Running the Tape Chart ensures that all amendments made to rooms or room types are effective on the Tape Chart. It is also useful to refresh inventory on all integrated channels!
To run the Tape Chart, click on the link Tape Chart under section Rooms:
You will see a panel, called Tape Chart Update:
The Update Date Range is un-editable, and it is fixed to 2 Years. This means that all integrated channels will receive from Frontdesk Anywhere up to two years worth of availability values. The Nightly Update Next Run Date will tell you when the Tape Chart is due to automatically refresh.
If you want to manually refresh your availability, or if you have made changes in the room type/rooms configuration, you can use the scroll down calendars to select the date range you want to send the refresh for:
You can also choose to update only a selected room type, and not all room types. Choose the relevant option from the drop down menu Update Room Type:
Calculate Inventory
Having the system Calculating Inventory depends on whether you want to send a hard refresh of inventory to the channels, rather than a simple push of inventory. Choosing to re-calculating your inventory means to re-build all of the information loaded in your Tape Chart and then send it to the channels. A simple push of inventory, on the other hand, means to send whatever information are already displayed on the Tape Chart to the channels.
Calculating Inventory might take a lot of time, especially if you have a big properties or a lot of information there. We do recommend to calculate your inventory from time to time, however try to do this during the night or when the need to access your system is low. Please contact Customer Service to have this completed.