Seasonal Pricing
Seasonal pricing lets you set different nightly rates for specific periods of the year. This is essential for vacation rental hosts who want to charge more during peak season and offer lower rates during quieter months.
How seasonal pricing works
Each season sets the nightly rate for the dates it covers. The rate plan is season-driven: the first season in your list is the base rate, and additional seasons set different rates for their own date ranges. When a booking spans dates within a season, hejGuide uses that season's rate for those nights.
For example, if your first (base) season is 100 per night and you add a "Summer" season at 150 per night for June through September, any nights falling within the Summer range are charged at 150.
If a booking spans multiple seasons, each night is priced according to the season that applies to that specific date.
Adding a seasonal rate
- Go to Rates in the sidebar and open the rate plan you want to edit.
- Find the Seasonal Pricing section.
- Click "Add Season".
- Enter the following details:
- Season name -- A descriptive label (e.g., "Summer High Season", "Winter Low Season", "Christmas & New Year").
- Start date -- The first date this rate applies.
- End date -- The last date this rate applies.
- Price per night -- The nightly rate for this season.
- Click Save.
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Create seasons for every distinct pricing period in your year. Common examples:
- High season (summer months) -- Higher rate
- Low season (winter months) -- Lower rate
- Holiday periods (Christmas, Easter) -- Premium rate
- Shoulder season (spring, autumn) -- Moderate rate
Managing multiple seasons
You can add as many seasonal periods as you need to a single rate plan. Season order matters: hejGuide uses the first season whose date range matches the night being priced — not the most specific one. If two seasons cover the same date, the one listed first wins, so put narrower periods (like a holiday) above the broader season they sit inside.
hejGuide applies pricing in this order of priority:
- Availability overrides (highest priority) -- Custom prices for specific dates.
- Rate events -- Special-event pricing for holidays/festivals.
- Seasonal pricing -- The first season whose period matches the date.
- First season fallback -- If no season matches, the first season in the list is used.
Example setup
| Order | Season | Dates | Price per night |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Christmas | Dec 20 -- Jan 5 | 200 |
| 2 | Summer High | Jun 1 -- Sep 30 | 150 |
| 3 | Winter Low | Nov 1 -- Mar 31 | 75 |
In this example, a booking from December 22 to December 28 is charged at the Christmas rate of 200 per night because Christmas is listed first. The Christmas dates also fall inside Winter Low (Nov 1 -- Mar 31), so if Winter Low were listed first, those nights would be charged at 75 instead.
WARNING
There is no "most specific wins" rule. When a holiday falls inside a broader season, you must order the narrower holiday season above the broader one — otherwise the broader season matches first and the holiday pricing is ignored.
Editing or removing a season
- Open the rate plan from the Rates page.
- In the Seasonal Pricing section, click on the season you want to change.
- Update the dates or price, then click Save. Or click Delete to remove the season entirely.
Changes apply to future bookings only.