View Property Availability and Configure Sell Limits (Video Transcript)
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In this video you will learn how to view property availability and change the sell limits.
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Property availability provides a comprehensive view by day of
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the available and sold rooms for the property to manage room inventory.
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Let's get started. Go to inventory
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and select property availability. Now I can change the property or the date.
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Or I could select to display the search results by room type or room class.
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I also have the option to click either the room class or room type magnifying glass to select a
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specific room type or room class. Next, I click search.
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I can view the property availability for 28 days.
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The list of room types displays on the
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left with each day displaying the maximum number of available rooms.
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I click view options to select which values display on the property availability view.
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For example, I can select these various options to display availability for the entire property.
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Or I can select options to display availability for each room type, such as the number of arrivals
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departures or the number of persons. The rooms available to sell considers
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the out of order rooms and the sell limit. I click expand all to expand the room type rows
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to display all the selected availability view options.
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I click the available rooms number below the date for the deluxe kingroom type
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to set the sell limits for the specific day. I can also select a date range or
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a day of the week to set the sell limits for a specific period of time.
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I can set sell limits using positive numbers to allow overbooking or by using negative
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numbers to set an underbooking ceiling. Next, I click on the minus sign to decrease
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the number of available rooms to 35. Or by using 0 I can reset the sell limits
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and then click save. Now, I can see the negative 2
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sell control value for the room type after I reduce the sell limit from 37 to 35.