Setting up or changing your property’s policies
Policies are rules and guidelines about reservations, payments, cancellations and house rules. We’ve created a page in the extranet to help you set up your policies.
The policies you choose are up to you, but we do offer a set of standard options, in order to maintain clear and consistent guest policies across our platform.
How to create a policy
You can set up or change your property’s policies. Here’s how:
- Log in to the extranet
- Click on Property
- Go to Policies
On this page, you can choose between the following categories:
- Cancellation and prepayment policies
- Modification and cancellation exceptions
- Children and extra beds
- Other policies
Click Edit below the policy you wish to set up or change, then follow the steps.
How to create a temporary policy exception
Follow these steps to create a temporary policy exception:
- Log in to the extranet
- Click on Property and then click on Policies
Go to the Create temporary policy exceptions and click on Edit
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