What is a unit?
What gets reserved – and where is it?
A building and its use are different things. Keeping them separate helps you create a simpler structure that remains understandable as you manage it.
A site describes the place
Start with the building or property. A site might be a holiday home, community centre or office. Areas group related spaces; rooms describe individual physical parts.
Add levels only where they help. A room can belong directly to a site. A house rented as a whole does not need every bedroom listed just to make a reservation.
A unit describes its use
Ask what you make available as a whole for a period of time. That space becomes your unit. You can choose a site, area or room.
A unit is not a fourth spatial level. It connects an existing place with its occupancy, assigned controls and appropriate permissions.
Plan overlapping spaces deliberately
Availability checks concern the same unit. Creating separate units for a building and its rooms does not automatically make their bookings block each other.
Choose units around the way you operate. If the house is always used as a whole, one shared unit is often clearer than additional rooms that can also be reserved.
An everyday example
A hall in a community building
The site is the community building. The hall sits directly beneath it and is made reservable as a unit. An optional area becomes useful when you want to group several related rooms.
Good to know
Your questions, answered.
Does every room need to be a unit?
No. Your spatial structure can be more detailed than your reservable spaces. What matters is what you make available separately.
Can I reserve several units together?
Yes. A reservation can include several units, each with its own time window.
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