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rea.stambuk
Mews Employee
rea.stambukMews Employee
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Upcoming: Two unmissable webinars with insights from Mews customers

Hey, Mews Community ✨ Ready to be inspired by some real-world success? Later this month, we’ll be bringing you two webinars featuring the experts behind exceptional hospitality: Mews customers.  Join us for interviews with leading hospitality professionals, ask your questions live, and leave with ideas you can try right away. It’s insight you won’t find anywhere else. Details and links to sign up are below 👇  Webinar #1 – HIM Groep: How to do more with tech With four hotels in the Netherlands catering to a range of segments, from corporate travelers to holidaymakers, HIM Groep are doing more thanks to technology. Tune in to hear their Back Office Manager, Charline Kuster, explain how she manages operations for all four hotels from a single, reliable platform. 📅 When? Feb 25, 11am CEST 🎙️ Who? Charline Kuster, Back Office Manager   What to expect  Discover how automated workflows dramatically improve productivity  Find out where your hotel could also make major time savings  Put yo

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MickGuru
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Booking.com overbookings

Hi everyone,I would like to ask you about Mews PMS integrations with Booking.com. Specifically, I would like to know which integration is being used by other users - the Mews-Booking.com direct integration or the SiteMinder-Booking.com integration.Additionally, I am interested in understanding if you have experienced any overbookings and if so, the frequency of these overbookings. As background information, we migrated to the booking.com-Mews integration and do like the connection however we regularly receive overbookings via booking.com, there is a thought that with the Siteminder -Booking these overbookings could be minimised due to Siteminder holding the availability. As i understand the Mews-Booking.com integration has a minimum pull and push period of 30 seconds for rates, inventory & reservations, while the SiteMinder integration has a minimum pull period of 2 for reservations and a minimum push period of 30 seconds of rates & inventory. Which leads me to believe we shoul

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roame.leaver
Mews Employee
roame.leaverMews Employee
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Feature opportunity: Unique uses of the Mews Hourly Booking Engine

Hey Mews Community! 👋We’re looking for customers who are using the Mews Hourly Booking Engine in unique ways -whether that’s booking boat slips, desks, cabanas, karaoke rooms, or anything else outside the traditional hotel stay. 🚀Why? Be featured in an upcoming press release about the Mews Hourly Booking Engine. We'd love to showcase innovative real-world use cases by our wonderful customers and present some amazing impact data.If your property is doing something creative with the Mews Hourly Booking Engine, drop a comment below by next Wednesday, 26th February, for a chance to be featured!

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roame.leaver
Mews Employee
Hendrik Renken
Hendrik RenkenHelper
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Mews support plattform

Hey guys,Is Mews actually working on a platform for Mews support?We also use Mews Premium Support, and while I really like the support itself, the way tickets are handled is quite tough for me. There are so many emails that it’s really hard to go back to a support ticket and keep track of which ones are still open or have been closed.I think a platform for all tickets would really help to keep better track of things. Also, from Mews’ side, I’m pretty sure it would help with inquiries, as I’ve already had to ask the same question twice because of this issue.Maybe it even exists, and I’m just not aware of it.What are your experiences?

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boskovicbojanaSenior Apprentice
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Service set up by night or by the hour

Hello to All, We have set up the SPA bookable service per night.My questions is does it necessary needs to be per hour ( although the service itself IS per hour :) ) as long as the accounting category and revenue center related to are correct?Otherwise it has to be deleted and done it again, correct? Looking forward to your advices and experience.Many thanks.Best,Bojana

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elena.pudova
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adriahanSenior Apprentice
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Branded SOP

How did you properly set up your MEWS SOPs 📑according to your brand standards additionally to the MEWS University 🎓and MEWS Help 🌐. How do you provide the SOPs to your employees in an efficient, easy-to-acces way? 📇

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Sam.CHelper
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Additional Services

Hi Community,Has anyone figured a way to hide the service charge box when adding an additional service product?We have the setting that ‘order requires a product’ however we are continuously needing to remind the team to ignore this first box and only use products. In our properties we never want to use this service charge box and hoping someone out here has found a way to hide this. Thanks!

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paul.boulom
Mews Employee
paul.boulomMews Employee
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Tip of the Week: Updating Your Bank Account for Mews PaymentsF.A.Q.

Hi Community, 🌟We've noticed customers asking about updating their bank account details for Mews Payments. To keep your payouts going to the right place, here's a handy guide on how to update your information.Steps to Update Your Bank Account for Mews PaymentsWhen you first signed up with Mews, you provided bank account details via the Customer Verification form. If you need to change these details, here's what to do:Fill Out the Bank Details Update Form: Complete the form with the updated bank information. In question three, choose option "A" for Bank Details Change. Information Required to Complete the Bank Details FormTo ensure a smooth update, have the following information ready:Company Name: The official name as registered with your local business authority. New Bank Account Information: The new account details for receiving payouts. Recent Bank Statement: An official statement, not older than three months, that includes the account details (IBAN, account number, SWIFT, bank na

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dbarnesen
dbarnesenMaster Helper
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Adding products in Guest Portal

I am curious about why it is not possible for guests to purchase upsells after they have checked in? I know they can do it as part of the checkin process in guest portal, but why can’t they do it after?For example, a guest forgot to add parking, then they later open guest portal again, they can read about the reservation that they already know about, but they cannot do anything with it, changes, adding products etc.So the result is that they need to contact the hotel via a message.I just wonder why this is? Is it designed that way on purpose?

