Rate groups are groups of different rates that use the same cancellation policies and payment policies. You can manage your customized groups of rates in Mews Multi-Property. You can learn how to create rate groups in Mews Multi-Property here and how to assign and unassign properties from a central rate group in Mews Multi-Property here.  

In Mews Multi-Property, you can manage your:  

• Central rate groups: Centralized groups of rates specific to your portfolio, that you can link to rate groups across your multiple properties. You can use these to manage rate groups in bulk and update local rate groups across multiple properties at once.  
• Local rate groups: Customized groups of rates specific to a property. You can learn more about rate groups on a property level here.    

Managing rate groups in your multi-property account saves time spent logging into individual property accounts to modify or delete rate groups per property. Your revenue managers can maintain standardized rate plans across all properties in your portfolio. It gives you flexibility to customize your rate strategy and reduces errors by minimizing manual tasks.  

Notes:  

You can learn more about rate management in Mews Multi-Property here. 

In this article you can learn about how to:  

• Modify the details of a rate group
• Delete a central rate group
• Delete a local rate group

Modify the details of a rate group 

To modify the general details of a central rate group and propagate the changes to all linked rate groups or modify a local rate group: 

1. In your Mews Multi-Property account, go to the main menu  > Rate management > Rate groups.
2. Click on the tab of the rate group you want to edit, for example, Central rate groups, then click the name of the rate group you want to modify, as below: 

3. In the view that opens, you can view your rate group details. 

4. To modify the General details of your rate group, click . If you are editing a Central rate group, you can see the number of linked rate groups affected by your change in the blue section. You can modify the following information, as below. Those fields marked with * are mandatory:   

5. To confirm your changes, click Save. You see the following confirmation message: 

This updates the general details of your central rate group and propagates the changes to all linked rate groups. If you are editing a local rate group, this updates only the general details of your local rate group. It does not affect the central rate group.  

Delete a central rate group 

You can delete a central rate group although the system then unlinks local rate groups linked to it. To delete a central rate group:  

1. In your Mews Multi-Property account, go to the main menu > Rate management > Rate groups.  
2. On the Central rate groups tab, click the name of the rate group you want to delete.

3. On the side-window that opens, click  as below: 

    
   

   4. This opens the following window. Click Unlink and Delete.  

    

   5. You see the following confirmation message.

   

    

   This means the system deleted the central rate group and unlinks all linked rate groups.  

   Delete a local rate group   

   To delete a local rate group in Mews Multi-Property:  

   6. In your Mews Multi-Property account, go to the main menu > Rate management > Rate groups.  

   7. On the Local rate groups tab, you can:  

   • Click the name of the rate group you want to delete, then select
     

   • Check the box next to one or multiple rate groups, then click either , or and select Delete from the menu, as below:  

    

   This deletes your local rate group(s). 

    

    

    

   You can learn more about managing rates in Mews Multi-Property here.