Bookings and calendar

How to create a block and get rid of it again, why some come back on their own, and how buffer nights and owner use work.

Which parameters the booking page accepts in the URL to pre-fill unit, date range and number of guests.

Where the booking tool gets the maximum guest count, check-in and check-out time and minimum stay from, and why it does not include the tourist tax in the price.

How to record a non-binding offer as a request without blocking the days, what happens when you create it and how to confirm or decline it later.

Book a guest or a group into multiple units at once: one booking, one message, one invoice, and one check-in.

Fixed arrival and departure days like "arrival on Saturdays only": who sets them, that they apply all year and what happens to a rule from PriceLabs.

Why a multi-room booking only receives one check-in link, one message, and one invoice, and what that means for Placeholders like codes.

How Xentra creates a joint invoice for a multi-room booking and what applies if part of it has already been invoiced.

Where you set minimum nights, why the rule applies to a date range, and how you automatically block nights before arrival or after departure.

Transfer text, pages, and photos from your existing website into a new Xentra website: enter address, select, create.

Create a website from your data, website check, publish, custom address, Google, and how the page looks to guests.

Why Xentra warns about a same-day turnover, when you get the “Time overlap” notification, how to set it up and what you can do.

Why a booking for a room category was not assigned to any room and how you solve it with "Choose a room" or "Assign anyway".

Automatic markups and discounts for weekends, seasons, last minute, early bird and length of stay, and what of it goes to the portals.

Set cleaning fee, guests, extra guest fee, dogs and arrival and departure days per unit, where each value goes and how to copy it to others.

An overview of the pricing page: maintaining prices for periods and individual days, closing days, reading the price graph, and when prices arrive at portals.

Additional rates such as "Non-refundable" or "Early Bird" for your booking tool and your own bookings, and the difference to dynamic rules.

Edit individual nights in the price calendar, select multiple nights and units at once, close them, and edit on mobile.

Where you create the iCal export URL per unit, what is in the feed, and why portals fetch it with a delay.

Timeline, scrolling, colours and bar preview, View menu, monthly view of a unit, overlaps and booking conflicts.

What colors, arrows, dashed gaps, the small clock, and the green check mark on the booking bars in the calendar mean.

The booking page, how you change check-in and check-out, apartment, status and channel, and the difference between notes, internal notes and cleaning notes.

What happens when cancelling, why you cancel channel and PMS bookings there, how you enter a retained amount, and how to undo a cancellation.

Filter bookings (period by arrival or departure, paid, invoice, source, cancellation date), columns such as Booked and Cancelled on, export as Excel or CSV.

Why a manually created booking has no booking number and how you enter one yourself.

Channel logos in the booking bars and strong channel colours that are easy to distinguish even with red-green colour blindness. Here is how you turn them on.

The fields in the New booking window, what is included in the suggested price, the warning when a unit is occupied, and how you choose Arrival and Departure.

What the outage notice above the app means, what the status page shows and what you can do while a portal is not delivering.

Show public holidays, school holidays, your own notes and subscribed calendars as a bar above your occupancy calendar, via iCal or an ICS file.

Set up and activate the booking tool, payment methods, direct link and embedding, global defaults, as well as where guest count, times, and minimum stay come from.

Switch on the multi-unit cart, combination suggestions for large groups, and what becomes of it in Xentra.

How you see colors, header, layout and texts of your booking tool in a live preview before saving.

Create more booking tools, manage their settings together, set the name at the top of the booking page and delete a booking tool.

Which widgets the dashboard has, how you customize and save it, and what the Command Center shows live.

Add-on Custom URL: guest links under your domain, CNAME with asterisk, Additional domains, price and requirements.

How you process Airbnb requests and booking requests: pre-approve, send a special offer, confirm, or decline.

Turn on the On request payment method and set up an automatic confirmation email with bank details.

Unit grouping per booking tool, show accommodations directly, and which details (bedrooms, beds, price per night) the cards show.

Website from the builder under www.deine-domain.de: A record, CNAME for www, root domain, and typical errors.

Which preview card guests see when you share a Xentra link or your website, and why old links show the old card.

Show a property's location as a map on your own website, with ready-made code from the booking tool.

Edit pages and blocks, Appearance, Media library, Booking and availability, Imprint, Privacy, Terms, Cancellation policy, House rules, and contact form.

Create pages like Environment or Food & drink using templates: AI searches for real places near your accommodations and shows them on a map.

Show free and booked dates on your own website, via script (JS widget) or direct link.

Store an IBAN so guests can book directly via bank transfer, and specify the payment reference they see.

The Action needed tab shows you what is currently stuck, such as unsent messages, disconnected connections, or locks, and why it is sometimes missing.

Set a time per unit from which short-notice bookings are closed, together with min. lead time, including the Airbnb exception.

Set up surcharges per channel, copy them to multiple apartments, and check what arrives. Plus the difference to commissions in Financial Import.

How you set the price markup for Travanto, for all properties or individually, and what Travanto gets from you via the API.

Send your guest an offer with a fixed price and validity. They book via a link with one click, and the booking is created automatically.

How an offer shows the included VAT per tax rate and how it calculates extras from your product catalogue by nights, guests, and dogs.

Decide whether Xentra sends an invoice or proforma right away when an offer is accepted by bank transfer, for example for companies that only pay against an invoice.

How to send an offer in your guest's language, set the occupancy and give each unit its own date range.

New booking tools and websites start in the color of your logo or in petrol. Here is how you change the primary color under Appearance.

With the cart in hotel mode of your booking tool, guests book the same room category multiple times, for example two double rooms.

If you have a hotel with room categories, your booking tool shows each category as one card, for example "Double room, 3 rooms left".

How inquiries from Monteurzimmer.de arrive as open inquiries in Xentra, how you reply, confirm, or decline, and what settings you can adjust.

Create, edit and evaluate discount codes for direct bookings: discount type, applies to, validity, units and which bookings used a code.

Choose your booking tool's font and see which font the embedded search box uses on your website, without loading Google Fonts.

What the Xentra booking number, guest number and customer number mean, how they are built and which bookings have no number.

Your guests add extras like breakfast, early check-in or parking right in the booking tool. How to turn it on and choose the products.

When your booking page calendar greys out a night and what guests see when their property is taken, including "Show other properties".