Offers that fill longer stays

What you will learn

• How to set up to 3 discounts for longer stays.
• How a free-nights offer works.
• Why a guest gets "the better of the two, never both".
• What is never made cheaper.

Set up an offer, step by step

1. 1

   Step 1: Open your listing’s edit page.

   Go to "Listings List" and open your short let. The offers are in the short-let parts of the form.

2. 2

   Step 2: Find "Offer a discount on longer stays".

   You can set up to 3 tiers. A tier is one step: a number of nights and a discount.

3. 3

   Step 3: Fill in "Tier 1:".

   Type the nights and the discount, like 7 nights and 10%. 10% off means ₦10 off every ₦100. The form shows "Guests will see:" and the words guests read.

4. 4

   Step 4: Add more tiers, if you like.

   Each tier needs more nights and a bigger discount than the one before. Turn on Tier 2 before you add Tier 3.

5. 5

   Step 5: Fill in the "Free nights offer", if you want one.

   Type a number in "Nights stayed" and in "Free nights". Fill in both, or leave both empty.

   

6. 6

   Step 6: Save the listing.

   Offers are part of the listing. So our team approves them before guests see them.

How discount tiers work

A guest gets the biggest tier they reach. It counts for all their nights.

Say Tier 1 is 7 nights for 10% off. A guest who stays 7 nights or more gets 10% off every night.

A second tier needs more nights and more than 10% off. The form tells you if a number is wrong.

How free nights work

Say you type 5 and 1. Guests see "Stay 5 nights, get 1 free".

A guest who stays 6 nights pays for 5. A guest who stays 12 nights gets 2 free.

Here is the sum: 12 ÷ (5 + 1) = 2. We always round down. So 11 nights still get 1 free night.

The cheapest nights are the free ones.

The better of the two, never both

A guest books 7 nights at ₦50,000 (fifty thousand naira) a night. That is ₦350,000.

Your 10% discount would take off ₦35,000.

Your free-nights offer would take off one night. That is ₦50,000.

The free night saves more. So the guest gets the free night, not the discount. Their nights cost ₦350,000 − ₦50,000 = ₦300,000.

What is never made cheaper

• The cleaning fee. That is a fixed amount you add once to each stay.
• The caution deposit. That is money a guest pays in case something gets damaged.
• Only the nights get cheaper.

Where guests see your offer

• A free-nights offer shows in a green line above the calendar.
• The saving shows in green in the "Price Breakdown". It is named after the offer.

Your practice task

Do this on the real screen. The "Your listings" button is just below.

• Open one short let and find "Offer a discount on longer stays".
• Find the "Free nights offer" boxes.
• Read the blue note, "The better of the two, never both". It has a worked example.
• Only save if you want the offer to go to our team for approval.
• Then answer the three questions below. After that, go on to lesson 5: Your calendar and booking rules.

Check what you learned

Pick an answer, then press "Check my answer". You can try again as many times as you like.

Read next

• Getting bookableHow to offer longer-stay discounts and free nightsGive guests a discount, or a free night, for staying longer. They get the one that saves them more, never both.
• Getting bookableHow to set night prices for busy days and seasonsYour listing price is your normal night price. You can set a different price for some dates, or for one day.

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