When enabled, Dynamic Minimum Night Stays automatically adjusts your minimum stay settings based on booking patterns and availability gaps. This powerful tool helps maximize your occupancy by reducing minimum stay requirements as check-in dates approach and intelligently filling gap nights between existing bookings.
Available for all users on Host, Professional, and Mogul plans, this feature works seamlessly with Dynamic Pricing to optimize both your rates and booking requirements.
Key Benefits
Fill Gap Nights: Based on your settings, you can fill orphan nights between bookings by adjusting minimum stay requirements
Increase Last-Minute Bookings: Reduces minimum stays as dates approach to capture shorter bookings
Customizable: Like Dynamic Pricing, you can choose a Conservative, Recommended, or Aggressive strategy to match your booking preferences, while ensuring reservations remain within your preferred parameters
How It Works
Dynamic Minimum Night Stays uses your settings to optimize your property's minimum stay requirements. The system automatically adjusts minimum stay requirements based on:
How far in advance dates are being booked
Gap periods between existing reservations
Your chosen settings
Setup Instructions
Step 1: Open Dynamic Pricing
Dynamic Minimum Night Stays is integrated with Dynamic Pricing. If you haven't yet enabled Dynamic Pricing, you can follow the instructions here.
Then:
Open the single-property calendar
Select "Dynamic Pricing: Adjust your setup" from the right-side menu
Scroll down to the bottom and click on "Advanced Settings"
Select Minimum Night Stay
Step 2: Configure Your Settings
Ideal Stay Length: Set your preferred minimum stay duration (you can choose a single ideal stay length or customize by each day of the week)
Shortest Stay Length: Define the absolute minimum stay you'll accept (this acts as your floor)
Strategy: Choose your approach:
More Conservative: Prioritizes occupancy by relaxing earlier
Recommended: Balanced approach (default)
More Aggressive: Prioritizes longer stays by relaxing later
Step 3: Preview
You can preview the settings on the calendar, and hover over a date for more details about a particular night's calculations.
Booking window is the reduction from your Ideal stay length due to the date approaching and remaining unbooked
Gap night is the reduction from your ideal stay length in order to ensure the gap between two unavailable nights is bookable, provided it is greater than the Shortest stay length
Restrictions: If your property is based in a location with minimum stay restrictions (such as New York City), those restrictions will take precedence
Step 4: Enable
To enable, click on "Go back," then "Update" to save.
Understanding the Minimum Night Stay Strategies
More Conservative Strategy
This strategy prioritizes occupancy by relaxing earlier. That means:
When a date is 0-21 days away, your Minimum Stay will be equal to your shortest stay length
When a date is 22-35 days away, your Minimum Stay will be equal to your shortest stay length + 1 night
When a date is 36-56 days away, your Minimum Stay will be equal to your shortest stay length + 2 nights
When a date is 57-90 days away, your Minimum Stay will be equal to your shortest stay length + 3 nights
When a date is 91+ days away, your Minimum Stay will be equal to your Ideal Stay Length
Recommended Strategy (Default)
This strategy balances occupancy and revenue by taking a moderate approach. That means:
When a date is 0-14 days away, your Minimum Stay will be equal to your shortest stay length
When a date is 15-28 days away, your Minimum Stay will be equal to your shortest stay length + 1 night
When a date is 29-42 days away, your Minimum Stay will be equal to your shortest stay length + 2 nights
When a date is 43-75 days away, your Minimum Stay will be equal to your shortest stay length + 3 nights
When a date is 76+ days away, your Minimum Stay will be equal to your Ideal Stay Length
Aggressive Strategy
This strategy prioritizes longer stays by keeping higher minimum night restrictions for as long as possible. That means:
When a date is 0-7 days away, your Minimum Stay will be equal to your shortest stay length
When a date is 8-21 days away, your Minimum Stay will be equal to your shortest stay length + 1 night
When a date is 22-35 days away, your Minimum Stay will be equal to your shortest stay length + 2 nights
When a date is 36-60 days away, your Minimum Stay will be equal to your shortest stay length + 3 nights
When a date is 61+ days away, your Minimum Stay will be equal to your Ideal Stay Length
Important Notes
Channels: Updates are automatically pushed to all connected booking channels.
Manual Overrides: You can still manually edit minimum stays, which will override dynamic settings. If you choose to disable Dynamic Minimum Stays, your calendar will revert to your last settings before it was enabled.
Restrictions and Rulesets: Local regulations (like NYC restrictions) and calendar rulesets take precedence over Dynamic Minimum Night Stays.
Update Frequency: Minimum stays are updated at least every 24 hours, with additional updates triggered by reservation changes.
Next Steps
Once enabled, monitor your booking patterns and adjust your strategy as needed. The system will automatically work to fill gaps and capture last-minute bookings while respecting your minimum acceptable stay length.