Article Summary: This tutorial explains how to group your options by theme (Spa, Restaurant, Activities, Little extras…) and choose their display order on your Reservit Accommodation booking engine. If your property is linked to Reservit Activities, Restaurant or Spa, you can also place these services in your categories. Guests find your add-ons more easily, which boosts your additional sales.
The 5 Key Steps to Organize Your Options:
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Open the screen: "My rates and availability" > "My options", then the "CATEGORIZE" button.
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Create a category: "ADD A CATEGORY", name (at least in English and French), description and photo, then "SAVE".
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Assign your options: "ASSIGN OPTIONS" on the category, choose the options from the list, then "SAVE".
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Set the display order: select a category and move it with the arrows; the order is saved automatically.
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Check your booking engine: your categories appear at the "Add-ons and Extras" step.
Why follow this guide? An add-ons page organized by theme avoids visual clutter and highlights your services at the right moment of the booking process. Guests spot what interests them faster, and your average basket increases.
Do you also use Reservit Activities, Restaurant or Spa? Your services can be offered directly on your Accommodation booking engine (cross-selling). To do so, your Accommodation property must be linked to your Activities property:
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if it is the same property, our team creates the link during installation;
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if they are two different properties, each of the two properties must send the request to our support team (Europe: assistance@reservit.com; Americas: support@reservit.ca).
Your linked properties are listed in "Management of my property" > "My other activities and partnerships". Once the link is in place, your services appear in the categorization screen with an orange icon, and you can place them in your categories just like your options.
Open the categorization screen
1. Click "My rates and availability", then "My options".
2. Click the "CATEGORIZE" button at the top right. The "My option categories" window opens.
Create a category
3. Click "ADD A CATEGORY".
4. Enter the category name in each language (EN, FR, DE… tabs), or use "AUTOMATIC TRANSLATION", then click "TO VALIDATE". Add a description and a photo with the pencils, then click "SAVE".
Alert: the name must be filled in at least in English and French.
Assign your options to a category
5. On the category of your choice, click "ASSIGN OPTIONS".
6. In "Option to add", choose the option or service to add. The list only shows items that are not yet in a category; use the magnifying glass to search.
7. Added items are shown under "Options in my category". Reservit Activities, Restaurant or Spa services have an orange icon. Use the arrows to order them, then click "SAVE".
Set the display order
8. To change the order of your categories, click a category to select it, then use the arrows on the left (up, to the top, down, to the bottom). The order is saved automatically.
9. Options that are not in any category are grouped under "Uncategorized", at the bottom of the window. Click "ORDER MY OPTIONS" to choose their display order.
Tip: to edit a category (name, description, photo), click its pencil; to delete it, click its trash icon.
The result on your booking engine
10. At the "Add-ons and Extras" step, guests see your categories in the order you chose. They click "View" to see the options and services in the category.
Good to know about Activities services: a service is only offered if it has at least one available time slot during the stay, and guests choose their date and time within their stay dates. Accommodation and services are paid in a single payment. Both properties must use the same currency.