Media

Media library

Every photograph in the organisation, filtered down the catalogue: property, then unit, then space. A file is uploaded once and lives in one place.

Scope
Unit
Unit add-on
Needs attention

Spaces are grouped by their type, which is the same grouping the public site uses under Know the house.

Arrifana Beach Break › Main Villa › Bedrooms 8 files
Bedroom 1 · queen · 3 files
Bedroom 2 · queen · 2 files
Bedroom 3 · two singles · 2 files
Bedroom 4 · two singles · 1 file
Note 1 · The grouping is the space, not a folderNobody made these headings. Each file is attached to one space, and the space's type is what puts it under Bedrooms here and under Know the house → Bedrooms on the public site. There is no second place to keep files organised.
Adding one · you name the subject, not the scope

One question. You never choose a scope — the subject decides it, and the panel beside this says what that means before you upload.

Then it will appear
  • On the Bedroom 4 card under Where you will sleep
  • Under Know the house → Bedrooms, third in that group
  • In Main Villa's gallery, taking it from 17 to 18
  • Not in the hero gallery unless you put it there
bedroom-1-window.jpg
Bedroom 1 · wide
3024 × 2016
File
Dimensions
3024 × 2016
Ratio
3:2 · landscape
Resolution
Clears all channels
Alt text

Bedroom with a queen bed facing a window onto the garden.

Drafted · not published

Written from the catalogue: the space, its beds and what it looks onto. It does not reach the public site until you approve it.

Where this one appears
In Bedroom 1What the picture is of. Everything below follows from it.
In Main Villa's galleryBecause Main Villa contains Bedroom 1 · position 1 of 17
First on Main VillaThe one a guest sees before they click
On the property pageArrifana Beach Break, above the unit. Off.
On the villa itself, MV1Your maintenance record. No guest ever sees it.
Note 2 · One file, one placeSay this is no longer of Bedroom 1 and it leaves Main Villa's gallery and the Bedroom 1 card on the public site with it, dropping the unit from 17 photographs to 16. The count is shown before you confirm, not after.
Sample catalogue · structure follows the live Arrifana Beach Break site; records are illustrative. Catalog · media · all properties
Hotel Marquês 5 instances · floor 1 7 of 10 photographs

Double Room · media

Google Vacation Rentals will not list this unit. It counts 7 photographs where the channel needs 10, and two files you uploaded do not count because they are below its resolution floor.

Where the count comes from7 counted · 2 rejected · 3 missing
Bedroom · 4 Bathroom · 2 Attached directly to the unit · 1 Needed for Google Vacation Rentals · 3
Note 3 · The unit gallery is derivedA unit has almost no photographs of its own. Its gallery is what its spaces hold, plus the property's shared spaces, plus anything attached to the unit directly. Photograph the bathroom twice more and this unit reaches ten without you touching it.
By space
SpaceBelongs toCountedRejectedState
Bedroom
1 queen · 14 m²
Unit 41 Enough
Bathroom
Rain shower · 4 m²
Unit 21 Thin
Reception
Shared with 3 other units
Property 00 None yet
Breakfast room
Shared with 3 other units
Property 30 Not counted yet
Attached directly
No space · the unit as a whole
Unit 10 Cover set

Including the three breakfast room photographs takes this unit to 10 and would publish today. They also appear on the three other units in this property, and the interface will say so on each of them.

Rejected files · 2
FileSpaceDimensionsWhy it does not count
room-201-bed.jpgBedroom720 × 480Below the 1024 px shortest-edge floor on 2 channels
bath-detail.pngBathroom1400 × 1400Square. Google Vacation Rentals wants 4:3 or wider

Neither file is deleted. They stay in the library and still publish on your own website, which has no floor. They are only excluded from the channels that refuse them.

Channel requirements
ChannelMinState
Google Vacation Rentals
≥1024 px · 4:3 or wider · alt text
107 of 10
Own website
No floor · alt text required
1Ready
Booking channel
≥1024 px · alt text optional
5Ready
Direct enquiry replies
Attached to a drafted reply
3Ready

These are configured requirement sets, not rules the catalogue invents. When a channel changes its floor you edit the set here and every unit is re-evaluated against it.

Alt text · 4 awaiting review

Google Vacation Rentals will list this unit without alt text, and a screen reader will announce nothing. Four drafts are written and waiting on you.

Not published, ever

Photographs attached to a unit instance — damage on 204, a leak in 103 — stay inside the operator tool. Instances are identical by definition, so an instance photograph would misrepresent the seven others.

Never published6 files across 3 instances
Sample catalogue · illustrative records. Channel minimums shown are configured values, not quoted policy. Catalog · unit media · standard-double

Add a unit to Hotel Marquês

A unit is the kind you sell. Before anything is created you answer one question — how many of them there are — because that is what decides how many physical instances exist.

Describe itRoute 1 of 3
1

What is it?

Plain words. Bed sizes and square metres help, and you can add them later if you do not know them now.

2

How many of these are there?

This is the whole difference between a unit and a unit instance. Answer 1 and you never think about instances again. Answer more and each one gets an identifier a housekeeper can use.

Note 4 · Identical by definitionThree instances means three things a guest could be given, and the system treats them as interchangeable. If one of them has no balcony, it is not this unit — it is a second unit with one instance.
3

What the draft will contain

Proposal · not saved Unit draft
1 · What it will do

Creates 1 unit, 3 unit instances, 3 spaces and 1 bed under Hotel Marquês. Sets no amount and joins no rate plan. Changes nothing already sold.

2 · What it read

Your description, and the 5 units already on this property — Balcony Double is not a name any of them uses, so it is treated as new rather than a duplicate.

3 · What changes
Before
  • 5 units · 25 instances
  • Double Room, Single Room ×2, Junior Suite, Panoramic Suite
After
  • 6 units · 28 instances
  • Unit Balcony Double · sleeps 2 · 24 m²
  • Instances 301, 302, 303
  • Spaces Bedroom (1 queen), Bathroom (bath), Balcony
4 · Accept or amend
Saved Balcony Double created with 3 instances. It is not sellable yet: it has no amount, no rate plan and no photographs. Ten photographs are needed before Google Vacation Rentals will list it.
Still to do after this
Set an amountRequired to sell
Attach a rate planRequired to sell
Photographs0 of 10
Listing descriptionCan be drafted

The unit exists and holds availability the moment it is created. It cannot be booked until it has an amount, and it cannot be listed on a channel until it clears that channel's photograph requirement.

What duplicating does not copy
PhotographsThey show the original
Unit instancesYou say how many
AmountA variant is rarely the same price
Spaces, beds, amenities, add-ons
Sample catalogue · illustrative records, not customer data. Catalog · add unit · hotel-marques