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Pricing Preferences

How your rates and nightly pricing are displayed to potential guests may have an effect on your bookings and users can make changes to customize how their property rates/nightly pricing are displayed to potential guests.

To set Pricing Preferences, users can navigate to Settings > Pricing > Pricing Preferences.

To set Pricing Preferences, users can navigate to Settings > Pricing > Pricing Preferences.

On the Change Pricing Preferences page, users can accomplish the following.

  • Set their preferred Weekend Nights from the drop-down list. Want to apply specific Weekend Nights by property? See the Weekend Nights support article.

Set your preferred Weekend Nights from the drop-down list.

  • Select the Rent Taxability is Taxable (default) or Not-Taxable by choosing the appropriate button. This selection controls whether "Rent" charge line items are taxable or not when generating charges for quotes or bookings or adding additional nights, such as extending a stay
  • Determining whether the minimum night rules in the Evaluate Rules should be by Arrival Night Only (default) or All Nights of Stay by selecting the appropriate button.
  • Determining whether the pricing rules for the Channel Default Rate should the Maximum Nightly Rates (default) or the Minimum Nightly Rates by selecting the appropriate button. 
  • Determine whether rates should to Apply Season rates by selecting Arrival Date, Departure Date or Split Across (default) by selecting the appropriate button.

Users should note that there are some useful guidelines displayed directly on this page.

On the How Guests See Charges section of the Change Pricing Preferences page, users can make the following choices.

  • On Quotes & Bookings sent to guests, users can select whether to display a detailed breakdown (default) or combine all of the lines for each category listed below together with a custom description of the users' choice.
    • Rent
    • Surcharges
    • Discounts
    • Taxes

On Quotes & Bookings sent to guests, users can select whether to display a detailed breakdown (default) or combine all of the lines for each category listed below together with a custom description of the users' choice.

  • On Widgets displaying pricing on Hosted Websites, Integrated Websites or websites using the WordPress Plugin, users can select whether to display a detailed breakdown (default) or combine all of the lines for each category listed below together with a custom description of the users' choice.
    • Rent
    • Surcharges
    • Discounts
    • Taxes

On Widgets displaying pricing on Hosted Websites, Integrated Websites or websites using the WordPress Plugin, users can select whether to display a detailed breakdown (default) or combine all of the lines for each category listed below together with a custom description of the users' choice

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