With the calendar, you’ll be able to keep track of rates and reservations in one central location — making it easier to stay on top of your business.
Calendar
Used for
Revenue management
Benefits
Maximize revenue
Overview
Owning a vacation rental business keeps you busy, and we get it. That’s why we’ve combined your rates and reservations calendars into one calendar.
Instead of balancing between two separate calendars for rates and reservations, you’ll be able to approach your business with more clarity — allowing you to manage bookings with confidence and provide travelers with a top-tier booking experience.
From your dashboard, visit "Calendar".
If you're connected via property management software, please update your rates in your software.
How it works
Within the calendar, you’ll be able to see all your rates and reservations management tools after you select dates or go to the settings menu. Unlike with the previous calendar version, which required partners to access rates and reservations separately, you can take one look at all of your required actions.
From there, you’ll have several options to dive into, including the ability to customize your calendar view with show/hide options and consolidate your reservation-related settings through the “settings” panel. The calendar will also give you direct access to host resources that make your life and business easier, as well as the ability to see all of your reservations at a glance.
How to set your base rate
To start, you’ll want to set your base rate. When you set your base rate, it’s automatically applied to every night now and into the future. This prevents gaps in your calendar if no rate is entered.
You can change your base rate anytime. And you can override your base rate if you want to raise or lower the price for certain nights.
Pro tip: When setting your rates, use MarketMaker™ to help you decide what to charge.
How to set a weekly and monthly discount
To offer guests a discount (a percentage of your base rate) for longer stays, you can enter a weekly discount and monthly discount.
To do this, go to "Rates settings" in the dashboard. Click on the gear icon to show a drop-down menu and choose "Base rate and discounts" where you can enter any amount.
However, note that you aren’t required to enter or provide a discounted rate for any length of stay.
If you do add a discount, this percentage discount will automatically be applied to bookings of 7+ or 28+ nights.
How to set up your taxes and fees
You can use the rates calendar to set your tax rate and applicable fees. To do this, go to "Rates settings" in the dashboard and click the gear icon. Then choose "Fees" or "Taxes" from the drop-down menu. Simply follow the directions to enter your taxes or fees.
Learn more about how to set fees.
How to customize your rates and minimum stay requirements
You can override your base rate to set seasonal rates, special event rates, and holiday or weekend rates. You can also override the rate of a single day or multiple days.
You can also adjust your minimum stay requirements throughout the year. For example, you may choose to reduce your minimum stay requirement in low season to appear in more searches.
To adjust, go to ‘Calendar’ and click on the first and last date of the range you would like to change. A panel will appear on the right-hand side of your screen.
Select ‘Rates and discounts’ or ‘Minimum stay’ and override the rate/minimum stay requirement as needed for that period.
Click on ‘Save’.
To change both 'Rates and discounts' and 'Minimum stay', follow the same process for each.
How to set a required damage deposit
You can also set a damage deposit in the rates calendar. Go to "Rates settings," then choose "Damage protection" from the drop-down menu. You may then enter any amount to cover any property damage by a guest.
You have full control over the required damage deposit amount, which travelers may also view under the house rules on the property details page or during checkout before they book.
How to set your payment terms
You can use the rates calendar to change the payments terms for bookings, such as how much and when your guests will be charged.
Set payment terms by going to "Rates settings," then choosing "Payment terms" in the drop-down menu, where you can then make changes.
If you don’t make any changes to the payment terms, your guests will be charged for the entire amount at the time of booking.
From your dashboard, visit "Calendar".
If you're connected via property management software, please update your rates in your software.
FAQs
No, you may keep the same rates as before.
Data about your properties listed on our site — location, amenities, what bookings were made and when, price paid, and price advertised — is not passed through your property management software integrations. Booking-related data will be kept at an aggregate level, and individual booking details won't be shared at an individual property level with other MarketMaker users.
Fees are any extra charges beyond your nightly base rate and are often used to compensate vacation rental owners or property managers for additional services or amenities. You can choose two types of fees to charge: standard fees and custom fees.
Standard fees are the most common types of fees owners and property managers use and include extra guest fees, cleaning fees, and pet fees. Custom fees are any additional fees beyond standard fees.
Revenue management is a pricing strategy that balances supply and demand in order to maximize profits. The vacation rental market continues to evolve and become more competitive, so setting rates informed by real-time market data is even more critical — MarketMaker makes that easier.
The details you share about your property - types of amenities, policies, proximity to popular destinations - are used when travelers narrow a search to find a vacation rental that meets their specific needs. The visibility of your property is helped when you provide more detailed information. Great photos and information about the area help travelers imagine their stay and prompt them to book. Keeping your listing up to date with photos and amenities will help you stay competitive.
If you manage multiple properties on multiple sites, day-to-day activities can become cumbersome. Software can help resolve issues, including:
- Multiple calendars getting difficult to manage
- Distributing/advertising properties on multiple sites
- Accounting becoming cumbersome across multiple sites
Our easy-to-use owner dashboard will be the primary location for managing your reservations, updating rates and keeping your listing up to date. Some partners choose to use a software provider to link our systems. They still log in to the owner dashboard to leverage our more advanced tools like MarketMaker and Boost.
Yes. Please select your language below.
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Integrated property managers use third-party or proprietary software that they have connected to our marketplace to manage their listings. Integrated property managers can manage thier listings directly from their software by an integration feed that automatically updates reservations, amenities, photos and more.
