Maintained once, every category applies equally to reception and the Booking Engine.

The category is the sellable room product: name, code, capacity, pricing foundation, beds, size, amenities, copy and photos. Individual rooms are assigned to this shared sales logic.

Guests book the category product. The physical room carries number, floor, current occupancy, block and housekeeping state. This separation prevents duplicate sales copy and inconsistent images by room number.

A clear name and unique code form the core. Base price, standard and maximum occupancy, possible extra beds, bed type, size and the chosen overbooking-protection logic complete it.

The base price is the traceable starting point for the category. Rate plans, rules, seasonal pricing and daily prices build on it instead of spreading prices across multiple room forms.

Standard occupancy describes the regularly prepared sleeping places. Maximum occupancy also considers allowed extra beds and forms the upper sellable capacity.

STRYK calculates effective capacity from standard places, extra beds and the stored maximum. Internal room selection and Booking Engine check guest count and specific room setup against these limits.

Yes. Bed type and square metres belong to the category and therefore sit where guests compare the product. The team does not repeat them for every room number.

Wi-Fi, TV, safe, minibar, balcony, air conditioning, desk, phone, hair dryer, bathrobe and other central amenities are assigned to the category. Booking Engine can use the same selection.

Yes. Short and long descriptions are maintained for each language the hotel enables for its website. The Booking Engine is available in all 18 STRYK languages.

The short description supports quick purchase decisions in cards and selection steps. The long description explains feel, use and distinctive details where a guest needs more confidence before booking.

Authorised users upload real photos, crop them deliberately, order them and remove outdated images. Files belong to the category rather than living as loose links in a marketing form.

The published Booking Engine uses category, images, copy, capacity, amenities and matching rate plans as one sellable product. Unpublished drafts remain in internal preview.

Yes. Live photos are delivered through the active property slug and a specific photo ID. A public booking page therefore receives only its own property’s images.

Yes. Floor, starting number and count can be prepared as batches. Real property inventory is created quickly and deliberately without demo rooms or later copy-paste work.

Existing categories show a visible auto-save state: changed, saving, saved or error. A limited change history allows the latest working state to be deliberately undone.

Only a category with no assigned rooms can be deleted. This protection prevents sellable inventory, existing room links or operational workflows from accidentally losing their foundation.

Accommodation protection works with shared category inventory. Unit protection aligns sale more closely with specifically active rooms and can therefore be selected only once the category contains real rooms.

The availability matrix summarises total inventory, booked rooms, blocks, manual reductions and remaining sale by day. The category remains the understandable control level.

Base price, daily pricing, rules and rate plans refer unambiguously to the sold category. STRYK calculates the effective price for date, guest count, rate and possible discounts without maintaining room prices twice.

Yes. Closures and capacity caps affect the category for a defined period. Existing bookings remain visible while new sale respects the controlled restriction.

Each STRYK category and its rate is mapped to the matching room type on the connected portals, for example on Booking.com, Expedia or Airbnb. Availability, rates and reservations therefore reach the correct room offer. Which portals are active depends on your hotel’s mapping. Connect Booking.com, Expedia, Airbnb and other channels to STRYK. Manage rates and availability centrally and handle OTA reservations in the calendar.

Reading rooms and managing room master data are separate permissions. Successful creation, change and deletion are recorded in the activity log; errors remain visible and are not shown locally as saved.

No. Categories, copy, photos, amenities, capacities and the connection to pricing and Booking Engine are part of the single STRYK offer, with no setup fee and no hidden category module price. External distribution partners may charge their own fees.