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andreasSuperstar Apprentice
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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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16 hours ago
Hendrik Renken
Hendrik RenkenSenior Apprentice
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Manage Vouchers

Hey Community, Just wondering how you manage your voucher codes. We basically have one vouchercode and would love to track that by the value that is then written in the booking engine. As well as having a voucher code where it is able to set how many times this vouchercode can be used.  Example: Investore rate -100% Max Mustermann is on of 200 investors and has 2 free nights. I would like to set the voucher “Investor” with the Value “MAXMUSTERMANN” to activate it and it can only be used 2 times in a specific time. Then i would like to have the value of the Voucher in the report as well. Is this already possible? We often see a problem here with managing vouchers? Do you have that as well?  Best regardsHendrik   

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MarketaOupi
Community Manager
4 days ago
Hendrik Renken
Hendrik RenkenSenior Apprentice
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Change status automatically to started for online checked-in reservations

Dear community,I am reaching out for assistance with automating the status change of online check-in reservations to "Started" on the day of arrival once the room has been inspected.Currently, we use a diffenrent  online check-in system, and we have achieved a high percentage (60-70%) of guests who are able to check-in online and have their reservation status set to "Started," allowing them to access their digital room keys and enter their rooms seamlessly. This has greatly benefited our operations.However, we are interested in integrating the Mews online check-in system for branding and integration purposes. I am seeking input and suggestions if there is a possibility to set this up. I was thinking it might be possible with Zapier to automatically change the reservation status to "Started" once the room has been inspected, based on the link sent out on the day of arrival.Any insights or guidance on this matter would be greatly appreciated.Thank you in advance for your help!Best regard

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CharlieDelamare
Mews Employee
5 days ago
mdemmers
mdemmersApprentice
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My Mews invoices

HI All, our invoices for platform fee and marketplace integrations are now mailed to our finance department.However, is there any way to see old invoices in mews itself?I did find a report in the finance section, however that is only the total amount and not the fees broken down.thanks very much for your help

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alzbeta skrabalkova
Mews Employee
9 days ago
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Franziska G.Apprentice
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Mouvementlist

Hi allRight now, we are preparing to switch the housekeeping to the MEWS Commander. Until everybody is settled in well, we still have to work with printed lists, just to make sure 😉Since the “reservation report” is the one, we’re using right now (also for reception and restaurant because we need more information than on the “guest inhouse” list), we are unhappy, that the “inouse use” rooms are not on this list. They have to be put on manually and therefore they can be forgotten.What kind of list - if any - do you use for housekeeping?Would like to hear, how you work with it. Thanks a lot in advance for your feedback.Franziska G.

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11 days ago
Ethros
EthrosHelper
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Remove a reservation from an Availability Block or group?

Hi all, We used an availability block for a wedding so guests could book their own rooms for blocked dates and a specific rate.We see that by using the Availability Block - those reservations are now considered to be part of a single GROUP; while in fact they are all separate reservations. How can we make all of those reservations Independant reservations?  Removing them from the group.

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pol.font
Mews Employee
12 days ago
tobiaskoehler
tobiaskoehlerContributor
asked in How Do I...

Mews IBE on own Domain without widget

Hi everybody,For our three properties in three different cities, we are currently using the Mews IBE as an overlay widget on our website in an multiple enterprise version. Bookers stay on our Domain. This enterprise version does have limited functions, though, that are available in the standalone version (e.g. suggestion of alternative travel dates, if low availability and more).Since there is no release date available, when those new functions are also available on the widget enterprise version, I want to switch to the standalone version (htts://app.mews.com/distributor...).I would like to avoid that a new window opens with the mews Domain and would rather like to have this on the same page with our URL or if not possible in another way with a subdomain like booking.bigmamahotels.com. Background is that a domain switch can lead to a trust issue as from the guests perspective mews has nothing to do with the hotel they want to book. That would result in a conversion decline.  Any ideas

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MarketaOupi
Community Manager
16 days ago
mauritsbots
mauritsbotsHelper
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Deposit on cans, PET bottles etc.

hi all,I've got a question and was hoping for some insights on how others deal with this; In some of our hotels we sell cans of beer, and PET bottles with soda at the front desk. These are sold and paid for using MEWS and thus the receptionists needs to charge both the can, as the ‘deposit charge’ (statiegeld) for each item separately. How do other hotels deal with this situation? We have suggested to just raise pricing and make a correction posting in our accounting software, but we have already been informed that law requires to actually show on invoice that there is a separate deposit charge.  Furthermore, I've been told that in a few months the EU legislation comes into effect that we also need to show on invoice to guest what part of the sale is perhaps some sort of ‘packaging’. Especially when it is single use plastics…  Several POS systems have simple functionality for packaging products, so with these systems I can think of several ways to implement this easily, but within MEWS

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mauritsbots
23 days ago
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MilouApprentice
asked in How Do I...

