we need it. 


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  19. City taxes amount is different between adults and children, and among children based on their age.
    Would be useful to create a rule that recognises the different kind of partecipants and their age among children, showing, then, the different amounts due

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  20. Some guests have valid government documents which exempt them from paying any lodging taxes, etc. (VAT etc). There should be some checkbox that allows for the room rate to stay fixed but no taxes to be posted as liabilities.

    There should be a separate report of such reservations per month as well.

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    Hello all,


    This status update is part of our ongoing work to simplify and streamline how our UserVoice feedback forum operates. We are reducing the number of statuses to two (Idea to Upvote + Released) to help manage expectations about where each idea stands and to minimize the number of status updates required from our product teams. Our product team reviews everything you share, and we might reach out for more info if we need it. 


    Thanks for your patience as we work to bring your ideas to life! You can learn more about the changes coming to UserVoice from this post in the Mews Community.

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