Room Inventory
The Inventory Table
When you load the page, you'll see a clean, organized list of all your currently configured rooms.
The table gives you a quick snapshot of:
Room Type
The name of the room (e.g., "Mixed Dorm", "Deluxe Suite") and how many physical units of this room type you have.
Kind
Whether it's a Private Room or a shared Dormitory.
Sell Mode
How the pricing works. Is it sold Per Room, Per Person, or via a Hybrid model?
Capacity
The maximum number of guests this specific room type can hold.
Reordering Your Rooms: Want the VIP suites to show up first on your booking engine? Easy! You can physically drag and drop the rows in the table to reorder your room list exactly how you want it. (Note: Drag and drop is disabled if you are actively using the search bar.)
Adding a New Room
When you click Add New Room, a short 3-step wizard creates the room type. There's one more step after it (adding the beds), covered below.
Step 1: Room Identity
Give your new room a public-facing Name (like "Standard Double") and an optional internal Description so your staff knows exactly which room it is.
Step 2: Type & Pricing
Define the core mechanics of the room:
Room Kind: Choose whether guests are booking a
Private Roomor a bed in aDormitory.Sell Mode: Decide how it's priced.
"Per Room"charges a flat rate,"Per Person"scales the price based on guest count, and"Hybrid"lets you do both.
Step 3: Capacity & Inventory
This is the step people get wrong, so here's what each field means, with a few examples underneath.
Adults / Children / Infants: the most people one room of this type can hold. For a dorm, Adults is the number of beds in the room.
Units Count: how many identical rooms of this type you have. Not beds. Rooms. For dorms this is almost always 1; if you have several dorms, create each one as its own room so your staff can tell them apart on the calendar.
Default Occ.: how many guests the standard price covers before extra-guest pricing kicks in. For dorms, leave it at 1.
One 6-bed mixed dorm
Dormitory
6
1
6 beds (Step 4)
Two 4-bed female dorms
Dormitory
4
1 each, created as two rooms ("Female Dorm A", "Female Dorm B")
4 beds in each
Three identical double rooms
Private Room
2
3
3 units
One family room for up to 5
Private Room
5
1
1 unit
Units Count can't be changed once the room is saved. It isn't shown on the edit page either. If you set it wrong, delete the room and create it again (best done before it has any bookings), or write to us and we'll fix it for you.
Getting it too low is the costly mistake: the channels will treat that as your ceiling and stop selling beds you actually have. Too high doesn't oversell anything, because what we advertise is always your real bed count, but it does misreport how many rooms you have, so it's worth getting right.
Step 4: Add your beds
The wizard creates the room type. The beds (or units, for private rooms) are added on the room's edit page straight after. Open the room from the list, then use Add Bed (or Add Unit) for each one, or Bulk Update to set the total in one go. Bed names follow whatever pattern you start with, so if you name the first one "A" the next suggestions will be "B", "C" and so on.
Until the beds are there, the room has nothing to sell: it won't show on the Booking Calendar and no availability goes out to your channels.
Different kinds of beds
If guests can't swap one bed type for another (VIP beds, female-only beds, regular dorm beds), make each type its own room. Don't put them all in one "Dormitory".
For example, a hostel with 15 VIP beds, 21 female-only beds and 21 regular beds creates three rooms: "VIP Dorm" (15 beds), "Female Dorm" (21 beds) and "Mixed Dorm" (21 beds). Then on each channel (Agoda, Hostelworld, Trip.com and so on), map each room to the matching room type.
Each room then has its own availability. A female-only booking can never take a VIP bed, and nothing gets oversold.
More than one rate
To sell the same room at a second price, like a cheaper non-refundable rate, don't create another room. Add a derived rate on the room's Rates tab. See Multiple Rates per Room.
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