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Setting a hotel up

Going live: the readiness checks

Eleven or so checks per hotel, and what each one means it cannot do yet.

Readiness answers one question per hotel: can it actually trade?

The checks cover:

Visible and sellable — the hotel is active, not staged. A staged hotel is invisible and nobody can book it, which is the right state while it is being set up and the wrong state on opening day.
Room types and rooms — types exist, and there are rooms under them.
Rates loaded, and how far ahead they reach.
Tax registration — GSTIN and state, without which no invoice is right.
Payment methods, business sources, reasons lists — the short lists the desk picks from.
At least one user who can sign in and work there.

A hotel with everything green can take a booking, check a guest in, bill them and invoice them. That is what green means, and nothing weaker.

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Opening a hotel: the whole thing in orderSix phases from the GST certificate to the first night audit, and what each one needs. Getting the hotel group signed upWhat Asar does, what the hotel does, and why nobody here chooses your password. After the wizard: making the hotel actually readyThe wizard makes a hotel that exists. This is what makes it one that can trade. Setting the restaurant up, in the order it has to be doneGST groups and stations before dishes, dishes before tables. Backwards means rebuilding the menu. The first real dayOne booking end to end before you rely on it, then the three daily habits. The month after openingFour things to read on a schedule, and the one that changes on its own. Adding a hotel: the five stepsOne wizard, five steps, and the hotel exists. Everything after it is adjustable. Room types and real room numbersThe type sets the price. The numbers are the rooms a guest is actually given. Rates, plans and the cancellation policyA rate per type and date, and the rules that go with selling it. Rates run out — the check that is not about configurationA hotel that was ready in August stops being sellable in February. Load rates further ahead. The onboarding boardEvery hotel in the group at once, and what each is still missing. Lists and reasonsEighteen short lists your staff pick from, and why free text was worse.