3 guest communication strategies that to improve your business amid COVID-19
While our blog has usually focussed on pricing and revenue management, many of you have asked us if we could share tips and tricks beyond just pricing. So we asked…
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A Guide to Direct Bookings to Take Control of Your Business During the STR Crisis
This is a guest post written by Maeva Cifuentes from Get Paid For Your Pad Since COVID-19 shut down the hospitality industry, short-term rental operators have been suffering and the…
Optimizing Pricing Strategies For Mid-Term Stays
As we navigate this new booking landscape, two trends are becoming apparent: midterm stays and last minute bookings are on the rise. Today we will be sharing our recommendations for…
8 ideas for getting bookings during Covid-19 beyond changing your prices
We have been speaking to several customers and below are some ideas that VRMs and owners can incorporate in their strategy to get more bookings during this time! Widen your…
Market Recovery Monitor (Global & US States Data): Deep Dive Into Portugal
(read this in portugese) We have created “Market Recovery Monitor” tool for vacation & short-term rental managers around the world to: Monitor their markets for signs of recovery, and Get…
Getting Started Video Tutorials
Setting up your PriceLabs account for success is important. These quick video tutorials outline everything you need to know to best set up your PriceLabs account. Have a question we…
FAQ Video Tutorials
These quick video tutorials answer common questions that come up when using PriceLabs. For a more in depth series on initial listing setup, check out our Getting Started Video Tutorials. Have…
Upcoming Webinar Schedule
Intro to PriceLabs – Overview + Q&A A 30 minute demo highlighting the features PriceLabs has to offer and how to use our software to achieve higher rates and occupancy…
New Dashboard and Usability Settings
We’re happy to announce a few new options on your Account Settings page that make it easier and faster for you to manage your account! To see these options, head…
PriceLabs Billing Explained
PriceLabs is full of features and bells and whistles, but the one thing we’ve kept simple is our pricing plans – there are no commissions, and in every billing cycle…
Using PriceLabs like a Pro – A Feature Checklist and Pro-tips
Note: If you are new to PriceLabs, part I of this series – Beginner’s Guide – is highly recommended. Over the last two years PriceLabs has evolved with the needs…
Getting started with PriceLabs – A How to Guide to Dynamic Pricing
We’ve designed PriceLabs to be a fairly intuitive platform to get you comfortable with dynamic pricing. That said, we do not want you to spend any time during your one…
Feature Update! Base Price Help
UPDATE We now have a new version of base price help available. Please read more about it at http://blog.pricelabs.co/base-price-help-2/ Description of the older base price help below. One of the…
Ready. Set. Go!
We are excited to announce PriceLabs, Inc. We love sharing economy (less consumption, less waste!), and truly believe that it is here to stay. So much so that we started…
Occupancy Based Adjustments – Manage Your Prices (Even More) Efficiently!
We are pleased to release a new customization that will help streamline your workflows in the following common scenarios: You frequently change your base price to react to certain occupancy…
Advanced Minimum Price Settings
Important Note: For any date, the min-price used will be the highest of listing, far-out (if applicable), weekend (if applicable) and seasonal (if applicable) min-prices since we need to satisfy…
Occupancy Based Adjustments – Manage Your Prices (Even More) Efficiently!
We are pleased to release a new customization that will help streamline your workflows in the following common scenarios: You frequently change your base price to react to certain occupancy…
Customization Groups to Help Manage Multiple Listings Together
Note: This post does not describe each individual customization, but focuses on how these can be created for a group of listings. For information about the available customizations, please see…
Customization and Date-Specific Override Hierarchy
Note: This post is does not describe the details of each customizations and date-specific overrides. Those are available in other posts under the Customizations Section of the blog. This blog…
Controlling your Minimum Night settings from PriceLabs!
Note 1: Minimum Nights Restrictions are advanced features that control how long a booking you require on certain dates. These settings should be used with a knowledge of your market,…
Full year pricing available in 300+ locations now!
Now 365 days! That’s right, after 2.5 years and millions of rows of data gathering, we are happy to announce that we are launching 365 day pricing in 300+ locations…
Now personalize your price recommendations with Customizations
At PriceLabs we strive to recommend the best data driven prices for your vacation rental and Airbnb listing to get bookings and drive revenue. While that works for most hosts…
Machine learning startup, PriceLabs, helps Airbnb hosts with pricing their listing
Originally writen for Built in Chicago blog. Link here The PriceLabs team is excited to announce that our services are now live for all Chicago Airbnb hosts (visit us at…
Integration with Smoobu!
Smoobu is the easy and efficient vacation rental software. Available in desktop version and mobile app, Smoobu offers several tools to automatize property managers’ daily tasks. Smoobu guarantees an intuitive…
Integration with Direct!
