Price Rules is probably one of the most advanced features in BlooKing. It allows you to define and combine any type of pricing rules, from simple seasonal rates to complex offers, coupons and extra charges. You might need some practise before you get the price rules right but as soon as you get familiar with it you will be able to set any price scheme you wish. The X factor serves as a wildcard variable in price rules and can be used for setting rules relational to the number of guests or the staying period.
The price rule name is translatable so provide your translations by selecting the language from the drop down list and enter a rule name for various languages. Press apply and continue with the next language. Rules can be applied to one or more room categories. If you wish to select more than one category hold the Ctrl key and select the categories from the list.
There are three rule modes in BlooKing.
Example 1 - Seasonal Rate: Assuming
you wish to define a new rate (100) for one of your categories only
for March 2012. The image below shows how you can do this.
Example 2 - Weekly Rate: If
you wish to apply a weekly rate (500) you can do it like this:
Please note the use of the X factor for defining the length of the period for the new rate. If you would like to have a monthly rate instead of weekly rate you can change 7 to 30 and so on.
You
can restrict the staying period and (or) the booking start/end days
from the Room Category settings.
Example 3 - Daily (Weekend) rates: If your rates are changing between days you can use the per day rate type for defining a new price for the selected days. In this example the rate for weekends is set to 200.
Example 1 - After X Days offer. This examples shows how you can create an offer that gives a 20% discount on the total amount if the guest stays for more than 5 days. The use of the X factor here is related to the staying period.
Example 2 - Coupons: This
example shows how to create 5 coupons with a promotional code for
your quests. The coupon will be applicable if more than 5 adults have
been selected and will give 100 discount on the adult cost for each
one of the selected adults.
Example 1 - Double Occupancy
In this example we define double occupancy as follows: if a room costs 100 per night, based on double occupancy, means the room is 100 per night whether one or two people stay there. Three people staying there would cost 20 more per guest per night. The above statement in BlooKing can be achieved with the rule shown in the image.