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Channel with Custom Availability

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[[Category:Channel Manager]]
[[Category:Room Linking and Dependencies]]
''This page explains how to use virtual rooms to send different inventory to different booking channels and/or your own web sitemanage allotments''You can create a virtual room to send custom availability to one or more channels.For example you may not want to sell via a particular channel at certain times of the year.The virtual room will be linked to one of your real rooms.Bookings for the virtual room will be assigned to and block the real room.The virtual room will not be available if the real room is not available.
<span style="color: #f3e504; font-size: 250%;" >{{#fas:lightbulb}} </span> You can manage the number of rooms you see at a channel via {{#fas:cog}} (SETTINGS) CHANNEL MANAGER-CHANNEL INVENTORY.
'''Create a virtual room'''== Allotments ==Example 1: You have 5 double rooms and guaranteed channel A 2 rooms
*Create the virtual room by making a copy of the real room at the Room for booking page:In {{#fas:cog}} (SETTINGS ) PROPERTIES > ROOMS-> SET UP set Quantity=3In {{#fas:cog}} (SETTINGS) PROPERTIES -> ROOMS menu.*Set "Sell Priority> DEPENDENCIES set " to Requires Availability"Hide = Room" if you do not want to display the virtual room on your booking page. for channel
Leave all other settings set to the defaults.
Go to Room for channel:In {{#fas:cog}} (SETTINGS) PROPERTIES -> ROOMS -> DEPENDENCIES and SET UP set Quantity=5In {{#fas:cog}} (SETTINGS) PROPERTIES > ROOMS > SET UP setSell Priority = hide (to hide from booking page)In {{#fas:*in Dependency cog}} (SETTINGS) PROPERTIES > ROOMS DEPENDENCIES set "Requires AvailabilityInclude Bookings" = real room *in Assign Bookings = real roomRoom for booking page
'''Custom Availability'''Leave all other settings set to the defaults and map this room to the channel.
*The virtual room needs it's own rates, which should have been copied from the real room as part of the copy room function. You can also link the rate in the "Rooms" tab of the rate.
*The virtual room can be made unavailable by removing rates for the unavailable dates. Any date with no price is treated as unavailable.
*You can also use the Blackout and Inventory functions on the Calendar to set availability.
'''Channel Setup''' *In the Channel manager settings disable the real room for the desired channel and enable the virtual room.  ''' <span class="circle" >{{#fas:exclamation-triangle}} Note:''' The virtual room feature works only for online bookings</span> Test dependencies carefully. If you add bookings manually place them in are using dependencies please test thoroughly to make sure your "real rooms" not into virtual roomsset up reflects your rules. If you are connecting one physical room more than once to a booking channel you are risking overbookings.

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