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Philippe H3C
Philippe H3CHelper
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extra bed inventory

Over the weekend, we experienced an overbooking of additional beds. Despite using Mews for 3 years, they still haven't developed inventory management for additional beds for children, which should be a basic feature of a PMS. It should automatically close categories when all additional beds are booked. Does anyone have any ideas or solutions to offer, besides telling me to go vote?

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bsaurabh
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Blue Bay CuraçaoSenior Apprentice
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Offering 1 night free for every 6 nights booked

Hi,  We are offering a deal for a limited time, the deal is each person that books 6 nights get 1 night free. I am trying to figure out how to make this possible in MEWS. Someone books 6 nights and then they receive a voucher for 1 night free. Otherwise you’re going to get people that book 3 nights that can also get 1 night free. Can someone help me with this?  I am stuck...

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j.spiess
Senior Guru
olivierlemieux
olivierlemieuxApprentice
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Désactiver assignation automatique des chambres

Bonjour, Est-ce possible de désactiver l’assignation automatique des chambres ?Nous voulons les assigner nous même le jour du check-in.Merci

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Philippe H3C
Philippe H3CHelper
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digital checkin & checkout

Mews offers a digital check-in solution, but it's inadequate for high-end hotels where we have specific procedures to follow, often mandated by our brand standards. We're seeing the limitations of Mews, which isn't tailored to the needs of 4 and 5-star hotels. During a tablet rooming process, we don't have access to guest notes to inform them about spa or restaurant reservations. The worst part is that we can't manually enter credit card details; they require us to purchase their payment machines, which is outrageous. Should I go vote for this too?Not to mention the checkout process, which is impossible to complete in employee mode on the kiosk. Lots of promising ideas, but they're never fully developed. It's frustrating.

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cedric.previtali
Mews Employee
lena.luettgau
lena.luettgauHelper
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Automatic Deposits- VAT

Hallo liebe Community, Gibt es mittlerweile die Möglichkeit, automatische Deposits/ automatische settlement rules mit verschiedenen Mehrwertsteuersätzen anzulegen?Also einmal für Logis und einmal für Produkte beispielsweise?Bei uns wird gerade automatisch nur ein Deposit für die gesamte Buchung inkl. aller Produkte erstellt, alles mit demselben Steuersatz. Das ist ja steuerrechtlich nicht korrekt. Haben wir da eine Einstellung nicht gefunden? Liebe Grüße 

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coline.poussiere
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gonzalogomezContributor
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Accounting Category by Space

Hello Mews Community,At our hotel it's required that each room has a unique and distinct accounting account from other rooms. Upon reviewing MEWS, I noticed that it assigns accounting categories based on space categories. However, what we need is for each space to have its own accounting category rather than being grouped by category.Have any of you encountered a similar issue before? If so, how did you resolve it? Any insights or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.Thank you in advance for your assistance.Best regards,

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Cyprien
CyprienContributor
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Deposit report future bookings

How can I download the deposit report for future reservations?I would like to check all the bank transfers I have entered in each booking of July and August 2024

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MarketaOupi
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JillMorgenthalerSenior Contributor
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Delivery Only Rate Plan Direct Connect Channels

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! 

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MarketaOupi
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SonjaHelper
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Tasks created by products

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 :)

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mewsmaniacContributor
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Mews Connection wirth DATEV

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!

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LuKalApprentice
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Group Booking Imports - Separate Bills

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?

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Darren KearneyContributor
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Reporting - Group by company for supplementary revenue (conference, F&B) as well as Accommodation?

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

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BeggaApprentice
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help

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?

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matt.jeffrey
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SamSuperstar Contributor
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Booking engine strike-through rate

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,  

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andreasHelper
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Increase adoption of online check-in with link send through SMS

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!

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N.HALL ConsultingMaster Contributor
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Space category configuration

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.

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MarketaOupi
Mews Employee
Hendrik Renken
Hendrik RenkenHelper
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Tag manager GA 4

Hey community,  We are trying to better track conversion on our website. We are currently use Google analytics GA 4 and i did the setup with this doc: https://mews-systems.gitbook.io/booking-engine-guide/booking-engine-widget/integrations/google-tag-manager but it does not really work.  Did anyone connect Tag with Mews booking engine and GA4 succesfully? Would super nice to understand what i need to do differently.  Best Hendrik

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jpsamraSenior Apprentice
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Invoice refund

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?

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Anastasia TzoanouApprentice
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How to create a rate with a product included

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:Create a rate with the product price excluded from the reservation cost Step 1: Create a rate Step 2: Create a product Step 3: Create a product rule Step 4: Map the product with your channel manager Create a rate with the product price included in the reservation cost  Step 1: Enable 'Bill as package' for the bookable service Step 2: Create a rate Step 3: Create products Create a product to package with your rate Create an acc

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anastasia.lebedeva
Mews Employee
Hendrik Renken
Hendrik RenkenHelper
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Online Check-in change status to started

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

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Philippe H3C
Philippe H3CHelper
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rounding rate

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?

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MarinafromMews
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OkajolaApprentice
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Staying nights

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. 

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llandudnohostelContributor
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re failed payments

Hello im new here and only just gone on mews. We have set up automated payments which is working well except where card is declined. Is there a way to automate sending a payment link with predetermined text as I. have 2 card declined already today and 1 yesterday. Also is there a rule to stop mews sending payment link for airbnb and agoda bookings. Can I automate agoda virtual cards after they stay

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George MerakliyiannisSenior Apprentice
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Notified when there is any cancellation

Hi there!Did anybody knows if the system supports any option of getting notified a reservation is cancelled ( when the reservation is through the mews booking engine) ? 

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Philippe H3C
Philippe H3CHelper
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splitting invoices and amount

Hello everyone, how do you split amounts with Mews? For instance, when you receive a payment and need to allocate it to different bills. Also, how do you handle check-out if you have multiple guests in the same room who want to split the bill among themselves? Personally, I find it a bit cumbersome to have to use a calculator and recreate invoices via Excel after the guests have checked out.

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j.spiess
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