Set up your hotel and start selling

Each step ticks itself off using your hotel’s own data: nobody checks boxes by hand. If something is missing, the step tells you which field it is and takes you to the screen where you fix it.

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   Step 1: Your property

   Fill in the address, time zone, check-in and check-out times, and a phone or email.

   • Your address decides which lodging tax (ISH) applies: the state, and the municipality if it sits in a border zone.
   • The time zone is not a detail: it decides the cut-off for same-day arrival, the end-of-day close and the invoicing window.
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   Step 2: Rooms and prices

   Add your room types with quick add — one line like “10 Doubles at $1,850” — and set each type’s starting price.

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   Step 3: Terms of sale

   Your hotel already comes with the eight most common terms ready to use; here you only confirm them. The cancellation policy is chosen when you create your main rate plan.

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   Step 4: Main rate plan

   We suggest a Flexible Rate as the parent and two derived rates that follow it on their own: Non-Refundable and Breakfast Included. If you already have a Flexible Rate, it is reused.

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   Step 5: Where you sell

   Choose where each plan is sold: the booking widget on your site, yaReserva.com, and Booking, Expedia and other agencies through the channel manager.

   • Channels are set automatically from the plan’s audience: a corporate rate can’t end up published on Booking even if the API is called directly.
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   Step 6: Payout account

   Verify your identity and bank account in Stripe’s secure form. That is where money from your direct sales lands.

   • You can’t go live without the account ready, and you can’t generate a payment link either.
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   Step 7: Agreement and card

   Read and accept the partner agreement with your name, and add the card for your fee and commissions. Nothing is charged when you add it.

   • The agreement is filled in with your plan type’s current figures — fee, ramp-up, commissions, activation, Anchor and refunds — and the exact copy of what you read is stored.
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   Step 8: Go live

   Once nothing is left as “missing” or “in review”, the “Go live” button turns on yaReserva.com, your web sales and the booking widget in one step.

The checklist keeps the two apart, which is why a requirement can be “ready”, “missing” or “in review”. “Missing” is yours to fix; “in review” is ours and doesn’t depend on you.

• Reviewed by yaReserva: your state’s lodging tax rate and your tax profile.
• Yours to fix: the property details, rooms, prices, policies, the plan, channels, the payout account, the agreement and the card.
• While you wait for the review you can get everything else ready: nothing else is blocked.

• yaReserva.com, the public OTA where your hotel appears to any guest.
• Your direct web sales.
• The booking widget, which also keeps its own gate: domain, gateway and publishable key.