Setting a hotel up

Seasons — a date range that prices differently

Setting a peak or a lean period once instead of typing a hundred nights.

A season is a date range that prices differently from the rest of the year: Diwali, a wedding week, the monsoon lull.

Do this

Name it, give it from and to dates.
Give it a price — either a flat amount or a percentage off the base.
Choose which days of the week it applies to, if it is not all of them.
Priority decides what happens where two seasons overlap. The higher number wins. A wedding week inside a peak season is a higher priority than the peak.

What actually happens

The season is written into the daily rates when you save it. It is not worked out fresh each time somebody asks for a price — which means the rate a guest is quoted is a row you can open and look at, on the rates screen, night by night.

So: change a season, and the nights change. Delete one, and those nights go back to the base rate. Nothing is left over.

Where it does not reach

A booking already made keeps the price it was made at. A season is what the hotel sells at from now on, not a re-pricing of what is already sold.

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