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  1. When the payments confirm in Mews after charging thru the integrated PDQ it refreshes all open tabs, which is extremely frustrating.
    For example, you are writing notes in a reservation and a payment confirms, the page will be reset and you need start again. 2nd example, the timeline is open on another tab, payment confirms, the timeline resets back to the top.
    Would be good that everything does not reset each time a payment goes thru.

    2 votes

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  2. We need to be able to increase guest preauthorization when they exceed the original amount. At the moment we can only charge their card for the amount that was preauthorized at check in. If they spent more during their stay but don't come to check out in the morning, there is nothing we can do than just send a payment link. They system doesn't save the guest's card at preauthorization and so we can't add any additional payment. This results in many open accounts when we have to chase guests after departure. Can we make sure cards are saved on…

    4 votes

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  3. Most of our pre paid reservation guest uses the discover card for the incidental but as the mews does not support the discover card and we can use discover only to charge the guest at least bring pre authorization method on terminal so that if we want to authorize a discover card we can do it from the terminal

    2 votes

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  4. At the moment this is what happens:
    -The guest makes the reservation.
    -The system sends him the confirmation
    -The system sends a second email where it asks to authorize the payment.

    What happens if the guest does not authorize the payment?

    We can cancel the reservation but if the guest will arrive and we will not have the room available for him we would miss our commitment because he will have in his hands our confirmation.

    On the other side, if the guest will make a no-show and we will charge him, the same guest will have the right to…

    8 votes

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    Hello,

    Thank you for your feedback.

    Mews is fully optimized for processing payments under the PSD2 regulation.

    We are maximizing payment acceptance by asking the guest to authenticate the payment whenever the bank is requiring the authentication.

    In the booking engine flow, for example, the guest will see a bank’s page pop-up as a part of the check-out flow, if the payment is not successfully authenticated, according to the PSD2 rules, Mews won’t be able to charge the guest. If payment is authenticated, in guest profile you will be able to see that the payment is successful.

    If you’re charging the guest on the card that was not previously authenticated by the guest, if the bank, at the time of the payment is requiring the biometric or SMS acceptance via bank code, as the guest is not present at the time of the payment, Mews is sending the email to…

  5. When paying through Merchant, the line on Client bank statement is Mews, this conduct to disputs on some case.
    It should be better to have the hotel name on this line so the client can easily identify the issuer.

    1 vote

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    Hi from Mews,


    This is the functionality that is already available in Mews. Due to the regulation we are obliged to show Mews' name or its shortcut, but next to that we are sending also the name of the property e.g. MSHotelUnicorn.


    Unless not visible, we advice to get in touch with our Support team.


    Best

    Mews Product team

  6. We welcome guest that stay more than a week inside our properties. Preauthorizations get cancelled automatically after 7 days which creates an issue for us, in case of broken furnitures in the property or unpaid bills. For this purpose we should be able to create preauthorizations of more than 7 days.

    76 votes

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    7 comments  ·  Other  ·  Admin →

    The change in preauthorizations was released in 2022, unfortunately, we missed updating its status. 


    Now manually created preauthorizations through Mews Payments can be selected to expire up to 28 days from the creation day. Also, for automatically created preauthorizations Mews releases the preauthorization 24 hours after your property's configured check-out time. Please read about it more here! https://help.mews.com/s/article/preauthorize-a-card-payment?language=en_US


    Best,

    Mews Product Team

  7. It would be great to set up other kind of external payments like TWINT or any other type that would be useful for the single properties for their statistics and checks.

    14 votes

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    Hi all, Twint is available as the source of external payment, please head over to external payment & accounting configuration and enable it by heading to our help page here!


    Best,

    Product team 

  8. A creditcard machine connected to a PC will help to save time and faults at the front desk.
    When connected, all transactions on the credit card machine have to be generated in MEWS. So will be linked on a Product all the time.
    You generate automatically the right profit and charge the costumer for the right amount.

    Met een gekoppelde pin terminal aan de receptie PC scheelt dit tijd en voorkomt eventuele fouten bij de recepties.
    Als deze is gekoppeld worden alle transacties aangemaakt in MEWS. Dan zal er altijd een Product gekoppeld moeten worden. Zodat je de juiste omzet…

    85 votes

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    Hello all!

    Happy to announce that we have launched Mews terminals! Check out this page https://www.mews.com/products/terminals if you want to know what they are all about!

    For pre-orders, you can also access Marketplace, a category named “Payments” and click “See pricing”, choose the type of device and it’s number, click on “Request” and our team will reach out to you! Happy to hear from you, and let us know if any questions arise!

    All the best from the Mews team.

  9. It would be very helpfull to have a option to send a secured payment link to guests or companies, this In order to avoid chargebacks and makes it easier for external companies or persons to pay someones reservation via credit/debit card. This also helps whenever a guest doesnt have the credit card of they room payment with him.
    Like this you fraude can be eliminated.

    65 votes

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    9 comments  ·  Other  ·  Admin →
    released  ·  Aneta responded

    Hi Mewsers!
    I am happy to announce that the payment request feature was released just now.
    Payment request is friendly and convenient way how to collect payments from your guests or bookers. The best thing about it is that you can send requests directly from Mews Commander. :-) Learn more about the feature in our Help guide: https://help.mews.com/en/articles/4245457-send-a-payment-request-by-email .

