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📈 Customize your Last Minute and Far Future Pricing

  • November 10, 2025
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📈 Customize your Last Minute and Far Future Pricing
Andrew Schorr
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We’ve recently given Hospitable Dynamic Pricing users the ability to customize their last minute pricing and added additional controls to customize far future pricing. Check out the video below for a walk-through of the new controls.

We’ve always had a last minute pricing strategy for hosts, but previously we weren’t able to show you what we were doing and we didn’t let you personalize your strategy. Now you can edit both the dates and markdown amounts. For most hosts, this is a series of discounts starting as far out as 60 days and stair stepping into higher discounts as the lead time of potential bookings goes to zero. The goal of this strategy is generally to fill any remaining gaps in your calendar to reach your ideal occupancy.

We previously released the ability to set custom markup/markdown amounts for far future pricing, and based on your feedback we’ve now given you the ability to control the dates as well. For most hosts, this is a series of markups starting from a minimum of 60 days out and increasing as dates get further and further into the future. The goal of this strategy is generally to price your far future dates opportunistically high, as you generally don’t yet have a clear signal on local demand that far out.

Both controls have an option to reset to default if you ever want to change your strategy back to the recommended settings for all hosts.


 

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MoniqueD
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I was trying to find a list of all the custom / advanced features available with dynamic pricing. Does this tool allow for custom seasonal profiles where we can adjust the Min/Base/Max based on certain dates of the year?


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I was trying to find a list of all the custom / advanced features available with dynamic pricing. Does this tool allow for custom seasonal profiles where we can adjust the Min/Base/Max based on certain dates of the year?

 

There isn’t anything like you are describing at this time. I believe the stated “solution” to this would be Rule-sets, which I don’t find to be as robust of a solution as true Seasonality settings.


MoniqueD
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Yeah I already use my rule sets for other pricing strategies and would not be able to layer this in as well.


MoniqueD
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​@Andrew Schorr,  I was trying to find a list of all the custom / advanced features available with dynamic pricing. Is there a comprehensive list being updated as you develop?

 Does this tool allow for custom seasonal profiles where we can adjust the Min/Base/Max based on certain dates of the year? And if not when will this be rolled out?

 

We’ve recently given Hospitable Dynamic Pricing users the ability to customize their last minute pricing and added additional controls to customize far future pricing. Check out the video below for a walk-through of the new controls.

We’ve always had a last minute pricing strategy for hosts, but previously we weren’t able to show you what we were doing and we didn’t let you personalize your strategy. Now you can edit both the dates and markdown amounts. For most hosts, this is a series of discounts starting as far out as 60 days and stair stepping into higher discounts as the lead time of potential bookings goes to zero. The goal of this strategy is generally to fill any remaining gaps in your calendar to reach your ideal occupancy.

We previously released the ability to set custom markup/markdown amounts for far future pricing, and based on your feedback we’ve now given you the ability to control the dates as well. For most hosts, this is a series of markups starting from a minimum of 60 days out and increasing as dates get further and further into the future. The goal of this strategy is generally to price your far future dates opportunistically high, as you generally don’t yet have a clear signal on local demand that far out.

Both controls have an option to reset to default if you ever want to change your strategy back to the recommended settings for all hosts.


 

 


arthur
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This is a great step in the right direction! I’m curious, what is the reason for the 60 day minimum on the future pricing? 
 

In our case, we want a low minimum for last minute bookings but we don’t want our price reaching the minimum in upcoming weeks. It would be nice to have more flexibility with the future pricing (sooner than 60 days) to help mitigate this.


Eli Stoughton
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This is a great step in the right direction! I’m curious, what is the reason for the 60 day minimum on the future pricing? 
 

In our case, we want a low minimum for last minute bookings but we don’t want our price reaching the minimum in upcoming weeks. It would be nice to have more flexibility with the future pricing (sooner than 60 days) to help mitigate this.

Under 60 days is Last Minute Pricing and above 60 is Far Future Pricing, so you can edit either one of them, but they are just in different places. You can have it set to increase or decrease on either one.


Andrew Schorr
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...It would be nice to have more flexibility with the future pricing (sooner than 60 days) to help mitigate this.

​@arthur we would expect most hosts to have their primary booking window in between last minute pricing and far future pricing, where local demand is driving your prices. So hosts would normally have a gap in between the two periods.

Our default model is setup where

  • 0-30 days is last minute discounting period,
  • 31-179 days is primarily demand driven, and
  • 180 days+ is marked up with a far future premium and leans slightly more heavily on previous year’s performance since demand data that far out provides weaker signal