Seasons and special dates
Easter week, the long weekend, Christmas: dates with their own adjustment, clear priorities, and one night carrying exactly one season.
What it solves
A hotel's price is not a number: it is a calendar. And as soon as two seasons overlap — Christmas with a long weekend inside — the question "which price rules tonight?" stops having an obvious answer. Here you see, day by day, which one rules and why.
You notice it in things like these
- Two seasons overlap and nobody knows which one applied.
- The derived rate rises more than its parent and nobody can find out why.
How it works
A calendar layer
The Seasons layer shows one row with which season rules each day and, below it, each season with its days: filled where it rules, outlined where it covers the day but a higher-priority one rules. Each says its adjustment per plan, how many days it rules, and which rates receive it from their parent, even through another.
A night carries one single season
The parent rate's one, and the child's own only if the parent had none. Previously, inheriting the same season no longer double-charged, but a different one — the parent on Christmas and the child on its own "long weekend" — still did, and the derived rate rose more than its parent. The layer says it in words: "it has its own adjustment, but those nights the parent's rules".
Drafts are visible and do not rule
Draft and switched-off seasons are shown in the layer so you can see them, but they touch no price. Creating and editing stay on their own screen, with its preview.
The screen and the price count the same
Each season's days come from the very same calculation the pricing engine uses. If the screen says it rules 12 days, the price on those 12 nights is that season's — there are not two calculations that can drift apart.
Where it lives in the panel
- Rooms & rates
- Rates
- Seasons & special dates
What it needs first
A base price to apply the adjustment to.
Base priceRate plans, because a season's adjustment is declared per plan.
Rate plans
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