    Please let us know how do you like it and we are looking forward to your ideas for improvement here in feedback portal.

    Have a great day,
    Aneta

  10. iDEAL is an online payment solution with a direct online transfer from your bank account to the bank account of the Mews property. It is the most used payment method in the Netherlands.

    210 votes

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    Hi Mewsers!

    We’re delighted to share the news that now you can configure Mews to let guests pay with iDEAL!

    To learn more and get started with iDEAL check out this guide – https://help.mews.com/en/articles/5179046-enable-ideal-as-an-alternative-payment-method.

    Once the above is done, your guests will see iDEAL as a payment method in the booking engine, payment requests & online check-out. You can take advantage of convenient, automated payment processing with a real-time overview and central reconciliation.

    Thank you for sharing and voting for this idea,

    Your Mews Team

  11. Add additional External Payment Options:

    Loyalty Card and Gift Card for Chain Hotels

    23 votes

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  12. the mews does not allow us to get discover card or jcb card while making the reservation but it does gives you the option to find the reservation which had made payment using the discover card or the jcb card?
    i mean how and why this makes the procedure more slow and sometimes guest they need to run to get cash.

    3 votes

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    Hello team,

    Thanks for creating this idea!

    We have enabled Discover and JCB for terminal payments, moreover, we have enabled same payment methods for the US market. Due to the limitation of our current payment providers (Stripe), we cannot enable the above-mentioned payment methods in the EU but on the other side, we have recorded your request to our partners and your AM will reach out to you for any further update.

    If you’d have any other specific request, feel free to create the additional idea.

    Many thanks,
    Jovana

  13. Enable guests to pay by using a safe & easy to use e-wallet named Apple Pay.

    24 votes

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    Hi Mewsers,

    Delighted to share that we’ve enabled not just Apple Pay, but also Google Pay in Mews!

    Now you can provide your guests a seamless payment experience in the Mews Booking Engine, in online guest services, and on payment requests. Read more about in our guide – https://help.mews.com/en/articles/5295473-apple-pay-and-google-pay-in-mews

    Looking forward to talking to you about the new ideas in the future!

    Regards,
    Jovana

  14. WE HAVE LOST 3 GUEST THEY DID NOT HAD ANY OTHER CARD THAN THE DISCOVER TO PAY FOR THE ROOM...

    THE SYSTEM DOES NOT ALLOW US TO USED FEW TYPES OF CARD AND WHEN I HAD A WORD WITH THE REPRESENTATIVE THEY TOLD ME TO ODER AN TERMINAL THAT WILL HELP TO ADD THOSE CARD!!!

    SERIOUSLY TO ENTER CARD DETAIL WHICH DOESN'T ACCEPT THE MANUAL ENTRY THEY WILL BE ACCEPTED MY TERMINAL....

    IT SHOULD THEN COME IN A PACKAGE WHERE YOU RENT THE SYSTEM AND THE TERMINAL...

    1 vote

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    Hello Kaushal Rawal,

    Thank you for providing the feedback to our platform.

    Apologies for causing any confusion, but as I see you’re US-based account, we do accept JCB, Diners, Discover Club, China Union Pay both online and offline (terminal). Please reach out to your Account Manager and he/she will review your contract and will take a look at what needs to be setup on our side, so you can start accepting mentioned card brands. For integrated terminals with Mews, you can also take a look into this webpage – https://www.mews.com/products/terminals.

    Thanks again a looking forward to hearing your ideas in future!

    Regards,
    Jovana

  15. With the possibility of 3D secure payments failing, there is a chance this payment is missed and not followed-up.
    It would therefore be convenient to receive a notifcation e-mail of failed 3D secure payments. Alternatively, a task could be set (automated).

    14 votes

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    1 comment  ·  Other  ·  Admin →
    released  ·  Mews Product Team responded

    Hi all,

    Happy to announce that we released your idea! Now, emails will notify you that the 3DS payment has failed. Looking forward to hear more from you!

    Sincerely,
    Merchant Mews Team

  16. Created date (day payment was taken)

    Total amount taken by Stripe

    Combine the Payments and Settlement Reports so that we can see this information in one: Created date (day payments were taken), Total amount taken by merchant [Stripe], Total commission fees, Amount Settled, Date Settled.

    Clicking on the Payments for a particular day should go through to the list of payments.

    Thank you.

    12 votes

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  17. Could the failed to charge a card task link directly back to booking to mark the card as invalid - similar to the way that availpro do it with their payment gateway

    2 votes

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  18. View the kind of creditcards (Amex, Mastercard, Visa) on the payout report from the Merchant Balance. And show the total for the costs. So you can check this payout better

    12 votes

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  19. It would be so much easier to pull the Merchant payout report if the customers name and surname was linked to it. At the moment i have to pull the payment report and reconcile it with the merchant payout report. It takes up a lot of my time

    6 votes

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  20. Automatic settlement is a great tool for automating payment collection from guests, however it is not currently possible to apply more than one settlement rule. Properties may rather prefer to add several rules that work together for a custom payment scheme. For example, take 20% of payment upon creation, 30% one week before arrival, and the remaining 50% on the reservation start date.

    232 votes

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