Before you create a Room Type, you must have a Default Rate Plan in place to assign to it. After Rate Plan is set up, then the Room Type is created and the Rate is assigned to it. The last step is to assign the Rooms that belong to the Room Type.
Rate Plans allow you to create the different rate structures for the different room types you offer. Rate Plans will be used when bookings are made at the front desk and online through your website or OTA channels. Rate Plans define unique rates for weekdays and weekends, the number of occupants, minimum length of stay, etc.
The Rate Plans you setup here appear in guest folios, statements and anywhere your rooms are sold online like your website and OTA channels.
In Step 5 we will create the room types and apply the Rate Plans created in this step.
Example of the Rate Plan, Room Type, Room relationship.
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This section will walk you through adding your basic rate plans. First, choose your weekend nights if applicable, You can choose to use the default setting of Friday and Saturday and skip to "Add New Rate".
First, choose your “weekend nights”. This will allow you to automatically enter different rates for weekends. By default we have set the weekend days to Friday and Saturday, but you can change these settings here. For example, if do plan on entering specific weekend rates, then these rates will apply to one or all weekend nights (Fri-Sun) you choose.
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The next step is to add the first Rate Plan. "Add New Rate"