Amenities

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Last updated: Feb 14, 2020 by Ruben de Looff

Amenities are features or characteristics of a unit or accommodation type. In the Amenity module (under Setup) amenities are added and optionally can be grouped in amenity groups. Amenities are linked to accommodation types or individual units. 

There are different types of amenities:

  1. simple= the amenity has just a text, for example TV
  2. number= in the link to the accommodationtype or unit, a number can be added, for example TV → 2
  3. text= in the link to the accommodation type or unit, a text can be added, for example TV → Smart tv
  4. group= the amenity has linked other amenities, for example Airport , linked to this the amenity distance to Airport and Airport → Amsterdam Schiphol (text)


How to create a new amenity

  1. Open the Content Manager
  2. Navigate to Configuration Panel
  3. Select Amenity
  4. Click on New amenity (bottom right corner)
  5. Or add contentmanager/configuration/amenities to the url and click on New amenity
  6. A wizard will pop up 
    1. Fill in the name and code of the new amenity (example: Wine Cooler)
    2. Choose a type: simple, number, text, group (example: Simple)
    3. Add the category of the new amenity (example: Kitchen)


Amenity Categories

Amenity categories are used to group amenities. This grouping can be used in the Reservation Manager to be able to filter on a specific group of Amenities, for example, to filter on location amenities (Configure search criteria and search result reservation manager). 


The same is used in the webmanager, to group certain amenities, like USP's. and to create certain filters:


How to update amenity categories

  1. Open the Content Manager
  2. Navigate to Configuration Panel
  3. Select Amenity
  4. Click on Manage categories (bottom right corner)
How to process changes for a specific category
  1. Click on the category where the change needs to be processed
  2. A new page will open where:
    1. the category can be removed
    2. new subcategories can be added
    3. amenities can be unlinked
    4. new amenities can be linked
    5. translations can be added


How to create a new category set
  1. Click on New Category Set to create a new category
  2. A wizard will pop up:
    1. Fill in a name and code
  3. Click on Create
  4. Complete the configuration by linking the amenities to the new category set