Set up your hotel
Eight steps that take you from a brand-new account to a hotel that can take bookings, telling you at each one what is missing and where to fix it.
What it solves
Loading a hotel into a new system gets abandoned halfway, and hardly ever for lack of will: for not knowing what is missing. You enter the rooms, open another screen, a field asks for something from a third one, and an afternoon turns into two weeks of "I will finish it this week".
You notice it in things like these
- Nobody can say how much is left before you can sell: you find out when you try and cannot.
- It gets configured out of order and you have to backtrack because the rate plan needed a policy that did not exist yet.
- You get to the end and what is missing is the slowest part: the account the money lands in.
How it works
The eight steps tick themselves
Nothing has to be marked as done: each step looks at the hotel's data and completes itself when it is complete. If something is missing it says so by name, with a link to the screen where it gets fixed, not with a generic warning that sends you hunting through the menu.
The terms come preloaded
The eight catalogue terms exist in every hotel from day one. Setup does not ask for them blank: it shows them to be confirmed, which is a one-minute decision instead of an afternoon of drafting.
The rate plan is proposed, not invented
Step 4 proposes "Flexible Rate" as the parent plan, with "Non-refundable" and "Breakfast Included" derived from it. If the hotel already had the Flexible one, it is reused instead of creating a second one that competes with it.
The payout account, inside setup
Step 6 is the Stripe onboarding, with their hosted identity verification and the refund commitment. It is the hotel's direct-sales account: the accommodation charge is born there and the payout goes to the hotel. It is included in the free plan too, so every hotel goes through this step.
Rooms, in one go
The rooms step takes lines like "10 Doubles at $1,850": it creates the type, its rooms numbered by floor and its starting price, with the same checks as the three separate screens. Loading the hotel stops being a week of data entry.
Where it lives in the panel
- Hotel
- Set up your hotel
What it needs first
An account. Signing up is the only thing that comes first, and it costs nothing: nothing is charged at sign-up.
What it does not do yet
The limits, told by us
- The wizard is still a pilot module: only hotels yaReserva switches on one by one from Admin can see it, until it is turned on for everyone.
- The second Stripe account — the ecosystem one, which collects what is sold on yaReserva.com, Connect and Travel Network — is built and switched off. It turns on once Stripe confirms its pricing.
Carry on here
Shall we walk through it with your hotel on screen?
Half an hour, your rooms and your rates, and whatever questions you have. No commitment and no card.