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[BETA] Take Control of Your Inventory with New House-Level Overbooking Caps

  • July 29, 2026
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saurabh.bhatia
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We’ve just upgraded our overbooking functionality to match industry standards, giving you the perfect balance between aggressive revenue capture and risk mitigation!

You can now set a single daily limit for total overbookings across the house or service level. Once that number is reached (including physical inventory and availability adjustments), the system automatically closes the hotel for that day.

The Bottom Line: You can now safely push individual room-type overbookings to the limit to drive revenue, knowing this new "safety layer" will automatically cap your total property risk and prevent costly guest relocations.

We are looking for early adopters to try this and feedback us about what works and doesn’t before a full launch later next month.

August 4, 2026

This is now active on all demo properties. So you should have access anyway. Let me know if this does now work. 

 is a quick introduction to this

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j.spiess
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  • July 29, 2026

Hello!

Will this also work with channel managers? So will channel manager connections see the caped availability (and increased room type availability where set to accept overbookings)? 

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Regards,

JP.


leguggi
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  • July 29, 2026

Hi
We would definitely be interested in this function.

Hotel Monopol and Hotel Alpina

Best regards
Lars


maxi.kiefer
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  • July 29, 2026

Hello, we would also like to test this in our location Rügen Resort. 


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  • July 29, 2026

Hi, I would like to try this out for Hotel Le Concorde. Are going to be able to overbook our block as well? 


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Hi, super interested in testing this feature for our hotels in Silicon Valley/San Jose, CA.


Vivien Polauf
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Hi,

it sounds a great improvement :)

We would be happy to be part of this Beta with our Hotel IMLAUER & Bräu. 

Thank you!


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Hello, We would like to try this at Airport Hotel, Billund and Pier 5 Hotel. Thank you! 


Can you please add this for our hotels as well? Flonk Hotel Groningen Centre and Flonk Hotel Groningen Zuid.


Thanks in advace!


mauritsbots
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  • July 31, 2026

We’ve just upgraded our overbooking functionality to match industry standards, giving you the perfect balance between aggressive revenue capture and risk mitigation!

You can now set a single daily limit for total overbookings across the house or service level. Once that number is reached (including physical inventory and availability adjustments), the system automatically closes the hotel for that day.

The Bottom Line: You can now safely push individual room-type overbookings to the limit to drive revenue, knowing this new "safety layer" will automatically cap your total property risk and prevent costly guest relocations.

We are looking for early adopters to try this and feedback us about what works and doesn’t before a full launch later next month.

whooooop ​@Jamilla Brown 


saurabh.bhatia
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  • August 3, 2026

Hi all,

I have activated this on your DEMO properties. If you do not find it, I may have targeted the wrong one. In that case - please DM me and share which property/enterpriseID on DEMO you want it activated on

We will start production testing soon too.

Thanks


saurabh.bhatia
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  • August 4, 2026

This is now active on all demo properties. So you should have access anyway. Let me know if this does now work. 

 is a quick introduction to this


Guten Morgen, 

wir würden gerne an der Demo teilnehmen. 

Können wir uns hierzu anmelden?

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,

Nathalie Kasper

Hotel am Remspark 


saurabh.bhatia
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  • August 5, 2026

Hi ​@Nathalie Kasper 

You should be able to use this on your Demo property already ( https://app.mews-demo.com/ ). Next week we will release this in Production on Mews - and I’ll activate your hotel in the first batch :) 

 

Thanks for the excitement!


Hallo ​@saurabh.bhatia,

perfekt. Vielen Dank :-) 

Ich wünsche dir einen tollen Tag. 

Liebe Grüße, Nathalie


saurabh.bhatia
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  • August 10, 2026

Hi everyone, I am very curious if you tried this and have any feedback so far. Please do share it, and we can adapt the functionality at the earliest


Johannes Rott
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  • August 11, 2026

@saurabh.bhatia i give it try on the MEWS DEMO! so far it looks good - but we might need to use it for a few more weeks to see the final outcome. when can we expect the BETA in MEWS Operation?

@Vivien Polauf FYI

 


saurabh.bhatia
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  • August 11, 2026

Hi ​@Johannes Rott 

Thanks so much for giving it a try, and for the early read, glad to hear it's looking good so far! Taking a few more weeks to really put it through its paces on demo is exactly the right call before drawing conclusions.

On production: we're actively working through what a first production rollout looks like right now. I don't have a firm date to share yet, but given you're already hands-on with it and clearly engaged, I'd love to have IMLAUER as one of the first properties in that wave once we're ready to move. I'll come back to you directly as soon as there's something concrete to share.

In the meantime, keep the feedback coming, especially anything that surfaces once you've had more time with it. It's genuinely useful for shaping the rollout.


Johannes Rott
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  • August 11, 2026

@saurabh.bhatia thanks for the reply. we would love to join with all IMLAUER Properties - please let me know as soon as there is a date.


Hallo ​@saurabh.bhatia,

können wir die neue Funktion bereits in der Live Version testen? 

Ich freue mich auf Deine Rückmeldung. 

Viele Grüße, 

Nathalie Kasper 

Hotel am Remspark 


saurabh.bhatia
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  • August 13, 2026

@Johannes Rott IMLAUER properties are activated on production. Please do let me know how you find it.

@Nathalie Kasper The same for Hotel am Remspark :) [ Das Produkt ist im Hotel am Remspark aktiviert. Bitte teilen Sie mir mit, wie es Ihnen gefällt. ]


saurabh.bhatia
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  • August 13, 2026

@Johannes Rott I see that IMLAUER already has a lot of limits set. Do note, this will immediately start serving as service level caps. The new behaviour will apply immediately!


Johannes Rott
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  • August 13, 2026

@Johannes Rott I see that IMLAUER already has a lot of limits set. Do note, this will immediately start serving as service level caps. The new behaviour will apply immediately!

ah ok so please do not activate for all hotels then, just for IMLAUER & Bräu.

Could you specify what is changing do to activation? Are all limits deleted or overruled?


saurabh.bhatia
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  • August 13, 2026

I will keep only Imlauer & Brau then. Here is a comparison.

Imagine the availability adjustment for single room is 7 and for double is 10, and the service level cap is 8. The hotel has 10 single rooms and 20 double rooms (hence a total of 30 physical rooms that are not out of order).

OLD: The cap restricted the total number of overbookings only. So it would say: for a given day 7 overbookings allowed on Single room as per availability adjustment and 10 on double room as per availability adjustment, but no more than 8 overbookings allowed in all (as per service level limit) 

 

NEW: The cap prevents a run of house. So it says, allow 7 over bookings on single and 10 on double. But the moment the total number of bookings for the day (including room bookings and overbookings) reaches 38 (30 physical spaces+8 service level cap), then close the house.

The service level limit can be negative. AND this behaviour replaces the old one.


saurabh.bhatia
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  • August 17, 2026

Hi team,

I will be enabling Production version of this functionality for all hotels here. ​@Johannes Rott do you want the remaining IMLAUER properties to be on the new version as well?

 


Johannes Rott
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  • August 17, 2026

Hi team,

I will be enabling Production version of this functionality for all hotels here. ​@Johannes Rott do you want the remaining IMLAUER properties to be on the new version as well?

 

We have had a look on it but there is no significant change as we already had an option enabled before which was i think used by hotel chains. The others mentioned they do not see any difference by now.

Can you explain the version we use in the IMLAUER Hotel Pitter compared to the new one?

For now please do not update it.