We are pleased to announce that we’ve added Direct™ to our growing list of PMS integrations. Direct™ is the forward-thinking, do-everything platform for lodging management companies of all sizes worldwide….
PriceLabs is now integrated with Octorate!
We’re excited to be integrated with Octorate – the all-in-one solution to manage your operations. Octorate is a cloud based channel manager that helps you manage distribution and control all…
PriceLabs is now integrated with YieldPlanet!
Note: For PriceLabs to sync prices to YieldPlanet, it is important that min-stay be specified for each date in PriceLabs. For more information on how to do this, please read…
Integration with Elina PMS!
We’re excited to announce that PriceLabs is now integrated with Elina PMS, a powerful property management software for hotels and serviced apartments with 10 – 1,000 rooms, whether single or…
PriceLabs is now integrated with Lodgify!
Note: For PriceLabs to sync prices to Lodgify, it is important that min-stay be specified for each date in PriceLabs. For more information on how to do this, please read…
Pricelabs integration with 365Villas!
We’re excited to announce that PriceLabs is now integrated with 365villas, a leading provider of cloud-based Property Management Software (PMS), servicing the global short-stay rental market, including vacation rental, Airbnb…
Integration with Rentlio!
We are excited to announce our integration with Rentlio, a cloud-based app tailor-made for vacation rentals, small hotels, hostels, and hospitality property managers. Rentlio is a fast and reliable property…
Using PriceLabs with Your Porter App
We have been getting many questions about how PriceLabs can be used with Your Porter App. Though we’re not integrated through an API, many users have already been using both…
Integration with Ciirus!
We’re super excited to announce our integration with Ciirus! Ciirus is a complete vacation rental software suite offering website design, online booking, CRM, booking channel services, property management tools and…
Integration with OwnerRez!
Note: OwnerRez can send prices to booking.com, TripAdvisor, and CanadaStays. They will support VRBO soon. For Airbnb, you’ll need to import the listing directly to PriceLabs and map them with…
Announcing Integration with Avantio
We’re excited to announce our integration with Avantio VRMS – Avantio provides a comprehensive PMS, in-built Channel Manager with connections to world leading portals, & state-of-the-art, mobile-friendly Vacation Rental Websites….
How to integrate with BookingAutomation
Note: If you use multiple BookingAutomation accounts to access the same property, the API key must always be from the account which owns the property. For using BookingAutomation with PriceLabs,…
Hostaway Integration!
We’re very excited to announce our integration with Hostaway. Hostaway’s platform offers an automated channel manager solving the hassle of double-bookings, making guest communication easier and let you focus on…
Announcing Integration with Streamline VRS!
We’re very excited to announce our integration with Streamline VRS. Streamline is an all-in-one property management system, and their quality suite of programs has made it easier than ever before…
Using a PMS for your rentals yet? Here’s how it can help!
At PriceLabs, we have hosts/managers who only list on Airbnb (which is one of the popular short term rental distribution “channels”) and use our integration there, but also those who…
PriceLabs + SuperControl Integration
We are very excited to announce our integration with SuperControl – many of you have already been using this integration successfully! This integration allows property managers using SuperControl to take…
Announcing Integration with BookingSync
We are excited to announce integration with BookingSync! This integration allows vacation rental owners and managers using BookingSync to take advantage of PriceLabs’ data-driven pricing. Vacation rental property managers across…
Announcing Integration with Rentals United – A Leading Channel Manager!
Note: Rentals United is a popular Channel Manager, and the connection will only work if you don’t use a Property Management System (PMS) to manage inventory and prices. If you…
Announcing Integration with Guesty – A Full Service Vacation Rental Management Service
We are excited to announce integration with Guesty – many of you have already been using this integration successfully even before we could make the announcement! This seamless integration allows…
Announcing integration with Orbirental – a leading vacation rental management platform
We are pleased to announce integration with Orbirental to get you the most out of competitive pricing for your vacation rental directly on your Orbirental calendar. PriceLabs’ data-driven pricing will…
How to integrate PriceLabs with Beds24
Note: If you use multiple Beds24 accounts to access the same property, the API key must always be from the account which owns the property. For using Beds24 with PriceLabs,…
Announcing integration with Beds24 – a leading property management and channel management system
We are excited to announce integration with Beds24. This seamless integration allows property managers on Beds24 platform to take advantage of PriceLabs’ data-driven pricing and push optimized nightly rates to…
Air Rental Case Study – The Power of Customizations
Today, we hear from Jules Renaud, one of the Co-Founders and CEO of Air Rental, a french property management company based in Montpellier. Air Rental uses PriceLabs with BookingSync to…
Nord Collection Case Study: Importance of Minimum Night Restrictions!
