Written by Vu — July 8, 2026
Historical Anchoring is a feature designed to protect your pricing by leveraging previous booking data. By anchoring prices to past performance, your listings stay priced competitively while protecting against underpricing.
How does Historical Anchoring work?
This feature works by referencing prices from the same day of the week in a previous comparable period to inform current pricing. You control how much influence these past prices have on today's rates.
For example, March 30th, 2025 falls on a Sunday. Historical Anchoring will reference the 4th Sunday of March of the previous year — Sunday, March 31, 2024 — to determine what price to anchor toward. If that day was booked at $1,000, with Historical Anchoring set to 100%, the system sets your minimum price at $1,000 for that Sunday. Your prices can go above $1,000, but never below, unless Historical Anchoring is otherwise adjusted or removed.
Protecting Your Full 18-Month Pricing Horizon
Historical Anchoring now protects every stay date across your entire 18-month pricing horizon — not just dates anchored by bookings that have already happened.
For any future stay date you're pricing, Wheelhouse looks one year back for a comparable booking to use as an anchor. If a booking already exists there — even one that is still upcoming rather than already completed — it's used as the anchor.
For example:
October 30, 2026 is booked at $1,000/night (still upcoming as of today).
When pricing October 30, 2027, Wheelhouse anchors off the October 30, 2026 booking.
If October 30, 2026 had no booking, Wheelhouse would instead fall back to October 30, 2025 to look for an anchor.
For stay dates 12 months or more in the future, if no comparable booking exists one year back, Wheelhouse extends the lookback up to two years to find an anchor before Historical Anchoring stops applying for that date.
Now, You Can Choose Your "Anchor" Data Source
With our recent launch, you can now choose what Historical Anchoring uses as its reference price:
Historical booked price (default) — the final booked nightly rate for that stay date. This is current behavior, and every account stays on this setting unless you change it.
Historical posted price — the last Wheelhouse posted price for that stay date, as of the booking timestamp. This ignores promo codes, wholesale net rates, and other discounts that may have been applied to the booking after the price left Wheelhouse's system.
To change your Anchor Source:
Go to Settings → Historical Anchoring.
Under Source, select Historical booked price or Historical posted price.
Note: Wheelhouse is still building out posted-price history for every account. If you switch to Historical posted price, anchoring on this source may be limited to the months of data currently available for your listings until that history fills in.
Key notes about Historical Anchoring
Historical Anchoring can only increase your pricing recommendations. It can never lower prices. It serves as a "smart minimum" tied to your prior bookings.
For stay dates within 12 months, Historical Anchoring considers bookings from the last 12 months.
For stay dates 12 or more months out, it can look back up to 24 months from the stay date to find a comparable booking.
Managing Historical Anchoring Across Your Portfolio
If you manage a large portfolio, two updates make Historical Anchoring easier to apply at scale:
Bulk update your Anchor Source
You can now apply your Historical Anchoring settings — including Anchor Source — to multiple listings at once from Portfolio Settings, instead of updating each listing individually.
Go to Portfolio → Settings.
Select the listings you want to update.
Apply your Historical Anchoring settings, including Anchor Source, across all selected listings.
Grouped Settings
On the Portfolio → Grouped Settings view, Wheelhouse automatically groups listings that share the same settings. Listings on Historical booked price and listings on Historical posted price now group separately, so you can see at a glance which listings are on which source and manage each group as a unit.
How to Set Up Historical Anchoring
Historical Anchoring Default
Establish a global Historical Anchoring percentage by entering the desired value under Historical anchoring default and clicking Save Change in the bottom left corner.
Note: To match the previous comparable period's rate exactly, input 100%. Anything below 100% blends the anchor price with the pricing engine's recommendation.
Day of Week Rules
Set Historical Anchoring by day of the week, so certain days are impacted more or less by the anchor price.
Ways to use this rule: If you're confident in this year's weekend pricing but unsure about weekdays, set a lower percentage for weekdays (relying more on the pricing engine's current-market recommendation) while keeping weekends anchored closer to the comparable period's rate.
Monthly Rules
Configure Historical Anchoring for a whole month, or break it down by day of week within that month. Monthly rules override Day of Week rules for the listing.
Click Add new rule +, then select the month.
To break it down by day of week, click Specify by day of week.
Click Save Change.
Time-based Rules
Create rules that automatically adjust Historical Anchoring for stay dates within or beyond a specific number of days.
Note: Time-based rules override Monthly rules, Day of Week rules, and the Historical Anchoring default.
Click Add new rule +.
Select Within or After.
Enter the number of days and the percentage value.
Click Save Change.
Event, Season or Date-specific Rules
Add Historical Anchoring rules for specific date ranges, such as holidays or events. Date-specific rules override all other rules (Time-based, Monthly, Day of Week, and the default).
Click Add new rule +.
Select the date range and enter the anchoring percentage. Check Yearly if you want the rule to recur annually.
To break it down by day of week, click Specify by day of week.
Click Save Change.
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