Important:
Once activated on a listing, minimum night restrictions are managed in PriceOptimizer. Changes to minimum night restrictions made in the Guesty calendar or listing settings will be overridden by PriceOptimizer.
Make sure your listing is not assigned to a Guesty rate strategy, as minimum night rules will cause discrepancies when used in conjunction with PriceOptimizer.
Set the minimum stay required for specific days, dates, and upcoming time periods. You can also restrict check-ins or check-outs on certain days of the week.
For additional PriceOptimizer customization options, see full details here.
Access PriceOptimizer settings
Follow these steps to access a listing's PriceOptimizer minimum night rules. See details in the sections below about the different customization options.
Step by step:
- Sign in to your Guesty account.
- In the top navigation bar, click the mode selector and select Growth.
- Click PriceOptimizer.
- Find the listing(s) for which you want to adjust the pricing. You can search for a specific listing by name or nickname or use the filters to find all listings that match your specific criteria.
- Select the relevant listing.
- In the left-side menu, click Minimum night rules.
- After making any changes, click Apply x change(s) in the top-right corner and select Apply again in the confirmation pop-up.
Step by step:
- Sign in to your Guesty account.
- In the top navigation bar, click
and select Guesty PriceOptimizer.
- Select the relevant listing.
- After making any changes, click Apply x change(s) in the top-right corner and select Apply again in the confirmation pop-up.
Day-of-week rules
If you want to adjust the minimum stay requirements for reservations on different days of the week, select your preferences in the Day-of-week rules section.
Click the tickbox to restrict check-in or check-out for certain days of the week.
Time-based rules
In the Time-based rules section, you can adjust the minimum stay requirements for reservations within a specific time period, like holidays, events, or seasons.
- Toggle on to apply the requirements for specific days only
- Toggle on to restrict check-in or check-out days
Time-based rules are added on top of day-of-week rules.
Upcoming availability rules
Upcoming availability rules help ensure that you fill up your calendar with longer stays ahead of time by defining minimum nights for designated time periods. For instance, let's say you want to create a rule that will apply thirty nights from today and end 60 nights from today and only apply to specific days. Adjust these requirements in the Upcoming availability rules section. Upcoming availability rules are added on top of day-of-week and time-based rules.
Manage gaps with minimum nights
You can automatically lower the minimum night stays for gap periods smaller than the current minimum night requirement. This helps fill up leftover gaps between reservations to maximize occupancy.
Toggle on Maximize occupancy, then set the minimum nights less than your default as needed.
For example: You have a three night gap between stays, but your default minimum night rule is five nights. Having maximize occupancy activated with a minimum of two nights allows for a reservation to be made for two or three nights to fill in the gap.
Note:
Once activated, it may take up to 24 hours to update the minimum night of the first night of the gap.
Manage gaps with pricing
In addition to managing gaps with minimum nights, you can automatically decrease your pricing for leftover gaps between reservations to maximize occupancy.
For example, create a rule that if there is a 3-night gap within the next 7 days, the price will be reduced by 10%.
How the logic works:
- The first day of the gap should be included in the gap range rule.
- This means that if the rule is from day 7 to day 14 and the gap starts on day 5, the rule will not be applied.
- If the gap is larger than the maximum gap in a rule, that rule will not be applied.
- This means that if the rule is set for a maximum gap of 5 days and the gap is 6 days, the rule will not be applied.
- If two rules are applicable, the rule with the smallest maximum gap takes precedence.
- In the case of overlapping days (even partially), you cannot define a rule with the same maximum gap length.
- The percentage is taken from the recommended price.
- The amount will be added to the final price for every day in the gap.