Rate restrictions are a powerful tool for managing the availability and pricing of services or products. They allow precise control over when a price is applicable, and when it is not. For instance, a price can be established to be valid only for stays that are more than three days long, or for a specific guest combination, such as one adult and one child.
Rate restrictions can be instituted on three levels:
- For a particular rate: This is the most basic level of restriction.
- For a distinct season of a rate: These restrictions take precedence over the ones assigned at the rate level.
- For a specific day: These restrictions have the highest authority, superseding those set at the rate and season levels.
All types of restrictions are compatible with the booking engine of Clock PMS+ and a majority of them are applicable to the channel managers as well.
Supported Restrictions
| Restriction | Description |
| Guarantee Policy | A rate with this restriction will change the default guarantee policy of the WRS with the one set in the rate itself. This restriction can be used for setting different deposit amounts and guarantee options for different rates. |
| Max Adults | The rate will be available only for requests with the specified or a smaller number of adults. |
| Max Children | The rate will be available only for requests with guests count (adults + children) equal to or smaller than sum of Max adults and Max children restrictions. |
| Min Children | The rate will be available only for requests with the specified or a larger number of children. |
| STOP | The rate, season or day will be stopped for sale. |
| Closed for arrival | The rate will be closed for arrival on a certain day or for a certain period (season) |
| Closed for departure | The rate will be closed for departure on a certain day or for a certain period (season). |
| Min stay | The rate will be available only for requests for stay equal to or longer than the one specified here. |
| Max stay | The rate will be available only for requests for stay equal to or shorter than the one specified here. |
| Min stay on arrival | For a booking arrival date set with this restriction, the rate will be available only for booking stays equal to or longer than the period specified in the restriction. |
| Max stay on arrival | For a booking arrival date set with this restriction, the rate will be available only for booking stays equal to or shorter than the period specified by the restriction. |
| Min free rooms | The rate will be available on a certain date only if the number of free rooms is equal to or larger than specified. "Free rooms" are all available rooms of the room type of the rate. |
| Max free rooms | The rate will be available on a certain date only if the free rooms are that many or fewer. "Free rooms" are all available rooms of the room type of the rate. |
Min days before arrival Max days before arrival | Use these restrictions to set a future period in which bookings with nights falling in this period will be accepted. For example, if it is set that the min days before arrival are 60, and the max days before arrival are 90, only the bookings with nights falling in this period will be accepted. All the other nights (before the minimum of 60 days and after the maximum 90 days) will be stopped for sale. |
| Active from | From this date on, a rate related to this restriction is activated. Thus you can determine the date of the automatic activation of this rate. |
| Active to | Sales at the rate related to this restriction are stopped after this date. Thus you can set the date after which the rate will no longer be shown to guests to book at. This restriction has nothing to do with the period of stay of the guest and applies to the time of the actual booking making only. |
| Last Minute days | Use it to create last minute rates. For each rate or season, you can set the number of days before arrival for which the rate will be active. For example, if you enter '2' in the 'Last Minute days', this means that the rate will be active for guests arriving today, tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. This restriction does not limit the length of a stay. |