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<div class="heading">Gap Filler</div> | <div class="heading">Gap Filler</div> | ||
This page explains how to fill gaps resulting from minimum stay rules. | This page explains how to fill gaps resulting from minimum stay rules. | ||
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=Functionality= | |||
If you have minimum stays you can use an additional "gap filler" rate to close gaps. A minimum stay and a maximum stay will narrow the gap. Bookings are only possible for the number of days defined by the min and max stay and only if there is a booking gap. If you have a room type with several units, this is only the case if only one is free which has a gap and all the others are occupied. | If you have minimum stays you can use an additional "gap filler" rate to close gaps. A minimum stay and a maximum stay will narrow the gap. Bookings are only possible for the number of days defined by the min and max stay and only if there is a booking gap. If you have a room type with several units, this is only the case if only one is free which has a gap and all the others are occupied. | ||
To use a rate a "Gap Fill" set "Restriction Strategy" = "Gap Fill ("Summary tab of your RATE) | To use a rate a "Gap Fill" set "Restriction Strategy" = "Gap Fill ("Summary tab of your RATE) | ||
<div class="warning">{{#fas:exclamation-triangle}} The gap filler does not work if you use "Do not allow lower prices or shorter stays" as strategy. Also make sure the minimum stay in the SETTINGS->ROOMS->SETUP is the same or lower as in the gap filler and you do not have manually entered higher minimum stays in the calendar.</div> | |||
== Example: Two night minimum stay but allow selling single nights if the night before and the night after is booked == | ==Set up== | ||
== Example 1: Two night minimum stay but allow selling single nights if the night before and the night after is booked == | |||
A typical situation for a two night minimum stay strategy is to end up with with single nights that cannot be sold because the night before and the night after is booked. | A typical situation for a two night minimum stay strategy is to end up with with single nights that cannot be sold because the night before and the night after is booked. | ||
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*set maximum stay to 2 | *set maximum stay to 2 | ||
== Example | == Example 3: Other rates set a seven night minimum stay but allow selling three to six nights if there is a six night gap == | ||
*set minimum stay to 3 | *set minimum stay to 3 | ||
*set maximum stay to 6 | *set maximum stay to 6 | ||