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Rate plans and seasons

A hotel keeps its own plans — room-only, breakfast, half board, full board — each saying what it includes, priced by season, and read by every screen that quotes.

A rate plan is a room type, a meal plan and a price, valid for a range of dates. A hotel has as many as it needs — European plan, with breakfast, with breakfast and dinner, all meals, a corporate plan, an agent's contract — and each one says in words what it includes, so the booking page, the confirmation and the invoice all describe the same thing.

Seasons

A season has its own price. Peak, lean, a festival week, a conference fortnight — each is a dated block with its own tariff, and where two overlap the more specific wins. The chart's rate strip, the booking page and the channel manager all read the season in force on the night, never a default.

No default invents a price

A room type with no rate for a night is not sold at zero and not sold at last year's number. It is refused with a sentence that names the type and the night, so an unpriced night is found by the desk before a guest finds it.

Who may change a rate

Rate authority is a role. The desk may name a price on a booking within its ceiling; a manager may set the card; an OTA's booking arrives with its own price and the desk does not rewrite it. Every change to the card is logged with a name.

More on Rates & inventory

Every plan is priced on one formRoom-only, breakfast, half board and full board for every room type across a date range — set in one press, not twelve. Derived ratesThe tariff is one number and the gaps: type the display rate, the room gap and the meal gap, and every plan on every type is derived — with the OTA promotion on top. A room is priced by who sleeps in itSingle, double, triple, the extra bed, the child under six and the child under twelve — the quote reads the occupancy, and the channel receives the same table. RestrictionsMinimum stay, closed to arrival, stop sell, a closed date — written once, shown above the chart, and pushed to every channel. The GST slabThe slab follows the tariff by law. The system reads the rate on the night and applies the slab in force — and a channel price that says tax zero is a price with the tax inside it. The rate agreed is the rate carriedThe price on the booking is the price the night is posted at. The desk may name it until the guest leaves; after that a change is a note, not an edit. Rooms and room typesA hotel keeps its own inventory — types, real room numbers, floors, how each is made up — and changes it after go-live without raising a ticket. How many rooms are left each nightThirty nights down the page with the sold, the blocked and the free — for the person deciding whether to open the rate. The rate is recommended with its reasons, and a person says yesEvery night of every room type scored every hour against what is on the books — occupancy against the hotel's own booking curve, pickup, last rooms, need dates, events — and a price proposed with the reasons in words. Approve writes it and the channel is told the same minute. Off by default; no autopilot.