Occupancy adjustments and channel manager

Channel Manager APIMews API
For most of the Channel managers, Mews sends several prices per one rate based on extra and empty bed adjustment settings of the master rate. The price is calculated from the base price of the master rate. However, Channel managers like Booking.com and D-Edge, do not send them automatically. To send the rates with empty/extra bed adjustment to this type of Channel managers, you need to enable operation "Push occupancy based pricing" in the Channel manager integration. If your Channel manager integration does not have this operation in the settings, then you can just skip this step.

Note: The occupancy-based pricing might require a different setup for each channel manager integration.
 

If your channel manager connection supports occupancy-based pricing, for example Vertical Booking, Hotel-Spider, HotelNetSolutions, then Mews automatically sends the different prices per rate based on the extra and negative occupancy adjustment settings of the base rate. Mews calculates the amount from the base price of the master rate.  
 

 

How to set up a negative occupancy adjustment?

 

  1. Go to the Main menu Screenshot_2.png > Settings > Services.
  2. Click on your bookable service.
  3. From the Settings menu, click Rates.
  4. Select your base rate and click on the Pricing tab.
  5. Click on the Base price > the side screen displays the price properties of the rate.
  6. Click on the Adjustments tab.
  7. In the Negative occupancy adjustment field, enter how much the price should change when fewer people stay than the standard occupancy. Note: Enter a negative value, for example, "-10" to make under‑occupancy cheaper, or a positive value to make it more expensive.
  8. Click Update.

 

How to set up an extra occupancy adjustment?

 
 
Step 1: Create an Extra occupancy adjustment in the pricing settings of the base rate.
  1. Go to the Main menu Screenshot_2.png > Settings > Services.
  2. Click on your bookable service.
  3. From the Settings menu, click Rates.
  4. Select your base rate and click on the Pricing tab.
  5. Click on the Base price > the side screen displays the price properties of the rate.
  6.  Click on the Adjustments tab and in the Extra occupancy adjustment field, enter the amount to be added if more people book a room.
  7. Click Update.

Step 2: Create an Extra capacity for the space category.
  1. Go to the Main menu Screenshot_2.png > Settings > Services.
  2. Click on your bookable service.
  3. From the Settings menu, click Space categories.
  4. Select the respective space category and scroll down.
  5. Under the Extra capacity field, enter the maximum number of additional guests for this space category.
  6. Click Save.
 

Manual setup of an occupancy-based pricing

 

Channel managers like Booking.com and D-Edge need a manual set up to reflect the price adjustments. To send the rates with negative and extra occupancy adjustment to this type of channel managers, you need to enable the operation 'Push occupancy based pricing' in the channel manager integration settings.

 

  1. Go to the Main menu Screenshot_2.png > Marketplace > My subscriptions > Select your channel manager.
  2. Scroll down to Enabled operations.
  3. Select Push occupancy based prices.
  4. Click Save.
 

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Once done, Mews recommends sending a manual update: How to send a manual update to the Channel Manager. To learn more about rate adjustments, check our article here.

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