Manage Skills in the Management Console

In the Alexa Smart Properties management console, you specify the skills that guests can use on the registered Alexa devices in your property. You can enable or disable skills for a room directly or in a room template that you apply to one or more rooms.

The console is available in the CA, DE, ES, FR, IT, JP, UK, and US marketplaces at the following links:

Manage skills

You can find skills in the Alexa Skills Store, and you can create and enable your own property skills that are unique to your properties.

Enable a skill for a room

  1. Open the Alexa Smart Properties management console and navigate to your Properties page.
  2. In the list of properties, choose the property.
  3. Navigate to the Rooms page for the property.
  4. From the Rooms list, choose the room.
  5. In the Room settings pane, choose the Alexa Skills Store tab.
  6. In the Alexa Skills store, locate the skill by browsing the list of available skills, filtering by category, or searching by keyword.
  7. (Optional) Choose the Skill details tab to see more details about the skill.
  8. (Optional) For property skills, choose the Enabled Skills tab and select Enable property skill.
  9. Choose Enable.
  10. (Optional) If the skill requires account linking, link your account by following the account linking steps.
  11. (Optional) If the skill is a property skill and is onboard to name-free interactions, in the name-free interactions settings, toggle Use this skill with name-free interaction (NFI).

Disable a skill for a room

  1. Open the Alexa Smart Properties management console and navigate to your Properties page.
  2. In the list of properties, choose the property.
  3. Navigate to the Rooms page for the property.
  4. From the Rooms list, choose the room.
  5. In the Room settings pane, choose the Enabled Skills tab.
  6. Choose the Disable button next to the skill you want to disable.

Link an account to a skill

Some skills require account linking, which links an Alexa Smart Properties account to a user account in another system. When you add a skill that requires account linking, the Alexa Smart Properties console prompts you to open the login page of the skill provider and log in with your user account. After you successfully log in, the skill provider authenticates all registered devices in your Alexa Smart Properties account.

Following are the options for account linking. Which one you use depends on the skill you're trying to enable. Some skills require you to link the same account for all registered devices in all rooms. Others require you to link an account for registered devices in a room.

Smart home or custom skills might require you to configure the scope of the skill, so that the skill can recognize which Alexa devices you've associated with each room or partition. For more details about scoping and partitions, see How to use partitions to limit the scope of a smart home skill.

  1. Open the Alexa Smart Properties management console and navigate to your Properties page.
  2. In the list of properties, choose the property.
  3. Navigate to the Rooms page for the property.
  4. From the room list, choose the room.
  5. In the Alexa Skills Store tab, search for the desired skill by name or skill ID.
  6. Choose Enable.
  7. In the Account Linking section, toggle This skill requires account linking.
  8. Select Authorization.
  9. Select Link account.
  10. In the service provider's portal page for the skill, enter your account credentials for that skill (not your Amazon account credentials).
  11. Choose Enable

Configure scope for a smart home or custom skill

  1. Navigate to the Alexa Skills Store page for the skill, and link your account to the skill.
  2. Open the Alexa Smart Properties management console and navigate to your Properties page.
  3. In the list of properties, choose the property.
  4. Navigate to the Rooms page for the property.
  5. In the Alexa Skills Store tab, search for the desired skill by name or skill ID.
  6. Choose Enable.
  7. In the Account Linking section, toggle This skill requires account linking.
  8. Select Delegation.
  9. Select Link account.
  10. In the service provider's portal page for the skill, enter your account credentials for that skill (not your Amazon account credentials).
  11. Return to the Alexa Smart Properties management console.
  12. Choose This skill supports scope/PartitionName.
  13. Enter the scope name.
  14. Choose Enable.
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Last updated: Nov 28, 2023