Begin of Day Concepts and Processes

Begin of Day Overview

Begin of Day runs a series of automated processes, based on your system setup, including:

Recurring Work Orders
Work Order Notifications
Reorder of Inventory
Begin of Day Reports
Dashboard Snap-in
Last BOD Date

Note

The Begin of Day date is set to the Login date. It is not based on the Current Property or the Current Property's last BOD date. So, if you don’t change your login date, the default date does not change.

Recurring Work Orders

If recurring work orders are set up and the Print recurring work orders during BOD process policy is selected on the Property Policies Tab, Begin of Day processing generates your recurring work orders. The recurring work orders appear in the Begin of Day report as separate work orders.

Your recurring work orders might also appear on the Work Orders snap-in. Also, the system automatically updates the dates on the Recurring Work Order Setup Tab based on the Run Begin of Day As Of date.

Work Order Notifications

Work order notifications are e-mails that are sent as reminders for work orders that are due or over due. If notifications are set up on the property Notifications Tab, Begin of Day processing generates and sends the e-mails.

Reorder of Inventory

The Begin of Day process is used to reorder, or notify of the need to reorder, inventory items, which are called Warehouse Items.

Reordering inventory in eService is affected by the property policy, Automatically Reorder Warehouse Items.

When this policy is turned on, in addition to initiating the reorder process, it also has the certain effects.
When this policy is turned off, a notification is sent by email that Warehouse Items are at or below the reorder point so that they can be reordered manually in the Inventory module.

Refer to Property Policies for more information.

Begin of Day Reports

If data is available, eService automatically prints the following reports after Begin of Day processing:

Work Order Notification Email List
Work Orders report
PO's List
Exceptions report

Dashboard Snap-in

The following snap-in is updated by the Begin of Day process:

Work Orders Snap-in

Last BOD Date

As a result of Begin of Day processing, the system updates the Last BOD Date field on the property General Tab with the date entered in the Run Begin of Day As Of date.