More daily prices

[praguecityapartments]

Hi, we have a 28 apartment types in 13 properties with dynamic pricing and need to set up 7 daily prices with 7 different minimal stays for booking.com channel. How should we circumvent that there can be only 4 daily prices set up? Should I make another virtual apartment for every existing one (so there would be 8 daily prices) and link those to one single room type on booking.com? Would it also be valid to have one room with one daily price and six virtual ones with one daily price for each? I know that this would make the account cluttered, but after setting this up we wouldn't be using the interface, everything would be managed by the API. The first choice would mean having 28 rooms and 28 virtual ones, the second choice would mean having 168 virtual rooms, but would be a liitle easier for setting up the API from our side. Also, the pricing is per room or per connection (in that case both solutions would cost the same I guess)? Thank you very much, Petr.

[annettemorgenroth]

Using virtual rooms will not work.

Ask Booking.com if they can auto calculate the other three price options.

If this is not possible you can use rates and use the multiplier to adjust your rates dynamically. If this is what you want to do let us know and we will add the multiplier to the API.

[praguecityapartments]

Thank you for the answer. We can't use the auto-calculation because the relative discount for longer stays is changing constantly. This is because how dynamic prices are made in our system. For example if there is an available five day window in otherwise occupied range, those five days that would exactly fit in get a considerable discount.

Also, having dynamic prices means that almost every day has a different price (based on how far it is in the calendar, occupancy, special event multipliers, weekends, etc.), so we can't use rates, because they have one single price.

[markkinchin]

We are stuck with the 4 daily prices per date per room.
It would probably work to map two beds24 rooms to a single booking.com room to get 8 daily prices.

You would need to take the following into account, there may be other unforeseen issues as well.
1) The room inventory value in both rooms would need to be kept the same as the total availability by your system. Each beds24 room will send inventory and overwrite the other so if they are different you have a problem.
2) Each of the beds24 rooms would need to be linked to different booking.com rates, otherwise they will overwrite each others prices.
3) Only one room should be selected for booking imports, you could have the other room "include a copy" using room dependency settings to keep inventory correct.

I think this will work but there is no guarantee.

[praguecityapartments]

Thanks, that should work hopefully. The pricing for channel manager is based on number of rooms or number of connected rates?

[markkinchin]

Thanks, that should work hopefully. The pricing for channel manager is based on number of rooms or number of connected rates?

Each room type counts as one link.
If you have to use 2 rooms to create the 8 rates, this would count as two links.