Base price
The price of each type by number of people, plus the extra bed. Everything else — plans, seasons, rules — moves on top of this.
What it solves
Without a base price there is nothing for a plan, a season or a rule to hang from. It is the first screen in building your pricing, which is why it sits above Rate plans in the menu: a hotelier who opened Rate plans first could not finish and went looking elsewhere.
You notice it in things like these
- The price for two and for three people is decided by eye on every booking.
- Six people get quoted in a Double at the room price, and somebody sleeps on the floor.
How it works
Price by occupancy
Each type carries its price for each number of people. The "from" price entered when creating the type is the base occupancy one; here you fine-tune the rest without losing what was already there. A type charged per room simply says it has one price from N to M people.
The extra bed is sold and charged per night
The rate covers the type's normal capacity; anyone beyond that sleeps in an extra bed, charged per night — a price per bed, or by how many sleep in it for per-person types — with each plan's adjustment. With no beds captured nobody else fits: the panel no longer quotes more people than capacity.
Who occupies the bed
Whoever sleeps counts: a free child does not pay for the night but takes a spot; infants in cots do not. The bed is born on the parent rate and derived rates inherit it inside their price; a price set by hand for that exact occupancy does not add a bed on top.
Where it lands in the order
The extra bed is applied after revenue rules and before commission, so the hotel's net already includes it. The engine applies it, so the panel quote, the widget, the booking, the re-quote and the calendar all give the same number.
Where it lives in the panel
- Rooms & rates
- Rates
- Base price
What it needs first
Room types with their capacity and beds.
Room types
What it does not do yet
The limits, told by us
- Channex still publishes to agencies up to normal capacity: OTAs do not sell extra beds over ARI.
- There is still no restriction on who may occupy the extra bed (adult or child).
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