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• What To Do When You Have A No Show From Booking.com or Expedia

  What To Do When You Have A No Show From Booking.com or Expedia Sadly it happens to the best of us hoteliers. You’ve prepared the room for your guest who has booked via Booking.com or Expedia and then... nothing. He or she simply does not show up. Here we explain what you can do when you have a no show. Mark The Booking as a No-Show In Booking.com Open the reservation in your Booking.com Extranet. Here you will find a button to mark a guest as a no-show the day after the planned arrVery popular

• Group Reservations

  Group Reservations Here are a few key points on group reservations and how to create them. All rooms booked within a group always have to have the same arrival and departure dates. If one person stays longer or shorter, this room has to be split from the group and entered separately. Add-ons are always booked to the group as a whole, not one particular room. However, you can decide to split thVery popular

• How To Block Or Close A Room

  How To Block Or Close A Room Blocking a room in your RoomRaccoon PMS prevents it from being bookable via any of your booking channels. The room is in fact closed, the status blocked also makes sure that the room does not count as one of your occupancy rates in your reports. How To Block A Room Click on the day and the room you would like to block, like you are entering a reservation. ![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/61587d0079e73400/screenshot-2020-09-30-at-10375_Very popular

• Guests & Bookers

  Guests & Bookers Your hotel or B&B is home to many guests. However it's not always the case that these guests have booked themselves in, especially if you welcome frequently corporate guests. Therefore, your RoomRaccoon PMS makes a difference between bookers and guests. Bookers Every reservation should have a booker which is why you always should fill in this information first while making a booking. A booker is the person who makes or requests the booking. The details of the booker arVery popular

• Reservation Status via Colour Codes

  It is a very helpful feature for your hotel or B&B to instantly recognise the status of a booking right in your agenda without first having to open every single reservation. Let us have a look at the different statuses that you can assign to a booking in your RoomRaccoon PMS. Blue | Confirmed booking: These bookings are confirmed.   Green | Check-in: While checking in a guest, you should change the status of a booking from booked to checked-in. This will help you to quickly see whoVery popular

• Cancellations

  Bummer, you receive a cancellation for a reservation. How can you make sure the room that was booked, will be bookable again very shortly? Cancellation of the reservation to make sure the room will be bookable again, always has to be done via the channel you received the booking in the first place. For example: when a booking was initially made via Booking or Expedia you have to cancel this booking there. However, a lot of channels will not allow you as a hotelier to cancel this reservation. YoVery popular

• Group Reservations With Different Dates

  Group Reservations With Different Dates Do you have a group reservation where one or more of your guests is staying longer or departing earlier than the rest of the group? You can make this a linked reservation in order to keep everything on one invoice: Here’s How: Open the group reservation or create one if it is not already.Very popular

• Connect a reservation

  Link reservations and invoices. Do you have a guest who returns on a weekly basis and would you like to invoice this in one go? This is now possible by linking the reservations together! Open the reservation of the guest's next arrival date. Click on the 'link' icon of the reservation. Search the reservation by name or reservation number, select the reservation you want to link and click on save. ![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/61587d0079e73400/screenshot-2Very popular

• What is a channel correction?

  The c_hannel correction_ indicates that your guest has booked a room for another rate than specified in your RoomRaccoon account. The price difference needed to be corrected. RoomRaccoon PMS always applies the rate that the guest actually booked. A channel correction does not necessarily mean that something is wrong. Let us give you the most likely causes for a channel correction:  Promotions & Genius Booker discounts A lot of booking channels such as Booking.com encourage hoteliers to setVery popular

• Payment status

  How to see the payment status of a reservation One can easily see the payment status of a booking by looking at the colour of the corner in the calendar. **Step 1: **Go to your calendar overview. Step 2: Take note of the top right corners of the booking blocks. Here follows a list of what each colour represents: Orange corners = No payment received Yellow = PartVery popular

• RoomRaccoon Mobile App

  RoomRaccoon Mobile App RoomRaccoon offers a free mobile app for Android and IOS users. The app is for our users to be able to see their reservations, be notified of new reservations and assign these to different rooms. The App is available on Google Play Store and the Apple Store. Download for Apple [Download for Android](https://play.google.Popular

• Adding Add-Ons to existing reservations

  Adding Add-Ons to existing reservations If a reservation is already made and the guest wants to add a few extras in the form of add-ons, you can easily add these to the system.  Click on the reservation in your calendar Click on the add-on field under the pricing on your right hand side Add the add-on here and click on save. The add-on can be a manual add-on,Popular

