Inventory and hierarchy

Inventory is the set of accommodations you offer for booking. It includes all units, rooms, or properties you manage and make available to customers, both on your own website and through distribution channels. Managing your inventory well helps you fill stays efficiently and avoid double bookings. Your inventory in Maxxton consists of:

• Unit: an individual accommodation space, such as a campsite pitch, bungalow or mobile home.
• Accommodation type: a category of similar accommodations at one location, clustered by common features and managed together for pricing, availability, and rentability, such as a 4-person chalet.
• Location: organisational entity that can represent a physical place (such as a campsite, resort, or holiday park) or a parent structure that groups multiple sublocations.
• Add-on: an additional item or service to supplement a reservation, such as bed linen, breakfast, or bike rental. Add-ons can be mandatory (for example, tourist tax) or optional (for example, bike rental).

These items are organised in a hierarchy (tree structure). By setting up inventory in this way, you can configure rules, prices, and conditions at any hierarchical level (for example, at the location or accommodation type level). The configuration is then automatically applied to the levels below, saving time and ensuring consistency across your inventory. This is called inheritance.