How to display lowest & single-night rate at booking page?

[Paul Gartner]

Hi Motopress Team and community

Happy New Year.
I have a min. 2 night booking rule and 2 rates.
I’d like to display on the initial availability check overview the cheapest rate for a single night.
Currently you see the more expensive rate for two nights. Any ideas?

Thanks a lot for your help!
Best
Paul

[Andre Flores]

Hello Paul,

Happy New Year!
The price is always displayed according to the minimum stay rule by default. We do have such a feature request to have the price per night displayed regardless of the minimum stay rule, I have added your up-vote to it as well.
Meanwhile, you may try the following workaround: https://motopress.com/forums/topic/prices-start-at/#post-787079.

Regards,
Andre

[Paul Gartner]

Hi Andre
Thanks for putting my upvote and posting the workaround.

And how about the rate displayed?
I have 2 rates: higher refundable and lower non-refundable.
Regardless of the min stay booking rule, I want the lower and not higher to be displayed.

Thanks again, appreciate your support!
Paul

[Jindřich Dlabaja]

Hello,

I’d like to second Paul’s request. It looks kinda odd when it doesn’t show the lowest price but the highest (especially when it says ‘the prices start at…’). It’s not a good customer experience and what’s worse – not a good marketing practice.

Thanks in advance
Jindrich

[Paul Gartner]

Hi Jindřich, hi community

I think I found the reason:
The price displayed follows the order of the rates, choosing the top one.
When I drag my lowest 2021 full season base rate on top, it automatically calculates the price with this rate.

So it would make more sense to take the lowest bottom rate – which is usually the lowest full season base rate – to display in the accommodation booking page.

Thanks
Paul

[Andre Flores]

Hello there,

Yes, that is correct, you should drag the desired rate to the very top under Rates in order to apply the higher priority to it – the higher the rate, the higher priority it has got.

Regards,
Andre

[Paul Gartner]

Hi Andre,

I understand.
But for Marketing purposes, it is not good practice to always display at first sight the highest rate. Precisely because the highest rate occurs in most cases just a few times during the year.

Best case would be to display the lowest rate for one night, regardless of booking rules and rate priority.

Could that be logged as a feature request?

Thanks a lot
Paul

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