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Room type vs room unit

A room type is what you sell — “Sea View Double”; a room unit is an actual room — 204. One type contains many units.

Worked example

  1. A property has 14 Sea View Doubles. On a given night, 13 are sold.
  2. Type-level availability says "1 Sea View Double free" and cannot say which.
  3. Unit-level says 207 is free — which matters when the guest asking is the one who stayed in 207 last year.

Why it matters

Software that only models types starts lying the moment you have two of something. It can tell you a Sea View Double is free; it cannot tell you whether 204 or 205 is the free one.

That gap is where the notes-in-a-booking workaround lives, and it fails the moment the person who remembers is off.

The distinction also decides whether housekeeping can work from the system. A board that tracks types tells a housekeeper that one of fourteen rooms needs cleaning, which is not information anyone can act on.

In MangoHost

Both levels are modelled. The type holds the rate, the photos and the capacity; the units underneath are the real rooms, individually assignable, and housekeeping works at the unit level.

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Related terms

  • Out of order vs out of serviceOut of service means a room is temporarily unsellable but still counted in your inventory; out of order means it is taken out of the count entirely.
  • Double-bookingA double-booking is two confirmed reservations for the same room on the same night — one of which you cannot honour.

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