Tools, equipment, and paraphernalia

• Reception desk - greeting visitors and guide them or their way to meetings
• Filling cabinet - office furniture typically made of steel and usually used to store paper documents and files
• Keyrack - array of numbered compartments used to store guest room keys
• Safety deposit box - located in or adjacent to the front office area
• Computer - to keep track of guests' bills, reservations, room assignments, meetings, and special events
• Printer - machine for printing texts or pictures
• Telephone - system fir transmitting voices over a distance using wire or radio by converting acoustic vibrations to electrical signal
• Cash register - mechanical or electronic device for registering and calculating transaction
• Credit card machine - automated front office equipment used by front office
• Reservation form - primarly used by reservation department or by the hotel sales team to write down the booking details over phone or when they go for a sales call on client site
• Cash receipt - specialized accounting journal
• Guest folios - considered as the master bill in the hotel which is also known as guest account card. Contains as transaction of both cash and credit
• Logbook - record of important events in the management, operation, and navigations of a ship
• Keycard - card provided for every guest arriving at the hotel. The information is registered into the RFID tag through a hardware connected to the front office by which the card gets activated