Set up rooms and unit types

Everything else in Stayblox hangs off your units. Rates are set per unit type, availability is counted per unit type, and when you connect a channel, its rooms map to your unit types. So before you touch prices or calendars, make the structure match the building you actually run.

Start with the property

A property can be a hotel or a rental, single-unit or multi-unit. The test is simple. One address with one set of check-in and check-out times is one property. A guesthouse with six rooms is one property. Two villas on opposite sides of town are two properties, even if you think of them as one business.

Then create unit types

Under each property you create unit types. A unit type is a room category or an apartment type, not necessarily one physical room. Four identical doubles are one unit type with four units, not four separate types. But if two of those doubles have balconies and cost more, split them into their own type, because guests should pay for what they actually get.

Beds are configured per unit type, so set them to match what is really in the room. A double plus a sofa bed is not the same promise as two singles, and guests notice the difference on arrival, never before.

Photos and amenities live on the unit type

Whatever you attach to a unit type is what a guest sees when booking it. Photograph the actual category, not the renovated corner room, and list only the amenities every unit in that type really has. If one room has a bathtub and three do not, the bathtub does not belong on the type.

Times belong to the property

Check-in and check-out times are set per property, and every unit under it shares them. Set them early. They shape cleaning schedules and what guests read while they book.

Get this skeleton right and rates, availability and channel mapping all land where they should. Get it wrong and you will be untangling it in your busiest week.