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SonjaHelper
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Routing Rules

Is it just me or does it take ages whenever you create a new company profile and want to add a routing rule until the company profile is found? I have to refresh many times until I can find the company. I thought it would be so much easier to already add the routing rule from the company profile directly when creating the company, either by a ticking box or a drop down menu? If you agree: https://feedback.mews.com/forums/918232-property-operations-pms/suggestions/48756575-add-routing-rule-directly-from-company-profile :)

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Asensio MoyaApprentice
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Report - Forcast

Dear MEWS Community, We are new using MEWS, and we would like to give you our thoughts on the subject of reports. We have already discussed this issue with our contact person at MEWS, and apparently the reports we want to / can pull are a bit limited. So I am happy to share our feedback here and open an conversation, in order to see if someone of you have had the same “issue”.  We would need the following data (based on reports) to work in the following topics: - Revenue Conversion --> General and individually (per person)- Lead Conversion --> General and individually (per person)- Lead per hour --> General and individually (per person)- Group Booking Pace --> Group Forecast- No TDN (Turndown) analysis possible --> We can only create the Cancellation Report. At this stage, this is not possible to get this extraction from MEWS. Therefore we need the following data to be able to draw these reports: - Revenue daily per Group with RMN (Room Nights)- Creation Date of the bloc

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Svenja
SvenjaSuperstar Helper
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Space feature classifications

Hello,I keep running into missing space feature classifications to finally make full use of the “Preferred space feature” assignment strategy and the “Optimize space allocation” function Mews. I went through 25 hotels and checked for space features that most hotels seem to have/would be able to make use of.Please use this thread to let me know if I am missing anything important. I will then add this to the existing feature requests in the comments and share the link so we can all upvote. ;-)These are my findings (excluding the ones that already exist):Allergy room Bathtub Carpet City view Close to event space Coffee maker Connecting door Courtyard view Far from elevator Fridge Hardwood floor Kettle Loud Minibar Mountain view Park view Pet Queen bed Quiet Shower Single bed Sofa bed Street view Terrace

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N.HALL ConsultingMaster Contributor
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Zenchef integration - Credit card guarantee

One of my client properties that uses Mews, also utilises Zenchef as the booking software for their F&B services.The client would like to know if the Mews / Zenchef integration also allows for payment / credit card guarantees of reservations, using the Stipe account associated with the Mews subscription. From what I can read in the integration documentation, this is not the case, but if a community member has a solution, I would be extremely grateful for advice.

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JuliaApprentice
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Mews recommends scheduling emergency reports | PDF would be useful

Hi everyone,the shutdone of mews for nearly 5 hours on 17th November was a big struggle for me and my team. Mews recommends to schedule daily reports to be prepared for a shutdown. In my opinion it is helpful to have this, but we need it in PDF format. I already asked for it 3 years ago when we started with mews, but till now it is not possible. The excel reports are very confusing. Please vote for it if you would like to have the scheduled daily reports in PDF format. Thanks in advance! Best regards, Julia

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Jasmin H.Guru
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Checkin Nachricht

Hallo zusammen,gerade jetzt, wenn wir für deutsche Gäste keine Daten mehr abfragen, merken wir wie sehr ein Popup Fenster bei checkin fehlt. (Bisher war es immer ein Post-it auf dem Meldeschein).Habt ihr Tipps, wie Mitarbeiter an Infos erinnert werden, die bei check-in abgefragt werden sollen?Danke euch.Viele Grüße,Jasmin

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jessica.becker
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sdorvilleMaster Apprentice
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Confirmation mode ("do not send" and "send") for booking confirmation and quotation

Hello everyone,we've noticed that when creating a reservation, on the “Details” page, the confirmation mode defaults to “Do not send”. By changing the reservation status (to Requested or Optional) or even back to Confirmed, the confirmation mode automatically changes from “Do not send” to “Send”. This can be a source of error if the person making the reservation doesn't notice it. I think it would be preferable for the confirmation mode to default to “Do not send”, and for the person making the reservation to change it manually if necessary. what do you think? 

