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  • January 1, 2026
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Hello, 

 

I’m new to the community and would be most grateful for some help with building new levels into my inventory please!

When I built Mews for my 14 bed property, I was only selling individual rooms. I have since developed my strategy and would love to have the option to sell in the following groupings:

 

More than 8 months lead time:

Only book the whole house (14 rooms)

 

Within 8 months lead time: 

The whole house or

Can now book The Gallery (8 rooms)

Can now book The Nook (5 rooms)

Can now book The Loft

 

Within 6 months lead time

Can do all the above but also book an individual room

 

I have tried to set up a parent room structure so 5 rooms now exist within The Nook, but for this plan to work I need help with the option to be able to also book The whole house.

Most importantly I need to be able to export the availability of the whole house as an ical to share with other online listings. Please advise how I can do this?

 

I would also like to have the option for exceptions to the above rules so I could plug in 5 weekends a year for example which could take individual room bookings for more than 8 months lead time.

 

I have gratefully found a link to this How to create a space in Mews Operations in another chat but it is so difficult to follow now that I am retrospectively changes spaces rather than building from scratch. 

 

Very many thanks for your help.

Joanna

Best answer by adrianne.flores

Hi ​@Fairlawn House, welcome to the community 👋

In short: Mews doesn’t support fully shared or “combination” inventory, so selling the Whole House, partial groupings, and individual rooms won’t automatically block each other. However, you can get very close using space categories + advance-booking restrictions, with some manual control.

What works well:

  • Create space categories for Whole House, Gallery, Nook, Loft, and Individual Rooms

  • Use maximum advance reservation rules:

    • Whole House: book far in advance

    • Gallery/Nook/Loft: ~8 months

    • Individual rooms: ~6 months

  • This naturally controls what can be booked at each lead time

iCal:

  • You can export an iCal for the Whole House category

  • It will reflect bookings on that space only, so some manual blocking is needed to avoid overlaps

Exceptions:

  • Date-specific restriction overrides work well (e.g. allowing individual rooms far in advance for selected weekends)

It’s a bit trickier when retrofitting, but this setup is the closest supported approach today. Hope this helps! 😊

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adrianne.flores
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Hi ​@Fairlawn House, welcome to the community 👋

In short: Mews doesn’t support fully shared or “combination” inventory, so selling the Whole House, partial groupings, and individual rooms won’t automatically block each other. However, you can get very close using space categories + advance-booking restrictions, with some manual control.

What works well:

  • Create space categories for Whole House, Gallery, Nook, Loft, and Individual Rooms

  • Use maximum advance reservation rules:

    • Whole House: book far in advance

    • Gallery/Nook/Loft: ~8 months

    • Individual rooms: ~6 months

  • This naturally controls what can be booked at each lead time

iCal:

  • You can export an iCal for the Whole House category

  • It will reflect bookings on that space only, so some manual blocking is needed to avoid overlaps

Exceptions:

  • Date-specific restriction overrides work well (e.g. allowing individual rooms far in advance for selected weekends)

It’s a bit trickier when retrofitting, but this setup is the closest supported approach today. Hope this helps! 😊

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