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# Pricing

How the Pricing page works — change prices, close dates, set minimum stays, and where to find the Availability and Booking Window tabs.

Everything about what you sell and when lives on one page: [app.hostelmate.co/pricing](https://app.hostelmate.co/pricing). Anything you change here goes out to all your connected channels on its own, usually within a minute or two.

The page has four tabs. This page covers the first one, the price grid. The others have their own pages:

| Tab                   | What it's for                                                                                                                                                                      |
| --------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Pricing**           | Day-by-day prices per room, closing dates, minimum stay. Covered below.                                                                                                            |
| **Price Adjustments** | Rules that raise or lower prices automatically depending on how full you are. See [Price Adjustments](/front-desk/pricing/price-adjustments.md).                                   |
| **Availability**      | Your property's timezone, and a same-day cutoff that stops selling tonight's beds after a certain hour. See [Availability Controls](/front-desk/pricing/availability-controls.md). |
| **Booking Window**    | How far into the future your channels are allowed to sell. See [Booking Window](/front-desk/pricing/booking-window.md).                                                            |

{% hint style="warning" %}
**No price, no sale.** If a date has no price, your channels won't sell it. Before you connect a channel, and after importing bookings, make sure every room has prices for the months ahead.
{% endhint %}

## The price grid

The table shows one row per room and one column per night. Each cell is that room's price for that night; for a dorm, it's the price of one bed. A cell that says "No rate set" has no price yet.

To look at another month, pick a start date in the date field at the top. **Today** takes you back.

### Changing a price

Click any cell. That opens **Bulk Update Prices**, where you set:

* a **Start Date** and **End Date**. The cell you clicked is filled in, but you can stretch it to a whole season, up to 2 years in one go.
* the **Price**
* optionally **Apply to specific weekdays** (see below)
* optionally **Close Room** (see [Closing and opening dates](#closing-and-opening-dates))

Click **Update**. You'll see "Prices saved — syncing to channels in the background". All your connected channels get the new price on their own.

To price several months differently, do one update per month.

{% hint style="info" %}
Update in chunks of about a month at a time. A single update covering a year is a lot of dates for every channel to digest at once and is the most common cause of a "why hasn't Booking.com changed yet" ticket. If a channel does fall behind, [Full Sync](/channel-mapping-guides/full-sync.md) puts it right.
{% endhint %}

### Weekday and weekend prices

Say you want $12 on weeknights and $15 on Friday and Saturday, for all of October:

1. Click a cell, set Start Date to 1 October and End Date to 31 October.
2. Tick **Apply to specific weekdays**, select Sun to Thu, enter 12, click **Update**.
3. Click a cell again, same dates, select Fri and Sat, enter 15, click **Update**.

### Things it can't do

* Prices are set per room. You can't copy prices from one room to another yet.
* There's one price per room here. To sell a room at a second price (non-refundable, with breakfast), see [Multiple Rates per Room](/finance-management/property-setup/rates.md).
* These prices go to every channel. To charge more on one channel, add a rule on that connection: **Price Adjustment** tab for Hostelworld, Mixdorm and Coworksurf, or the channel settings in **Open Manager** for Booking.com, Agoda and the rest.
* Rules that change prices by how full you are live on the [Price Adjustments](/front-desk/pricing/price-adjustments.md) tab.

## Closing and opening dates

There are two ways to stop selling beds for some dates. Both apply to every channel.

**From the Booking Calendar.** Handy for one bed, one room or the whole property.

1. Click an empty bed on the calendar and choose **Update availability**.
2. Pick the dates and the scope: **Bed**, **Room** or **Whole property**.
3. Click **Close Availability**. To undo it later, do the same and click **Open Availability**.

**From the Pricing page.** Closes one room.

1. Click a cell in the room's row and set the Start Date and End Date.
2. Tick **Close Room** and click **Update**.
3. To open it again, same steps with **Close Room** unticked.

## Minimum stay and closed to departure

Each room row has a small arrow on the left. Click it and two more rows unfold under the prices:

* **Min Stay Arrival**: the fewest nights a guest can book if they *arrive* on that date. Click a cell, choose the date range and the number of nights, save. **Disable Min Stay for this range** removes it.
* **Closed to Departure**: guests can't check out on that date.

These go to your channels the same way prices do.

{% hint style="info" %}
**"Booking.com still shows a price on a night I've blocked."** It will. Platforms display a price for every open night whether or not a guest can actually start a stay there. If a min-stay or a full night next door means nobody can book that date, the number shown for it doesn't matter. Check the price on the nights people *can* book instead.
{% endhint %}

## A room is missing from the grid

Rooms only appear here once they exist in **Finance → Property Setup → Room Inventory** and have beds added. If it's set up there and still doesn't show, write to us in the chat.