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[[Category:RatesFixed Prices]][[Category:Prices]][[Category:Enhanced_Selling]]<div class="heading">Gap Filler</div> ''This page explains how to fill gaps resulting from minimum stay rules.''The "Gap Fill" rate strategy is a special rate which is only allowed if less than a certain number of consecutive nights have availability.

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To =Functionality=If you have minimum stays you can use a rate a an additional "Gap FillFiller" set "Restriction Stragety" = "Gap Fill ("Summary tab Fixed Price to close gaps. A minimum stay and a maximum stay will narrow the gap. Bookings are only possible for the number of your RATE)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.

Maximum stay defines the maximum stay and also the maximum number To use a Fixed Price "Gap Fill" set "Restriction Strategy" = "Gap Fill ("Summary tab of nights the gap must have.your Fixed Prices)

<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 {{#fas:cog}} (SETTINGS) PROPERTIES->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>  =Set up=== Example1: Two night minimum stay but allow selling single nights if the night before and the night after is booked ==

A rate Fixed Prices with the strategy set to "Gap Fill" will only be applied on a date if the number of consecutive nights of availability are less than or equal to the rates Fixed Prices maximum stay setting.

This means setting the maximum stay to one will only allow this rate price if only one day is available.

Using a gap fill in conjunction with your normal minimum stay rates prices will automatically open individual nights if they are available but not bookable due to the minimum stay restriction.

The Gap fill rate Fixed Prices has it's own price which can be higher lower or the same as your normal rateprice.

== Example 2: Other rates price set a three night minimum stay but allow selling two nights if there is a two night gap ==

== Example 23: Other rates prices set a seven night minimum stay but allow selling three to six nights if there is a six night gap ==