Combine two rooms to sell as a suite

Sell two or more rooms individually and, at the same time, together as a suite. The suite is a virtual room that needs availability in all its real rooms, and a booking in one closes the other through a mirror booking.

Warning: Test your dependencies thoroughly. Connecting one physical room more than once to a booking channel risks overbookings. See How to setup Room Linking and Dependencies.

Quick Guide

1. In Settings > Properties > Rooms, create the real rooms and a virtual room for the suite.
2. In Settings > Properties > Rooms > Dependencies, make the suite require availability in the real rooms with Combination Logic = All rooms must be available.
3. Set Include Bookings from = the suite for each real room.

Table of Contents

1. How it works
2. Example 1: Single and double room sold as a suite
3. Example 2: Two identical rooms of one room type sold as a suite
4. Example 3: Two suites sharing a room
5. Example 4: One room of a room type combined into a suite

How it works

• You sell the rooms individually or as a suite.
• The virtual room (suite) needs availability in all of the real rooms.
• Bookings are assigned to the booked room or suite, and a mirror booking in the other rooms or suite closes their availability.

In every example, create the rooms in Settings > Properties > Rooms, set them up in Settings > Properties > Rooms > Setup (use the context help (?) for further setup instructions) and set the dependencies in Settings > Properties > Rooms > Dependencies.

Example 1: Single and double room sold as a suite

A B&B has 2 rooms, a single and a double. They can be sold individually or together as a suite.

1. Create the real rooms: Double with Quantity = 1 and Single with Quantity = 1.
2. Create the virtual room Suite.
3. Set the dependencies:

Example 2: Two identical rooms of one room type sold as a suite

A lodging has 2 identical rooms set up as one room type with a quantity of 2. The rooms can be sold individually or together as a suite.

1. Create the real room type Rooms with a Name and Quantity = 2.
2. Create the virtual room Suite with a Name and Quantity = 1.
3. Set the dependencies:

Note: If you use Include Bookings from in the suite, the unit allocation within its units doesn't work.

Example 3: Two suites sharing a room

A lodging has a double room and a twin room. The twin room is also sold as a king room. The double and the twin are sold as Suite 1, and the double and the king as Suite 2. The 2 real rooms, the king room and the 2 suites can all be sold separately.

1. Create the real rooms Double and Twin, each with Quantity = 1.
2. Create the virtual rooms King, Suite 1 and Suite 2, each with Quantity = 1.
3. Set the dependencies (Dependency Level = Ignore Sub Dependencies and Assign Bookings to = This Room for all rooms):

Example 4: One room of a room type combined into a suite

A B&B has 3 standard rooms (Tulip, Iris, Rose) and one economy room. Tulip can be combined with the economy room to form a suite.

1. Create the real rooms:
   • Room type standard: Name = Iris and Rose, Quantity = 2, Sell Priority = Hide to hide it from your booking page.
   • Standard room: Name = Tulip, Quantity = 1, Sell Priority = Hide.
   • Economy room: Name = Economy, Quantity = 1.
2. Create the virtual rooms:
   • Room type standard: Name = Standard, Quantity = 3.
   • Room type suite: Name = Suite, Quantity = 1.
3. Set the dependencies:

Expected result: Booking the suite closes both of its rooms, and booking one of its rooms closes the suite.

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