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Hi, after almost a year, i'm still not sure about the best way to map my prices. Since i have a quite "normal" situation, this might be a topic which would be usefull for more people.

We have a holiday home (so 1 room) which can be rented per week (fri-fri or mon-mon), midweek (mon-fri) or weekend (short: fri-sun, long: fri-mon)

Exceptionally, during school holidays or public holidays, we are more flexible and allow other combinations (f.i. when a public holiday is on thursday, we allow a rent from wednesday evening till sunday or monday. This can be a higher price, but sometimes also a lower price.

We also have a high season and a low season.

And to complicate things, we like to have a 5% discount if people choose to have a non-refundable booking.

Right now i have a lot of different rate plans AND i am using daily prices.

Now my questions:
- Am i right that if i want to be able to link to airbnb, i HAVE to use only daily prices? There is no alternative?
- Am i right that if i want to use the 5% discount, i'd better not use a derived rate plan on booking.com, but should set up a daily price/rate on beds24.com (i read somewhere booking.com doesn't take over the limits on check-in/out days you set up in an OTA-rate plan/daily plan linked to the plan you derive from?

- taken everything into account, is this the best way to cover all my needs:
1) make 8 daily prices:
- A daily price for 2-3 days (refundable)
- A daily price for 4 days (midweek) (refundable)
- A daily price for aweek (refundable)
- A daily price for 2-3 days (non-refundable)
- A daily price for 4 days (midweek) (non-refundable)
- A daily price for a week (non-refundable)
- A daily price for holiday & exceptional periodes (non-refundable)
- A daily price for holiday & exceptional periodes (refundable)

And then i make 8 price profiles in Booking.com to correspond to each situation?

For Booking.com and each set of rules, Lengh of stay, then you will need a Booking.com Ratel plan.

The rules/prices/availability will be sent to the appropriate rate plan at Booking.com.

As your Non Refundable prices have a percentage offset (5%), then you can LINK the daily prices in Beds24, creating the prices that will send to Booking.com.

Create the Daily prices in Prices > Daily price setup, then once created, you can use the LINK option, select the Daily price you want to link to, then set the offset percentage = -5. Ensure you map the corresponding Booking.com Rate plan in the channel list.

There is no restrictions regarding Airbnb and Daily prices/Rates, however if you want to send Occupancy based prices, then the Extra Person Price in Daily prices will be used/sent to the channels, this is not possible with Rates.

Set the rules of the minimum stay in the Daily Price Setup, not in the calendar to ensure the rules/prices apply.

You also have the option of setting an override in the calendar to manage No-checkin/Checkouts if required.

How can i assign daily price to multiple rooms at a time? Seems like need to write rules to every room separetely?

You need to create the Daily prices for each room.

It is not possible to create daily prices for multiple rooms at the same time.