Improve information displayed for payment requests in guest profiles
When a customer completes a required pre-authorization in the booking engine, a payment request is automatically created and displayed on the guest profile. Currently, this payment request appears with the message “payment for reservation”, which can be misleading. Additionally, the payment request does not indicate which user or process created it.
As a result, it’s difficult to identify that the request originated from the pre-authorization process without manually cross-referencing timestamps within the system.
Proposed Improvements:
Display the user or system process that created the payment request (e.g., Booking Engine – Pre-Authorization).
Update the message text to clearly reflect the context — for example, “Pre-Authorization for Reservation” instead of “Payment for Reservation.”
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AdminClay Patten
(Admin, MEWS)
commented
Also, it seems that the preauthorization request is only valid for 7 days from the time it was created. It is not very practical if you consider that the hold is to guarantee a reservation, but what if said reservation is not due to come in within the next 6 months? This would push to ask for another.
Is it possible to consider a Preauthorization Expiration Date field as well for this feature?
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backoffice.fashion
commented
The way this no diplayed, cause confussion as reception emloyee may think this is a payment made