Property General

Use the Property General screen to enter general information about your property. Make sure that the preferences you specify are accurate because they will be used extensively by RMS when processing data and generating reports and schedules.

Note: The field descriptions below are for all possible fields. The fields that you see depend on your software license and security settings.

Fields on the General screen

Field Description Notes

Audits

View a history of changes to the screen.


Name

Name of the property.

Required.

Code

An alternative short name for the property to be used when importing/exporting data.

Alt. Code

An alternative short name for the property to be used when importing/exporting data.

Required.

Brand

Track information by the selected brand.

Portfolio

Track information by the selected portfolio.

Region

Track information by the selected region.

Number of Rooms

Total number of rooms available for guest use. Include rooms that are currently out of service, but do not include house-use rooms. The range of valid values is 0-20,000 rooms.

Required.

Financial Year Type
                                         

Type of financial year that your property or organization uses.

  • Annual—A fiscal year consisting of four three-month quarters.

  • 13 Periods—A fiscal year consisting of 13 periods, each with 28 days.

  • 4-5-4/Quarter—A fiscal year consisting of four quarters consisting of four week, four week, and five week periods (13 weeks total).

FTE Factor

Number of hours an employee must work in one week to be considered a full-time employee. 

Note: FTE stands for Full Time Equivalent.

Required.

Default Shift Category

Select the shift type to which the program defaults. Choices shown are those that were created in Setup > Shift Categories.

Default Employee Rate Mode

Default rate for secondary jobs:

  • Labor structure—Uses the first configured default rate found when going up the tree.

  • Home Job—Matches the pay record to the Home job rate.

  • Minimum Wage—Sets the rate at the configured Minimum Wage.

  • Zero—Rate defaults to zero.

State

Designates which state rules should be applied.

Time Zone

Sets the time zone in which the property resides.

Locale

Determines what currency the property uses.

Temperature Scale

Configure the software to display temperatures for daily weather forecasts in Celsius or Fahrenheit. The following screens display temperatures according to your selection:

  

Show on Reports

Switch to ON ( )to include information for this property on reports.

Active

Switch to ON ( )to indicate that the property is active.