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[[Category:Sub_Account]][[Category:Rooms]][[Category:Dorms]][[Category:Properties]][[Category:Enhanced_Selling]][[Category:Use_Cases]][[Category:How to]][[Category:Getting_Started]]<div class="heading">Dependencies</div> ''This page is about the Menu menu {{#fas:cog}} (SETTINGS -> ) PROPERTIES - > ROOMS -> DEPENDENCIES''and explains how you can make rooms dependent on each other to sell rooms in different layouts or constellations with shared inventoryYou __TOC__=When to use dependencies=Rooms can make a room only be available when another room is also available.linked to be dependent on each other for the various

'''<nowiki>1. Room Availability:''' This setting is useful if for example this is a suite that is composed of this and an adjoining room or you are offering a more exclusive occupancy (at higher price?) when availability dependant on another room is unoccupied. A booking for this room will block the other room for the duration of the booking. </nowiki>

'''Requires Availability in:''' Defines the other second <nowiki>2. Include bookings from another room into this room which has to be available.</nowiki>

'''Combination Logic:''' And logic means both rooms must be availableOr logic means at least one <nowiki>3. Assign a copy of the rooms must be availablebookings in this room to another room.</nowiki>

'''Bookings Dependency: ''' Bookings in the selected <nowiki>4. Rates from a room will can be included in this room for the purpose of calculating the availability of this roomlinked with or without a price offset to other rooms. </nowiki>

Alternatively you <nowiki>5. A room can use: the prices from another room instead of it's own.</nowiki>

'''Assign Bookings Setting room dependencies allows you tosell one physical room under multiple layouts. Examples are:''' By default web bookings *Selling room as two different room types i.e. double and twin.*Offering a holiday rental as a whole house or rent individual rooms.*Combining two rooms for example to a suite or rent them individually.*Having a room will be assigned to the selected type on OTAs like Booking.com or Expedia, and individual listings on other channels.*Selling a room. It can be manually assigned to as both a dorm or a different private room. If assigned to *Selling a different room the booking will be assigned there without further checking availability in the assigned only if another roomis not available.

'''Assign a Copy Booking to<span style="color:#fe746c;“ >{{#fas:''' A copy of exclamation-triangle}} </span> If you are linking rooms across accounts the account sending a booking can be placed to a property in another room. This can be used account needs to have write access to control availability the property in dependant and linked roomswhich the booking should be placed.

A room can Another option allows bookings to be sold either as created with a double or a twincopy of the booking placed in every dependency room. The booking page shows two rooms - double and twin:

*Create == Assigning Booking Copies ==There are two ways to copy bookings into additional rooms in SETTINGS -> PROPERTIES-> ROOMS .

Got The generally preferred way is to SETTINGS->PROPERTIES->ROOMS->DEPENDENCIES and set:use the "Include bookings from" setting. This does not create a new booking, rather it creates a "shadow" copy of the booking in the additional room which maintains any modifications to the original booking.

*For The alternative is the double set following "Requires Availability Assign a copy" setting. This creates a new booking in": twin*For the twin set "Requires Availability in": doubleroom with the values from the original booking. Once created though, it is an independent booking and modifications to the original booking will not automatically apply to the copy. Modifications will need to be manually applied to all copies.

Leave all other settings set = Multiple Properties =Click on the 'User' icon on the top right and then on 'Account Management (in the old control panel SUB ACCOUNT in the top right) then MANAGE > ACCOUNT -> MANAGE PROPERTY -> "Room Linking" to defaultlimit the visibility of inter-property and inter-account room linking for this property.

'''Example 2'''A villa If this setting is set up to PROPERTY ONLY then rooms in two different other properties. One offers the villa as accommodation (the room name is villa only) only the other one offers the villa as part of a package (the room name is package)will not be visible to this property.

As it is If this setting allows linking to properties in other accounts, the same villa a booking rooms will be available for linking with the "package" will make rights set in 'Account Management (in the old control panel SUB ACCOUNT in the top right) -> MANAGE > ACCOUNT -> MANAGE PROPERTY "villa onlyMake Property Available in Multiple Accounts" unavailable and vice versa.

To achieve this set following dependencies Click on the 'User' icon on the top right and then on 'Account Management (in SETTINGS-the old control panel SUB ACCOUNT in the top right) then MANAGE >PROPERTIESACCOUNT ->ROOMS->DEPENDENCIES for the room MANAGE PROPERTY where "packageMake Property Available in Multiple Accounts":*"Requires Availability allows defining the visibility of the property in": villa only*"Assign Bookings to" = this room*"Assign a Copy Booking to" = villa onlythe control panel, inventory (price and availability) and bookings independently.

Leave all other settings <span class="" style="color: #f3e504; font-size: 200%;" >{{#fas:lightbulb}} </span> Only accounts owning a property can set dependencies so you will need to defaultlog into the account which owns a property if you want to set dependencies between rooms in different properties.

'''Note'''<div class="warning">{{#fas: exclamation-triangle}} If you are using dependencies please test thoroughly to make sure your set up reflects your rules.If you are connecting one physical room more than once to a booking channel you are risking overbookings. </div> =Examples and Use Cases=  {| class="wikitable"! scope="col"| Use Case! scope="col"| Link to help page|-| You have a number of individual rooms connected to individual listings at a channel (for example Airbnb or TripadvisorRentals) and you also want to sell these rooms on Booking.com or other channel that requires a "room type" with a quantity of the available rooms. |[[Combine_individual_rooms_into_a_roomtype|Combine rooms into a room type]]|- |You have a room type with a quantity or more than one on a channel (for example on Booking.com) and you want to showcase each room individually on your booking page. |[[Combine_individual_rooms_into_a_roomtype|Combine rooms into a room type]]|- |You have rooms which you sell independently or can be combined to a suite if both are available.| [[Combine_two_rooms_to_sell_as_a_suite|Combine two rooms to sell as a suite ]]|- |You may have two room types and some bookings can be placed in either type if available. | [[Bookings_can_be_assigned_to_more_than_one_room_type | Bookings can be assigned to more than one room type]]|- |You have a house which you rent as either a whole house or rent as individual rooms or apartments.| [[Divide_a_house_into_separately_bookable_units|Divide a house into separately bookable units]]|- |You have a dorm which you also offer as private room.| [[Sell_room_as_dorm_and_private_room|Sell room as dorm and private room]]|- |You want to sell dorms on Airbnb.| [[Dorms_on_Airbnb|Dorms on Airbnb]]|- |You have a room which you only offer if another room is unavailable.| [[Sell_a_room_only_if_another_room_is_unavailable|Sell a room only if another room is unavailable]]|- | You have a number of rooms of one type but you want to limit the number of rooms open for booking and automatically open an additional room whenever you receive a booking. | [[Auto_Top_up_rooms|Auto Top-up rooms]]|- |You have set up individual properties but you want to showcase them under one property as well. |[[Combine_indivdual_properties_into_one_property_with_multiple_rooms |Combine individual properties into one property with_multiple rooms]]|-  |}