Going Cashless Without Phone Transactions

Larry Mogelonsky | July 15, 2020

By Larry Mogelonsky, MBA, P. Eng. (www.hotelmogel.com) The physical distancing and work-from-home orders put in place have brought to light numerous inefficiencies in how we manage hotel operations. These will all need to be addressed as we open our doors while keeping a leaner team, and today’s pain point relates to automating credit card transactions taken over the phone. Namely, still accepting this information via phone is an ineffective use of your front desk’s time while it also isn’t fully PCI compliant and creates a jumble of paper-based work for your accounting team which needs to post everything to the proper ledger. Plu...