Wix Hotels by HotelRunner: Making Bulk Updates
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Bulk updates let you make large changes to the rates, availability, and restrictions of your room types at the same time.
You can also apply updates to specific date ranges, days of the week, and sales channels. This is useful if you want to set different prices for weekends, seasons, or selected sales channels.
Important:
- This article refers to the latest version of Wix Hotels by HotelRunner. Learn more about the previous version of Wix Hotels.
- Changing availability on dates that already have reservations can lead to overbooking. Make sure to exclude those dates when updating availability.
- When you create or update your child pricing policies, make sure to update your rate plans and finalize the changes in Bulk Updates by updating the room's base rate. Otherwise, the child rate updates do not apply.
Tip:
We recommend you update the price and availability for all open seasons (when you accept reservations) on your calendar before applying bulk updates. This helps to ensure you apply the correct rates at the correct times.
Making general bulk updates
Bulk updates help you change rates and restrictions for multiple room types at once. You can also limit an update to certain dates, days of the week, or sales channels.
To make bulk updates:
- Go to Bulk Updates in your site's dashboard.
- Click the Rate plans dropdown and select the relevant rate plans.
- Enable the toggles next to the filters you want to add:
- Base price: Update the price of your base rates during a specific timeframe.
- Fixed: Enter a new base price beside the relevant rooms.
- Adjustment: Enter the percentage or fixed amount increase or decrease next to the relevant rooms.
- Availability: Enter how many rooms of a given type you have available during a specific timeframe. Confirm the number is accurate to avoid double bookings.
- Minimum Stay: Encourage longer stays by setting a minimum stay restriction. This can help ensure more capacity during the off-season.
- Stop sell: Block the sale of specific rates for a period of time. This is useful to protect revenue during the off season.
- Close to arrival (CTA): Restrict guests from arriving on specific dates. This is helpful during busy periods when you need to lighten the workload for your staff.
- Close to departure (CTD): Restrict guests from departing on certain dates. This is helpful during busy periods when you need to lighten the workload for your staff.
- Base price: Update the price of your base rates during a specific timeframe.
- Choose a date range under Apply to.
- (Optional) Click + Add date range to apply the same update to another period, for example, another season.
- Click the Days dropdown to apply the bulk updates to specific days of the week.
- Click the Channels dropdown to apply the bulk updates to a specific channel.
- Click Preview Changes at the top right.
- Review the changes, then click Save.
- (Optional) Repeat these steps to apply different updates to other room types or date ranges.
Tips:
- Use the Multi-fill button to quickly apply the same updates to multiple rooms at the same time.
- As you add more filters to a bulk update, you may need to scroll across to enter the relevant details.
Setting weekend prices
You can charge different rates on weekends by applying a bulk update to Saturday and Sunday only.
To set weekend prices:
- Go to Bulk Updates in your site's dashboard.
- Click the Rate plans dropdown and select the relevant rate plans.
- Enable the toggles next to the filters you want to add:
- Base price: Update the price of your base rates during a specific timeframe.
- Fixed: Enter a new base price beside the relevant rooms.
- Adjustment: Enter the percentage or fixed amount increase or decrease next to the relevant rooms.
- Base price: Update the price of your base rates during a specific timeframe.
- Under Apply to, set the start and end dates for the period you want to cover.
- Click the Days dropdown.
- Deselect Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday so only Saturday and Sunday remain selected.
- Click Preview Changes at the top right.
- Review the changes, then click Save.
Tip:
Rooms and rates you do not update keep their existing weekday prices. Only the selected days are affected.
Setting seasonal prices
If you want to update your prices for a specific season, you can do it directly from Bulk Updates. This is useful when your cancellation policy, meal plan, and market setup stay the same.
To set seasonal prices:
- Go to Bulk Updates in your site's dashboard.
- Click the Rate plans dropdown and select the relevant rate plans.
- Enable the toggles next to the filters you want to add:
- Base price: Update the price of your base rates during a specific timeframe.
- Fixed: Enter a new base price beside the relevant rooms.
- Adjustment: Enter the percentage or fixed amount increase or decrease next to the relevant rooms.
- Base price: Update the price of your base rates during a specific timeframe.
- Under Apply to, set the start and end dates for the season in the Date range 1 fields.
- (Optional) Click + Add date range to price another seasonal period in the same update.
- Leave the Days drop-down set to All so the price applies every day of the week within those dates.
- Click Preview Changes at the top right.
- Review the changes, then click Save.
- (Optional) Repeat these steps for each season that needs a different price.
Tip:
If you want to set different prices for multiple seasons, run these steps separately for each season so each one has its own base price.
