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Gated Dates

Gated dates allows you to prevent an online reservation from booking a specified number of nights for a given date range.

This is useful when you have dates that you want to prevent one night reservations from being made.
For example, you may have a long weekend where you want to require a minimum of 3 nights. By setting the gated dates for the long weekend the system will automatically prevent one night reservations from being made.

Setting Gated Dates

To set gated dates for your online reservations follow these steps:

  1. Go to the Admin and Date Brownouts section.

  2. Click on the Add Brownout Date button located in the top right corner of the screen.

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  3. In the new brownout date panel select Gated as the type of brownout.

  4. Enter the date range that you want to set as gated. This is the date range that you want to prevent one night reservations from being made. Example: If you want to prevent one night reservations from being made on the 4th of July weekend you would enter the date range of July 3rd to July 5th.

  5. Enter a description for the gated date. The description will be displayed to the guest when they try to make a reservation on the gated date.

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Viewing the Online Gated Dates

To view the gated dates that you have set for your online reservations follow these steps:

  1. Go to your online booking page.
  2. Open up the calendar and navigate to the date range that you have set as gated.

  3. You will see the gated dates in pink on the calendar. When a guest tries to make a reservation on a gated date they will see the description that you entered for the gated date.

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Guest Experience

When a guest tries to make a reservation on a gated date they will see the description that you entered for the gated date. The guest will not be able to make a reservation for the gated date unless they meet the minimum night requirement that you have set for the gated date. If the guest tries to make a reservation for the gated date and they do not meet the minimum night requirement they will see a message.

gated date message