Add and manage room types and rooms

Your inventory lives under Distribution → Channel Manager → Rooms, split across two tabs: one for the kinds of room you sell, one for the physical rooms themselves. If you're not sure why there are two, read how your inventory is organised first — it makes both tabs obvious.

Room types and rates

The Room Types & Rates tab is where you create each kind of room you sell: its name, what it sleeps, and what a night costs. Every kind needs an entry here before it can be sold anywhere — your booking page and the booking sites all sell from this list. Keep names guest-facing and plain; this is what a guest reads when they book.

Physical rooms

The Physical Rooms tab lists your actual rooms, units or boats — one entry each, with its number or name and the kind it belongs to. Each room's number or name must be unique for the property. Add every room you really have, because the count attached to a kind is exactly how many of that kind Accommador will sell per night. A room can also carry its own maximum occupancy where one particular room differs from its kind.

Order rooms the way your building reads

You can arrange the order your rooms appear in, and it's worth a minute: the calendar lists rooms in this order, so put them the way you'd walk the corridor — or the marina — and the calendar becomes a map of your property instead of an arbitrary list. The same order also sets which room Accommador prefers when it assigns a room automatically, so put the rooms you'd rather fill first at the top.

A workable rhythm

1. Create the kinds of room you sell, with what each sleeps and costs.
2. Add every physical room, attaching each to its kind.
3. Drag the rooms into the order your building reads.
4. Check the calendar — every room should be there, in order, under the right kind.

Troubleshooting

I added a kind of room but can't take bookings for it

Two usual suspects: the kind has no physical room attached yet (a type with zero rooms has zero to sell), or your booking window doesn't cover the dates. The setup board shows which piece is missing.

Do I have to assign every booking a room straight away?

No. A booking without a room sits on its own unassigned row on the calendar until you place it — see How rooms are assigned.

We renovated — my rooms changed

Edit the rooms rather than working from memory: rename, re-attach to a different kind, or add and remove entries so the list matches the building. The calendar and availability follow whatever the list says today.