How to offer a food and beverage allowance as part of a corporate rate package in Mews Operations

You can include a food and beverage credit in a corporate rate package by using an allowance. This lets you assign prepaid credit to a guest’s reservation, which Mews automatically applies to eligible purchases during their stay. You do this to increase outlet revenue, offer added value without lowering rates, and simplify billing at checkout.

You set up the allowance in Mews Operations, link it to the appropriate accounting categories, such as food and beverage, and then include it in a product rule tied to the corporate rate.

You can configure how often the allowance applies to the reservation. The allowance can apply:

• Once per stay

• Once per night

• Once per guest

• Once per guest per night

This allows you to align the food and beverage credit with the length of stay or the number of guests included in the corporate booking.

 

 

 

In this article you can learn about the following steps:

• Step 1: Create an allowance
• Step 2: Add the allowance to a corporate rate with a product rule

Step 1: Create an allowance

You can learn more about how to create an allowance in the How to create an allowance in Mews Operations help article.

 

Step 2: Add the allowance to the corporate rate using a product rule

You can learn more about how to create a product rule in the How to package products with accommodation using product rules in Mews Operations help article.

Once the guest checks in:

• The allowance becomes active.
• If they charge an eligible product, for example, dinner to their room, Mews applies a discount.
• Guests only pay any amount above the allowance.

For example, if they spend €18 on food and their allowance is €25, they do not need to pay anything extra. If they spend €30, they pay €5.

 

This offers a food and beverage allowance as part of a corporate rate package.