View Property Availability and Configure Sell Limits (Video Transcript)

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In this video you will learn how to view property  availability and change the sell limits.

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Property availability provides  a comprehensive view by day of

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the available and sold rooms for the  property to manage room inventory.

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Let's get started. Go to inventory

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and select property availability. Now I can change the property or the date.

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Or I could select to display the search  results by room type or room class.

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I also have the option to click either the room  class or room type magnifying glass to select a

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specific room type or room class. Next, I click search.

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I can view the property  availability for 28 days.

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The list of room types displays on the

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left with each day displaying the  maximum number of available rooms.

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I click view options to select which values  display on the property availability view.

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For example, I can select these various options to  display availability for the entire property.

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Or I can select options to display availability  for each room type, such as the number of arrivals

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departures or the number of persons.  The rooms available to sell considers

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the out of order rooms and the sell limit. I click expand all to expand the room type rows

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to display all the selected  availability view options.

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I click the available rooms number below  the date for the deluxe kingroom type

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to set the sell limits for the specific  day. I can also select a date range or

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a day of the week to set the sell  limits for a specific period of time.

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I can set sell limits using positive numbers  to allow overbooking or by using negative

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numbers to set an underbooking ceiling. Next, I click on the minus sign to decrease

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the number of available rooms to 35. Or by using 0 I can reset the sell limits

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and then click save. Now, I can see the negative 2

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sell control value for the room type after  I reduce the sell limit from 37 to 35.