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.
You can set minimum night rules for your reservations as explained below. See full details here on how to access and adjust your PriceOptimizer settings.
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.
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. 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.
[PILOT] Manage gaps with pricing
Note:
This feature is currently in pilot phase with a limited number of users.
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.