Within the subscription of a rental, you can have several rooms or apartments. If the room or apartments of the rental all have exactly the same amenities, photos and prices, you would need to activate our Bookable Units App. For a small monthly fee, this allows you to have an unlimited amount of units inside a single rental subscription.
💡 Note: If the amenities and prices of the rooms differ, you need to set up each room as a separate rental.
Read about:
- Important considerations when using Bookable Units
- Activating the Bookable Units App
- Deactivating the Bookable Units App
Important considerations when using Bookable Units
Bookable Units are designed to manage multiple identical rooms or apartments under a single rental. All units are treated as interchangeable, meaning that guests book a unit type rather than a specific room. Because of this setup:
- Units cannot be configured individually. Prices, photos, amenities, and settings apply to all units.
- It is not possible to see which specific unit has been booked.
- Bookable Units do not work with PM modules.
- When using iCal synchronization, availability is blocked for all units of the rental when an iCal event is received.
Bookable Units work best when all rooms or apartments are truly identical. If there is any difference between units (for example, size, view, amenities, or price), we recommend setting them up as separate rentals to ensure accurate availability and a better guest experience.
Activating the Bookable Units App
To activate the Bookable Units App:
- Go to your left-hand menu, select Tools, and then click on Marketplace.
- Now click Bookable Units and click Activate.
- Select or add your preferred payment method.
- Click on Approve charge to bill your payment method and activate the feature.
- Once the credit card has been successfully charged, you need to publish your website. The restriction on the number of bookable units will be removed from your profile and all your rentals will be eligible to have multiple units.
💡 Note: Even though you have multiple units activated, guests will still need to make a separate booking for each unit.
Here is how bookable units will appear on your Lodgify calendar: you will get one row per rental with the associated number of units:
In case you are using the bookable units app and want to connect your rental with external channels such as Airbnb, Booking.com, HomeAway/Vrbo, or Expedia, you can check out this article to learn more about the necessary setup.
Deactivating the Bookable Units App
💡 Note: Deactivating the Bookable Units App moves the bookings of each unit into the remaining rental.
⚠ Be sure to move bookings with overlapping dates into different rentals before cancelling the Bookable Units App, so that you can continue to edit and manage the bookings after deactivating the app.
To deactivate the Bookable Units App:
- Go to your left-hand menu, select Tools, and then click on Marketplace.
- Now click Bookable Units. A slide-in window appears where you need to click Deactivate.