Do you need this?
Yes, if you manage: hotels, motels, guesthouses, apartment blocks, or serviced apartments
No, if you only manage unique houses or individual apartments → Skip to next step.
If you're coming from Airbnb or Booking.com, here's how it maps:
Zeevou | Airbnb | Booking.com |
Listing | Doesn’t map | Property |
Unit Type | One Airbnb listing | Room Type |
Units | How many identical ones you have | Number of rooms |
Your hotel, apartment block, or complex
Creates one page on your Zeevou website and one property on Booking.com
Example: "Seaside Apartments" or "City Centre Hotel"
Think of this as one Airbnb listing or Booking.com Room Type
The type of accommodation: "2-Bed Apartment", "Deluxe Room", "Studio"
Also called: Room Type (hotels), Category (apartments)
All units in a type must be identical (same size, layout, capacity, amenities)
Different room sizes or layouts need separate unit types
The actual rooms or apartments - your "keys" or "inventory"
Also called: Keys (apartments), Rooms (hotels)
Example: 5 identical 2-bed flats = 1 Unit Type with 5 Units
Zeevou automatically assigns guests to specific units and optimizes availability
Aparthotel with 5 units:
Listing: "Riverside Apartments"
Unit Type 1: "1-Bed Flat" → 3 units (Flat 101, 102, 103)
Unit Type 2: "2-Bed Flat" → 2 units (Flat 201, 202)
Boutique Hotel with 17 rooms:
Listing: "The Grand Hotel"
Unit Type 1: "Standard Double" → 10 rooms
Unit Type 2: "Deluxe Double" → 5 rooms
Unit Type 3: "Suite" → 2 rooms
Better occupancy: Zeevou optimizes availability across your identical units. If you have complex overlapping bookings, Zeevou automatically shuffles which guest goes in which specific unit to accept more bookings - something you'd have to do manually with separate Airbnb listings.
Industry standard: Matches how Booking.com and hotel systems work (not Airbnb's one-listing-per-unit approach).
Operational efficiency: Set pricing, descriptions, and house rules once per unit type, not per individual unit.
When creating your listings in Zeevou:
Create one Listing for your building/property
Create Unit Types for each type of accommodation (identical rooms = one type)
Add Units - tell Zeevou how many of each type you have
Name your units - Flat 101, Room 205, etc. (optional but recommended)
Remember: Units must be truly identical to share a unit type - same size, same layout, same capacity, same amenities. Different = separate unit type.
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