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About rooms and rates

Updated over 4 months ago

Little Hotelier makes it easy to manage your rooms and rates across all your connected channels.

Understanding your setup

Your rooms and rates setup consists of:

  1. Room types

  2. Rate plans

  3. Room rates

  4. Channel room rates

Room types

A room type is a category of rooms that share similar characteristics, such as the type of room (standard or deluxe), number of occupants allowed, bed type and room views.

Common room types include:

  • Single room

  • Double room

  • Family room

  • Accessible room

  • Studio

  • Apartment

To create or manage room types:

  1. Navigate to Rooms and rates > Room types

  2. Follow the on-screen instructions to add or edit room types


Rate plans

Rate plans help you sell your rooms in different ways to attract more guests.

Common rate plans include:

  • Standard rates that offer flexible booking terms

  • Non-refundable rates at a discounted price

  • Breakfast included rates for guests who want meal options

  • Advance purchase rates for early bookers

  • Extended stay rates with minimum night requirements

To create or manage rate plans:

  1. Navigate to Rooms and rates > Rate plans

  2. Follow the on-screen instructions to add or edit rate plans

Creating derived rate plans

You can create discounted rate plans by deriving rates from another rate plan:

  • Example 1: Derive a non-refundable rate plan from your standard rate plan with a 15% discount

  • Example 2: Create a breakfast included rate plan linked to your standard rate plan with an additional $20 per night


Room rates

A room rate is created when you assign a rate plan to a room type. For example, when you assign your breakfast included rate plan to your double room type, this creates a room rate called Double room, Breakfast included.

Your room rate automatically includes:

  • Occupancy settings from the room type

  • Pricing and restrictions from the rate plan

  • Any inclusions from the rate plan

You can override settings for individual room rates if needed.

To create or manage room rates:

  1. Navigate to Rooms and rates > Rate plans

  2. Select a rate plan to create or modify room rates

Channel room rates

When you map a room rate to a channel, this creates a “channel room rate”. This mapping ensures your inventory is distributed across your connect booking channels.

To manage your channel room rates:

  1. Navigate to Distribution > Channels

  2. Click the ellipsis button (three dots button) next to the channel

  3. Select Edit room rates mapping

  4. This will take you to the channel’s Room rates mapping page — the central place to manage your mapping and channel room rate configuration

From this page you can:

  • Map new room rates to the channel

  • Update settings for existing mapped channel room rates

  • Check which rates are mapped/unmapped, or enabled/disabled

You can also view your mapped channel rates in Distribution > Inventory by clicking the channel's down arrow.

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