To be able to book an accommodation type, it needs to have a valid release for the release type Everyone. The release can be set per period (fixed arrival dates) or per number of days in the future. The maximum number of days is 730.

The release date is needed for Reservation Manager, Bookings engines, Interfaces like Booking.com.

Releasing can be done in 3 phases:

Available for Owner bookings
Available for Testing: the accommodation is available in the test module, but cannot be booked in the reservation manager or other ways of making a booking.
Available for Everyone: a booking can be made through all applications.
1. Extra note: When releasing for Everyone, this means that that the accommodation type will be available for the reservation manager, own website and all TO connections will have the availability also.

Facts

There is no inheritance on Release
Releases can be updated in the Batch Update feature