User`s guide

1-2 Introducing Visitor-Based Networking and YesWare
Software Release 2.30 YesWare Applications User’s Guide 08-01016-01
YesWare features new for 2.3
For users familiar with YesWare, this section summarizes the features now
available as part of the YesWare 2.3 release. For new users, the remainder of
this chapter describes Visitor-Based Networking (VBN) and YesWare’s VBN
features and capabilities in more detail.
New and enhanced billing capabilities
Billing Manager enables system managers to track usage, authorize user
access, generate authorization codes, and transmit records to a hotel property
management system to produce consolidated billing. Billing Manager in
YesWare 2.3 has the following capabilities:
• improved Property Management System (PMS) integration - supports
the most widely used HOBIC interfaces used in hotel billing systems
• improved service logging and reporting functions - allows service
providers a variety of methods for generating reports and retrieving service
log information from the YWS
• Credit Card Billing - allows for in-room or point of sale high-speed
access ordering and payment using visitor credit cards
• Conference Room Billing - YesWare’s Conference Room Scheduler
reserves conference rooms based on IP addresses sold to attendees, and
automatically enables/disables the high-speed Internet access as needed.
Enhanced Modem Billing for EtherLoop modems
Enhanced Modem Billing enables EtherLoop modems to be managed and
billed like YesWare Ethernet ports, and prevents visitors from being
improperly billed for YesWare service.
Visitor printing services
The YesWare Print Services module allows guests to "click-and-print" files to
a specific networked printer such as in a business center or to the front desk.
Chapter 12, “Providing visitor printing services” describes the requirements
for implementing YesYare visitor printing services.