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title: "Room states: six of them, and why readiness is never switched by hand"
description: "What each of a room's six states means, the order they are chosen in, and why no role — the owner included — has a ‘Ready’ switch."
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audience: owner
published: 2026-08-27
updated: 2026-09-03
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---

‘Clean, dirty, inspected’ — the three words a room is usually described with.
They do not answer the question anybody is actually asking: can the next guest
be let in.

ATQAR has six states, and every one of them is an answer to that single
question.

## The six states

> Product demonstration: A room in a list: its number, its state, and what is happening to it right now.

**Blocked.** There is unresolved work holding the room: a fault, a repair,
anything with a reason on it. Until that is cleared by a decision, nothing else
matters.

**Check-out not confirmed.** The room has no preparation cycle running right
now: either there has been no cycle yet, or the last cycle was invalidated as
an error or a duplicate. The room is neither in progress nor ready: it is
unknown, and saying so is more honest than guessing.

**Awaiting cleaning.** The departure is confirmed and the main cleaning
exists, but it has neither run nor been accepted yet. It may have no assignee —
when planning found no free hour in the roster, the cleaning waits for
assignment. The created cleaning itself is enough for the room's state: it does
not depend on the assignee.

**Cleaning in progress.** The employee has started.

**Awaiting review.** The work has been handed in and is waiting for
independent review. The room is not ready yet — and this is where ‘cleaned’ and
‘ready’ stop being the same thing.

**Ready.** The cleaning has been accepted and nothing is holding the room.

## The order matters more than the list

A room shows exactly one state — the first one that matches, in the order above.

So a blocked room stays blocked even once its cleaning has been accepted: the
fault comes first. And a room whose cleaning has not been accepted does not
become ready because somebody is very busy.

First match is what makes a state unambiguous. An unordered list would let a
room be ‘being cleaned’ and ‘blocked’ at the same time, and two people would
have to decide which of the two was true.

## Nobody has the switch

Not the housekeeper, not the technician, not the administrator, not the owner.
Readiness is derived from accepted work, and that is the only way it is ever
arrived at.

The reason is simple. A manual switch makes a room's state somebody's assertion
rather than a consequence of the work — and on the first hard day somebody will
flip it, because ‘I know that room is fine’. After that the state can never be
trusted again, and being trustworthy is the entire reason it exists.

> Product demonstration: The room's own card does not just say ‘blocked’; it says what is blocking it.

A blocked room always names its reason. The block is cleared by a decision with
a reason, not by deleting the task: a deleted task would take with it the fact
that the fault ever happened.

## What an employee sees

Their own work, not a directory of properties. The full list of rooms, their
readiness, notes and stays are available to the owner and to administrators. A
housekeeper or a technician reporting a problem picks a room from a separate
minimal list: property and room only, with no guest, no stay, no note and none
of anybody else's tasks.

More: [Room states](https://atqar.com/en/docs/rooms-and-readiness/),
[Preparation cycles and corrections](https://atqar.com/en/docs/cycles-and-corrections/),
[Properties and rooms](https://atqar.com/en/docs/properties-and-rooms/).