Combined Bookings are bookings that involve more than one property or unit. Although relatively rare, they are common enough that we would like to provide support for it in Bookerville.

With Release 3.5, Bookerville supports Combined Bookings at the Manager level. This means that once a booking has been created, you can click into it and add more properties to it. A pop-up lists your available properties, sorted by occupancy and base price. When you check or un-check properties in this list, the occupancy base price totals are updated at the bottom, to help you accommodate the needs of your guests.

This is a handy feature, and a far cry better than having to manually enter separate bookings for each property in the Combined Booking. But there are probably some enhancements that can be made, and here is where we need community feedback.

What happens with the rates in a Combined Booking? What should Bookerville do as an automatic default? Just sum up the rates for all properties in the Combined Booking? Should some kind of discount be applied automatically? If so, then is this a simple percent discount, or does the discount get larger as the number of properties increases? How would we want Bookerville to automatically calculate a default price for Combined Bookings?

What about cleaning fees? Security deposits? Should these just be added together for all properties in the Combined Booking?

What about Guest Options? These can be different per property. Should all of the Guest Options be presented for all properties in one pop-up? Or should it pop-up separate Guest Option lists, one for each property in order to keep the options grouped and focused on the property they belong to? Or should Guest Options just be ignored for Combined Bookings?

Please let us know your thoughts!

Thanks,

John

 

 
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