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Help from Spain based properties,When taking pre payments, a deposit is required to account for tax at the time of payment. To close an invoice to the fiscal registry guest passport/ID details are required. How do you manage to collect passport/ID details at the time of booking or how do you get around the requirement to have this information in order to close invoices? Thanks for advice! 

Has anyone a workaround or been able to edit the local data collection regulations setup in MEWS when they’re incorrectly mandating for information from guests that isn’t legislation.Our profile completion rate is low due to guests not completing the Date of Birth section and the photo ID requirement, neither of which are legislation in this country.

Guten Tag liebe Community, dieses Jahr ist unser erster Jahresabschluss mit Mews. Da wir mit Anzahlungen arbeiten benötige ich eine Übersicht der Unfertigen Leistungen zum Stichtag 31.12.Hat hier jemand Erfahrungswerte mit welchem Report/Einstellungen ich das ermitteln kann? VIelen Dank vorab und lieben Gruß,Julian Haug

Hello everyone! My name is Mae. I work for a ranch in Texas. As a newbie to Mews system, I have a few questions. I hope y'all can help me. Thank you so much! 1) How to connect our website for direct booking2) We are not really considered a hotel so how can we make each casita/cabin its own space vs looking like a hotel?3). Have you tried connecting your own stripe to Mews?4). Can you recommend the best Channel Manager so we can connect our Airbnb/Vrbo? Thank you so much for all your help!Mae

Dear Mews freaks,I am facing a challenge and would like to hear your opinions and possible solutions. Our hotel offers rooms and breakfast and creates invoices in Mews at check-out for all reservations. We also have a nice terrace where we sell drinks to passersby. For these terrace sales we create invoices under the name "external terrace". However, it becomes difficult to request name and address information for billing purposes from every customer who drinks a coffee or a Coke on the terrace.I was recently informed by the tax authorities that every invoice must officially include the customer's name and address. Missing this information can result in a fine between 50 and 500 euros per invoice, depending on the invoice amount. Since I do not exceed 25,000 euros per year for these terrace sales, I do not need to purchase a white cash register.Do any of you have experience with a similar problem and perhaps a suggestion for a solution? I would love to hear your

I've raised this issue a while ago with the premium support, they agreed it was a bug, but told me to 'raise awereness' on the forum to get it fixed. Instead of just fixing it. So here goes:What is going wrong:I set up a rule for Service A to send all prepaid reservations + products for travel agency A to a paymaster. This works fine.   Then I set up bookable service B to send all prepaid reservations + products for the same  travel agency A to the same paymaster.   Then the second rule works fine, but the first rule suddently "forgets" to send the products, and only sends nights.   And when you go and fix rule number 1, then rule number 2 starts forgetting to send the products.End result: We are stuck with hundreds of tourist tax, breakfast and cleaning fee items on the guests bill, and not on the paymasters. Can somebody tell a developer? Or tell me if I might be doing something wrong here?

Good afternoon comunity, I am looking for some experience in the migration from Suite 8 to MEWS, specially in terms of future reservation migration.Anyone has this situation?

Hi, is there a way to hide rates for online check-in? Particularly for OTA bookings where the OTA collects the payment, or for wholesale rates where the Agent marked up the rate?

Hi everybody, I was wondering, where I can find the open prepayments for 31.12.2023? Could you please let me know, if that’s the correct way to find them:Accounting ledger report – Mode: Grouped – Type: General – Date: 31.12.2023 23:59 – Group by: Accounting category. And then after ‘view report’ the ‘open prepayments’ are for the guests who paid for their future stay in 2024? Thank you in advance for your help!

Bonjour,Je suis à la recherche de la procedure à suivre pour loader un prix LRA et un prix non LRA dans Mews et le faire remonter correctement dans D-Edge?Comment les deux tarifs peuvent-ils cohabiter ?MerciOlivier

Is it possible, and if so how, to set up a payment rule that automates the charging of a remaining balance due on the morning of a reservation’s arrival/start date?At the time of booking through the booking engine on our website, we collect payment for the first night’s room/tax plus any add-ons included during the booking/confirmation process. For multi-night reservations, the remaining balance is comprised of room/tax for nights 2 and beyond. I have not been able to figure out how to do set up a settlement rule. My first rule collects 100% of the first night plus additional expenses an products. When I attempt to create a second rule, I get an error message advising me “The sum of settlement values from all settlement rules with ‘Charge payment card’ action related to the parent rate group with ID… cannot be more than 100%”. Makes sense, but he only other option is a flat amount. 

