How to close a room for bookings

Some rooms can be closed on some dates of the year to stop the bookings. The rooms inventory of VikBooking is not based on daily availability where each day of the year must have a number of units available and some rates. With VikBooking you don't need to set the rates and availability inventories for the next year in order to be bookable (unlike some portals); this was made to reduce the management operations and save time.

For this reason, in order to close a room on some dates, the system requires to have a sort of a 'fake' booking that keeps all the units of a room unavailable. You can close a room from the page 'Booking - Calendar' of the back-end.

In the Quick Reservation Form, you will just have to set the closing dates (it's a date range) and to tick the checkbox 'Close Room in these dates'. The screen shot below shows how to do this operation:

Please notice that some dates that were already booked, cannot be closed. In this case it is necessary to remove that booking by setting it to 'Cancelled' before closing the room on those dates.
Otherwise, another solution is to manually block all the remaining units by creating reservations from the same page above. The room should not be set to 'Closed' but you should just have other bookings that keep the remaining units as not available. Remember that you could also create a dummy booking from the front-end and set it to Confirmed manually from the back-end. This would reduce the units available (inventory) for those dates.