You can manually set the minimum length of stay for certain dates in the Calendar. Manual changes to the minimum night stay will be pushed to all your listings within that property immediately, regardless of sub-sync settings. If you encounter issues with updates not reflecting on connected platforms, verify if external pricing tools like PriceLabs or Beyond Pricing are sending contradicting information to your Hospitable or OTA calendars. Adjust settings in those tools if necessary.
Keep in mind, that changes made in external pricing tools like PriceLabs or Beyond Pricing can affect or override your manual adjustments.
When dealing with Booking.com, manual changes to the minimum night stays apply only to Parent rate plans. Separate updates must be made to child rate plans directly in the Booking.com Extranet.
Managing minimum night stays is important for maintaining control of your property's availability and enforcing booking policies. By setting appropriate minimum night stay policies, you can optimize your property's occupancy while aligning with your pricing strategy.
Manually Set the Minimum Length of Stay
Go to Calendar.
Click on the date you wish to change twice (or, to select a series of dates, click on a start date and an end date).
If you select more than one week, we will show a day of the week selection, with all dates selected by default. If you only want your minimum length of stay updates to apply to specific days of the week, deselect the unwanted days.
In the example shown in this screenshot, changes will only apply to weekend dates (Friday and Saturday).
Enter the value in the Minimum length of stay field.
Click Save.
Manual settings here might be overridden by configurations from external dynamic pricing tools like PriceLabs, Beyond Pricing, or Wheelhouse. To ensure consistency, check your settings on those tools. The dynamic pricing tool should be connected to Hospitable, directly, and not to your OTA channels (Airbnb, Agoda, Booking.com, VRBO).
Minimum Nights Stay Sync for Vrbo
If you have Vrbo listings, check that minimum night stay sync is enabled, to ensure any changes made to your Hospitable calendar are pushed to Vrbo. Minimum night stay settings are pushed to all other platforms by default.
Managing Minimum Night Settings with PriceLabs or Other Dynamic Pricing Tools
If you use PriceLabs or other dynamic pricing tools for dynamic pricing, it is essential to manage the minimum night stay (MNS) settings within that tool.
The Hospitable calendar uses the latest update it received. This means that if the dynamic pricing tool sent an update after you made your manual calendar edit, then the update coming from the dynamic pricing tool will override your manual edits.
Changes made in PriceLabs are synchronized with Hospitable and can overwrite any adjustments you make in your Hospitable calendar.
To manage these settings effectively:
Log in to PriceLabs: Navigate to your property or listing and access the settings.
Adjust Minimum Stays: Modify global, custom, or seasonal minimum night stays as required. For example, set a 2-night minimum for specific dates as needed.
Sync Changes: Click the sync button in PriceLabs to push updated settings to Hospitable and other connected platforms.
If you need specific control over weekends or special days, configure dedicated rules in your pricing tool.
Minimum Nights Stay for Booking.com Listings
Hospitable only syncs with one rate plan on Booking.com per listing. We call that the Parent rate plan. Other rate plans (called Child rate plans) can be set up so that they take price and availability from the parent rate plan. However, Booking.com does not sync minimum night stay over to those. You must set that, manually, on Booking.com.
Log in to the Booking.com Extranet.
Verify Parent Rate Plans: Check Rates & Availability > Rate Plans and make sure that your child rate plans are "Mapped from" the parent rate plan, which should be "Mapped from Hospitable".
Manually set minimum night stay for your child rate plans:
Go to Rates & Availability > Calendar.
Tick the box that says "Restrictions".
Expand the view for your child rate plans.
Click the "Min. night stay" requirement field on the date you want to edit.
Set the minimum night stay for that date.
Repeat this for all dates you want to adjust (this can also be done in bulk by choosing a start date and an end date).
One-night stays on Booking.com: These often occur because the guest booked their stay on a child rate plan, and the minimum night stay had not been manually updated on that rate plan.