I asked the AI support bot how I can post offline charges to room accounts but found no relevant information in the results or guidance offered. Our Square POS terminals in our outlets are not integrated with Mews because this integration hasn’t been released yet (or hadn’t as of late last year). Our Guests want to be able to charge their purchases from our outlets to their room accounts, including bar and restaurant checks. At our outlets, a Guest’s charge can be settled to a comp account in Square to balance the POS system and then the charge is physically passed off to the hotel’s front desk for the charge to be added to the Guest’s account manually. Posting it manually to the account is where I need help.So far, whenever I have had non-standard items that need to be charged to a Guest’s account, as the admin, I’ve had to cr

I have a tricky one for you all & hope someone has a creative solution.Without having to create new space categories - you can quickly end with hundreds,…. how would you go about setting a price (supplement) for a feature.Let’s assume that we have 4 floors, and want to add €10 as a floor number feature for all spaces in a specific category.The Space category is Deluxe room and all the relevant spaces are attached.on the first floor no supplement with the base price being €200 on the second floor there is a floor supplement of €10 + €200 = €210 on the third floor there is a floor supplement of €20 + €200 = €220 on the fourth floor there is a supplement of €30 + € 200 = €230The same thought can be applied to other categories or other attributes like courtyard view, as opposed to park view.The only logical solution I can find would be to create a new space category for each floor & feature, and then

Hallo zusammen, kann jemand Erfahrungen teilen bzgl. der Anbindung an IDeaS G3?Mir wurde von IDeaS mitgeteilt, dass z.B. Block Reservation nicht verarbeitet werden können. Wie geht Ihr damit um? ****************************Hello everyone, Can anyone share their experiences regarding the connection to IDeaS G3?I was informed by IDeaS that block reservations cannot be processed. How do you deal with this? 

hi braintrust,Long time reader first time poster :)Does anyone generate a nationality-based guest revenue and room sales report? If yes, can you please enlist the steps to do so. Thanks in advance for your help.Pras

We a boutique property that is in the process of switching to Mews…  We offer a fully contactless experience to our guests using an SMS guest communication & online check-in system (Akia) along with mobile keys (flexipass). But we are hitting a wall on setting up our system with Mews because we absolutely need contact info for at least one occupant in every room (otherwise we can not issue mobile keys).We had it working quite well on our previous PMS (despite that PMS’s numerous other failings) because by default they only allowed 1 room per booking, therefore always had contact info for every room.Does anyone in the community have any suggestions on how to approach this? NOTE: Our property does not have a traditional reception/front desk with staff available for manual check-in and the front door to our property is secured to allow key access only. So kiosk for check-in on arrival is not possible.

Hi Collegues,I wonder if someone has found a solution for the problem if a guests without a reservation is arriving after midnight. How can he create a reservation for this night on a website that is using the booking machine of MEWS. Right now he can only reserve a room for the next day.The background is that we only have one security guard at night and he should not have access to the booking system. MEWS, the payment terminals and the key card system are already connected. The only thing missing is that the guest can book independently via the homepage.  

Does anyone else experience a variance between the totals that these two reports deliver for the same dates “Managers report vs Reservations report Group by SEGMENT” 

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.

We are using the Mews-Booking.com integration from the marketplace.  The Mews support told me, that age-based breakfast prices are supported by their integration. I know how to set up everything in Mews, but I am not sure on how to do in in the Booking.com Extranet.The Booking.com support was unfortunately not very helpful so far.  Is there anyone here who has successfully set up age-based breakfasts between Booking.com and Mews? What is your setup in Booking.com and does it map and display (children) breakfast prices correctly in Mews? 

Hoping someone has a solution to automate the below.All of our reservations that drop in from our channel manager (automatically segmented as OTA) require manual amendments to correct the segment i.e Brand.com, GDS, B.com, EXPDoes anyone have any tips to automate this change?ThanksDarren

Hi - What is the best approach to flag a difficult customer so that if they book a reservation with you in the future you will know and can make the decision to cancel them.. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,   

Hello Mews team,I wanted to see if anyone had a suggestion on how to better classify media stays. For example, we had an influencer stay with us, and all expenses were comped. I created a product to zero out all her charges. Would this be the best way to track these types of reservations and show at the end of the year how much has been spent on marketing?I appreciate your help and collaboration on how to improve this system, for a freshman at Mews University!

hi GuysWe had a very large block over the past 5 weeks with over 3250 room nights and when checking out the final invoice I got a message it contained more than 3000 items and could not be closed. I should now split the invoice in 3 parts to send it according to the message I got, but this is not an option and I need 1 invoicehow can this be solved?

Hey all Is anyone else having issues with their Mews Booking engine after yesterdays release of the “smarter and intuitive availability calendar” ?(https://releases.mews.com/en/a-smarter-and-intuitive-availability-calendar-in-the-mews-booking-engine?utm_source=beamer&utm_medium=sidebar&utm_campaign=A-smarter-and-intuitive-availability-calendar-in-the-Mews-Booking-Engine&utm_content=textlink)Basically our availability calendar shows NO availability for any dates.I have tested on several on our vouchers booking engine URLs and getting same “Sorry, these dates are fully booked” all over the place.So for us not s