Displaying nightly rates in your Guesty Booking Engine

The Guesty Booking Engine lets you showcase listings and collect reservations directly without paying channel fees. When guests use the search bar on your Guesty Booking Engine website, they see the nightly rates for each listing in the search results.

You can choose whether guests see the base price or the final price during the search process. Guests will see the full breakdown including all applicable fees and taxes before completing a booking.

Control how nightly pricing displays to guests

Choose whether your Booking Engine displays guests the final price, which includes all mandatory fees and taxes, or just the base price first. This helps you align with price transparency requirements and guest expectations in different regions.

Step by step:

1. Sign in to your Guesty account.
2. In the side navigation menu, click Marketing and sales to open the dropdown menu.
3. Under Channel management, select Distribution.
4. Click the Guesty Booking Engine card.
5. Click next to the relevant Booking engine, and select Edit booking engine.
6. In the left menu, select Booking settings.
7. Under "Pricing visibility", select your preferred pricing visibility setting:
   • Show final price (recommended): Display the total price per night, which includes all mandatory fees and taxes.
     This option is recommended to meet price transparency requirements in many regions.

   • Show base price: Display the nightly base rate first. Additional fees and taxes appear later in the booking process.

     Note:

     When selecting this option, you must check the box to accept responsibility for compliance with any relevant legal requirements.

     Beta: Toggle Show rates when no dates are selected to define pricing behavior when guests search without dates:

     • On: Display a "Starting from" price for each listing when guests search without dates. The price filter and sort options are available. This is the default setting for existing booking engines.
     • Off: Displays no pricing information when guests search without dates. The price filter, sort options, and prices on the map view are hidden. This is the default setting for new booking engines.
8. Click Next.
9. In the left-side menu, click Languages to navigate to the last action.
10. Click Save Booking Engine to apply your changes.

Understand how pricing appears to guests

When a guest searches with dates

The "price per night" is calculated based on the specific nightly rates for the selected dates. This includes any manual adjustments, such as overridden base prices. In the list view, the price shown is the average nightly price for the selected period.

When a guest searches without dates

The display of pricing depends on the "Show rates when no dates are selected" setting in your booking engine's settings.

• If the setting is on, the "price per night" defaults to the listing's base price.
• If the setting is off, no pricing is shown in the search results. The price filter, sort options, and prices on the map view are also hidden until the guest selects dates.

Promotional discounts and special offers  don't appear in the initial search results. These are reflected only after a guest clicks Book now.

Tip:

Create additional fees on reservations made through your Guesty Booking Engine.

To avoid confusion when using pricing tools, review your rate history to identify typical low-season prices, and set your default base price accordingly. This ensures guests see consistent pricing when browsing without date filters and creates a smoother booking experience.

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