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Creating a Room/Amenity

Use BuildingHub's system administration menu to create bookable amenities for your tenants.

Updated over 7 months ago

Creating a Room

  • From the System Administration view, you can navigate to Amenities, which will then allow you to click the drop-down menu for the MeetingHub module. You will have the option to select between rooms and settings.

  • The page that opens will give you the option to create a room in the upper right corner.

  • A window will pop up, allowing you to fill in the information in the required fields to create the room.

  • The fields that can be filled in are:

    • Room title (required), the name of your room

    • Room subtitle, for any other information you may want to include

    • Room image (required), an image file of the room

    • Room color, to designate a color to the room, allowing you to differentiate between amenities at a glance, especially in the calendar view

    • Room size (required), is the room small, medium, or large for capacity purposes?

    • Connected Rooms allows you to select any other amenity rooms that may be attached to this amenity, in case they need to be booked together or separate

    • Accounting Code, if you have set an code internally, you may associate a room with it for billing purposes

    • Available From/To, allows you to set open hours for the amenity

    • Number of Days In Advance allows you to set a limit into how far ahead a tenant should be able to book an amenity

    • Room Amenities allows you to specify any available amenities a room might have, such as wifi, a projector, or a TV.

  • When creating the room, if you wish to have a booking request go through an approval process rather than automatically book, check the “requires approval” box above the “available time” fields.

  • The next page, titled Pricing, allows you to set limits and prices on your amenities.

  • The parameters that can be adjusted here are:

    • Pricing Model (required), the time period by which the amenity is billed. This can by be period (full or half day), or hourly.

      • If booking by period, you can set rates for a half and full day, as well as define the length of a half-day in increments of 30 minutes.

      • If billing hourly, you may set the hourly rate, as well as add 30 minute billing increment, and a max rate for the day.

    • Minimum/maximum booking time (required)

    • Buffer time, if selected, blocks out a period after a booking ends in which it cannot be booked until after the buffer has passed. Useful for any space that requires cleaning or a reset

    • Cancellation time, if selected, gives the minimum amount of time required to cancel a reservation.

  • The last section is Terms and Add-Ons, which consists of optional fields allowing you to set any liability and cancellation policies you may have, as well as any additional notes for your tenants.

    • The section below, called “Materials,” draws from a list of materials that can be specified in the System Administration menu, and may include any add-ons, such as furniture or AV equipment. The add-on price is also set in the materials menu.

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