Booking.com Launch & 90-Day Operating Kit

It is an independent, self-service digital workbook by Scale My Hotel for villas, homestays, guesthouses, small hotels and resorts. It helps organise listing preparation, inventory, rate scenarios, launch evidence, payout exceptions and three 30-day reviews. You enter information and perform the actual platform work.

No. Scale My Hotel is not affiliated with, endorsed by or approved by Booking.com. Use Booking.com’s official help, your agreement and your own account as the platform authority.

Official help explains the platform. This kit gives you a connected working record for your own verified facts, category quantities, commercial assumptions, owner decisions, verification evidence and follow-up. It complements official instructions and does not replace them.

Yes, when the property is rented as one entire unit. The included six-bedroom villa uses one category and one bookable unit. Bedrooms remain a physical detail, not six separate bookings.

Yes, for room-based accommodation or independently bookable units with up to 12 categories. The hotel example has four Standard, four Deluxe and four Family rooms. Use the actual physical quantities and capacities for your property.

Up to 12 mapped categories per workbook. One working copy represents one property. PAYOUT ISSUES has 50 exception slots. Keep linked rows in their original order; do not sort, insert or delete category blocks.

No. Hybrid inventory with overlapping whole-property and room-level capacity is intentionally blocked. Shared capacity needs specialist mapping and a suitable PMS or channel manager. The workbook does not synchronise availability or protect against double bookings.

No. There is no live Booking.com API integration. Account creation, listing publication, rates, restrictions and availability must be configured and verified manually in the relevant platform or operating system.

No. MESSAGES contains 11 fact-linked drafts, and the TXT library has 11 editable messages. Replace placeholders, check the actual reservation and policy, then send through your approved channel. These are two formats of a message library, not 22 separate messages.

RATES estimates commission and payment fees using the assumptions you enter. Its scenario base is accommodation plus extras revenue, excluding tax. Use your actual agreement; a different chargeable base needs separate modelling. PAYOUT ISSUES uses actual stated amounts and deductions for exceptions.

It records relevant tax or local-charge requirements as preparation facts. It does not supply a universal tax engine, GST rate or legal eligibility decision. The generic rate scenario excludes tax; verify your own property requirements with the appropriate adviser.

Upload the clean XLSX into your own private Google Drive, open it with Google Sheets and save it as a native Google Sheet. A Google account and internet access are needed for import. The supplied V1.1 QA records native import and calculation checks. Excel protection may not transfer; check dropdowns and edit blue inputs only.

The download includes XLSX files using standard formulas and no macros. Native Excel desktop regression remains unverified for this release. Use a working copy and automatic calculation, and review the supplied compatibility notes before choosing Excel as your operating environment.

Use a separate workbook copy for each property. The included purchaser licence allows use and adaptation in your own hospitality business, including owned or managed properties, and sharing working copies with employees and operational service providers. Resale, sublicensing and public redistribution are prohibited.

No. Both worked examples are fictional teaching files. Their rates, occupancy, policies, fee assumptions and verification references are illustrations only. Replace them with verified facts for your own property.

No. The purchase is a self-service download. Agency setup, account work, property-specific advice and custom spreadsheet work are separately scoped services. No agency engagement is required to use the kit.

Checkout and digital delivery take place through Payhip. The V1.1 customer package contains six files: one clean workbook, two worked-example workbooks, a guest-message TXT, the Quick Start PDF and licence PDF. Start with START_HERE.pdf and keep a clean backup before making your private working copy.

No required subscription is attached to this downloadable kit. Its core functionality needs no macros, Apps Script, API keys or paid spreadsheet add-ons. This does not include third-party operating software, agency implementation or a promise of lifetime platform updates.

All sales are final on digital downloads. Because this kit is delivered immediately as an instant digital download package via Payhip upon completed payment, purchases are non-refundable. Report any file defect, unzipping issue or access difficulty to hi@scalemyhotel.com with your Payhip order reference for technical assistance. Personal consulting and a support response-time commitment are not included.

No. Workbook preparation and verified task records do not determine Booking.com approval, visibility, reservations, occupancy or revenue. The kit also does not certify legal, regulatory or tax compliance.