Here are the common scenarios where it's helpful:

1. You frequently change your base price to adjust it according to certain occupancy metrics – for example, your listing might have been doing fine so far, but for some reason is not getting as booked during a certain period. Either something changed in your market or your listing changed in some way (OTAs ranking it lower than usual, got a bad review, etc.)
   
2. You have two similar listings next to each other with the same base price, but for some reason one is getting booked while the other isn’t (maybe a bad review, search rank, or some other reason). This is especially important case if you are property manager with listings from different owners and you’d like a more equitable distribution of bookings across the portfolio.
3. You’re adding a new listing that has no bookings so far, and want to lower the price for next few days till the listing gets some bookings and an established customer base, and then bring it back to normal once the listing has enough bookings.

No matter what your unique situation is, savvy PriceLabs users want more control of how their prices look last minute and far out. And the occupancy based adjustment customization is a perfect solution to achieve just that! It allows you to set certain price adjustments based on the occupancy rates of a listing within different time windows.

Sound useful? Read on to see how to set this up!

If the switch is in an off position, then a default profile (which is in the screenshot above) will automatically be used. 

1. Default: these are our default settings( As seen in the screenshot above). Choose this option if you want to make some changes in our defaults, or use it as it is.
   
2. Aggressive: these are aggressive than our default settings  i.e. higher discounts and premiums in the default day ranges (goes till 30%) -  a lot of our customers have beta tested this & have seen good results! 
3. Step-Last Min Discount: Use these if you want to setup a step-wise last min discount instead of some of our regular last min discount options
   
   
4. Far-Out Premium: Given how customizable these tables are, you can even use these to setup far out premiums to increase prices for dates beyond a certain window! 
   
   
5. Coronavirus: We've developed a new setting that is more aggressive than our aggressive setting - likely the need of the hour for some regions. Here is detailed article on it.  
   
6. Custom: Any of the above can be tailored into a custom option, and this is the option you'll see selected if you edit and save one of the other templates.
   
7. None: Need a tight control on prices and don't want this automation? Use this option so our defaults don't kick in! 
   

Want to add a far-out premium on to one of the other profiles? Use the "Add Column" feature to tack additional date ranges!

Each profile can be customized to your liking by clicking on the "Edit Profile" button. After clicking on the button, you will be prompted with the entire table and will be allowed to enter the exact values for your profile. 

When customizing your profile, make sure to follow the following rules:

Each day range must be smaller than the preceding day range (0 < 15, 16 < 30, and so on)-

Each occupancy-based percentage in the left-hand column must be smaller than all preceding occupancy-based percentages

A few things to note:

1. The occupancy is calculated at a listing level in a given time frame. We're not talking about your portfolio's occupancy levels on a certain date. 
   
2. These adjustments are applied on top of our price calculations (which include seasonality, day of week, event/holiday, and last-min/far-out factors) and your adjustments (last-min discounts, orphan day discounts, date specific adjustments, etc.).
   
3. Even after these adjustments are applied, the prices will not go below the minimum price or above the maximum price you set.
   
4. If you put in an fixed price override at listing level (or a "% of base-price" override at group/account level), then those prices are final and none of our calculations are used.
   
5. All the numbers in the table are adjustable - you can provide the day ranges, or the % adjustments based on what your occupancy targets look like.
   
6. Blocked dates are currently considered booked for the purposes of calculating occupancy rates.