Rates & inventory Live

Rooms and room types

A hotel keeps its own inventory — types, real room numbers, floors, how each is made up — and changes it after go-live without raising a ticket.

A room type is what is sold; a room is what is slept in. A hotel has both from the day it opens — the wizard that creates a hotel takes the types with their real room numbers — and edits both afterwards from its own screen.

What a room knows

Its number, its floor and its type.
How it is made up: king, twin, an extra bed, a cot.
Its amenities, for the booking page and the confirmation.
Its housekeeping state, read live from the room's story.
Its place on the floor map, once housekeeping has placed it.

What a type knows

Its name and code, the occupancy it takes, the order it is upgraded in, and — for the channel — which OTA room it maps to. A type with no rooms is not a room: it cannot be sold, and the screen says so.

Reading back

The rooms screen reads back what the database holds, not what the last edit intended: a room renamed, a type retired, a floor added all show as they are on the chart the same minute.

More on Rates & inventory

Rate plans and seasonsA hotel keeps its own plans — room-only, breakfast, half board, full board — each saying what it includes, priced by season, and read by every screen that quotes. Every plan is priced on one formRoom-only, breakfast, half board and full board for every room type across a date range — set in one press, not twelve. Derived ratesThe tariff is one number and the gaps: type the display rate, the room gap and the meal gap, and every plan on every type is derived — with the OTA promotion on top. A room is priced by who sleeps in itSingle, double, triple, the extra bed, the child under six and the child under twelve — the quote reads the occupancy, and the channel receives the same table. RestrictionsMinimum stay, closed to arrival, stop sell, a closed date — written once, shown above the chart, and pushed to every channel. The GST slabThe slab follows the tariff by law. The system reads the rate on the night and applies the slab in force — and a channel price that says tax zero is a price with the tax inside it. The rate agreed is the rate carriedThe price on the booking is the price the night is posted at. The desk may name it until the guest leaves; after that a change is a note, not an edit. How many rooms are left each nightThirty nights down the page with the sold, the blocked and the free — for the person deciding whether to open the rate. The rate is recommended with its reasons, and a person says yesEvery night of every room type scored every hour against what is on the books — occupancy against the hotel's own booking curve, pickup, last rooms, need dates, events — and a price proposed with the reasons in words. Approve writes it and the channel is told the same minute. Off by default; no autopilot.