Set Your Pricing – Weekend Rates

Your website’s pricing system is incredibly flexible. There is almost always a way to achieve the pricing structure you are looking to implement but amongst all the configuration settings it is not always clear how.

One topic that can cause confusion is how to set different prices for stays over the weekend. You may wish to set a higher rate for Friday and Saturday night occupancy for example. Or do you instead want to charge more for 2 or 3 night stays that fall over the weekend? These requests are slightly different so lets look at how we set these up

This article covers two different methods of setting your pricing for weekends.

1. Setting a different nightly rate for specific days of the week.
2. Setting special rates for breaks depending on the day of the week the guest checks-in.

Setting Up Different Nightly Rates

First you will go to your Seasons page from your dashboard and setup two Seasons, one for weekdays, and one for weekends. Both Seasons should share exactly the same date ranges. When finished you should see something like the two ‘Low Season’ examples below:

Once you’ve set your Seasons you will need to set your prices or rates for your Seasons. Navigate to your Rates page and setup your separate prices for your weekend rates and your weekday rates. Like you can see in the example below, if you wish to apply a weekly rate as well, or a 4,5,6 nightly rate for that matter, you can do this simply by creating a new rate and ticking both your Seasons.

Setting up Weekend / Mid Week Breaks

In many respects it is much easier to setup this type of pricing, at least it is certainly easier to maintain when the time comes round to updating your pricing.

Again, start with your Seasons, but here we only setup the one Low Season and we ticEdit with Bricksk all the days for this season.

Next, go to the Bookings Rules page where at the foot of the screen you should see ‘Advanced Rules’

Below we have created three new rules. These rules only have to be setup once and then they can be selected to apply to all your Seasons or selected Seasons as you wish.

• • Short Weekend Break applies a special rate to guests that check in on a Friday, Saturday & Sunday and stay for 2 nights.

• • Long Weekend Break applies a special rate to guests that checking in on a Friday and Saturday and stay for 3 nights.

• • Finally Midweek Break applies a special rate for guests to check in on a Monday or Tuesday and stay for 3 nights

Having created the rules, lets go back to the Rates page where we set the prices

Here we are on the Rates Page, where we have created our Rates. You may not need to set as many as we have here but let’s explain what these are doing.

You can see we have created a Rate for each of the rules we have just created. You don’t have to do this for each of the Seasons you have created, some you may wish to keep for weekly stays only.

In addition to the three Breaks, we have added two more Rates for the Low Season.  A weekly rate that offers a price for 7 night stays and a 3 Night rate.

You’ll  already be aware we have 3 night breaks in place for Long Weekend and Weekday Breaks so may wonder what the purpose of a third 3 night rate is. Well, you probably wouldn’t add this to be honest but we’ve added it for demonstrative purposes. It shows that you could set another different rate for a guest who wanted to stay for 3 nights who didn’t check-in on a Friday or Saturday (thus not qualify for the Long Weekend Break) or check-in on a Monday,Tuesday or Sunday (nor qualify for the Midweek Rate)