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Splitting a stay across several invoices

Room, food and spa on one bill or three — the guest decides, and you tick the lines.

A guest with a room, two restaurant bills charged to it and a spa treatment may want one invoice, or three, or any grouping in between. Open the folio and press Split into bills.

How it works

Everything starts on the Main bill. You tick lines and move them.

Each bill gets its own number — F-000123, then F-000123-2 — so a guest holding two invoices can see they belong to one stay. Print this bill on any of them produces that invoice alone.

Who pays each one

A bill can be routed to a company or a travel agent rather than the guest. That is the ordinary corporate case: the company pays the room, the guest pays their own bar tab. It also decides how the bill appears on the GST return — a window billed to a company files under that company's GSTIN as B2B.

What it will not let you do

Nothing is edited when a line moves: the amount, the tax, the description and who posted it are exactly as they were. Only which bill it sits on changes, and every move is on the record.

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