Managing properties

To manage properties effectively, you must understand the concepts and workflows on this page. Further below, you'll also find a list of essential tasks.

Property creation workflow

Creating and opening a property is a process of multiple steps. During these steps, the property passes through a number of statuses.

The following diagram shows the steps you need to take. Each swimlane represents a property status.

Our tutorial covers most of these steps and is a good place to start if you're new to this process.

Tasks

If you're using Content API to manage properties, you'll want to start with these tasks.

Creating a property from scratch

Follow these steps to build an entirely new property for display on Booking.com:

1. Create a property
2. Create a room type
3. Create a rate plan
4. Connect a room and rate
5. Specify availability
6. Open a property

Advanced property tasks

These are optional tasks which you can do in any order:

• Create a multi-bedroom setup
• Modify property name
• Modify property contact information
• Modify property facilities
• Modify property policies

Monitoring & reporting for properties

These are some things you may want to do after successfully creating a property:

• Retrieve property attributes
• Retrieve property details
• Check property content
• Open a property
• Close a property