gap prevention feature

[apartment_levillenet]

It would be good to have a feature where beds24 does not allow a gap of, for example, 1 or 2 nights. That is, if a customer tries to book accommodation with a gap of 1 night, it is not allowed. This could be set so that what kind of gap is allowed, for example 1,2 or 3 nights. Now, in the super season, for example, on New Year's Day, you have to manually add no check-in days as reservations come in. This way, you avoid missing out on, say, a 1000e night that no one gets because it's only 1 night. In practice, this would work so that beds automatically adds a no check for the day after the previous reservation ends and the day after that, and forces a new reservation only for the same day as the end.

[lesleywoermeijer]

1) You can automatically block days after a booking, go to Settings > Properties > Rooms > Setup > Rules > Block Dates after Check-out.

This allows to you have X number of days before and after a booking, usually to allow time for cleaning/changing.

https://wiki.beds24.com/index.php/Setti ... ercheckout

2) If you want to set a minimum stay for specific periods, then you can set the Minimum stay in the calendar, this will increase any minimum stay already set in your prices, for example if you want to have 3 night stay for New Year, then you can scroll to the dates in the calendar and set the minimum stay.

https://wiki.beds24.com/index.php/Dynam ... strictions

3) If you want to fill Gaps between bookings, then you can use a Gap Fill Fixed Price.

This will only apply if/when you have gaps between 2 bookings.

https://wiki.beds24.com/index.php/Sell_ ... gle_Nights

[annettemorgenroth]

I think what you are looking is our gap filler function which will allow you to automatically oofer unoccupied days between two bookings caused by minimum stay restrictions.

Example how it works: Suppose you have a minimum stay requirement of 3 nights. Guest A books from August 1st to August 7th, and the next booking (Guest B) starts on August 9th. This leaves an unbookable two-night gap (August 7th–9th) because of the 3-night minimum restriction.

With a gap filler price configured for a minimum and maximum stay of 2 nights, Beds24 will allow a new booking (Guest C) to fill this two-night gap. The gap filler price will only apply in these specific cases. For gaps of 3 nights or more, your standard 3-night minimum stay still applies.

You can set the gap filler price to be higher or lower than your usual rates. Additionally, you can create multiple gap filler prices with different minimum and maximum stays, prices, and seasons—giving you full flexibility to optimize both occupancy and revenue.

Have a look here how to set this up: https://wiki.beds24.com/index.php/Sell_ ... gle_Nights

[apartment_levillenet]

1) You can automatically block days after a booking, go to Settings > Properties > Rooms > Setup > Rules > Block Dates after Check-out.

This allows to you have X number of days before and after a booking, usually to allow time for cleaning/changing.

https://wiki.beds24.com/index.php/Setti ... ercheckout

Thanks for the suggestion, but I don’t think this solution works for my use case.

My goal is to prevent gaps of 1–2 nights between bookings during certain periods (for example, in March). For instance, I want to allow a new booking to start only on the same day the previous guest checks out, or only after a 3-night gap—not on the next day, which would leave an unwanted 1-night gap.

In other words, I want to ensure that small, unbookable gaps don’t form between reservations.

Ideally, this rule would apply during specific date ranges, and if no booking has been made, the restriction could be automatically lifted a week before the date in question, allowing for more flexibility last-minute.

The current “Block Dates after Check-out” rule seems to be designed mainly for cleaning buffers, and doesn't allow for the level of control I need in managing gaps proactively.

Is there a way to implement this kind of logic?

[lesleywoermeijer]

Thank you for the clarification.

You can create Gap Fill Fixed prices for the dates required.

Set the min/max stay so if you only allow a 3 night stay when there is a gap, you can set the min/max stay = 3 then only if there is a gap of 3 nights between 2 other bookings, will the price/availability be shown.

Fixed prices have date ranges and checkin/checkout options in the Summary tab allowing you to refine the options to specific days.