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Hi all.

I hope you're doing well.

I have a question that I hope you can assist me with.

Currently, all of our rates across all properties include breakfast. However, the issue is that the breakfast product does not appear on the bills/invoices. While the breakfast is included at no additional cost (listed as 0 DKK), it does have a value of 119 DKK (incl. tax) if purchased separately—such as when a guest invites a non-staying person to join them for breakfast.

Our corporate clients have been reaching out to request that the breakfast product, along with its value and tax breakdown, is visible on their invoices for accounting purposes.

Is there a way to display the breakfast item on the invoices, showing its value of 119 DKK (incl. tax), without impacting the total price of the stay?

I hope this makes sense, and I look forward to hearing your suggestions.

Regards

Hi Zoheb,

 

To display the breakfast value separately on invoices you can modify the settings for how products are billed. By default, Mews bundles products like breakfast with the accommodation package. To achieve your goal you’ll need to remove the bill as package setting for the breakfast product.

 

Here’s how you can do this:

1. Navigate to Menu > Settings > Services > Service (Stay) > Products.

2. Select the breakfast product.

3. Disable the Bill as package option.

4. Save the changes.

 

This adjustment will ensure that the breakfast product appears as a separate line item on invoices, along with its value and tax breakdown, while keeping the total stay price unaffected.

There is a couple of other settings which may affect this, depending on your current setup, this guide will explain those. 

 

Hope this helps!

 


Hi Zoheb,

 

To display the breakfast value separately on invoices you can modify the settings for how products are billed. By default, Mews bundles products like breakfast with the accommodation package. To achieve your goal you’ll need to remove the bill as package setting for the breakfast product.

 

Here’s how you can do this:

1. Navigate to Menu > Settings > Services > Products in Mews.

2. Select the breakfast product.

3. Disable the Bill as package option.

4. Save the changes.

 

This adjustment will ensure that the breakfast product appears as a separate line item on invoices, along with its value and tax breakdown, while keeping the total stay price unaffected.

 

For more detailed instructions check out this guide.

 

Hope this helps!

 

Thank you for your prompt response.

However, as I mentioned, the breakfast added by the product rule is shown with a value of 0 DKK since it is included in the price and does not affect the total. That said, the actual value of the breakfast is 119 DKK.

By following your guide, the breakfast will still only appear with a value of 0 DKK, which is not the outcome we are looking for. It must be shown with it's actual value, but without affecting the price.

 


Hi Zoheb,

 

You can achieve this using product rules.

 

If you set up an accommodation adjustment product and rule, you can use it to remove the 119 DKK from these reservations while ensuring the breakfast value appears separately on the invoice.

 

For detailed steps on how to configure this, check out this guide.

Let us know if that works for you.

 


Hi ​@Zoheb L,

I would highly recommend not using 0 DKK breakfast products (except for comp reservations) but rather use the price of the rate for the actual accommodation part of the rate and add the price of the breakfast via the product. May I ask, why you chose to set your rates and product up this way?

Best,
Svenja


Hi ​@Zoheb L,

I would highly recommend not using 0 DKK breakfast products (except for comp reservations) but rather use the price of the rate for the actual accommodation part of the rate and add the price of the breakfast via the product. May I ask, why you chose to set your rates and product up this way?

Best,
Svenja

Hi, this is how the support told us to do and our onboarding assistant.


@Zoheb L I’m sorry about that. I think it’s always important to look at the actual needs of the property, but usually you’d want the revenue for accommodation to be separate from your F&B/Breakfast revenue for multiple reasons. 

You could work with a “correction product” but apart from it being unnecessarily messy, it also messes with your ARR etc. 

Either way, your breakfast product shouldn’t be 0 DKK but have the actual price for the breakfast and either you setup your rate prices accordingly or you add a second product and reduce the price that way. But I would always recommend the first way.

Let me know if you’d like to reassess that setup and have questions.

Best
Svenja

 


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