Product & Inventory Setup - Accommodation

• Products are the types of rooms that you sell your customers, e.g. "Double Room with Ensuite","Twin Room with Shower Room", "Double Room - Single Occupancy ", "Family Room - 2 Adults & 2 Children", "Deluxe 2 Night Winter Package".

• Each Product has associated Inventory. Your inventory is the individual rooms, beds (for a backpacker hostel), cottages, apartments, suites, units etc. that make up your accommodation business, e.g. "Room 1", "Room 2", "Room 3" are the Inventory can all be sold as a "Double Ensuite". SEE ALSO Inventory.

• Combined Inventory is formed when two or more rooms are joined together to create one saleable piece of inventory, e.g. "Room 1" + "Room 2" = "Family Room 1". SEE ALSO Combined Inventory.

• An individual piece of Inventory or Combined Inventory can be associated with more than one Product, e.g. the Inventory "Room 1" may be sold as a "Double Room", or "Triple Room".

• Each Product is comprised of the following elements:

• PRODUCT
  DESCRIPTION	INVENTORY	SEASON	PRICE RULE
  What will motivate your online customer to select this type of room	The individual rooms associated with this Product	The times of the year this Product is available for sale	The pricing rate associated with this Product
  Cottage with views of the countryside.	Cottage 1 Cottage 2 Cottage 3	High Season	3 consecutive nights £150 7 consecutive nights £300

   

• Before beginning the Product & Inventory Setup, it is necessary to:

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  1. Create Seasons and

  2. Create custom Rate Types if required.

• Once you have created Seasons and any custom Rate Types, there are 4 easy steps for setting up new Products:

1. 1. Setup Standard Inventory and Combined Inventory

   2. Create New Products

   3. Add Inventory to a Product

   4. Set Seasons and Pricing Rules

• Once a Product has been entered, check that the set up is correct by Viewing My Website, which is what your online customers will use to book your rooms from your website.

Now that you have completed the above steps, there will be a icon beside the name of the Product in the Summary screen. If you have missed a step, or entered insufficient information, a icon will appear. Go back over the above steps to check that you have entered all the correct information.

SEE ALSO Products