Mews supports two kinds of products: Absolute products and Relative products. Absolute products are those with a fixed price, while Relative products are those with a price based on, or relative to, other products. For example, a product price can be absolute, such as 100 euros, or relative, such as 10% of Breakfast and/ or Night.

Note: You can attach relative products only to a bookable service. Other service products can only have an absolute or fixed value. 

In this article you can learn about:

• Setting up relative products
• Product posting
• Relative products: Rate or price changes
• Using relative products for applying service charges

Setting up relative products

• You can automatically add relative products to a reservation by using product rules.
• You can also manually add or cancel relative products in a reservation.

• You can calculate product prices based on the Net value, Tax value or the Gross value. You cannot modify Price and Charging options after creating a product. 
• When adding relative products to a booking, if you do not include the base product, the system considers the value of the relative product as zero.

For example, you could set up a relative product such as “Breakfast” as shown below:
  

Product posting

The posting of:

• Relative products is per consumption date, even outside the reservation interval.
• Absolute products is automatically selected based on the charging type. For example, once, nightly.

You can view the relative products posted to the reservation, based on nights.
 

Relative products: Rate or price changes

In the event of a change in rate, or any other changes to the product rule,

• Mews does not duplicate a relative product, but recalculates it according to the new rate.
• Mews recalculates relative products on every reservation update that results in a price change. For example, a percentage change in the product. However, the taxes remain the same.

Using relative products for applying service charges

You can use Relative products to set up different combinations of automatically generated prices. You can use relative products to set up, for example, your service charges. 

Service charges are charges such as hotel or resort fees or room-service charges that you wish to charge your guests on top of your accommodation or product price. You can now set service charges based on the gross accommodation cost. 

To set up and apply your service charges in Mews:

• Create a relative product equivalent to the price of the service charge that you want to charge your customers.
• Then, create a product rule and apply it to the product that you want this rule to follow. Mews automatically applies service charges set up as products when the product rule is met, or
• If you don’t wish to set product rules, you can also manually add the service charge product from the billing screen or the ordering screen.

You can learn more about how to create or delete a product here.