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Room Inventory

Your rooms are your product. The Room Management page is where you build out the physical inventory of your property, telling the system exactly what you have available to sell.

What you can do here, and what needs us

Renaming a room, changing whether it's a private room or a dorm, adding or removing beds, changing how many guests fit, reordering the list: all yours, right on this page (or the room's edit page).

Adding a new property or a new listing to your account isn't something you can do from here. Email contact@hostelmate.co with the property name and address and we'll set it up and put it under your login.

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:

Column
Description

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.

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 Room or a bed in a Dormitory.

  • 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.

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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

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.

Availability is the same on every channel. You can't give Booking.com 5 beds and Hostelworld 10. Prices can differ per channel, though: see Pricing.

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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