What My Assets is for
Some businesses book things rather than people. A campsite has no working hours and no staff roster — a guest just needs a site free on the nights they want. My Assets is where you describe those bookable things so the AI can check availability and take a booking during a call or chat.
Rooms & suites
Hotel rooms, motel units, serviced apartments — grouped by room type rather than listed one door at a time.
Sites & pitches
Campsites, caravan bays, powered and unpowered sites, cabins.
Vehicles & equipment
Hire cars, bikes, trailers, tools and gear — anything let out for a day or a date range.
Who sees this page
My Assets only appears in the sidebar for accounts whose business type books physical resources.
| Requirement | Detail |
|---|---|
| Business type | Set AI Setup → Business Essentials → Business Type to Hotel, Accommodation, or Rental. Any other business type hides the page entirely. |
| Role | Only account owners and administrators can manage assets. Other team members see an "Access Restricted" message. |
| Booking enabled | For the AI to actually book, turn on Enable Bookings in AI Setup → Business Essentials. With it off, the AI can still answer questions about your assets but will not take bookings. |
Adding an asset
Click Add Asset in the top right of the page. The form is short — every field below is on one screen.
| Field | Description | Required? |
|---|---|---|
| Asset Name | What this record is called internally — e.g. "Room 204", "Deluxe Suite", "Toyota Camry #3". | Yes |
| Asset Type | Free text describing the category — e.g. "Hotel Room", "Campsite", "Car", "Cleaning Equipment". This is the word callers are most likely to say, and it is what the AI matches against when someone asks for "a campsite". | Yes |
| Quantity | How many identical, interchangeable units this one record represents. Whole number, 1 or more. | Yes (defaults to 1) |
| Booking Type | How this asset is booked — Nightly, Day, Date range, or Not bookable. See Booking Types. | Yes (defaults to Nightly) |
| Check-in / Check-out Time | The times applied automatically to bookings. Labelled Start Time and End Time when the booking type is Day. Hidden entirely for "Not bookable". | Yes |
| Description | What the AI should tell callers who ask about this asset — size, features, capacity, what's included. | No |
| Hide name from callers | Stops the AI speaking this asset's specific name. See Hiding Names. | No |
| Active | Only shown when editing an existing asset. Inactive assets are hidden from the AI and cannot be booked. | No |
Quantity and pooling
This is the most important idea on the page, and the one most often set up the wrong way round.
An asset record represents a pool of identical units, not a single physical item. If you have 20 identical Deluxe Rooms, create one asset with a quantity of 20 — not 20 separate assets.
Assets with a quantity above 1 show a × N badge in the list so you can see the pool size at a glance.
Booking types
The booking type decides what the AI asks a caller for, and how a booking occupies the calendar.
| Type | What the AI asks for | Typical use |
|---|---|---|
| Nightly | A check-in date and a check-out date. No time of day — your configured times are applied automatically. | Hotel rooms, motel units, campsites, cabins — anything charged per night. |
| Day | One date only. The configured start and end times are applied to that same day. | Day passes, one-day equipment hire, a meeting room booked for the day. |
| Date range | A start date and an end date, using the asset's configured booking times. | Car, bike and equipment hire spanning several days. |
| Not bookable | Nothing — the AI never offers to book it. | Informational only. The AI answers questions from the Description but cannot place a booking. Useful for a facility you want described but managed off-system. |
Check-in and check-out times
Every bookable asset carries its own pair of times, so the AI never has to ask a caller what time they'd like to check in.
- New assets default to 14:00 check-in and 10:00 check-out — the usual accommodation pattern, where check-out is the following morning.
- For the Day booking type the fields are relabelled Start Time and End Time, and the end must be later than the start on the same day. Switching an asset to Day resets the times to 09:00–17:00 if the existing pair would be invalid same-day.
- The AI asks for dates only and applies these times itself. Staff can still adjust the times on an individual booking when creating or editing it in the Calendar.
- Times are shown on each row in the asset list as Times: 14:00 to 10:00.
Hiding names from callers
Switch on Hide name from callers when the internal name of an asset is not something you want spoken aloud.
With it on, the AI confirms generically — "your room is booked" rather than "Room 204 is booked". It is useful when your asset names are internal codes, or when telling a caller their exact unit number over the phone is a security concern.
Publishing changes to your AI
Saving an asset stores it immediately, but your live AI agent keeps using the assets it was last published with until you push the change.
Editing and removing assets
Each row in the asset list has a pencil icon to edit and a Remove button.
Editing
The edit form is the same as the add form, with one extra control: the Active toggle. Switching an asset inactive hides it from the AI so it cannot be booked, while keeping the record and its booking history. This is the right way to take something out of service temporarily — a room being renovated, a vehicle off the road.
Removing
- A confirmation dialog appears before anything is removed.
- An asset with current or future bookings cannot be removed. You'll see a message saying so — cancel or reassign those bookings in the Calendar first.
- Removing archives the asset rather than erasing it, so past bookings keep a resolvable reference and your history stays intact. The asset disappears from this page and from the AI.
How the AI books an asset
Once at least one active, bookable asset is published, your AI gains the ability to check availability and place bookings — on calls and in website chat alike.
Callers can also reschedule and cancel an existing booking by phone. The AI first locates the booking and verifies the caller before changing anything, and sends the appropriate confirmation email afterwards.
Assets in the Calendar
Asset bookings appear in the same Calendar as everything else, whether the AI took them or your staff did.
- The resource filter at the top lists your assets. On an asset-only account it reads All Assets.
- The action button becomes New Booking, and clicking a day cell opens the booking form for the selected asset.
- Multi-night stays show in an all-day banner above the hourly grid, so a booking spanning several nights is visible across every day it covers.
- Editing a booking's dates in the Calendar reschedules it in place and emails the guest. Availability is re-checked, so you cannot move a booking onto dates where the pool is full.
- Any active team member can create a booking from the Calendar — unlike asset setup, which stays owner and admin only.