Group Routing

Dear Mews Community,I hope you can help. Since the beginning of this year one of our hotels changed to MEWS and we are still trying to create our SOP’s. The hotel has many groups in house where room and breakfast is paid by the organiser. At this moment we realised that there is no routing setup that can be done to automatically forward all nights to a group bill / PM / or…I’m aware that for a company we can create a routing, but this will not help as sometimes the company pays, sometimes they don't.I’m wondering if somebody of you have any feedback or best practices that we implement?Thank you in advance.Best regard,Milou

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MarketaOupi
Community Manager
25 days ago
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BarbaraCApprentice
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Rétrocession chambres groupe

Bonjour,Je vous contacte car j’ai une question sur la gestion des #groupes s’il-vous-plaît.Où dans Mews puis-je avoir l’info suivante pour les groupes :nombre # bloquées VS nombre de # finalement réservéeEx : un groupe demande 20# sur une date, finalement leur rooming list est de 18# → 2# sont donc à libérer et à remettre en vente afin de ne pas rater de complet. Je vous remercie d’avance pour votre aide.Barbara Caparros

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MarketaOupi
Community Manager
26 days ago
ClaudiaM.
ClaudiaM.Contributor
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End of day time

Hi Community, we do face some challenges with the end of the day time at midnight, and I’d like to check in with you if you have some best practices which might work out. In theory, we have no issues with the fact of closing the day at midnight, however, at a certain point we face operational issues to reconcile revenues with the POS system and BOF (Back office finance exports) If we would only consider MEWS its less of a problem, but with Export files for Finance and POS integrations, this makes all more complicated.Cash drops are one example. The BOF exports capture all cash drops till midnight, if the outlets are closing late in the night, the cash drop which is reported in the export file does not reconcile with the physical cash drop, as this will be posted on the next day. The next day it balances out, but we do state a daily over/shortage on cash reporting, which Auditors do not accept. At the month's end, we also missed revenue posted after midnight which belongs to the month b

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ClaudiaM.
1 month ago
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BarbaraCApprentice
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Release rooms not sold in groups

Hello,I have a question about the groups in Mews.Where in Mews can I get this information please :number of rooms blocked VS number of rooms finaly bookedEx : a group booking of 20rooms, at the end they send 18rooms on the rooming list → 2rooms are left and need to be released. Where can i see those 2rooms on a report please?Thank you in advance for your help.   Barbara Caparros

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MarketaOupi
Community Manager
1 month ago
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ibaltagSenior Apprentice
asked in How Do I...

How to set up restrictions on products

Hello,We currently are selling products (as upsells with the room reservation) and we would like to be able to restrict to some days of week the display of the products on Mews booking engine.Does anyone know how to do this?

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1 month ago
DanS.
DanS.Helper
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Linking to rooms page BE

Hey Y’all,can I link directly from my website rooms pages to the same room page on the BE? I am unable to locate the links for that.Any advice?Dan

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MatthiasH
1 month ago
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Simone-GHApprentice
asked in How Do I...

Reduce automatic emails

Hi, I was wondering if it was possible to reduce the number of automatic mails sent from mews. For example, guests sometimes receive the online check-in mail etc twice and it is sometimes a bit much in our opinion.

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MatthiasH
1 month ago
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AamApprentice
asked in How Do I...

INTERNAL ALLOCATION OR PRODUCT FOR HOTEL PACKAGES

Hi Guys,Need your help!We have been talking with MEWS team for long time about this subject. As per MEWS Representative, MEWS can create packages by adding the product(s) to the room rate. We cannot create such as internal allocation where the guest no need to know how much individual cost. For example, we want to create Summer package for USD 450 as selling price  both for direct booking and display on the website as well,(see below breakdown for inclusions and internal allocation).Would appreciated if you can help this matter.Thank you very much in advance. Summer Package USD 450 Room – Internal Allocation USD 300 Daily Breakfast – Internal Allocation USD 30 Daily Dinner – Internal Allocation USD 40 1 Water Sport Activity per stay – Internal Allocation USD 30 1 Spa per stay – Internal Allocation USD 50

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MatthiasH
1 month ago
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AamApprentice
asked in How Do I...

Service Charge Setup

Hi MEWS Community! My hotel is in Indonesia, we are applying service charge and VAT. In MEWS we have to create service charge as a product hence rate+service charge will be sent to CRS (we are using SynXis/Sabre). We want to be able to send naked rate without service charge to CRS, and service charge to be displayed same as VAT. Anyone has similar situation and what is your setup in MEWS? I would appreciate your feedback or recommendation. Thank you guys!

