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Who It’s For

Boutique hotels, guesthouses, B&Bs, vacation rentals, lodges, cabins, and nature retreats looking for a clean and reliable way to manage room availability, multi-day stays, and add-ons.

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Key Challenges & Needs

  • Managing room availability without double-booking
  • Handling multi-night stays and back-to-back changeovers
  • Offering add-ons like breakfast, equipment, or parking
  • Communicating arrival instructions
  • Tracking guest information in one place
  • Keeping booking pages clear across multiple room types
Important:
Oskar currently does not support deposits, channel synchronisation with Booking.com/Airbnb, or seasonal pricing rules.
Everything in this guide reflects real, available functionality.

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1. Start with the AI Setup Agent

Describe your accommodation to Oskar — for example:
“I run a small lodge with 5 rooms and offer breakfast as an extra.”
The AI creates your draft setup with rooms, services, and availability placeholders. You see a live Booking Page preview while chatting.

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2. Refine and confirm your setup

Rename rooms, adjust descriptions, upload your logo and banner, and let Oskar update the preview.
When it looks right, click Proceed with this setup.

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3. Create rooms & multi-unit layouts

Use Resources to add each bookable room. For identical room types (e.g., “Standard Room”), use Sub-Resources to track each room individually — like Room 101, Room 102, Room 103. This ensures you never double-book a room.

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4. Configure your “Nightly Stay” service

In Services:
  • Create a service like “Nightly Stay”
  • Set Duration = Nights
  • Link it to the correct room, room type, or sub-resource
  • Add pricing and any extras
  • Adjust payment settings (Stripe online or offline)
  • Use Payment & Checkout to add cancellation rules
This makes overnight bookings work smoothly:
Arrival night is blocked → Departure day becomes available.

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5. Add extras and upgrades

Use Extras or Price Variants in your service to offer:
  • Breakfast
  • Parking
  • Firewood bundles
  • Spa access
  • Early check-in (flat-rate)
  • Late checkout (flat-rate)
All add-ons appear during checkout and increase booking value.

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6. Set availability & cleaning blocks

In Calendar:
  • Block housekeeping time as manual bookings or time blocks
  • Mark maintenance days
  • Add seasonal closures
You can use the Timeline view to inspect availability across all rooms at once.

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7. Add images, translations & branding

Under Customize Booking Page:
  • Upload room photos
  • Add your logo and accent color
  • Adjust section order (rooms → services → events)
  • Enable multilingual booking (English, German, French, Spanish)

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8. Test your booking page

Go to View Booking Page to:
  • Test booking a room
  • Add extras
  • Complete checkout
  • Confirm the email notifications
  • Scan the QR code (if enabled)
You can embed your page on your website or share a direct link/QR code from Embed Link & QR Code.

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Key Oskar Features for Accommodations

  • Overnight booking logic with automatic departure-day release
  • Sub-resources for multiple identical rooms
  • Multi-booking cart for group or multi-room reservations
  • Add-ons during checkout (breakfast, equipment, upgrades)
  • Branded, multilingual booking pages
  • Google Calendar sync
  • Email notifications for confirmations, reminders & cancellations
  • Manual housekeeping/maintenance blocks
  • Stripe or offline payments
  • QR code check-ins (optional)
All features above are fully available today, as confirmed in your documentation.

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Wow Features (On the Roadmap — Not Yet Available)

These can be mentioned only as future developments, never as current capabilities:
  • Channel synchronisation (Booking.com, Airbnb, etc.)
  • Seasonal or dynamic pricing
  • Automatic housekeeping task lists
  • Deposits & staged payments
  • SMS notifications
  • Advanced no-show/cancellation analytics

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Core Messages

  • Manage rooms, guests, add-ons, and payments from one calm system.
  • Overnight logic prevents double-bookings and keeps changeovers clean.
  • Sub-resources give full control over identical room types.
  • A polished, multilingual Booking Page helps guests book confidently.
  • Oskar handles structure — you focus on hospitality.

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Further Inspiration

Looking for a simple way to run a boutique hotel or rental?
See our booking software for small hotel businesses. Or explore the Overnight Bookings guide for a deep dive into night-based stays.