Upgrading the pricing engine in Wheelhouse can have a meaningful impact on how your listings are priced. The Engine Version page helps you understand the newest pricing engine, what’s changing, and lets you preview pricing differences ahead of an upgrade—so you know what to expect before moving forward.

A pricing engine is the backbone that generates price recommendations for your listings.

It analyzes multiple data points, such as booking behavior, demand patterns, and market data, and then applies your pricing settings, like Seasonality, Day of Week, and others, to produce the final nightly rate for each calendar date.

With this setting, Wheelhouse gives you the flexibility to preview your prices using the available pricing engines before the latest engine goes live, or to become an early adopter by making the switch now.

To preview the full comparison between the current and the newer pricing engine, you can navigate to the Settings of your listing. It’s located just above the Base Price setting.

The Price Comparison chart allows you to view the price differences between your current engine and your chosen engine across the calendar. This section enables you to:

The Engine Statistics section gives you a high-level summary of how each pricing engine prices your listing. Here, you can compare:

This summary helps you understand the overall pricing behavior, not just the differences at the individual date level.

The Biggest Price Differences section highlights the largest differences between the engines within a specific date range. Each row shows:

This helps you see the dates that were most impacted, which may fall on holidays, peak seasons, or lower-demand periods. You can also view each difference highlighted with the same color label and percentage directly on the Price Comparison chart.

There are two ways you can switch between the current and the newer pricing engine: at the listing level or at the portfolio level.

On the listing level, you can go to your individual listing’s Settings and choose an option under the Select Pricing Engine section.

When switching to another model, you can confirm your selection by clicking the Save Change button.

You can also review each engine in bulk from the Portfolio Engine Version page. On this page, you can get a high-level overview of the pricing differences between the engines and review those differences in bulk.

This section provides a quick comparison between our current engine:

You can also view the price comparison chart at the portfolio level. First, select one or multiple listings, then click the bottom bar to pull up the chart.

With this chart, you can view high-level price statistics and compare prices between engines. If you selected multiple listings, the values will be aggregated, showing the minimum, median, maximum, and average values for each engine.

Once you’re ready to upgrade to the newer engine, you’ll first need to select a listing or multiple listings, then click the Change Price Model button. A new section will slide show up.

Here you can select which pricing engine you’d like to apply to your selected listings, then click Update Listings to confirm your selection.

You can also switch back to the engine you used before by following the same steps. To check which pricing engine you’re currently using for your listings, you can refer to the Engine Version column.

We will fully adopt the new pricing engine, Blended Model v9.0, and will no longer use the previous v8.3 engine. The Blended Model v8.3 will remain available for at least 90 days.

During this period, you can still preview pricing differences between the previous and the latest engine if needed. After this window, the Blended Model v8.3 will be deprecated.

We currently provide two pricing engines: the previous engine and the current engine, as outlined below.

This was the previous pricing engine powering all Wheelhouse's accounts by default. In this engine, we:

In short, this engine delivers stable pricing, though in some markets it may require additional tuning or manual adjustments.

This is the current engine.

The biggest difference and improvement between the previous engine and this one is that it focuses more on observed booking behavior rather than relying heavily on market price averages.

With a stronger foundation in this current engine, your existing pricing settings should work more as expected and usually require fewer manual adjustments.