Today, we hear from Christian Eriksen, one of the Co-Founders of Nord Collection. Nord Collection uses PriceLabs with Guesty to distribute dynamic prices and min-stay to all their channels like…
How The Red House Company Benefitted from Using PriceLabs
Today, we will discuss with Marco Malafante, President and Co-Founder of The Red House Company. The Red House Company uses PriceLabs with SuperControl to not just have dynamic pricing on…
Tips From Our Users
We’re lucky to have sophisticated users who are constantly pushing us to improve the revenue management capabilities PriceLabs brings. Every so often, you share your hacks/tricks about how you use…
Partner Spotlight: One Fine Flat
This week we are excited to showcase One Fine Flat in our Partner Spotlight. We dive into what differentiates them from other vacation rental companies, why they use dynamic pricing…
Partner Spotlight: Pass The Keys
This week we are excited to introduce a property manager, Pass The Keys, who has been using PriceLabs for some time now. We dive a bit into how they got…
3 guest communication strategies that to improve your business amid COVID-19
While our blog has usually focussed on pricing and revenue management, many of you have asked us if we could share tips and tricks beyond just pricing. So we asked…
A Guide to Direct Bookings to Take Control of Your Business During the STR Crisis
This is a guest post written by Maeva Cifuentes from Get Paid For Your Pad Since COVID-19 shut down the hospitality industry, short-term rental operators have been suffering and the…
Optimizing Pricing Strategies For Mid-Term Stays
As we navigate this new booking landscape, two trends are becoming apparent: midterm stays and last minute bookings are on the rise. Today we will be sharing our recommendations for…
Mobile Personalization at the Heart of Guest Experience – Boostly
This week we have Mark from Boostly, to share his thoughts on challenges facing short-term rental owners in 2020. The vacation rental industry is always changing and Mark tries to…
Video Tutorials for Common Questions
These quick video tutorials answer common questions that come up when using PriceLabs. For a more in depth series on initial listing setup, check out our ##Getting Started Video Tutorials##….
Base Price Help 2.0 – Neighborhood Trends At Your Fingertips
We’re super excited to be announcing a big improvement over our older base price help section – if you hadn’t been using it, you should now! Base Price is the…
Unlisted on Airbnb?
To find out if your listing is unlisted on Airbnb please try the following steps or you can also watch the small video attached at the end of this blog…
Managing pricing for a large portfolio from PriceLabs
Most of our users are very familiar with the main dynamic pricing dashboard. You login to this frequently to monitor how your listings are doing, review prices, change base/min/max prices…
Introducing BookingAnalyzer: Understand Booking Trends in Your Listings
Note: BookingAnalyzer is a stand-alone excel tool that can be downloaded here. It is completely free, and does not require creating an account. It can help you find actionable trends…
Date-specific Overrides to Adjust Prices for Events and Seasons!
We’ve had the fixed date-specific overrides in place ever since we started – it allowed you to select a range of dates and set a manual override to our price…
Feature update! Mapping listings between portals
Last few weeks here have been incredibly busy as we continue push the boundaries on usability of PriceLabs. When we started dynamic pricing, we were an Airbnb only pricing portal…
Common pricing mistakes Airbnb and vacation rental owners should avoid
If you are already using PriceLabs, this is perhaps a moot post for you but if you are still on the fence or fall in DIY (do it yourself) category,…
New feature: Sync Now button – Immediate sync with Airbnb / PMS
You asked for it, and here it is … Note: Sync now updates prices to your PMS/Airbnb within 10-15 mins with 99% success rate. This means that while it is…
Market Intelligence Reports
2015 saw significant changes in vacation and short term rental landscape starting from new service companies, more properties to Expedia acquiring Homeaway. In these changing times, it is important owners…
5 summer tips for your rental business
Winter is over, well almost, and now is the hurrah season. Summer is an extremely popular time to take vacation, so dust off your linens and get ready for the…
New features: local data and calendar view
Over the last couple of weeks, we at PriceLabs have been extremely busy. Some days we have worked like this.. … and it’s extremely satisfying to hear feedback from you!…
Airbnb hosts should adjust prices for events
Chicago Marathon brings in a lot of demand for lodging in Chicago, but did you know the weekend after did too? At PriceLabs, we love digging through data. We recently…
How do I find my Airbnb URL?
If you are accessing PriceLabs from your mobile phone, use the following steps to find your Airbnb url: Go to your Airbnb listings page (link below) Click the title of…
What is the right Price for your Airbnb listing?
Airbnb’s suggested pricing is a great place to start, but is that best possible rent? Probably not, because each listing is unique in its own way (maybe your house is…
Running your micro sublet (Airbnb)
Whether you do it for fun or for funds, hosting guests in your home from places like Airbnb (or Roomorama, etc.) is a rewarding experience. However, there can be times…
