Inventory Management

This is where you are able to see all rate, restriction and availability information of all your properties, rooms and rate plans.
Table of Content:
Select Property
PMS connected Properties
Inventory Management Overview
How to Navigate the Inventory Grid
Inventory Shortcodes
Update the table
Bulk Update
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1. Select Which Property to View
You are able to view a single or multi property at this page, to choose your view use the property selector at the top of the page
Select a single property or group
Generally for hotels and multi unit accommodation businesses you will want to view one property at a time. For vacation rental you will be able to benefit for single or group views.
2. PMS Connected Properties
For properties that have a PMS connected.
The PMS will update to availability, rates and restrictions, changing anything here manually may mean that it is later overwritten by a PMS update.
There are some advanced settings which is likely the PMS does not update:
Max Sales
Max Availability
Availability Offset
You can use these special settings to control availability. 
Please go here for more details
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3. Inventory Management Overview
We use the standard hierarchy of:
Room Types
Room Rates
Channel Rates
Room Type
This is the type of room you are selling
Example: Double Room, Family Room
Room Types are from the Hotel industry to manage multiple rooms of the same type (Multi Unit)
If you are a vacation rental or sell rooms individually then just call the room type after your property or room.
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Room Rate / Rate Plan
A room rate is a combo of the Room Type and Rate Plan
Example: Double / Best Available Rate
The Room Rate will hold all details of Pricing, Availability and Restrictions for that Room Type.
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Channel Rate
A channel rate is when a room rate is mapped to a channel, you will be able to see here what is sent to that channel.
Channel Rate is what is sent to the channel, in channel mapping you can use a modifier to change rates sent to channels. 
Example: +10%
In this example the channel rate should show 10% higher than the parent rate.
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4. How to Navigate the Inventory Grid
Key parts of inventory management table
Navigation - You can navigate in 2 ways:
Use the date picker and select a date
Use the arrows to go to next date range. 
5. Inventory Shortcodes:
We have lots of shortcodes on the calendar:
Common:
RATE - This is the Rate/Price
MSA - Minimum Stay Arrival
AVL - Availability (How many rooms/units left)
SS - Stop Sell Restriction
MXS - Maximum Stay Restriction
CTA - Closed to Arrival
CTD - Closed to Departure
Special Ones:
COB - Count of bookings made on that room rate
AVO - Availability Offset
MAL - Maximum Availability
MSL - Maximum Sell
AVL - Availability of room rate
Update the Table
To change anything on the grid you just need to click on it or click and drag for a date range
Changing a rate for 3 days
After you click on the grid you will see a popup like this:
After you click on inventory grid
Now you can check the dates are correct and enter the new value.
Once you have updated the grid you can save or reset changes.
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Bulk Update
This is the method you need for bulk changes, you can do multiple date ranges and days of the week
Bulk Update Screen
Affected Dates: You can update with 1 date range or add multiple
Restrictions: Here you can choose what you want to update, you can update multiple things at the same time.
Affected Rooms: You can search the table for any text, the table will show only what matches the search.
Select the rooms and rates you wish to update 
Press save to finish!
Example of a bulk update
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Rate Categories Management
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Channels Management
Last updated 1 year ago