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Support is available 24/7 (in English) via our global team of multilingual support specialists. Local language support is available during office hours.
For some customers or products, the service times may differ based on your individual support contract. Please refer to your contract for further information.
You have full access to our extensive product knowledge base via our Protel Knowledgebase. In protel Air or protel SPE/MPE, you can also access the online help via the software.
You can check the status of your cloud applications on our PMS Cloud Status page.
We strongly recommend you register for status updates on our products. Simply follow the above link, click on “subscribe to updates”, and you will immediately receive a short message or an email if there are problems with any of our centrally hosted applications.
Anyone from a customer site with a level 1 support contract can open a service request with our Planet Hospitality Support center via the phone. However, we recommend that one or more property experts be identified – these are usually senior or tenured staff who are knowledgeable about the Planet Hospitality products installed and the overall IT environment. Initiating the support contact through these team members will assist Planet Hospitality Support with troubleshooting actions and help implement the recommended solutions faster.
To report an issue, you can contact us via our Planet Support Portal, by email, or by phone. In order to efficiently resolve your problem, it is important that there be clear and effective communication between you and our support representative.
For the most efficient use of our services, we recommend that you open priority 2-4 tickets via the Planet Support Portal or via email.
Priority 1 cases should always be opened by telephone.
When logged into our Planet Support Portal, you have the opportunity to open a new ticket, review the status of your ticket(s), and update or close a ticket. To obtain a login for the system, please speak to your support or account representative OR send an email to the relevant support email from www.weareplanet.com/support.
Sending an email to relevant support email automatically generates a new ticket. You will immediately receive a response with the corresponding ticket number. Any replies to this email will be automatically posted into the ticket for you. When responding, please do not make any changes to the subject line as this will break the link for the ticket.
We respond to all support queries as quickly as possible. Please note that email requests are only handled, Monday to Friday, from 8 am to 5 pm CET. To contact us by phone, you can find the appropriate phone number at www.weareplanet.com/support.
Providing this level of detail from the outset can considerably reduce the amount of time we need to resolve your issue.
If you are supported directly by Planet Hospitality, we would gladly communicate with you in either English 24/7 and German, French, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish and Finnish during office hours.
If you are supported by one of our valued Planet Hospitality Partners, can communicate with you in your local language or dialect since they are generally located in your country.
Tip: Before opening a support ticket, you should first check that you do not have a problem with your internet connection, network, power-source, third party software, or interfaces! You would not believe how often these simple issues are the root cause of many of the problems that get reported to us.
Attempt to reproduce the problem to ensure that this wasn’t a once-off issue.
Check obvious items like cables, login information etc. Often, the solution lies in the process, not the software.
Review all relevant documentation, knowledge base articles, or the online product help.
Where the problem is reproducible, please check if any changes have been recently made to your IT environment or operating system.
When opening a ticket, it’s important that you accurately report your problem. We recommend that you provide us with at least the following information:
Hotel name and customer contact details (also, when you are best available and perhaps an alternate or mobile phone number)
Preliminary assessment of the scope and severity of the problem
Product version and other details
What is the problem that you are experiencing?
How many users are affected?
What are the operational and business implications?
Can the problem be reproduced, and if so how? Step by step details would be great!
Log files or screenshots, where available
Where you are referring to an existing or previous case, it would be very beneficial if you could provide the associated ticket numbers for reference.
Providing this level of detail from the outset can considerably reduce the amount of time we need to resolve your issue.
All service requests opened by our customers are assigned a priority level by the support agent after the initial triage. In the event that the case cannot be resolved during the first call, this priority level helps determine the appropriate response from our support team, e. g. how quickly we reply.
Priority 1 – Critical impact: System down or non-operational, data loss
protel Front Office, Hotsoft, Banquetting/MICE, or another key PMS system is fully non-operational. No users are able to access the system.
Any loss of data seriously affecting reservations, invoices, or profiles
Any incident which may lead to financial loss if not resolved in a timely manner, including incorrect rates or availability.
Any critical security related incidents
Priority 2 – Significant impact: Partial system failure, failure of key functionality, no workaround available
Malfunction during EOD so that EOD can not be completed.
Malfunction affecting check-in, check-out, guest billing, or finance.
Incidents relating to interfaces, WBE, IDS or protel.I/O connections, which might impact the reservation process
Priority 3 – Medium impact: Partial system failure where a reasonable workaround is available.
Problems with Front Office, where the reservations process is not affected
Problems with MICE/Banqueting, where the booking process is not affected
Reporting or statistical errors
Priority 4 – Non-Critical Issues
Any incidents or queries with no significant operational impact
Priority 1 – Critical impact
Note: Please make sure to log any priority 1 incidents via the phone to make sure that we are immediately aware of your critical incident and can begin to work on it without delay.
Response Goal: We aim to respond to a priority 1 issue and have the appropriate resources assigned to work on the incident within 1 hour.
Update Goal: We aim to provide you with an update via email or phone every two hours. In the case of cloud related incidents (major outage or disruption) which impact all customers, updates will be provided via our PMS Cloud Status page.
Resolution Guideline: We aim to resolve 99% of all priority 1 issues within 6 hours.
Priority 2 – Significant impact
Response Goal: We aim to respond to a priority 2 issue and have the appropriate resources assigned to work on the incident within 2 hours.
