Measure one set of room types, change another

The checkbox and the two lists

In the rule builder, the room types field starts as one list, Apply to room types, with every type that counts as a room ticked. Under it is a checkbox, Change prices on different room types, with a "?" beside it that opens a panel titled Measure and change:

• "You watch occupancy, pickup and booking speed on the Measure room types."
• "When the rule fires, you change prices on the Change room types."
• "Unticked, one list does both."

Tick it and the field splits in two:

• Measure: the room types the rule reads its numbers from. Only room types that count as rooms are offered here, because occupancy and booking speed are only ever counted over rooms.
• Change: the room types whose prices the rule changes. Every active room type is offered, including ones tagged "not a room".

Change starts as a copy of whatever you had selected, so you usually only need to adjust one of the two. Each list has Select all and Clear.

On a property with room groups, both lists have group buttons. A group's Measure button picks only its room types that count as rooms, and its Change button picks every room type in it. Read Room groups.

Defaults and messages

• With the checkbox unticked, the rule changes every selected type and measures the selected types that count as rooms.
• A room type that does not count as a room is never measured, on its own or alongside rooms. If you select only the Meeting Room, the rule still prices it but measures nothing (read A rule that measures only non-rooms).
• To price a type on its own bookings, tick it as a room on the PMS tab (which also counts it in your occupancy and in the rooms you are billed for), then build the rule. There is no other way to measure it.
• With the checkbox unticked and nothing selected: "Select at least one room type."
• With the checkbox ticked and Measure empty: "Pick at least one room type to measure."
• With the checkbox ticked and Change empty: "Pick at least one room type to change."

What each condition measures

• Sellable occupancy is rooms booked divided by rooms you can sell, over the measured types only. A rule measuring Standard reads Standard's occupancy, which can differ from the day card's whole-hotel figure. Read Sellable occupancy.
• Booking speed counts bookings in the measured types only, on the night being priced and on every similar past night. A measured set smaller than the whole hotel gets its own counts, shared by every rule that measures the same set. Read Booking speed on part of the hotel.
• Pickup count adds up room nights (or revenue) gained over the measured types. Read Pickup count (advanced).
• Rooms left to sell adds up the rooms left over the measured types. Read Rooms left to sell.
• Booked so far vs usual counts the rooms booked and to sell over the measured types, and compares with what the same room types had booked on similar nights. A measured room type that started selling later is read from its first night sold. Read Booked so far vs usual.
• Current rate is the measured types' starting price, their average by rooms to sell when there are several. Read Current rate.
• Average rate booked averages the rooms booked in the measured types. Read Average rate booked, ADR (advanced).
• Booking window reads no room types. It is the same number of days for every type.
• Recent bookings reads no room types either: it counts new bookings across the whole property, whatever the rule measures. Read Recent bookings (advanced).

For occupancy, rooms left, booked so far vs usual, the current rate and the average rate booked, one reading serves every room type the rule changes. A booking speed or pickup rule can read each changed room type separately, because each one counts from the newest change still on it by that rule or a stronger one that moves the price the same way. A booking speed or pickup rule also acts and waits separately for each changed room type, so Suite and Deluxe can each be on a different step of the same rule. A standard rule has no wait: its change goes on and comes off room type by room type. Read Per room type.

What the rule card shows

On the Rules tab, the Room Types column normally lists the types the rule changes. When the rule measures something different, it reads "Watches Standard, Deluxe · Changes Suite". Only measured types that count as rooms are named there, because those are all the rule measures.

On a property with room groups, a whole group reads as its name: "Watches Garden · Changes Garden+". What a rule watches reads as a group when it has all of the group's room types that count as rooms, as the Measure button picks them. What it changes reads as a group when it has every room type in it, as the Change button picks them. Anything less is named room type by room type, and so is a rule that names a room type no longer listed.

The Rate Simulator shows the same "Watches · Changes" line beside the rule under Rules in play, naming every room type, groups or not.

The change log names the measured types

When a rule measures different room types from the ones it changes, its change log sentences say so:

• "Standard and Deluxe were 92% full, past the 90% mark you set."
• "Standard and Deluxe bookings came in faster than normal this past week: 9, against the 5 a night like this usually has by now."

A rule that measures only non-rooms

A rule reads its numbers only from room types that count as rooms. What happens with the rest:

• A rule saved with a mixed list (Standard and the Meeting Room, say, before you unticked the Meeting Room on the PMS tab) keeps pricing every type in its Change list, but the Meeting Room drops out of what it measures. The change log tells you: "That 95% leaves out Meeting Room."
• A rule whose measured types have all been unticked measures nothing. Its sellable occupancy, rooms left, booking speed, booked so far vs usual, pickup count, current rate and average rate booked conditions can never be true, so a rule with any of them stops acting. It stays On on the Rules tab, with no warning. A standard rule's change comes off. A booking speed or pickup rule's earlier changes stay where they are.
• A rule whose measured types have all been switched off in MAYA (during the review, or because your system no longer lists them) stops running. Any price change it had already made on the types it changes stays in place, as if the rule were switched off. To clear it, delete the rule or type a price for those nights. Editing the rule to measure active room types, with Apply price adjustments, judges those changes against the edited rule. On Cloudbeds, a room type you remove is switched off by MAYA's next daily read of your room types, and on ThinkReservations by its next read, on the next cycle. The rule stops measuring it then. On Mews, removing one does not switch it off in MAYA, so the rule keeps measuring it. Room types and rooms out of service says what happens to a removed room type in each system, and Contact support lists what you can ask us to change.

Booking window and recent bookings read no room types, so a rule whose only conditions are those two keeps working when every type it measures has been unticked as a room.

To have a rule measure a type again, tick it as a room on the PMS tab. If you haven't saved the rule from the rule builder since you unticked the type, the rule still lists it, so you don't need to add it again. Saving the rule from the builder while the type is unticked takes it off the list the rule measures: after you tick it as a room, edit the rule and add it back. There is no other way to measure a type that does not count as a room, such as a meeting room or a court.