Tutorial Videos
Our selection of training videos will help get you started with Mews
Getting started
This video gets you started with completing your account profile, how to change your profile image, how to change or reset your password and we will review some security settings including face recognition.
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General settings in Mews
This video details how to start generating your generic hotels settings, once you have received your login details to the Mews Commander PMS.
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Dashboard overview
This video will introduce you to the Dashboard and introduce you to the main functionalities within the Mews Commander PMS.
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Introduction and menu bar overview
This video will introduce you to the Mews Commander PMS. It will talk you through the main menu settings which are needed to get a basic understanding of the functionalities available.
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Creating departments in Mews
This video details how you can create departments, allocate employees to departments, and use this functionality in Tasks and System Notifications.
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Setting employee rights in Mews
This video details how you can create new Employee Users, give rights to the different users and allocate them to the correct departments.
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Working with cashiers in Mews
This video details how you can create Cashiers and assign Employees to Cashiers. Secondly, it explains how to post cash, run reports, and close your shifts.
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Creating your room/bed types in Mews
This video details how you can build and configure different Room, Bed, and Dorm types in the Mews Commander PMS.
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How to setup your space features
This video covers how to setup your space or room features in Mews Commander and assign them to the relevant spaces.
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Setting up stay services and stay products
In this video we will show you how to setup Stay Services such as Accommodation, and Stay Products such as City Tax and breakfast.
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Creating products and services
You can build all chargeable products and services with a large number of flexible options. Products are important for both the reception team to be able to post charges on guest bills, but also to allow guests to order services from their personal smartphones.
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Setting up your e-mail templates
In this video we will show you how to setup your e-mail templates. We will show you what options are available to use so you can easily setup e-mails such as a confirmation and cancellation e-mail.
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How to upload your logo and sign-in image
This video will walk you through the steps to upload your logo and sign-in images in Mews Commander.
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Setting up your registration card
In this video we will show you how to setup your registration card and show you which options are available to you.
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Setting up your accounting categories configuration
Before you start creating products and services, its important to ensure your accountant has agreed to the Accounting Category Configuration. Use this video to help you choose your categories.
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Setting up your accounting configuration
Set up your billing headers, bill closing rules, invoice expiry dates and other accounting category mappings. This video will help you and your accounting team understand your accounting setup options.
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Setting up your bill and invoice numbering
In Mews its possible to customise your bill naming and numbering. If this is not set, it will start from bill number 1 automatically and count upwards.
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Setting up your business segmentation
Before you start to build your rate strategy, its important to upload your different business segments, in order to start to properly segmenting your business from the ground up.
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Setting up rate groups
In Mews we group rates according to Rate Groups. These groups cluster rates together, and assign rate rules, such as cancellation policies or credit card charging policies to all bookings that fall within that rate.
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Setting up your rate strategy
Mews offers a fully flexible rate strategy, allowing you to create online, corporate, wholesale rates, or any other type you can think of. You can also link rates to a base rate, or price them completely individually.
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Creating promotional and other private rates
In Mews you can create rates that are linked to promotional codes, allowing guests on your website to redeem exclusive deals, only bookable with you. You can also create Corporate and Travel Agents rates, which allow you to link private rates to company accounts.
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Creating package rules
In Mews it’s possible to link certain products to reservations automatically via Product Rules. These rules create a link between a rate and a product the moment a booking is made so that any booking made for a particular rate, will automatically include that item. Traditionally, this is also referred to as “Packages”.
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Manage your availability
How to manage your availability on a room type level. This will ensure that you are always selling the correct amount of rooms on all of your online channels.
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Set up private rates for travel agents
Learn how to set up private rates for travel agencies using the Mews booking engine
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Creating a reservation
This video will show you the basics on how to create a reservation in the Mews Commander PMS.
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Reservations module overview
This video provides a high level overview of the reservation module in Mews Commander PMS.
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Creating multiple reservations
This video will show you the basics of how to create multiple reservation in the Mews Commander PMS.
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Reservation changes
This video will walk you through the process of making changes to an existing reservation.
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Room moves
This video will show you the basics of how to move a guest from one room to another room.
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Guest check-in
This video will walk you through the steps of how to check in a guest.
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Guest checkout
This video will show you how to check out a guest in Mews PMS.
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Bulk checkout
The basics of how to checkout multiple reservations at once.
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Online check-in
This video shows you the steps a guest goes through when they complete check-in online.