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1 month ago
barb00sa
barb00saHelper
asked in How Do I...

email addresses disappearing

Hello all,Over the past few weeks, we've been experiencing consistent issues with the email addresses disappearing at the point of customer checkout, when we make the invoice. We've had to manually re-enter the email addresses every time in order to send the customer their invoice via email. Additionally, there have been instances where the email address has disappeared from the customer's sheet as well, but not always.We're unsure as to whether this is a bug in the program or if customers are deleting their own email addresses from their customer sheet. Could you please investigate this matter?I've attached an example of a customer record where the email address was disappeard,as well as an example of an invoice where the email address has disappeared.Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.Best ragards Robin 

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barb00sa
1 month ago
tobiaskoehler
tobiaskoehlerContributor
asked in How Do I...

Prepopulate Email in Magic Link Link

Hi Mewser,I want to build a link to the Magic Link that already prepopulates the guest’s Email address. I want to prepopulate the Email since guests do not know the email that booking generated for them.The normal Magic Link is:https://app.mews.com/navigator/mews-linkI tried the following and similar with no positive result. https://app.mews.com/navigator/mews-link?email=%E2%80%9Dtest@web.com%E2%80%9Dhttps://app.mews.com/navigator/mews-link?email=test@web.com Does anybody have a solution? Kind regardsTobias

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Sarah.Masterton-Brown
Community Manager
1 month ago
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LynnApprentice
asked in How Do I...

What is the most convenient way to keep track of payments of returning corporate guests?

For companies nearby we have contracts for which their guests can stay in our hotel with a discount and payment after departure per invoice.We have noticed that for returning guests, their open bill doesn’t appear in the Accounting Ledger as they have future stays attached to their profile. Our Front Office team doesn’t make the official invoice at check-out. Therefore bills tend to get very high within a short period of time.Would the only way to make the outstanding payments visible in the Accounting Ledger be for the Front Office to make the invoice after departure?Would Payment Routings help in this case?Thank you very much in advance!

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alzbeta skrabalkova
Mews Employee
1 month ago
Dirkjan
DirkjanMaster Apprentice
asked in How Do I...

Housekeeping software

Hi All,  We are looking for some good mobile first housekeeping software to implement with Mews. The Functionality in mews is to limiting for us and is not clear enough on the housekeepers side. One of the most important features is the realtime room/space status in mews, so once a room is marked as clean by a housekeeper it should instantly update the space status to clean or inspected in Mews. Also, housekeepers should see all booked products and note’s clearly, not hidden away somewhere and what would be even better if they would get a “task list” per room with everything that should be done extra like adding rose petals or a bottle of champagne. After some research I found Flexkeeper and it looks really appealing with all the features we would like to see. But I was wondering if there is anybody here who has experience with Flexkeeper or perhaps any other tool that works for them. 

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DanS.
2 months ago
DanS.
DanS.Helper
asked in How Do I...

Event scheduler on Mews

Heyo,Does anyone have a way to use an event calendar inside of Mews rather than external apps/programs?At the Arcade Hotel, we host quite a few events, and have been using tasks to inform our staff. Nothing shows up on timeline, nothing shows up in notifications, only if they check tasks (which they do). What is everyone else using?Dan

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MarketaOupi
Community Manager
2 months ago
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sergitvdSenior Apprentice
asked in How Do I...

Setting default filters for my reports

Hello!I have been using MEWS for a month now, and so far so good but I would like to ask if there was a way to setup the default filters in some reports. Or maybe to save the selected filters and create a report of your liking. I know it’s possible to schedule exports, but it’s an excel sheet and when I’m having a look for some things I like to see it within MEWS, but then again, I always have to select the right filters every time.Looking forward to hearing from you! Kind regards,Sergi

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2 months ago
tobiaskoehler
tobiaskoehlerContributor
asked in How Do I...

Access chat with guest via reservation

Hi smart people,do you know a way how to access a chat with a guest via reservation? Is there some option to activate that shows the chat history in a reservation or guest profile similar to the notes?Sometimes we receive information that would be great to access again via reservation overview rather than having to search for this one chat with this one guest.I know how to access the reservation that is linked to a chat, however, not the other way around. Thank you and kind regardsTobias

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mauritsbots
2 months ago
Ethros
EthrosHelper
posted in How Do I...

How can I route Accomodation Items to a seperate bill automatically?

We would like to automatically route all accomodation items to one Bill, and then all on-site adds to a 2nd Bill.This helps us for a few internal accounting reasons, and is helpful to guests.Is there a way to set a rule to do this automatically?  I feel there should be, only coming up short right now :)Thanks!  

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mauritsbots
2 months ago

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