What is the difference between a room type and a room?
A room type is what guests book — "Double with lake view", with its price and photos; a room is the door behind it — "12". The website sells room types, and the calendar fills rooms.
Updated 27 September 2026
Guests do not choose room 12; they choose a double room with a lake view. That is why Kwipps keeps two lists. The room type carries everything a guest reads — name, beds, how many it sleeps, the price, a line of description, amenities and a photograph. The rooms are your actual doors, and each belongs to one type. Three rooms behind "Double with lake view" means the website can sell three of them on the same night, never a fourth.
Add a room type
- Go to Console › Rooms › Add a room type.
- Fill in Name and Price per night — enough to start. Add Beds ("1 double bed"), Size m², Adults up to and Children up to, One line for the website, Amenities, comma-separated ("Wi-Fi, Balcony, Lake view") and a Photograph (https://…) address when you have them.
- Press Save room types.
Add its rooms
- Under Console › Rooms › The rooms, press Add a room. A room needs a saved room type first.
- Give it its number or name, choose its Type, and add the Floor if that helps the desk.
- Repeat for every room, then press Save rooms. The stay calendar shows one row per room.
Stop selling a room type
Tick Not offered online on its card and press Save room types. The website stops offering it; you can still book it yourself at the desk. If you press Remove on a type that still has rooms or stays, Kwipps hides it instead of deleting it, so no stay loses its room.
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- How do I set prices and rate plans for my hotel?Each room type has a base price per night; rate plans change it for a kind of booking — a non-refundable rate at a discount, breakfast included — and you add them under Console › Rates.
- How do I change prices for several days at once?Open Rates, choose the room type, fill in "Change several days at once" with the dates and the new price, and press Apply — a season is just several days changed together.
- How do I keep track of which rooms need cleaning?Every room is Clean, To clean, Inspected or Out of order; a room is marked To clean by itself when its guest checks out, and you mark it clean from Console › Today › Housekeeping.