• Reservations Breakfast List

  Reservations Breakfast List Many hotels and B&Bs offer breakfast as well as a stay making it helpful to have a breakfast list. The breakfast list is automatically generated within the RoomRaccoon system. To view your breakfast list: Navigate to your agenda above to the reservations breakfast list. Here you can view all guests requiring meals during their stay. Generate a list in advance byPopular

• Checked Out A Reservation By Accident

  Checked Out A Reservation By Accident As you've probably seen once a reservation has been checked out you can't change its reservation. This is because an invoice is created immediately when you change the status to check out. What is the best way to deal with this? Perhaps, instead of cancelling the reservation you checked it out by mistake and you want to make it available again. After checking out, you can't drag and drop the reservation anymore. Simply open the reservation and scrolPopular

• How to cancel an iCal booking

  How to cancel an iCal booking If a booking is being cancelled on a booking channel that is connected to your RoomRaccoon Channel Manager with an iCal connection, the booking is not being cancelled in your RoomRaccoon agenda automatically. Why? RoomRaccoon simply does not get notified about it by the booking channel.  But no worries, you will receive an e-mail of the booking channel informing you about the cancellation. Please make sure that you cancel the booking in your RoomRaccoon agePopular

• Help, I have a Channel correction!

  RoomRaccoon has a function within the system called channel correction. Its name may scare some users, but what is a price deviation and how can I deal with it? The price deviation The price deviation actually says everything it does. There is a demonstrable difference between RoomRaccoon and the channel in question which causes the price to adjust both with a minus amount and sometimes with a higher amount. The price deviation ensures that the correct amount is always communicatedPopular

• What is an affiliate program?

  Often, our next-door neighbours can be our best ambassadors. How? Through an referral program!  Let's start with the most basic program we all host on a daily basis: booking OTAs like Booking.com, Expedia or Airbnb. How does it work? We make our accommodation available on the booking platforms and pay a commission for each of them. But why don't we do the same to increase the direct booking fee? Stop and take a look around. Probably in your area there are dozens of restaurants, shops specializPopular

• How To Send A Document Manually

  How to send a document manually When you create or cancel a reservation manually, you will also need to send the guest’s document manually. Step by step Open the reservation in question from your Agenda. Scroll down, on the left you will find the Documents. Select the document you would like to send. Click on the paper plane next to the document. Check the email address. ![](htPopular

• How To Manually Adjust A Rate

  How To Manually Adjust A Rate You may want to offer your regular guests a discounted rate to say thank you. Or maybe a few friends have booked with you directly and you want to offer a friend discount. Here’s How Click on the reservation you would like to adjust. Add the rate-type to the reservation. Do this by clicking on the arrow icon in the reservation: WhePopular

• Corporate booking arrangements and Tour Operators

  Many tour operators are used to having some sort of access to a Hotel’s PMS, so that they can make bookings without necessarily having to phone the Hotel or make a booking on the hotel’s booking button where credit cards are usually required. With RoomRaccoon corporate booking arrangements can be made where certain companies or tour operators with whom you’ve made a special agreement with can book on your booking button, receive their discounted rate as well as finalise the booking without a crPopular

• Charging (virtual) credit cards via RoomRaccoon

  Charging (virtual) credit cards via RoomRaccoon In order to be able to tax (virtual) credit cards, everything must be set up correctly. In this case, RoomRaccoon will receive the data from the relevant channel and then automatically place it in the Stripe box with the booker, so that you can immediately see whether the credit card is available and can then tax it. Good To Know! Firstly it is mandatory to set up the CVC / CCV with booking.com so that we always get it. For this youPopular

• Linking Payments

  Linking Payments We’ll explain linking payment to invoices below: Open the selected reservation: Under the payment section make sure the payment is added, if not, add the payment:  Click on the icon in between the date and the cost: ![](https://storaPopular

• Booking Timeline

  Booking Timeline When changes are made on bookings, the RoomRaccoon PMS records all these changes that will be visible to you through the booking timeline. To view the timeline of a particular reservation Simply open the booking via RoomRaccoon’s PMS. At the top of the page, you'll find the history button. Here you can see all the changes that have been made. View which parties executed any change on the booking and which date these changes were made. ![](https://sPopular

