Restrictions: Automatic Availability Thresholds
Automatic availability rules that help hotels manage inventory more efficiently and prevent overselling—without requiring constant manual updates.
⭐ What Problem Does This Solve?
Right now, hotels must manually monitor room availability and apply restrictions (like closing rates or adding minimum length of stay).
This can lead to:
- Overselling during high‑demand periods
- Losing control of the total hotel inventory
- Last‑minute rate changes
- Extra workload for revenue and front‑office teams
🎯 What We’re Requesting
We’d like Mews to offer automatic rules that trigger when availability reaches certain thresholds.
These rules would look at:
✔️ Room type availability
✔️ Total hotel availability
✔️ Overbooking buffer
Example:
Protect the last rooms by automatically closing or restricting rates when overbooking limits are reached.
✔️ Continuous availability
This ensures that guests can stay for their full length of stay, without breaking availability patterns across multiple nights.
💡 Why This Matters
With automatic thresholds in place, hotels can:
- Protect inventory during high demand
- Reduce oversell risk
- Maintain stronger revenue strategies
- Avoid manual monitoring
- Improve the guest booking experience
Tony Scarcello
shared this idea
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Ann-Kathrin Grünewald
commented
e.g. a rate is automatically no longer bookable from 80% occupancy (In general, and in the Mews IBE)
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Terje Thorstensen
commented
Add restrictions by occupancy levels or similar logic.
Like: apply minimum stay or close if occupancy >= 80%.
We can apply this logic in most channel managers, but not in Mews. Would be great to have the logic applied in the PMS - and not through 3rd party. -
Leon Schellevis
commented
Restrictions based on availability. We work with one channel that sells our rooms very well but cannot be connected to our channel manager, when we have low availability we want sell the last rooms via that channel. That only works if we close our own booking engine to avoid overbooking. Therefore it would be great if Mews had the possibility to restrict reservations via its booking engine based upon availability.