Creating and Using Min Stay Profiles

Creating and Using Minimum Stay Profiles

Min Stay Profiles helps you to easily apply minimum stay restrictions across your portfolio and seasons! With this feature, you can now create and save different minimum stay settings and apply them to your listings, groups, accounts, or seasons with much ease.

Creating a Min Stay Profile

To create a Min Stay Profile:

  1. Navigate to Dynamic Pricing > Customizations.
  2. Go to the Profiles tab.
  3. Under Min Stay Profiles, click Create Profile.
  4. Enter a Profile Name and set your preferred Minimum Stay Settings (for full details on each rule, check here).
  5. Click Save Profile when done.

Creating a Min Stay Profile from a Custom Seasonal Profile

You can also create a Min Stay Profile when setting up a Custom Seasonal Profile:

  1. On the Pricing Dashboard, click Review Prices on the desired listing, then click Edit under Customizations.
  2. Under the All Customizations tab, select Custom Seasonal Profile.
  3. Enable the toggle for Custom Seasonal Profile, then click Edit Profile.
  4. Click Add Seasonal Profile, then under Min Stay Profiles, click Create Profile.
  5. Set your preferred settings and click Save Changes.

Applying a Min Stay Profile

You can apply a Min Stay Profile to Listings, Groups, or Accounts:

  1. On the Pricing Dashboard, click Review Prices on the listing you want to update, then click Edit under Customizations.
  2. Under Stay Restrictions, go to Minimum Stay Settings and enable the toggle for Minimum Stay Settings.
  3. Select the appropriate Minimum Stay Profile.
  4. Click Save Changes.

Updating a Min Stay Profile

To update an existing Min Stay Profile:
  1. Click Dynamic Pricing from the top banner and select Customizations.
  2. Go to the Profiles tab.
  3. Click the Edit button next to the profile.
  4. Adjust the settings as needed, then click Save Profile

Using Min Stay Profiles in Seasonal Profiles

In some markets, different seasons require varying minimum stay settings. You can apply Min Stay Profiles to Seasonal Profiles for dynamic adjustments.

  1. On the Pricing Dashboard, click Review Prices on the desired listing, then click Edit under Customizations.
  2. Under All Customizations, select the Seasonal & Minimum Prices tab, then enable Custom Seasonal Profile.
  3. Click Edit Profile, then Add Seasonal Profile.
  4. Set a name, date range, and choose the appropriate Min Stay Profile.

Note: When minimum-stay profiles are applied to seasonal profiles, account, group and listing-level minimum-stay settings are ignored. Also, minimum-night settings are all or nothing, this means that rules from different levels/profiles can't apply together (i.e., you can't have some minimum-night customizations from the minimum stay profile and some from group level). A full description of the hierarchy is available here.

Archiving Min Stay Profiles

While Min Stay Profiles cannot be deleted, you can archive profiles you no longer use to keep your settings organized.

To archive a Min Stay Profile:

  1. Click Dynamic Pricing from the top banner and select Customizations.
  2. Go to the Profiles tab.
  3. Click the three-dot menu next to the profile and select Archive.

To unarchive a Min Stay Profile:

  1. Navigate to the Profiles tab and click to display Archived Profiles.

  2. Click the three-dot menu next to the archived profile and select Unarchive.

Note: Archiving a Min Stay Profile does not affect its functionality. If a profile is currently applied to a listing, group, or account, it will continue to work as expected. Archiving simply hides the profile from the Min Stay Profile tab.

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