Glossary · Front desk and rooms

What are housekeeping room statuses in a hotel?

Housekeeping room status is the state each room is in for cleaning and sale — dirty, clean, inspected, out of order or out of service — read together with whether it is occupied or vacant, so the front desk knows which rooms it can sell and housekeeping knows which to clean next.

Also called Room status codes, VC, VD, OOO, OOS, Room status · Front desk and rooms · Last reviewed 25 September 2026

The common statuses

StatusMeaning
Dirty (VD / OD)Needs cleaning — after a check-out (vacant dirty) or a stay-over (occupied dirty).
Clean (VC / OC)Cleaned. A vacant clean room can be sold.
InspectedChecked by a supervisor after cleaning — the surest room to give an arriving guest.
Out of order (OOO)Broken, and cannot be sold until maintenance fixes it.
Out of service (OOS)Deliberately closed — renovation, an off-season wing — not broken.

The usual cycle is check-out → dirty → clean → inspected → sold. Out of order and out of service are kept apart because they mean different things for the numbers: a broken room is a maintenance problem, while a wing closed for the season was never meant to be sold.

Example

The 7 am board for a 12-room property: 5 occupied, 2 departing today, 3 vacant clean, 1 vacant dirty, 1 out of order (the AC compressor). The desk can sell three rooms now, and up to three more once the dirty room and the two departures are cleaned.

How Nivasik handles it

  • A housekeeping board with a status per room: dirty, clean, inspected, out of order, out of service.
  • Filters for what needs cleaning, departing, arriving, occupied, vacant, clean and out of order — read against the day's bookings.
  • One tap moves a room to the next thing that happens to it in real life ("Mark clean", "Inspected", "Back in service"), and each change records who made it.

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