Overview

Block a room to stop it being booked on certain dates, for example during repairs or when the owner is staying. Unblock it to put it back on sale. You can do both from your calendar on a computer or in the Amenitiz mobile app.

📌 Note

In this article we use room. If you're a property manager, the same flow applies to your accommodations.

Step by step

Block a room from the Calendar

Go to Planning → Calendar.
Click the empty cell for the room and the first day you want to block.
In the menu that opens, click Block Room.
The Update room status form opens. Check the Start Date and End Date.
Choose a Status: Out Of Order, Out Of Inventory or Pre booked. Out Of Inventory is selected by default.
Add a Reason if you want. It shows on the blocked room in your calendar.
Click Save.

Block a room from the mobile app

Open the calendar in the Amenitiz mobile app.
Tap the empty cell for the room and the first day you want to block.
Tap Block Room.
Fill in the same form as on a computer, then tap Save.

Unblock a room

Go to Planning → Calendar.
Click the blocked room on your calendar (on the mobile app, tap it). The Update room status form opens with the block's details.
Set the Status to Available.
Click Save.

Close a whole room type from the Inventory

To close every room of a type at once, for example all your Double rooms, use the Inventory instead.

Go to Planning → Inventory.
Find the room type and the day, and set its availability to 0.

📌 Note

This closes the whole room type on your booking engine and connected OTAs, not one specific room. To take one room off sale, block it from the Calendar. For more on the Inventory, see How to understand your Inventory.

FAQs

Which status should I choose?

All three statuses stop the room from being booked.

Out Of Order and Out Of Inventory also remove the room from your available rooms in your dashboard and reports, so it doesn't count as a room you could have sold. Pre booked holds the room but still counts it as available.

If you're not sure, keep Out Of Inventory.

Why can't I block a room on some dates?

You can't block a room on a night when it's already booked. Move the reservation to another room, or cancel it, then block the room.

How do I block several nights?

Set the Start Date to the first night you want to block. The End Date is not blocked: it's the day the room is back on sale.

For example, to block the nights of 10 and 11 May, choose 10 May as Start Date and 12 May as End Date.

Does blocking a room update my booking engine and OTAs?

Yes. Blocking one room lowers the availability of its room type by one on your booking engine and your connected OTAs. The other rooms of that type stay on sale.

To block only your Airbnb listing, see How to block or unblock an Airbnb listing.

How to block or unblock a room from the calendar