Billing Automation: Why Can the Closing of OTA Bills Not Be Automated? Yes, billing automation having just gotten smarter was a windfall for our operation. As a small property with few Staff members, all of us hold many roles on a daily basis. We have no accounting or finance department, no IT department, to name just a few. When billing automation rolled out, automatically sorting charges into bills by stay dates and whether they are owned by an OTA or a Guest erased many of the accidental billing issues we had to correct when a Guest was incorrectly charged for a future stay or for an OTA-paid stay, billing the Guest’s credit card instead of the virtual credit card.I would never want to go back to where we began. I would, however, like to understand why there is not an automated method to close OTA bills like there is for closing Guest-owned bills when they’re at a $0.00. I do not put this task on my Front Desk Staff member because s/he may often be redeployed to assist Housekeeping when we have high Guest turnover during the weekends. Instead, I do thi