Adding Your First Person Record

Create a guest, resident, camper, member, or customer profile with contact details, ID, and notes.

Beginner3 min read3 sections

People Profiles

Every person who stays at or uses your property gets a profile. Depending on your LodgeKit flavour, that profile may be a guest, resident, camper, member, or customer. It stores contact details, booking or stay history, payment records, and any documents you upload. You can create people manually or automatically when you make a booking, stay, reservation, or placement with a new email address.

Creating a Person Record Manually

You can add a person ahead of time, before they have a booking, stay, reservation, or placement.

1

Go to Dashboard > Guests

Click Guests in the sidebar to see your people list. The label adapts by flavour across the app where vertical-specific terminology is available.

2

Click Add Guest

Click the Add Guest button in the top right corner to add a guest, resident, camper, member, or customer record.

3

Enter their details

Fill in the person's first name, last name, and email address. The email is required - it is used for invoices, the portal, and communications. Phone number and address are optional but recommended.

4

Add notes (optional)

Use the notes field to record anything useful about the person - dietary requirements, accessibility needs, preferences, or operational notes. These notes are private and only visible to your staff.

5

Save

Click Save. The person is now in your system and ready to be attached to a booking, stay, reservation, or placement.

Each person record must have a unique email address within your organisation. If you try to add a duplicate email, LodgeKit will let you know.

Creating a Person from a Booking, Stay, or Placement

When creating a new booking, stay, reservation, or placement, you can type a name that does not exist yet and LodgeKit will offer to create the person record inline. This is handy when you are taking details over the phone - you do not need to leave the form to set up the person first.

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