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How to create a bill
The basics of posting items to a bill, posting new payments, and creating bills in Mews.
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Advanced billing options
How to set up accommodation routing and make changes to a reservation with a closed bill. You’ll also learn how cancellation fees are posted in the PMS. These are some of the more complex but really great features of Mews.
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How to create an invoice
This video will describe the difference between Bills and Invoices in the Mews Commander, and also how to create and close an Invoice.
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Accounting ledger
The Guest Ledger Reports is an overview of all guest profiles with unpaid or unsettled balances on their accounts. This report should be checked daily by Accountants and Front Office Managers to ensure no outstanding bills go unnoticed.
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Payments report
The Payments Report gives an overview of all the payments and rebates made for a selected time period.
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Activity report
The activity report is a great tool for anyone who wishes to analyse the operations of the hotel. It’s a graphical display, by day-of-the-week and by the hours in the days, to help analyse your operational hotspots. Have a look at this video to understand how to track check-in and checkout, housekeeping and booking creation.
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Reservations report
The most flexible report in the Mews Commander, giving a complete overview of all bookings in the system, with many different filtering options.
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Reservations overview
One of the most used reports in the system, giving an overview of all arrivals, departures, no shows, and in house guests, including links to their bookings and profiles.
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Task management
How to create tasks for the different departments, run reports and complete tasks in the Mews Commander. Note that we also have a great native iOS app with the same interlinked functionality.
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Guest in house report
This report enables you to quickly see a list of all guests checked-in at that moment, their assigned products (such as breakfast), their remaining balance, car registration (valet parking), and any guest notes.
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Customer profiles report
This report that allows you to see all guests in house, or on arrival, and track how thoroughly their profiles have been completed. This is often important for the government, who would like to track this kind of information.
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Product report
This report gives a day-by-day overview of how many package products were booked. This is most useful for Housekeeping and the Restaurant.
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Space status report
This report allows you to assign spaces to each room attendant or housekeeper.
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How to setup your stay products
Learn how to setup your stay products that are products offered to guests during their booking process.
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How to create a company profile
This video walks you through the steps in creating a company profile in Mews Commander
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How to setup a travel agency contract
Learn how to setup a travel agency contract in Mews Commander.
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How to setup restrictions
Learn how to setup restrictions to prevent bookings from being made at your property.
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Customer module
This video provides an overview of the customer module in Mews Commander
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How to create a customer profile
This video will show you the steps to create a new customer profile in Commander.
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Timeline
The timeline presents the schedule of Mews Commander which gives a graphic representation of all the reservations over a given period
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Mews merchant training
This video covers Mews Merchant, what it is, how it works, what the benefits are and how to use it.
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Billing screen overview
This video provides a high level overview of the billing screen and how you can access it.
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How to create a paymaster
This video will walk you through the steps on how to create a paymaster in Mews Commander
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Introduction to Mews Commander app
This video introduces you to the Commander App which you can use from a mobile device while you're on the move!
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How to use the Commander app
This video shows you how to use the Commander App across all its functionalities.
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Manager report
This video will give you an overview how to read and understand the Manager Report in Mews Commander.
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Customer statistics
This video provides an overview of how to use the Customer Statistics report in Mews Commander.
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Introduction to Mews Distributor
This video introduces you to Mews Distributor Booking Engine
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How to make the most of Mews Distributor
This video shows you where to setup in Commander the information that appears in Mews Distributor
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How to set up Mews Distributor
Learn how to create and configure the booking engine directly from Mews Commander
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How to connect Mews Distributor with your property's website
Learn how to connect Mews Distributor Booking Engine with your properties website.
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Navigator - introduction
This video introduces you to Mews Navigator and its features.
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Navigator - messenger
This video provides an overview of the messaging feature in Navigator
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Navigator - data control
This video provides an overview of the control guests have over their data
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Navigator - Apple wallet
This video covers how guests can add their reservation details to apple wallet on an iOS device, and what needs to be setup in Mews Commander.
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Introduction to Mews Operator
This video provides an introduction into Mews Operator.
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Prerequisites to setup Mews Operator
This video shows what is required before setting up Mews Operator on a tablet
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How to set up Mews Operator
This video provides an overview of the steps required to setup Mews Operator on an android device.
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Mews PowerBI introduction
This video introduces you to Mews Power BI, what it is, how to login and navigate around the system. More detailed information on each report is covered in separate videos.
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