How to create a space in Mews Operations

You can create up to 5,000 spaces in Mews Operations. Spaces are the accommodation services you offer to your guests such as rooms, beds, dorms, etc. your rooms. Before you create your spaces, consider whether you want to organize them into space categories. If you want guests to know about certain features that your spaces have, for example, sea-facing or garden-view, then you can connect the space feature to the space. You need to set up space features before you can add them to a new space.

In this article, you can learn how to:

• Create a single space
• Batch create multiple spaces
• Edit spaces
  • Edit a single space
  • Batch edit spaces 

 
Note:

• Mews invoices additional spaces according to your Mews contract terms.
• You can also connect a space feature to a space when you create or modify a space feature.  

Create a single space:

1. In Mews Operations, go to the main menu   > Settings > Property.
   
   
2. Click the Space configuration drop-down > Spaces.
   
   
3. Click  Space.
   
   
4. Enter the space details. You can view the detailed explanation of the fields below. 
   
   

5. Click Create

This creates a space.  

Batch create multiple spaces

1. In Mews Operations, go to the main menu  > Settings > Property.
   
   
2. Click the Space configuration drop-down > Spaces.
   
   
3.  Click  to open the Create spaces side window.
   
   
   
   
4. Enter the names of the floors you want to include. Each floor name should be separated by a new line.
   
   
   
   
5. Enter the names of the spaces for each floor. You can do this manually by selecting Add list of names and entering the name of each space on a new line.
   
   
   
   

   Alternatively, you can let the system name the rooms automatically by selecting Number automatically, setting an initial number and specifying the number of spaces to create. Note: The initial number should be a whole number and can include leading zeros.
   
   
   

6. Click    to complete the batch space creation.
   
   
7. Finally, you should follow the steps detailed below in ‘Batch edit spaces’ to enter space details and configure them for your property.

Note: You can create a maximum of 1000 spaces in a single batch space creation.

This creates multiple spaces for your property.

Edit spaces

When you create a new space, you typically need to enter space details. You can edit a single space or batch edit multiple spaces at once.

Edit a single space

When you create a single space, you can enter space details at the time of creation.

If you need to add more details later, or edit existing details, simply click the space number to open the Space details screen.

For detailed information on the fields of the Space details screen, refer to the table above in ‘Create a space’.

Batch edit spaces

To edit multiple spaces at once, select the spaces you want to edit by clicking the checkbox to the left of the space number, then click .

The Edit spaces side-window opens, where you can enter the space details. You can navigate between three tabs: Space details, Services and categories, and Space features.

Space details:

This tab has the following fields:

• Floor: The floor the spaces are on.
• Building: The building the spaces are in.
• Parent room: If you are creating a space within a space, for example, a bed within a dorm, click to select the larger space.
  
  

Services and categories:

You can learn more about creating a space category here.