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sdorvilleMaster Apprentice
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Confirmation e-mail or quote sent to customer when agency booking

Hello everyone,we have encountered a small problem with customers who received booking confirmations and quotes (with rates) when they were travel agency bookings. customers were able to confirm and cancel these bookings directly from Mews Guest Portal. While it is clearly stated in the configuration of e-mail sending parameters, in the first remark: “Mews does not send e-mails to the recipient's address if it is not that of the company or travel agency associated with the booking.”but it seems that this rule is not applied. can you explain?

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lena.luettgau
lena.luettgauHelper
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Mews Booking Engine- Multi Property

Hello MEWS Community, We are working on customizing the multi-property MEWS booking engine for our websites, which are linked to two PMS systems. We manage two adjacent MEWS properties (though technically with different addresses) and would like to adjust the following elements:                1.            Remove the Address: Is it possible to hide the address field entirely from the                                booking engine?                2.            Change Property Names in Booking Engine Only:                •             Wilmina Hotel → renamed to Hotel                •             Carlotta Apartments → renamed to ApartmentsWe’d like these name changes to apply exclusively to the booking engine without affecting other parts of the system. Alternatively, would it be feasible to overwrite specific elements of the booking engine using custom JSON code? We would greatly appreciate any guidance, tips, or suggestions from those who have tackled similar customization challenges. T

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coudert.mathias
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SonjaHelper
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Merging company profiles

When we started with Mews we uploaded the import file with the already existing company profiles from our old PMS, and it contained a whole bunch of double data so I’m trying to merge the company profiles. Unfortunately I often have the case that one profile has the address, the other doesn’t, and when I want to merge both profiles I don’t see the address information, so I am never really sure which one to keep and which one not, but merging them does not mean the address will be updated and it happens that when I pick the wrong one, the address is just gone. Does anyone have any tips to handle this as uncomplicated as possible? :) 

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SonjaHelper
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Zimmerliste mit bereits existierenden E-Mail-Adressen

Ich habe gerade versucht, im Gruppenreiter eine Zimmerliste mit den Teilnehmern und den E-Mail-Adressen hochzuladen. In der Liste war nun ein Teilnehmer, der bereits einmal zu Gast war und für den bereits ein Konto existiert - das wusste aber vorab niemand, so dass wir den bereits existierenden Gast nicht vor herunterladen der Blanko-Liste die wir an den Bucher geschickt haben noch nicht vorher eingetragen hatten, also war er auf der Blanko-liste auch noch nicht mit seinem bereits existierenden Konto.  Jetzt habe ich von Mews die Fehlermeldung erhalten, dass bereits ein Konto mit der E-Mail-Adresse existiert und musste bei 30 Teilnehmern erst einmal heraussuchen, wer denn bereits im System vorhanden ist.  Hat jemand einen praktikablen Trick, wie man so etwas umgeht? Ich weiß, wäre der Gast bereits eingetragen gewesen, hätte Mews bei der Liste auch diekt die Kundenkennung eingetragen, aber wenn wir den Firmen die Liste blanko schicken und sie vorab noch nicht mitgeteilt hatten, welcher

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jessica.becker
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JeffIrwinApprentice
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Best Gift Card Soloution

What's the best Gift card provider that connects with mews.

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jessica.becker
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paulingobetApprentice
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Rates dependent on several bookable services

Bonjour,Je cherche à faire de mon tarif de base 'Stay' le tarif de base d'un autre service ('Appartements'). Est-il possible de les lier dans l'état actuelle des choses ? L'option Multi-Property pourrait changer quelque chose ?Merci d'avance pour votre aide...

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jessica.becker
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JeffIrwinApprentice
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Can you run Mews on a Mac Operating system?

I know Mews can run on Mac in the cloud, but can it use Mews connector app to connect with printers and key cutters? This is what I find (Looks like you have to run windows) our hotel was going to be switching to Mac.  Install the Mews Connector app onto the same computer as your local devices, for example, key cutters or printers. This computer needs to:be a Windows PC, with Windows Vista or later version, operate 24/7 and never shut down, run on .NET framework 4.8.

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Hendrik Renken
Hendrik RenkenHelper
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Check-in group bookings

Hey Community,  I wonder how you handle automatic check-ins with group bookings in your property?  As a property that only has single beds, all bookings are prepaid and the whole customer journey is digital we have the problem that only the booker is in the system and gets all the messaging.  Is it possible to have an automated process for groups where a form is send out and the group can put Names and email addresses in there and after submitting the individual bookings in Mews are changed?  Would be nice to get some best practice here. Cheers Hendrik

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N.HALL ConsultingMaster Contributor
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Download all bills & invoices in PDF format

I am searching for a solution which will enable me to save all invoices and bills, as individual pdf files for a specific period - ex. Jan 1 2023 to Dec 31 2023.I know that I can generate a report - but it is the details of each bill & invoice that I need to document.It is also possible to do this per invoice…. but that is a really tedious task for a whole year. - https://help.mews.com/s/article/how-to-download-all-bills-and-invoices?language=en_USThanks in advance.Nikolas

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elena.pudova
Mews Employee
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