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Setting a hotel up

The onboarding board

Every hotel in the group at once, and what each is still missing.

Readiness answers the question for one hotel, when somebody thinks to ask. Nobody thinks to ask.

The Onboarding screen asks it for all of them at once: every property in the group, what is done, what is outstanding, and which warnings are close enough to matter. Opening twenty hotels one at a time and reading eleven checks each is how the question went unasked for a month.

Read it:

Everything on it is a link to the screen that fixes it.

More in Setting a hotel up

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. Going live: the readiness checksEleven or so checks per hotel, and what each one means it cannot do yet. Lists and reasonsEighteen short lists your staff pick from, and why free text was worse.