• Afristay Connection

  How to make an Afristay connection live? Select settings tab on your RoomRaccoon account. Settings Select the connectivity tab on the top of your screen. Connectivity Scroll down to "Available Connections" and then select OTA. ![OTA](https://storage.crPopular

• How to move bookings (Drag&Drop)

  How to move bookings (drag and drop) Drag and drop your reservations can be done in 2 ways. 1. Dragging from within the same roomtype. When you do this, the room will just switch and no rate change will be asked because the im technically speaking the same. **2. Dragging to a different roomtype. ** If this is done you will get the question if you want to keep price or calculate a new rate price. If chosen for the first option, the booked rate will be kept. Think about using thisPopular

• Connecting add-ons on an invoice to a specific day

  Go to the pricing section of the reservation and add an add-on. Click on the link icon to link the add-on to a specific day. Check that the add-on has been posted for a specific day and choose the correct date.  Do you have a [group reservation](https://support.roomraccoon.Popular

• Viewing Saved Credit Card Details

  To view credit card details stored in RoomRaccoon follow the steps below: Open reservation Click on Booker Name (you’ll be able to see if a credit card is attached to the profile with the symbol next to the guest name as indicated below)  Insert password used to loPopular

• Company bookers

  Company bookers At hotels and B&Bs you often get to deal with business guests. Sometimes you have a price agreement with certain guests and sometimes you have a price agreement with an entire company. But how are these bookers are created? Separate business booker with a price agreement: Create a booker under the icon on the left (the doll). Here you can search for an exiPopular

• Different ways to view the calendar

  According to the characteristics and way of working in your property, the RoomRaccoon system allows you to choose different ways of viewing the agenda. Learn everything here. Three types of visualisation Standard View Compact View ![](https://storage.crPopular

• Why should I check my guests out?

  Why Should I Check My Guests Out? Check-out is an important point of contact and often the last chance to make a good impression on your guests. RoomRaccoon makes check-out as smooth as possible. During check-out, the guest is in front of you and it’s nice to not have to dig around for all the printed bills (which were prepared the night before) and find the right invoice? With our one click check-out you can open the guest's reservation and print out the invoice. Another coke from the minibaSome readers

• Price agreement for business bookers

  Price agreement for business bookers As a hotelier, you may want to have a negotiated rate with different companies who stay in your hotel or B&B regularly. With RoomRaccoon these companies can book directly on your booking engine with their negotiated rate automatically set. How to Set up a negotiated rate on RoomRaccoon Access the Bookers section on the left of the screen. Go to the main booker of the company and add all data of the company. In the lower right corner you willSome readers

• Channel Correction

  RoomRaccoon has a function within the system called Channel Correction. Its name may scare some users, but what is a channel correction and how can you deal with it in the best way? Channel Correction The Channel Correction actually says what it does. There is a demonstrable difference between RoomRaccoon and the channel in question, which means that the price has to be adjusted both by a minus amount or sometimes by a higher amount. The price deviation ensures that the correct amount isSome readers

• Locking a booking

  Once in a while a guest prefers a specific room. Lock the booking in your RoomRaccoon PMS to a specific room so that you or your colleges can no longer (accidentally) move the booking to another room. Click on the reservation On the guest bar, click on the lock icon Click on saveSome readers

• Setting reminders for reservations

  In RoomRaccoon it is possible to set reminders for specific reservations. Open the reservation and click on the bell icon: Remind yourself to check if a prepayment has been done in time Remind yourself to confirm an optional bookingSome readers

• How to overbook rooms

  How to overbook rooms A functionality that is not suited to all hoteliers. Larger hoteliers often take the risk of selling more rooms than they actually have available. They do this to maximise their occupancy and take last minute cancellations and no-shows into account. Would you like to use this function? Contact our Customer Success Team! This feature is included with RaccoonRev! How does this work? When the overbookiSome readers

• Invoicing in RoomRaccoon

  In the RoomRaccoon account it is possible to send invoices, split and credit where necessary. This is a very extensive part of the system, click on the article you have questions about. FAQ over invoicing Invoicing within RoomRaccoon [How does the Proforma work?](https://help.roomraccoon.com/en/article/how-does-the-Some readers

• Operations Training

  Operations Training Click here to watch our operations training. Content Intro How to create a booking Bookers and guests How to deal with group reservations How to link reservations How to deal with cancellations and no-shows How to check a reservation in and out How to change prices in a reservations Add-ons Invoicing Credit Invoices Payments Payments with RaccooSome readers

• Manage Booking.com content through RoomRaccoon

  Manage Booking.com content through RoomRaccoon Would you like to update your listing on Booking.com? This can easily be done in RoomRaccoon! How does this work? Click on the gear icon at the bottom left of the screen and open the connectivity tab. Under active connections, click on the green icon for the Booking.com tile. Click on > update listing on Booking.com to make adjustments to your listing. Once you have made the necessary changes, click on > **uSome readers

• How do I manage a reservation that closes a room automatically?

