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4. Post-paid PMS only: If you selected a Post-paid PMS option, you can define an Idle
Timeout
(in minutes) and an Idle Data Threshold (in bytes). These selections determine
the thresholds when a “post-paid” hotel guest will be automatically disconnected from the
service.
Property Management Systems generally operate at different baud rates. You must now
select an appropriate baud rate for your chosen PMS.
5. Select the Speed of PMS Interface from the available list. If you are not sure which baud
rate to choose, select
Not Sure and the system will attempt to use the default.
6. You must now select the Type of Service Post Mappings you require relative to the
billing plans you established in “Defining the Billing Options {Billing Options}” on
page 175.
Because some Property Management Systems do not allow you to enter characters, you
must enter these service descriptions as a numeric value only (no characters or delimiters).
The numbers must be entered in the form of a “telephone number” which the selected
PMS will interpret.
7. Click on the Submit button to save your changes and restart the serial interface, or click
on the Reset button if you want to reset all the values to their previous state.
PMS solutions such as Galaxy require this option to be enabled to work with
Nomadix Micros POS emulation in wireless hospitality networks. Some PMS
systems send selection records as lastname, padded with white space (ascii 0x20)
on the right, followed by a comma along with first name initial and some flags.
Normally, the Access Gateway compares every character of the name as typed by
the user to the contents of the selection record. If the “Match Last Name Only”
feature is enabled, the Access Gateway compares only the user input with the part
of selection record which comes before the comma (assumes that the user only
enters a last name). If the “Skip First Char in Last Name” feature is enabled, the
space is reserved for purposes other than the first character of the last name, so
the Access Gateway will skip the first space in the last name field for name
verification.
If the “phone number” field required by the PMS is shorter than 15 characters,
only the first required number of characters will be supplied.
Based on the HOBIC interface standards, Nomadix, Inc. has also certified
interoperability with a number of other PMS and call accounting solutions such
as Ramesys’ ImagInn, Xeta Virtual XL, and Hilton’s proprietary standard OnQ.
This development effort is on-going. For an up-to-date list of supported PMS
systems, please contact our Technical Support team. Refer to “Appendix A:
Technical Support” on page 297.
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