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Rooms & availability, Availability & blocks

For each category and day you see what is booked, blocked and still sellable.

Maintenance, refurbishment or rooms held back, you only sell what is genuinely free.

Availability & blocks

Sell the last room only once

Maintenance, refurbishment or rooms held back, you only sell what is genuinely free.

Availability & blocks
Availability & blocks, Inside the product

Availability & blocks

01

Sell the last room only once

02

Plan refurbishments without losing bookings

03

Limit or close categories by day

04

Offer double rooms as singles on purpose

05

Reception and website sell the same inventory

06

Every block with a reason and a name

How it works in your hotel

  1. 01Daily grid: total, booked, blocked, reduced, free
  2. 02Room block for maintenance, repair or refurbishment
  3. 03Release time on the last day of the block
  4. 04Category limit or full closure
  5. 05Flexible occupancy per room or category
  6. 06Control OTA sales separately
  7. 07Fresh check right before every confirmation
  8. 08Dedicated permission for availability changes

Four practical jobs in daily hotel operations.

01

Bathroom refurbishment on the second floor

Four rooms are blocked for three weeks with the reason ‘refurbishment’ and drop out of room selection, the Booking Engine and free capacity.

02

Holding rooms for an enquiry

For a wedding enquiry that is still open, you limit the category at the weekend. If it is cancelled, you lift the limit again.

03

Double room as a single

In low season you offer selected double rooms to solo travellers, with their own occupancy pricing and only one bed made up.

04

Two requests, one room

Website and reception reach for the last room at the same time. STRYK checks right before confirmation and allocates it only once.

Common questions: Availability & blocks

What does availability mean in STRYK?+

Availability is the capacity that can still genuinely be sold on a property day. STRYK combines existing rooms, bookings, specific room blocks and manual category limits for this purpose.

Which values does the daily matrix show?+

For each category and day, total inventory, booked rooms, blocked rooms, manual reduction and remaining availability are compared. The property therefore sees not only a number but also its cause.

Do internal booking and the Booking Engine use the same values?+

Yes. Both use the same authoritative availability calculation. A block or reduction is therefore not merely shown decoratively in one view but respected in the actual booking journey.

Is availability checked again before saving?+

Yes. Immediately before confirmation, STRYK checks free capacity and current sales limits again. A last room sold in the meantime is not promised twice.

What is a specific room block?+

It removes a specific physical room from sale for a defined period. Booking selection, calendar and availability matrix all respect the same block.

Which reasons can be recorded for a block?+

Cleaning, maintenance, repair, renovation, owner use or a custom reason can be selected. An additional note explains what the team must complete before release.

Can a block end at a specific time?+

An optional release time can be set on the final day. This suits a morning technical inspection after which the room should become available again the same day.

How is a room released again?+

An active block is deliberately removed in the block overview or ends after its defined period. The result flows immediately into calendar, room selection and remaining capacity.

What does a category limit do?+

It limits, by day, how many rooms in a category can still be newly sold, without blocking a specific room. This helps, for example, during renovation phases or when you deliberately hold rooms back for an open enquiry. It is not a separate group or allotment management tool.

What happens to existing bookings when capacity is reduced?+

Existing bookings remain intact. The limit controls how much more may be sold and cannot be treated as if confirmed stays simply disappeared.

Can a property close a period completely?+

Yes. A closure or capacity limit of zero removes the affected sale from availability under control. Period, category and reason remain clearly traceable.

Can active and past blocks be found?+

The overview searches room, category and reason, prioritises active blocks and can reveal past entries. The team can find an existing rule before accidentally creating a duplicate.

What is a flexible room setup?+

It represents a prepared sales setup for a period, such as a double room for single occupancy or a family room with an extra bed. The physical category remains; only permitted sale is adjusted by day.

Which values belong to a room setup?+

Sellable guest count, prepared beds and pricing occupancy are defined separately. STRYK therefore distinguishes how many people can stay, what is physically prepared and which occupancy the price applies to.

Does a flexible setup apply to a room or category?+

Depending on purpose, it is assigned to a specific room or an entire category. Target and period always remain visible so a seasonal exception does not accidentally alter the wrong inventory.

Can a setup stop sales completely?+

Yes. Sale permission is a separate state. A prepared room can therefore remain described internally without being offered as bookable during the selected period.

How are connected distribution channels handled?+

The property decides which availability is distributed to connected channels. STRYK shows delivery, outcome and any discrepancy so the team works with the actual channel state.

How does STRYK protect different accommodation models from overbooking?+

Depending on category, protection can apply to the entire accommodation or individual units. A classic room property can therefore be handled differently from a product with divisible units.

Does availability automatically change the room price?+

No. Availability answers whether and how much may be sold. Prices, rate plans and pricing rules remain in the responsible pricing area but use the same sellable inventory in the actual booking offer.

Do availability changes remain traceable?+

Creating, changing and removing blocks, limits and setups are attributed to the property and responsible user. Name, period and operational reason remain on the record.

Who may change availability?+

Only employees with availability-management permission may change blocks and restrictions. Room or booking read access alone does not permit reducing sellable capacity.

Do defects and renovation belong in housekeeping?+

No. States that block sales are managed as room or availability blocks. Housekeeping describes cleaning and release, while maintenance, defects and renovation must also affect the Booking Engine and sellable capacity.

Does availability control cost extra and how can you try it?+

It is part of the STRYK core package, with no set-up fee and no separate availability module. In your demo access you block a room, reduce a category and check the result in the matrix, the calendar and the booking journey.

Could Availability & blocks work for your hotel?

14 days free. All STRYK core apps included. No setup fee; optional AI modules are separate.

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