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# Booking Window

Close far-future dates on your channels while keeping the near ones open, automatically, every day.

This is the **Booking Window** tab on the [Pricing page](/front-desk/pricing.md). It answers one question: how many days into the future are your channels allowed to sell?

## What it does

Turn on **Limit how far ahead guests can book** and enter a number of **days ahead**, say 90. Everything from today through 90 days out stays bookable under your normal prices and rules. Anything later is closed on Booking.com, Airbnb, Hostelworld and your other channels. Tomorrow the window moves one day forward on its own, opening one more date. You set it once and forget it.

The page tells you the exact last bookable date ("Guests can book through 14 November") so there's no guessing.

Some things it deliberately does *not* do:

* It doesn't create prices. A date inside the window with no price stays closed like it always would.
* It never blocks your staff. Anyone with access to the calendar can take a booking for any date.
* It doesn't have to apply to your own website. There's a switch, **Also apply this to my own booking engine**. Turn it off and your booking engine keeps selling the far dates while the OTAs don't.

## Room overrides

Below the property setting there's a table of your rooms. Each one follows the property window unless you give it its own. Click **Set override** on a room, enter a smaller number, save.

A room rule can only make the window **shorter**, never longer. If you set a room to 120 days while the property is at 90, nothing changes and the table will tell you so. This is on purpose: the property window is the outer limit, rooms can only be stricter inside it.

## Saving

Changes go to your channels straight away. If a change would close dates that are currently open, you'll be asked to confirm and told exactly how many dates and which ones. After saving you'll see a short summary: how many dates opened, how many closed.

## Set your timezone first

If no timezone is set on the [Availability tab](/front-desk/pricing/availability-controls.md), the window is calculated in UTC and the cut-off between "open" and "closed" can land up to a day off. Set the timezone and it's exact.