Gap nights are nights that are sandwiched between two bookings. Meaning, there is a booking directly before and a booking directly after, much like this one:
Gap nights aren’t necessarily for just one day. Gap nights are any nights that are unbookable due to a higher minimum stay. For example, if someone had a 3-night minimum stay, a 2-night opening in the calendar would be considered a gap night.
By default, Wheelhouse's algorithm already takes into account less desirable shorter stays and applies a discount for gap nights. Additionally, you can either create a discount to entice customers to book your gap nights or create a premium to ensure a higher-quality booking.
By default, Recommended will be selected, which adds a discount if the stay date in question is part of a gap. The discount will increase for shorter gaps and weekdays.
Selecting More Conservative will add a significant discount.
Selecting More Aggressive won’t add any discount for stay dates that are part of a gap.
Creating your discount or premium using the Rule-based setting
Select the specific listing where you’d like to set a custom Gap night premium or discount.
On the Settings page, click the Gaps & Adjacencies on the left panel.
Click on the Add first rule +.
Select the Type of rules (In between, Only before, or Only after).
By default, all days of the week are selected. Click the day/s of the week that you don't want to include in the rules.
Set the number of nights the adjustment will apply to.
To set it up as a discount, enter a negative sign in the Adjust price by field (e.g., -20).
Once added, make sure to save your changes by clicking Save & Sync on the upper right.
Note:
The 'Up to # night' essentially means the minimum gap night must be for the premium or discount to apply. In the example before, if there is a 3-night gap on either Thursday, Friday, or Saturday, the rate will increase by 20%.
Click the Save change button to apply the Gaps & Adjacencies to your pricing.
Adjacencies
Creating Premiums or Discounts before or after a booked date.
You can create rules to add a premium or a discount before or after a booked date using the Only Before and Only After rule type.
In this example, December 27th to 30th are booked, while December 26th and 31st are available, and we want to add a discount for those available dates.
Having "Only Before" selected under Rules – Type and selecting Thursday, in which December 26th falls under, it will apply -5%.
Same with "Only After" and having Sunday selected, it will apply a -5% for December 31st since it is after a booked date.
