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Booking Restriction Rule: How to automatically apply Booking restrictions for Booking.com
Booking Restriction Rule: How to automatically apply Booking restrictions for Booking.com
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Do you want to restrict how far in advance and how long a guest can book your Booking.com listing? With the Booking Restriction rule, you can set lead time and minimum length of stay restrictions for any time period.
The Booking Restriction rule only applies to Booking.com. For other channels, you can set these values directly in the listing details.
Let's take a look at an example where we apply some restrictions on our Booking.com listing, so that guests can only book within a certain time frame, and only for a certain length of time. Our rental will be undergoing substantial upgrades during the low season month of August. As a result, we want a longer lead time on bookings, so that we can schedule the technicians accordingly. We also want to limit bookings to a maximum of five nights, in order to minimize construction delays.
Click the New button
Rules can only be added while editing the strategy. From the strategies overlay, click the New button to add a new rule.
Select the Booking Restriction Rule
To edit the booking restriction settings, select Booking Restriction Rule from the dropdown list.
Select the range of dates
The Booking Restriction Rule modal contains 2 required fields. First, select the dates that you wish to apply booking restrictions to in the Date Range field. This will apply the restrictions to the specified dates.
In our example,we have selected August 1st to August 31st. This will allow us a window of a full month to get the upgrades completed, without disrupting our booking calendar too much.
Enter the booking restrictions
Next, enter the booking restrictions in the provided fields. The Min Advance Booking fields represent the minimum number of nights and hours before check-in required to book a stay during the specified dates. The Max Advance Booking fields represent the maximum number of nights and hours before check-in required to book a stay during the specified dates. The Min Stay Arrival field represents the minimum number of nights required to book a stay during the specified dates. The Max Stay Arrival field represents the maximum number of nights required to book a stay during the specified dates.
In our example, we have entered a min advance booking of 3 nights and 6 hours to give us lead time to manage the technician's schedule. We have entered a max advance booking of 14 nights, as we want to prevent guests from booking the month too far in advance. The min stay has been set to 2 nights, and the max stay has been set to 5 nights. This will give us maximum control over the booking window for the month of August.
OPTIONAL: Add additional restrictions
Next, click the Add New Item button to add additional booking restrictions. You can add other date ranges that you wish to have restricted during rate pushes.
In our example, we have added a second booking restriction for the first 2 weeks of December. The owner of the rental wants to reserve some nights in early December. We want to accommodate their request, but we don't want to block off the calendar for 2 weeks, without certainty. So, we have selected December 1st to December 15th, and we have set a min advance booking value of 3 nights, and a max advance booking value of 5 nights. We have also set a max stay of 4 nights. This will allow us to limit guests who want to book that time period to having to make the booking in late November, and they will not be able to book the entire time period. This will allow us to manually block dates for the owner, should we find the availability window is getting too full.
Click the Save button
Lastly, click the Save button to save the rule to the strategy.
Please remember to save the strategy, in order for the changes to take effect. New rates will only be generated once the strategy has been saved.
As always, please contact us with questions any time. We're happy to help.
In our example, we have selected August 1st to August 31st. This will allow us a window of a full month to get the upgrades completed, without disrupting our booking calendar too much.
In our example, we have entered a min advance booking of 3 nights and 6 hours to give us lead time to manage the technician's schedule. We have entered a max advance booking of 14 nights, as we want to prevent guests from booking the month too far in advance. The min stay has been set to 2 nights, and the max stay has been set to 5 nights. This will give us maximum control over the booking window for the month of August.
In our example, we have added a second booking restriction for the first 2 weeks of December. The owner of the rental wants to reserve some nights in early December. We want to accommodate their request, but we don't want to block off the calendar for 2 weeks, without certainty. So, we have selected December 1st to December 15th, and we have set a min advance booking value of 3 nights, and a max advance booking value of 5 nights. We have also set a max stay of 4 nights. This will allow us to limit guests who want to book that time period to having to make the booking in late November, and they will not be able to book the entire time period. This will allow us to manually block dates for the owner, should we find the availability window is getting too full.
Please remember to save the strategy, in order for the changes to take effect. New rates will only be generated once the strategy has been saved.