The document describes various front office equipment used in hotels including a voucher rack for storing vouchers, telephone equipment like a call accounting system and fax machine, credit card imprinters for pressing credit cards, a magnetic strip reader to read credit card data, a cash register for transactions attached to a drawer and printer, time stamp recording, multi-zone clocks showing times in different zones, and an account posting machine for monitoring guest charges and credits.
The document describes various front office equipment used in hotels including a voucher rack for storing vouchers, telephone equipment like a call accounting system and fax machine, credit card imprinters for pressing credit cards, a magnetic strip reader to read credit card data, a cash register for transactions attached to a drawer and printer, time stamp recording, multi-zone clocks showing times in different zones, and an account posting machine for monitoring guest charges and credits.
The document describes various front office equipment used in hotels including a voucher rack for storing vouchers, telephone equipment like a call accounting system and fax machine, credit card imprinters for pressing credit cards, a magnetic strip reader to read credit card data, a cash register for transactions attached to a drawer and printer, time stamp recording, multi-zone clocks showing times in different zones, and an account posting machine for monitoring guest charges and credits.
vouchers for future reference and verifications during the night audit. 7. Telephone Equipments: It consist of call accounting system, automatic call dispensing, fax machine ,call detection and wake up calls.
8. Credit Card Imprinters: Imprinters
presses a credit card voucher against a guest credit card
9. Magnetic Strip Reader: It reads data
magnetically encoded and stored on the magnetic tape strip on credit card.
10.Cash Register: is a mechanical or
electronic device for registering and calculating transactions. It is usually attached to a drawer for storing cash and other valuables . The cash register is also usually attached to a printer, that can print out receipts for record keeping purposes.
11. Time stamp recording is important for
establishment of chronology of events
12.Multizone Clocks: Indicators of the time
at different time zones across world.
13. An account posting machine is used
to post, monitor, and balance charges and credits to guest accounts.