Re: innkeeping: Aren't checks for deposits a pain?

[Bill Wickman <ctnwdctg@open.org>]

At 10:58 PM 5/7/97 -0400, Jim & Susan Hildebrand wrote:
>
>WE get very few checks for deposits.  When someone wants to send a check
>we do not confirm the room until the check gets here.  In most cases we
>can get a valid CC# up-front and let them pay by check at arrival.
>
>If we don't get the check in the time committed then we will rent the
>room to another party.
[snip]

>
This exactly the way I have done reservations from day 1.  I tell the 
guest
that I will not run their CC until they arrive (or if they cancel for no
reason in an unreasonably short time) If this happens and i could have 
sold
the room to someone else, I change them 1 night to their CC#.
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