Beds24 has several ways to give discounts: separate prices, lengths of stay, price multipliers, Fixed Price discounts, voucher codes and more. Which ones you can use depends on whether the booking comes from your booking page or from an OTA.
Table of Contents
- Discount options for your booking page and OTAs
- Discount individual days or a date range
- Give a long stay discount
- Give a last-minute or early bird discount
- Set discounts in Fixed Prices
- Give a referrer discount
- Discount your website or an OTA
- More discount options
- Show discounts in a marketing column
Discount options for your booking page and OTAs
| Discount option | Booking page (direct bookings) | OTAs |
|---|---|---|
| A separate Daily Price or Fixed Price with the lower price | Yes | Yes |
| Prices for different lengths of stay | Yes | Yes |
| Price multiplier in the Calendar | Yes | Yes |
| Discounts tab of a Fixed Price | Yes | No |
| Booking page price multiplier | Yes | No |
| One-time voucher codes (fixed amount) and voucher codes (percentage) | Yes | No |
Some channels have their own discount options, such as Airbnb and Vrbo, or let you create promotions through the connection. See the help page of each channel and Setting Prices for Booking Channels.
Discount individual days or a date range
The Price Multiplier in the Calendar adjusts all prices for a day or date range. It's a percentage of the normal price (100%), from 50 (discount) to 250 (increase), and applies to both your booking page and channel prices.
Example: your normal price is 100. If you enter 80, all prices for that day become 80% of the original, so 80.
See Dynamic Multi Calendar and Legacy Calendar.
Give a long stay discount
Set long stay discounts with the minimum stay of your prices. You need one price for each set of rules.
Example: one night costs 120, but for 3 nights or more each night costs 100.
| Daily Price or Fixed Price | Room Price | Minimum Stay | Maximum Stay |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price 1 | 120 | 1 | 2 |
| Price 2 | 100 | 3 | 999 |
For more examples, see Minimum Stay and Maximum Stay.
Airbnb: with Per Occupancy Pricing (LOS), Airbnb calculates the discount from the prices Beds24 sends but doesn't merchandise it. With Per Day Pricing, set length of stay discounts in Settings > Channel Manager > Airbnb > Specific Content, and Airbnb merchandises them.
Vrbo: with Per Occupancy Pricing (LOS), Vrbo calculates and merchandises the discount from the prices Beds24 sends. With Per Day Pricing, set length of stay discounts in Settings > Channel Manager > Vrbo > Specific Room Content, and Vrbo merchandises them.
Give a last-minute or early bird discount
- Max days until check-in creates a last-minute price: it sets how many days before check-in the price becomes bookable. For example, 0 makes the price bookable only for a stay tonight, and 3 only for check-ins in the next 3 days.
- Min days until check-in creates an early bird price: it sets how many days before check-in the guest must book. For example, 30 makes the price bookable only for bookings made at least 30 days ahead.
For examples, see Last-Minute Prices and Early Booker prices.
Airbnb: set early bird and last-minute discounts in Settings > Channel Manager > Airbnb > Specific Content. Airbnb merchandises them.
Set discounts in Fixed Prices
Each Fixed Price has its own discount settings. Several prices can be combined for more complex discounts.
Steps:
- Go to Prices > Fixed Prices and open a Fixed Price or create one.
- Go to the Discounts tab and set the discounts. For information on each setting, use the context help (the question mark icon).
- Set unused value or percentage discounts to zero.
| Setting | How it works |
|---|---|
| Min Nights | From how many nights the discount applies. |
| Percent | Applied to the price of the whole stay. If several percentage discounts are valid, only the highest applies. |
| Per Night | Applies only to the nights from the nights setting onwards. Example: €10 set for 4 nights means nights 1 to 3 are at the normal price and night 4 onwards is €10 less. Per night discounts add up: a second €5 discount at 7 nights makes the price €15 less from night 7. |
| Once Off | Subtracted once from the total if the number of nights or more is booked. Several once off discounts are all subtracted if their number of nights is met. |
Percentage and per night discounts are calculated from the length of the whole booking, even if it spans several prices. The once off threshold counts the nights of the booking that this price is available for.
Note: discounts in Fixed Prices aren't sent to OTAs. They only apply to direct bookings from your booking page. If you use several prices, keep the highest price always available and the strategy set to Default so lower prices are allowed.
Give a referrer discount
Referrer discounts apply to booking page bookings that come from a specific source, such as a website or link.
- In the Discounts tab of the Fixed Price, create a referrer discount and enter the referrer name, for example facebook.
- Link to your booking page with
&referer=and the same name added to the URL, for example&referer=facebook.
Note: referrer discounts aren't sent to OTAs.
Discount your website or an OTA
- Your booking page: set a Booking Page Price Multiplier in Settings > Booking Engine > Booking Page, or create separate Daily Prices or Fixed Prices enabled only for Beds24.
- OTAs: add a price multiplier in the channel settings, which can include a currency conversion, or create separate prices enabled for one or more channels. See Setting Prices for Booking Channels.
More discount options
- Agent prices: special prices for agents. See Agents.
- Voucher codes: define codes or phrases in Settings > Booking Engine > Voucher Codes, for example for loyalty discounts or marketing campaigns. Codes apply per property and can discount the room price, extras or everything. You can switch voucher codes off for individual prices. See Voucher Codes.
- Packages and alternative prices: sell a room at different prices, such as a lower non-refundable price or a package. Create a Daily Price or Fixed Price, set its Offer in the Rooms tab, and enable the extra offer rows in Settings > Properties > Offers (Offer 2 to 4). See Offers.
- Availability and time to check-in: the Yield Optimiser adjusts prices automatically.
Show discounts in a marketing column
Add an extra column to the price table on your booking page to highlight offers. On the responsive booking page, it shows in the Price Table and Price Calendar modules only.
Steps:
- Go to Settings > Booking Engine > Booking Page and set Show Extra Marketing Column to Yes.
- Go to Settings > Properties > Rooms > Setup > Booking Page and, in the new Headline setting, enter the column headline and the content for the price row.
- Go to Settings > Properties > Offers and enter the content for Offer 2, 3 and 4.