How are Booking.com prices calculated with "Commission and Availability" enabled?

What will you find in this article?

• What is Booking.com's price calculation based on when you use "Commissions and Availability"?
• Calculation formulas
  • If your Booking.com plan is based on the Standard pricing model, and you are using BedBooking Standard pricing.
  • If your Booking.com plan is based on the Standard pricing model, and you use BedBooking's "Occupancy-based price".
  • If your Booking.com plan is based on the OBP pricing model, and you are using the BedBooking standard price.
  • If your Booking.com plan is based on the OBP pricing model, and you use BedBooking's "Occupancy-based price".
  • If your Booking.com plan is based on the Derived Pricing model, and you are using the BedBooking standard price.
  • If your Booking.com plan is based on the Derived Pricing model, and you use BedBooking's "Occupancy-based price".

What is Booking.com's price calculation based on when you use "Commissions and Availability"?

Determining the rates at which you offer accommodation is a key aspect of your business, which is why the BedBooking Price list provides a clear overview of what prices are valid on a given day in Booking.com, Airbnb or the BedBooking Reservation System, regardless of whether you use the "Commissions and availability” or you manage prices manually. However, if you want to know the exact mechanism behind the calculation of Booking.com rates when using the "Commission and Availability" function, you will find detailed information on this subject below.

“Commission and availability” automates Booking.com price management based on BedBooking prices. The system calculates rates for Booking.com based on the commission amounts you choose. Whether, you use global or local “Commission and Availability”, the principle of operation is always the same and is based on increasing the price of BedBooking.

Before we delve into the formulas behind "Commission and Availability", it is worth paying attention to Booking.com's pricing models, which directly affect the way rates are calculated. Depending on which pricing model a particular Booking.com rate plan uses, the way the "Commission and Availability" feature calculates prices will vary. If you want to learn more about what pricing models your Booking.com rate plans can use and what Booking.com pricing models and plans actually are, read this article What Booking.com pricing models are supported in BedBooking?.

The second key issue is that BedBooking prices have two ways of working - standard and depending on the number of people. Standard BedBooking prices are the room rate on a given day, regardless of the number of people staying in a given room. The so-called “Occupancy-based price” is a way in which you complete separate room rates on a given day for each number of people. You can learn more about BedBooking prices depending on the number of people in the article How to set “Occupancy-based price”?.

It is also worth remembering that "Commission and availability" offers the possibility of converting prices with a percentage commission and a commission based on a fixed amount. The percentage commission is available in both global and local “Commission and Availability” and is completed in the field called “Price increased by”. The amount of commission is only available when using the local "Commission and Availability" and is set in the field called "Additional Nightly Rate".

For Booking.com pricing plans based on the OBP model, you have the option to choose how the amount of commission is calculated. You can set the commission to be charged “per night” - that is, the specified amount will be added to each night of stay - or “per night per person”. - in which case the amount will be added for each person staying in the room, for each night.

Calculation formulas

How Booking.com rates are calculated by the "Commission and Availability" function depends on whether you use standard or number-based BedBooking prices and on what pricing model a given Booking.com rate plan is based on.

There is an amount of commission included in the calculation formulas, but if you don't use it, it is 0. You can ignore it in this case.

Prices calculated by "Commission and Availability" are always rounded up to one.

If your Booking.com plan is based on the Standard pricing model, and you are using BedBooking Standard pricing.

Booking.com price = BedBooking price * (100% + percentage commission) + amount commission

Example:

Room capacity: four-person

Percentage commission: 15.8%

Commission amount: 20.5 euros

If your Booking.com plan is based on the Standard pricing model and you use BedBooking's "Occupancy-based price".

Booking.com price = BedBooking price for the largest number of people * (100% + percentage commission) + amount commission

Example:

Room capacity: four-person

Percentage commission: 15%

Commission amount: 20.5 euros

If your Booking.com plan is based on the OBP pricing model, and you are using the BedBooking standard price.

Booking.com price = BedBooking price * (100% + percentage commission) + amount commission

Example:

Room capacity: four-person

Percentage commission: 15.8%

Commission amount: 20.5 euros

If your Booking.com plan is based on the OBP pricing model, and you use BedBooking's "Occupancy-based price".

Booking.com Price = BedBooking price for a given occupancy * (100% + percentage commission) + amount commission

Example:

Room capacity: four-person

Percentage commission: 15%

Commission amount: 20.5 euros

If your Booking.com plan is based on the Derived Pricing model and you use the BedBooking standard price.

For “Standard Occupancy”:

Booking.com price = BedBooking price * (100% + percentage commission) + amount commission

For other loads with percentage difference:

Booking.com price = [BedBooking price * (100% + percentage commission) + amount commission] * (100% ± percentage difference)

For other loads with an amount difference:

Booking.com price = BedBooking price * (100% + percentage commission) + commission quota ± amount difference

Example:

Room capacity: four-person

Percentage commission: 15.8%

Commission amount: 20.5 euros

"Personal Pricing Rules" settings:

Guest x 4: 100 euros

Guest x 3: 15%

Guest x 2: “Standard occupancy”

Guest x 1: 10%

If your Booking.com plan is based on the Derived Pricing model and you use BedBooking's "Occupancy-based price".

For “Standard Occupancy”:

Booking.com price = BedBooking price for an occupancy equal to the “Standard occupancy” * (100% + percentage commission) + amount commission

For other loads with percentage difference:

Booking.com price = [BedBooking price for an occupancy equal to the “Standard occupancy” * (100% + percentage commission) + amount commission] * (100% + percentage difference)

For other loads with an amount difference:

Booking.com price = BedBooking price for an occupancy equal to the “Standard occupancy” * (100% + percentage commission) + commission quota ± amount difference

Example:

Room capacity: four-person

Percentage commission: 15%

Commission amount: 20.5 euros

"Personal Pricing Rules" settings:

Guest x 4: 100 euros

Guest x 3: 20%

Guest x 2: “Standard occupancy”

Guest x 1: 10%