  How do I manage a reservation that closes a room automatically? Let us explain how you handle a reservation that closes a room automatically. How does it work: When a reservation is created on this roomtype, a block on the other room is shown. This block is green and looks different than when you normally block a room. Would you like to change the date of the reservation? You can do this in the main reservation, the block automatically changes too. Is the reservation cancelSome readers

• How to add a reservation to the agenda

  How to add a reservation to the agenda A guest calls and wants to make a reservation. This article will explain you step by step what you need to do in order to add a reservation to the agenda. Follow these steps Open your agenda and click on the white box below the date and next to the room type that the guest wants to book. Example: Room 05 for 25 February A newFew readers

• What To Do If A Guest Changes Their Room in Booking.com?

  What To Do If A Guest Changes Their Room in Booking.com? In the event you get a notification from Booking.com that a guest has changed their room choice, you will need to go into your RoomRaccoon reservations and do the same, here’s how: Click on the reservation that needs to be changed. Select the Edit [![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/61587d0079e73400/edit-icon_wiwzk.Few readers

• Unsuccessful Booking Created From Your Booking Engine

  Unsuccessful Booking Created From Your Booking Engine In the unlikely yet possible event that a guest tries to make a booking through your RoomRaccoon booking engine but cannot do so due to a payment issue, we would like to ensure that you are aware of this so that you save the booking! Why would a booking fail on my RoomRaccoon booking engine? In most cases, it’s due to payment reasons. Here are some of the reasons a booking could possibly fail: Insufficient funds on the guest’sFew readers

• Managing Early Departures

  Early Departures If in the event your guests decide to leave early and you want to make the room available again, you can, after charging the OTA or booker / guest. This process also works for bookings that have been cancelled. OTA Bookings: After charging the OTA simply go to the reservation in your calendar Select and hold the reservation and move it to a grey room. ![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/Few readers

• Create, View & Edit Bookmarks On Your Mobile Phone

  Create, view & edit bookmarks on your mobile phone Using the RoomRaccoon mobile platform is a great way to view and assign bookings. The app is another way for RoomRaccoon to give you control through access on multiple platforms. You can bookmark RoomRaccoon on your mobile device and the feature is available on both Android and iOS and you can access this in the process below. Android How to add a new bookmark on your android phone On your Android phone or tablet, open tFew readers

• What Happens To a Cancelled Booking

  What happens to a cancelled Booking When a booking is cancelled, this removes the booking from your calendar. If the booking is cancelled and you have a tax invoice it will show up on the debtors list - to remove this from the debtor’s list you need to create a credit note on the cancelled booking. When the status of the booking is cancelled, this will not affect the management report. How to create a credit note **Go to the reservation **in question. Click on the plus icon toFew readers

• How to move reservations in the agenda with a full occupancy

  How to move reservations in the agenda with a full occupancy RoomRaccoon has flexibility in changing and moving reservations, we have adjusted the functionality in a way that you can do this even with full occupancy so that you can configure reservations to your preference. How to move reservations Access the Reservations Tab by clicking the Calendar icon on the left. Identify the Room which you would like to move or swap. Simply click on the reservation you would like to swFew readers

• How to Add Company Bookers

  How to add Company bookers RoomRaccoon offers negotiated rates with companies which regularly stay at your property. You can add multiple bookers for a given company as long as this is linked to the main booker information. How to add multiple bookers in a company Separate business booker with a price agreement: By clicking on guest history (left side of the screen), you can click on a boFew readers

• How to Change the Dates of An Existing Booking

  How to change the dates of an existing bookings With so much uncertainty around travelling during these unprecedented times, the ability to have flexibility on dates is important now more than ever. On RoomRaccoon you can change the dates of a pre-existing booking by changing the dates on the reservation itself. How to change dates of booked reservations Access the reservation tab and click on the reservation you want to change. ![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/websiFew readers