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JordanYour market:month-plus stays
With a 30-night minimum, a 29-night opening cannot be booked at all. That makes when a stay begins as important as how long it lasts.
Monthly bookings leave gaps.Don’t fear the gap. Price it.
Price the Gap is a pricing optimization algorithm for monthly rentals. Some nights are strategic because every booking that creates a gap must include them. By pricing these unavoidable nights higher, our algorithm helps recoup income that would otherwise be lost to the gap.
How the Price the Gap optimization algorithm prices unbookable gaps
Booking price
Stay valueGap value
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November
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30booked
0blocked
30consumed
Income otherwise lost to the unbookable gap−$540
A new booking. (Yeah!!!)
A guest books 30 nights.
The standard quote.
It prices the 30 nights the guest books—not the calendar space their dates may leave unbookable.
but... what about the gap?
The booking leaves empty nights after the previous reservation.
... a gap too short to be booked.
Those nights can no longer earn income because no future stay can fit there.
The algorithm optimizes the stay.
Price the Gap identifies the strategic nights this booking cannot avoid and concentrates the gap-recovery price there, so the final quote can help recoup the income otherwise lost to the gap.
One final price for the guest.
The strategic pricing is already built in. There is no separate gap fee.
Strategic pricing works on either side.
Price the Gap can account for an unbookable gap before the stay, after it, or both.
Free calendar-gap analysis
Find the gap risk on your own calendar.
Paste your public Airbnb listing URL and enter your minimum stay. Price the Gap maps the guest-facing availability and identifies where a new booking could leave fewer open nights than another guest can book.
Scan my calendar No prices or reservations are changed.A strategic pricing optimization layer
Your pricing engine sets the rates. Price the Gap optimizes the calendar.
It starts with the daily rates calculated by Airbnb Smart Pricing, PriceLabs, Beyond, Wheelhouse, or another pricing tool.
The algorithm identifies strategic nights—dates a gap-creating stay cannot avoid—and concentrates the gap-recovery price there. A stay that creates no unbookable gap keeps the same total price. When a stay would leave an unbookable gap, its final price can help recoup some or all of the income otherwise lost to that gap.
The guest sees one final price, never a separate gap fee.
Is Price the Gap right for your rental?
Price the Gap is built for high-demand monthly rentals, where a 30-night minimum can turn 29 open nights into an entirely unbookable gap. It is most useful when another reservation is likely, provided the calendar still has room for one.
Likely a good fit
- Your listing has a roughly monthly minimum stay.
- Demand is high enough that another booking is likely—if the calendar still has room for it.
- A 30-night minimum can leave as many as 29 open nights that no guest can book.
- PriceLabs supplies the daily rates the algorithm optimizes.
Probably not useful yet
- Demand is sparse and almost any booking is better than waiting.
- You run short-term stays where gaps can be filled by shorter bookings.
Send your listing link, minimum stay, and rough occupancy. We’ll tell you honestly whether your calendar has the demand and gap risk this optimization is designed for.
Talk about my calendarhello@pricethegap.com