Update Goal: We aim to provide you with an update via email or phone every four hours. In the case of cloud related incidents (degraded performance) which impact all customers, updates will be provided via our PMS Cloud Status page.
Resolution Guideline: We aim to resolve 95% of all priority 2 issues within 12 hours.
Priority 3 – Medium impact
Response Goal: We aim to respond to a priority 3 issue within 1 business day of the ticket being opened.
Update Goal: Updates to priority 3 issues are available 24/7 via our Planet Support Portal
Resolution Guideline: Priority 3 tickets will be resolved as soon as possible, based on the urgency of the ticket defined during the triage process, during standard business hours (Monday - Friday)
Priority 4 – Non-critical issues
Response Goal: We aim to respond to a priority 4 issue within 1 business day of the ticket being opened.
Update Goal: Updates to priority 4 issues are available 24/7 via our Planet Support Portal
Resolution Guideline: Priority 4 tickets will be resolved as soon as possible, based on the urgency of the ticket defined during the triage process, during standard business hours (Monday - Friday)
For the purposes of understanding our resolution guidelines, incident resolution refers to either the solution of the underlying issue as reported by you (the customer) or the provision of a suitable workaround.
A number of items will result in the suspension of incident resolution tracking time. During your contracted support hours, this includes (but is not limited to)
the time where Planet Hospitality Support is waiting for access to the system or application;
waiting time for the customer or any third parties to respond or provide further clarification, information, log files, approvals, backups or any other such assistance which may be required to resolve the incident;
the time after our confirmation that the incident has already been resolved in a subsequent version of the application;
the period of time after the provision of the resolution where Planet Hospitality Support awaits your final confirmation of acceptance.
Planet Hospitality Support will close your case when:
you have been provided with the solution and have acknowledged that the underlying issue has been resolved.
Planet Hospitality Support has provided you with a suitable workaround and you have accepted this workaround as a viable solution.
Planet Hospitality Support has confirmed that an incident will be fixed in a future release or version.
you have not responded after at least 3 attempts by Planet Hospitality Support to reach you throughout the course of 7 days
You can reopen a ticket during a period of 7 days after the incident has been resolved by Planet Hospitality Support. Just contact Planet Hospitality Support or reopen the ticket directly via the Planet Support Portal.
If you need to revisit a case after more than 7 days, please open a new ticket and refer to the original ticket for information.
Customers should be available to assist with the resolution of all incidents. In particular for priority 1 incidents, a customer must nominate a point of contact at the property that can assist Planet Hospitality Support while the ticket is being worked on – depending on your support contract, this may be 24/7. This is necessary to ensure that we can help you quickly and when you need it – also during nights and at the weekend.
Where relevant, ensure that your PMS version is up to date and running a version where the release date is no older than 6 months from the date that your incident is being logged.
Ensure that support has the ability to connect to your site at all times using PCI compliant and secure remote connectivity technology. Make sure to train your night shift, late shift and weekend teams appropriately on how to successfully contact and connect with support.
For on-premise product customers, maintain appropriate backups and test these to ensure that your backup sets are complete and up to date.
For priority 1 and 2 cases, ensure that you phone the support centre, even if you have already opened a ticket via the web or per email.
If at any time you do not understand a request being made by a Planet Hospitality Support agent, be sure to ask for clarification or more detailed explanation. We will be happy to do this.
We are committed to solving every case in a timely manner. However, we recognize that at times, customers may experience problems that require a higher level of communication or interaction. If you are not satisfied with the current plan of action for an active issue, simply send an email to support-management_ptl@weareplanet.com and our escalation team will pick this up. Outside of office hours and on bank holidays, please call our hotline using the numbers provided on www.weareplanet.com/support. Don’t forget to quote your ticket number.
Affecting
The term “affecting” means the business process cannot be performed using one of the functions which were designed to handle the process, or the process speed seriously affects the operation.
Case
A unique issue that is submitted to Planet Hospitality Support for our attention and/or resolution. This may also be referred to as a service request. After initial triage by the service desk, a case will be translated into either being an incident, a problem, or a change request.
Change (Request)
The addition, modification, or removal of anything that could have an effect on IT Services. The scope should include all IT services, configuration and process items, documentation, etc.
Development
Issues that are beyond the scope of the support service desk (application related issues or “bugs”) will be escalated by support to the development teams.
EOD
The End of Day or Night Audit process
Incident
An unplanned interruption to an IT service or a reduction in the quality of an IT service. Failure of a configuration item that has not yet impacted a service is also an incident.
Problem
A problem is the cause of one or more incidents.
Resolution Goal
The mean time it takes to resolve a service request. Expected resolution time will differ depending on the type of service request being opened and cannot be determined until the appropriate support specialist has reviewed the incident and selected the appropriate priority assignment.
Response Time
This is the time in which Planet Hospitality Support will acknowledge receipt of the issue.
Seriously Affecting
The term “seriously affecting” means the business process cannot be performed using any available system function (i.e. “workaround”) and therefore cannot be performed at all.
Service Request
See “Case”
Ticket
See “Case”
Update Time
This is the estimated time in which a status (information) update will be provided to the hotel and where relevant, the intervals during which successive updates will be provided.
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