How to combine rooms with Split Inventory and examples of usage cases

Split Inventory simplifies things by merging similar physical room types into one virtual room type, which can then be linked to different physical room types.

For instance, we can offer a Suite room created by combining two connected Deluxe rooms:

Setting up

Follow the steps below to create a Suite room and connect it with two Deluxe rooms:

1. Create a new virtual room type as a Suite, go to Split Inventory and click
2. Select the Suite room as a primary accommodation and link two Deluxe rooms to become one connected unit. Click Save.

Result

Here is how it will look once linked:

• When the Suite receives a reservation, all Deluxe rooms will be blocked and removed from the available inventory.
• When one of the Deluxe rooms is booked, the Suite becomes unavailable as well.

You can make new virtual rooms by picking two different room types. Here, we're mixing a standard room with a deluxe room to make a Duplex room.

Setting up

1. Create a new virtual room type as a Duplex, go to Split Inventory, and click
2. Select Duplex as a primary accommodation type
3. Link the Standard room
4. Click on +Add Accommodation type
5. And link the Deluxe room as well
6. Save

Result

This is how it should look once linked:

• When the Duplex receives a reservation, the Deluxe and Standard rooms will be blocked and removed from the available inventory.
• If you sell the Deluxe or the Standard room, the Duplex will be unavailable.

The second floor has one standard room and two deluxe rooms. We've combined the two deluxe rooms into a suite. We would rather use the suite instead of the two deluxe rooms.

Setting up

Follow the steps below to combine the Suite room and Standard room into the Second Floor:

1. Create a new virtual room type as a Floor room with two units (Floor 1 and Floor 2), go to Split Inventory, and click
2. Select Second Floor as a primary accommodation
3. Connect Standard Room (4) as a secondary accommodation.
4. Click +Add Accommodation Type
5. Add Suite as a secondary accommodation as well

Result

This is how your Split Inventory connections should look if you follow the scenario above:

• If the second floor is booked, both the Suite and Standard rooms become unavailable.
• If the Standard room, Suite, or just one of the Deluxe rooms (which belong to the Suite) gets a reservation, the whole second floor becomes unavailable.

Split inventory lets you connect any room type to another, even if those room types don't physically exist.

Setting up

Follow the steps below to combine three Standard rooms into the First Floor:

1. If you haven't already, create a new virtual room type as a Floor room with two units (Floor 1 and Floor 2).
2. Go to Split Inventory and click
3. Select the First Floor as a primary accommodation type.

4. Connect three Standard rooms to the First Floor:

Result

This is how your Split Inventory connections should look if you followed the scenario above:

• If you sell the whole First Floor, all three connected Standard rooms will be blocked.
• If you sell at least one Standard room on the First Floor, the whole floor becomes unavailable.

The main reason people use vacation rentals is to book the whole property. You can list the entire place as a similar type of accommodation.

Setting up

1. Create a new room type for the whole House.
2. Go to Split Inventory and click
3. Select the Whole House as primary accommodation and link it to the Floor rooms you created (options above).

Result

This is how the complete list of the Split Inventory setup should look in our example:

• If the House is booked, all the accommodations in it become unavailable.
• If at least one of the room types is booked, the House becomes unavailable.