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title: "How can I manage meal plans?"
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# How can I manage meal plans?

 
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GuestCentric systems allows the Hotel to have 5 different meal plans: Room Only, Bed & Breakfast, Half-Board, Full-Board and All Inclusive.

 
- Once a meal plan is active, it is active for all offers (room types, promotions and special rates).

- It's not possible yet, to inactivate a mean plan for a specific offer

- To help you translate this area, please check this e-card with the step-by-step: [How can I translate Booking Engine labels/ Meal plans/ Add-ons?](https://help.guestcentric.com/how-can-i-change-and-translate-the-booking-engine-labels)

   
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***STEP 1:***Go to **REVENUE >****MEAL PLANS:**

 
- By default the base meal plan is set to "Room Only" and all room types are assigned to this meal plan

- On the left navigation menu you can filter Meal plans according to it's status: **ACTIVE, INACTIVE** or**ALL,** or**PRICE PER DATE**.

   
***STEP 2:***To activate other available meal plans you need to select the option **MEAL PLANS - INACTIVE**.

 
- From the available list, double-click on the meal plan, or select it and click on the **EDIT** button.

- You can add a different "Title" and then flag the option **ACTIVE:**

   
***STEP 3:***Under the Pricing field, enter the **additional amount you will be charging for the meal plan upgrade**, bearing in mind your base meal plan:

 
- You can set different prices for adults and children.

- On the booking engine the system will then be able to calculate the meal plan charges according to the number of adults and children within the reservation.

   
***STEP 4:***After activating your meals plans, you will need to associate them to the available room types, promotions and special rates, by clicking on the  button.

 
- A new pop-up window will appear, and from the dropdown menu of each offer, you can select the correspondent meal plan.

- When you finish, please click on the SAVE button.

  
***STEP 5:***If you wish to **define a different meal plan as your base meal plan**, you have to select it from the list and click on the  button.

 
- A new pop-up window will appear, and you must click on YES, to save this as your default meal plan:

   
***STEP 6:***You can also change the meal plans label and/or add a % tax amount aplicable only to the meals plans, just by clicking on the  button.

 
- A new pop-up window will appear, and you must click on SAVE, to save the tax percentage selected:

    
***STEP 7:***The **"Price per date"** will open a new calendar, and it will allow the hotel to **set a different price for a specific meal plan and for a specific date**. This calendar will display 2 action buttons:

 
- **Meal plan**: drop-down with a list of active meal plans and **Edit:**

   
- The hotelier can review and edit per date, each Meal plan prices, individually:

  
- Before clicking to EDIT, you must select some days on calendar:

   
- A new panel will be displayed on the left side and the hotel can update the price for the selected meal plan on those specific dates:

- Prices can be set with Incremental values, Percentage values and Fixed values

    
- The Hotelier can not set the meal plan with a higher value to the next upgradable meal plan neither with a lower from the previous meal plan.

- The system will validate and will display a top notification to warn about this and it will display a modal with details:

   
- Due to Price Per day, the Hotelier may "Reset" the base value by checking the “Overwrite prices” box:

- If you use this option, it will erase all prices modified individually for the meal plan.

 
- The hotelier should use it when a meal plan is inactive to set prices as default.

   
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## How will the meal plans appear on the Booking Engine?

   
- By clicking on the "+Info" button, the room information will also display the meal plans available and their price:

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