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These settings affect what payment terms and required from guests when booking online, the cancellation policies and the terms that will appear to guests when booking. Although most of these are primarily for your website, there are a couple of settings that do effect the Front Desk and GDS Bookings. These fields are labeled with (Front desk) and (GDS). If you are using an XML or partner Booking Engine (such as Odysys, buuteeq, Easy InnKeeping, BookingSUiteBookingSuite, etc) as your interface, then much of this information is controlled in your their interface.
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