Advance reservation restrictions: Setting the minimum and maximum advance booking offset

To restrict the permitted advance booking period, you can use the following booking rules in Hotel-Spider: "MinAdvancedBookingOffset" and "MaxAdvancedBookingOffset".

Definition

• MinAdvancedBookingOffset = Minimum time between booking and arrival:
  If you want guests to book at least X hours/days/months before their arrival.
  
  Usage examples:
  - Your front office is only open until 8 PM daily, and you don’t want reservations for the same night to be possible after 8 PM.
  - Early bird offers 

• MaxAdvancedBookingOffset = Maximum time between reservation and arrival
  If you don’t want guests to book more than X hours/days/months in advance.
  
  Usage examples:
  - You don’t want bookings to be made more than 365 days in advance because event dates are only announced a year ahead.
  - Last-minute offers

Please note: The advance booking period only synchronizes in certain portals. You can recognize these by their logos in the booking rule overview.

Setting the advance booking periods in the Hotel-Spider Extranet

- BOOKING RULES -> Products
- Click on the EDIT PERIOD button in the top right corner

- In the new window (see below), follow these steps:
1) Set period(s): Specify the time frame during which the setting should be applied (e.g. "all periods").
2) Tick the products to which the restriction should apply.
3) Parameters: Add a tick for both or only one of the restrictions
4) Select your desired minimum/maximum booking offset period
5) SAVE

Display in the Booking.com extranet

Note: If the restrictions ‘Min. advance reservation’ and ‘Max. advance reservation’ do not yet appear in your Booking.com calendar, please contact the portal's support team to activate the display for your property.