Understand the order in which pricing rules compete, and find out why a given date shows the price it shows.

Why there is an order

The same date can be covered by several settings at once: the base rate, a weekend rule, a season, a price you typed into the calendar and a holiday package.

They do not add up. One of them wins, and that is the value the guest sees.

The order, strongest first

1. Package — a closed price for a whole period.

2. Price set for the date — the value you typed for that specific day in the calendar.

3. Special price — a period rule that is not a package.

4. Season — the standard rate for a longer period.

5. Weekday rate — Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday to Thursday.

6. Standard rate — the base rate, used when none of the above applies.

This same order is written on the Seasons tab of the pricing screen, so you can check it without leaving.

How to read the order in practice

Go from top to bottom and stop at the first rule that exists for that date.

Is there a package covering the date? The package value wins, full stop.

No package, but you typed a price for that day? Your typed price wins.

Neither, but there is a special price in the period? The special wins.

And so on, down to the base rate.

Where all of this is configured

It all lives on one screen: Settings → Properties, on the property's calendar icon. It opens with four tabs:

Calendar — the price of each date, one by one or by dragging.

Base & week — the base rate and the weekday rates.

Specials and packages — period rules, with or without a closed price.

Seasons — rates for longer periods.

Why that date shows that price

It is the most common question, and the screen answers it on its own: when you select a date whose value comes from a rule, a notice tells you where the price comes from — for example, "this value is set by the special rule *New Year*". To change or delete it, you are pointed to the right tab.

That is deliberate: changing the value in the calendar while it comes from a rule would create two truths for the same date.

Clearing a rule

Each rule is removed on the tab where it was created — packages and specials under Specials and packages, seasons under Seasons. Deleting a season does not change bookings already made: they keep the price they were closed at.

Once the rule is gone, the date follows the order again: it falls to the next level that exists, down to the base rate.

What does NOT compete in this order

Three things do not compete with the rules above — they add to, or apply after, the value already decided:

Per-person or extra-guest pricing, which multiplies or adds on top of the night's rate;

Pet fee and add-ons, which are amounts separate from the nightly rate;

Length-of-stay discounts and vouchers, which reduce the total.

In other words: the order above decides *what the night is worth*; then come the people, the extras and the discounts.

Worked example

Your base rate is R$ 400. Saturday costs R$ 600 under the weekday rule. You created a July season at R$ 700. And you typed R$ 900 for 20 July.

10 July, a Tuesday → R$ 700 (season beats the base rate).

12 July, a Saturday → R$ 700 (season beats the weekday rule).

20 July → R$ 900 (the date price beats the season).

3 September, a Saturday → R$ 600 (outside the season, the Saturday rule applies).

3 September, a Tuesday → R$ 400 (the base rate).

Common mistakes

Creating a season and being surprised that Saturday is no longer more expensive. A season beats the weekday rule — if you want Saturdays to differ inside the season, use a date price or a special price.

Typing a price into the calendar on a date already governed by a rule, and not understanding why nothing changed. Read the notice: it names the rule in charge and where to edit it.

Expecting the rules to add up. They do not — one wins.

How to define the property base rate

How to set different prices by date

Seasons: pricing by period

Closed packages