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Hi community!  I’m not sure if this feature exists, but I’m looking to set up a delivery only rate plan for direct connect channels in MEWS. I haven’t had many issues, but when there’s a mapping issue or promotion that MEWS does not recognize on direct connect channels, reservations have come in really strange due to product rules.I have something similar created for my channel manager, the rate plan is called FIX ME and is a catch all for any reservations with room or rate code errors. This allows me and my front desk team to immediately recognize there’s something amiss with the reservation and attend to it. Anyone know how to set this up or if the feature exists?Looking forward to your advice! 

Within the vibrant ecosystem of Mews, where innovation and progress are constants, developers often find themselves at the forefront of change. As we journey through this dynamic landscape, it's inevitable that we encounter pivotal questions that shape our approach to development within the Mews platform:  How do you keep up with Mews updates and deprecations? What are the costs associated with adapting to these updates? How long does it typically take for an update to be implemented? In what manner would you prefer Mews to release these updates?  Join the conversation and share your perspectives on these crucial topics in the comments below!

Study the certification process in order to prepare for what's to come.Allocate for sufficient time for API reviews, feedback and potential bug fixes to the integration until it passes certification successfully.Document the milestones listed above and share the document with the Mews Technical Partnership team. This will facilitate the API reviews and eventual creation of your integration.Have you found a process or step that helped you prepare for certification?

Hello,I am a new to Mews and am currently at the beginning stages of opening our property.I was wondering if anyone would be able to share any advice / guidance on creating a Front Office Checklist. Any tips or best practices would be greatly appreciated.Thank youYasmin

Hi, I am new to Mews and I am looking for a way to automatically create a task when a product is added to a reservation, so the housekeeping team can see the task in their app (let’s say we add breakfast to the room and the team should see that they need to bring the breakfast to the room). I was told to use Zapier but it seems there is no option to trigger an action when adding a product? Any ideas or experiences what would work best? Thank you for any input :)

Dear Mews community, has somebody from the Mews hotel community some experience with connecting Mewsto DATEV (through Omniboost)? It would be very helpfull to get some insights from you. Thanks a lot in advance and have a nice day!

Hi everybody! I’m experience a new issue in which when I import groups with the import excel file each room is in its own separate bill instead of grouped with with the other rooms in the group.This is happening even though I added a group code/group name to have all rooms appear as own group reservation.At first I thought it had something to do with the routing rules but it happens without the routing rule, too. Anybody had any similar issues?

How do properties pull reports on what a company has produced in a given time frame. Is there a way to report on a  “Group by company” basis for supplementary revenue (conference, F&B) as well as Accommodation.We currently only have the ability to pull a “Group By Company” for the Reservation report for Accommodation.ThanksDarren

I’m trying to extend a guest that was supposed to check out two days ago.  When I change the departure date to a future date, I keep getting the error message "Cannot add or modify consumed items".  What does that mean and how can I extend the guest?

Hi Community, How are you handling having the strike-through rate appear on the booking engine? Our rates are derived from the base rate but are in different rate groups due to different settlement & cancellation policies. To show this discount to the guests we are creating fake ‘copy’ rates to place in the rate group. I feel that there must be a better way, how do others work to have this appear on the booking engine? Thanks,  

Hi guys,In order to increase adoption of the online check-in by the guests (we don’t actually have staff on-site, so they must, at some point) we are looking for a way to communicate the online check-in link through SMS messaging. Either through an integration, or through a self-build API interface, or any other way that’s possible.Anyone have an idea on how to do this?We’ve been looking for ways to automize the check-in process, and Mews recently did a wundeful update allowing the main booked to add details for companions. Now we need to increase guest adoption for this. And many don’t bother to read their emails.There’s a few messaging systems that integrate with Mews, and offer their own check-in solutions. But none seem to get it fully working for an Austrian property that needs to collect information on all guests and their companions.Anyone have any helpful ideas on this? Will be much appreciated!

We are looking for a handy payment provider for a voucher booking feature.As far as I understand MEWS payments doesn’t allow the use of its payment function for other processes e.g. a voucher booking tool. So what is the best solution to this problem. Do you have any suggestions. Obviously a separate stripe/adyen account would be an option and would prob. add additional payment options, but maybe anyone has a recommendation we could have a look into. Thanks for any suggestions...

A question on Space configuration.If the vast majority of your rooms are configured with a “normal bed count” of 2, how do you go about allowing a child or an infant to be booked and stay in parents bed.This is challenging when you operate with child rates, and want to have the applicable rate added. I have the following set-up for extra persons.Infant (0-2 years - Free of charge)Child (3 - 12 years - charge applies)Teen (13 - 17 years - charge applies)Adult (18 years and over - charge applies)If I increase the normal bed count, then 3 adults can book a space which can sleep 2. There is no possibility of adding an extra bed.All tips are appreciated.

Suddenly we woke up today to find something really weird with our Mews account. This is what happened: for every customer that we have whether they have checked out before and paid their bills or they are currently checked in and have already paid their reservation, in their profile page, and in their Billing section, all the billing Items names are changed to “Invoice refund” for no reason whatsoever with a negative amount.How is that change possible? Who can change the invoice names and stateWhy would Mews change the name of all these invoices?

Hallo everyone! We are a new property and new with Mews. We are facing some difficulties adding the breakfast in the OTAs and creating the rates with a product including depending on the occupancy. The price of the product/breakfast does not reflect to Booking.com as an example. Everything is mapped through XML/ channel manager but still the error occurs in Mews.We followed those steps: https://help.mews.com/s/article/create-a-rate-with-a-product-included?language=en_US and we also created the product and everything.  n this article, you can learn how to:

Hey,We operate capsule hotels, and our operations are mostly automated to allow the host more space to be there for the guest.The biggest issue we are facing at the moment is with online check-in. We use a solution from Goki that actually starts the reservation after completing the online check-in. However, as this solution is not as well-integrated as the one from Mews, we are experiencing difficulties in obtaining data from companions and also with early check-ins.Is the feature planned that the online check-in also starts the reservation on the day of arrival when the room is inspected?This would provide great value for all properties that use pin codes for doors, as the trigger to generate a personal pin code is the status change of the reservation from confirmed to started.Question: Is this planned, or is there a way to make this work? Best regardsHendrik

Hello everyone, I'm having issues with Mews and my connections to my Channel Managers, specifically Hotel Spider and Synxis.When we derive rates from Mews, starting from a base rate like Flexi and moving to a promotional rate where we apply a percentage discount of -10, -5, etc., Mews cannot round, which creates rates with decimals such as 0.1, 0.2, 0.3... which don't exist in Swiss currency, where rounding typically occurs in increments of 5. When we send these rates to the channels, they can round them. However, if we apply a rate where the client's card must be charged by Mews, when it comes back to Mews, the system doesn't charge the rate the client reserved but instead incorrect rates. This sometimes leads us to having to refund the client for a few cents. Does anyone have any ideas on how to work around this issue?

Today 25/03 , B21-07, checked in 23/03, accounting already 3 nights. Should be 2 nights on 25/03, i would understand if it would account days, then is more clear, check in 23/03 is 1 day, 24/03 – 2 day, and 25/03 – is 3 day.We are cleaning stayover rooms after 3 days. But if person arrived on 23/03, and today we have 25/03, and in the system showing 3 nights, when actually is 2 day,  the housekeeping company cleaning room when in shows in Mews 3/3,  but suppose to be 2/3. Thats a lot money for us. Thats why its important that would be correct.