SEASONS - Add ability to copy seasons

Status: Requested 2 Votes
Randy H
May 23, 2023 1:28 PM
Joined Jun, 2019 47 posts

I have many properties that due to various reasons have unique seasons. 

Mostly because owners block dates that do not adhere to any sort of schedule

As a result I end up with all sorts of exceptions to seasons and with 37 properties

it becomes quite a task keeping up with them.

I have come to the conclusion that I almost need a set of seasons for every property.

It would be great if I could just copy the seasons from property to property.

For example

Unit 304 has the following.  Unit 305 is probably very similar with a couple of tweaks.

If I could just BATCH COPY 304 seasons to 305 that would be a huge timesaver.

 

Caleb M
May 31, 2023 3:03 PM
OR Team Member Joined Mar, 2022 174 posts

Generally seasons are meant to apply across many different properties, while spot rates are designed to be finely tuned for specific properties at exact times.

Can I ask you to elaborate exactly what adjustments you're making that can't be done via spot rates. I see you mentioned owner block dates is it related to those?

Randy H
May 31, 2023 3:57 PM
Joined Jun, 2019 47 posts

I use PRICELABS so I am exclusively using spot rates.

I am only using SEASONS to

    *enforce minimum day restrictions, 

    *define seasons to correspond with the PL spot rates

 PL on it's own will not enforce SAT to SAT for example, it requires using OR seasons.

So I have 37 properties and while a generic season, JUN-JUL-AUG could be

used to enforce Sat to Sat with 7 night stay for a group of assigned properties

there are always exceptions.

These exceptions are because I set a season for SAT to SAT and I have 20 properties assigned to it.

Then I have many owners who want to block things that do not adhere to Sat to Sat so I created

"exception" seasons.  

So it is very time consuming and if I had the ability to simply copy seasons such as

wp1-jun-jul-aug-sat-7-7 (water pointe 1 jun jul aug sat to sat 7 days a week) to

wp1-unit-100-jun-jul-aug-sat-7-7 it would be a great help

 

 

 

Randy H
May 31, 2023 5:49 PM
Joined Jun, 2019 47 posts

It is also important to understand I am only using seasons as a structure...I do not have prices associated with the seasons.

I am not looking to copy rates, just the season shell.

Randy

Caleb M
Jun 2, 2023 3:03 PM
OR Team Member Joined Mar, 2022 174 posts

Thank you for the additional information!

I wanted to reach out and add a little more to this discussion, I would also recommend reaching out to PriceLabs and showing your interest for them to integrate with our newer Spot Rates API that supports check in/out restrictions. We've already passed that information a long to them, but it appears that would allow spot rates/PriceLabs to manage this particular situation for you.