Prior to using housekeeping it is necessary to setup events and schedules and associate schedules with room types.

Navigate → Product Setup → Housekeeping and choose the Schedule tab.

Cleaning Schedules

It is possible to create an unlimited number of cleaning schedules and populate these with cleaning events. You could, for example, create the following schedules:

  • Standard cleaning schedule.
  • Light cleaning – cleaning once a week only.
  • Daily cleaning – cleaning everyday.
  • Jacuzzi cleaning – a schedule only for apartments with Jacuzzi that includes Jacuzzi clean events.

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There are three pre-set default cleaning events, these are I – Inspection, A – Arrival and D – Departure.

To create a cleaning schedule, name your Schedule, select the maximum length of booking it will apply to, choose which of the default (I, A, D) events you wish to include in the schedule and click Add.

Note: Though you can make multiple schedules and any that are not associated with rooms will be ignored, it is not possible to delete schedules or change their name or maximum stay length once created.

Cleaning Events

It is also possible to define five further custom cleaning events, these will be common to all of your cleaning schedules.

They could, for example, be:CleaningEvents

  • H1 – Minor Clean
  • H2 – Major Clean
  • H3 – Jacuzzi Clean
  • H4 – Towel Change
  • H5 – Out Clean

Click the icon in the rightmost column to edit a cleaning event and again to save.

Adding Events To Schedules

It is possible to add events to a cleaning schedule in two ways:

  • By stay length (horizontally) – for example by adding all of the cleans for a six day booking. Click on the pen and paper icon in the leftmost column and select the clean types from the drop down boxes.

  • By day of event (vertically) – for example by adding events to occur on the second day of every booking. Click on the wand icon at the bottom of the column you wish to edit and select the clean type from the drop down box.

Click the blue disk icon to save.

Associate cleaning schedules with rooms

Once cleaning schedules have been created they need to be associated with room types.

Choose the Schedule – Room Types tab.

  1. Select a schedule to associate with room types from the drop down box.
  2. Move all room types to be associated with this schedule to the right hand box using the arrows.
  3. If this schedule is to be the default schedule for this room type tick the default check box.
  4. Click save.

Notes:

  • If no default schedule is set for a room type then the fist alphabetically will be used as default.
  • If multiple default schedules are set, the first of the defaults alphabetically will be used.
  • Associating schedules with rooms will not change the cleaning schedule that has been set for pre-existing bookings. To change the cleaning for existing bookings the schedule will need to be set on each booking.