How to manage your availability and prices from the calendar?

When you manage short-term rentals across platforms like Airbnb and Booking.com, keeping your availability and pricing up to date is essential. With Nowistay, you can manage everything directly from your Calendar page — and every change you make is automatically pushed to all your connected booking platforms.

This guide walks you through everything you can do from the calendar to stay in control of your listings.

Before you start

To manage your availability and prices from the calendar, your property must be connected through the Nowistay PMS integration. This is the integration that turns Nowistay into your channel manager, synchronizing your calendar, availability, and pricing across all your connected platforms (Airbnb, Booking.com, etc.).

If you haven't set up the Nowistay integration yet, check out our guide on how to create your first property and connect it.

Understanding your calendar at a glance

When you open the Calendar, you'll see all your properties listed on the left, with a timeline of days stretching across the screen. Each cell represents one day for one property.

For properties connected through the Nowistay integration, the calendar cells are color-coded to give you an instant overview:

• Green — The date is available for booking.
• Red — The date is unavailable (no availability left or manually closed).
• Gray with a diagonal line — Sales are blocked on OTA platforms (stop sell is active).

You'll also notice small indicators on each cell:

• A price badge in the top-left corner showing the nightly rate for that date.
• A minimum stay indicator (like "3n") in the top-right corner when a minimum number of nights is required.

Bookings appear as colored tiles spanning their check-in to check-out dates. Blue tiles are confirmed bookings, and gray tiles are manually blocked dates.

How to change your nightly rates

Adjusting your prices is straightforward:

1. Click on any date cell (or the price badge) on the calendar for the property you want to update.
2. A panel opens on the right side of the screen.
3. Set the start date and end date for the period you want to update. By default, both are set to the date you clicked.
4. Enter the new nightly rate. The current rate is pre-filled for reference.
5. Click Save.

Your new rate is immediately applied and pushed to all connected platforms. You'll see the updated price badge on each affected date cell.

How to close or open dates for booking

Need to block a few days for personal use? Or re-open dates you previously closed? Here's how:

1. Click on a date cell on the calendar.
2. In the panel that opens, set your date range.
3. Toggle the "Open for booking" switch:
   • On (Bookable) — Guests can book these dates.
   • Off (Closed) — These dates are blocked and no bookings can be made.
4. Click Save.

Closed dates will appear in red on your calendar. This is the simplest way to mark dates as unavailable across all your connected platforms at once.

How to block sales on OTA channels (Stop Sell)

Sometimes you want to keep dates available for direct bookings but stop selling them on platforms like Airbnb or Booking.com. That's what the stop sell feature is for:

1. Click on a date cell on the calendar.
2. Set your date range.
3. Toggle the "Block OTA channels" switch to On.
4. Click Save.

Dates with stop sell active will show a gray background with a diagonal strikethrough on your calendar. This means the dates are still technically available in your system, but no guest can book them through connected OTA platforms.

To resume sales, simply toggle the switch back to Off and save.

How to set a minimum stay

Want to avoid one-night bookings during a busy season? You can set a minimum number of nights for any date range:

1. Click on a date cell on the calendar.
2. Set your date range.
3. Enter the desired minimum stay (in number of nights). For example, enter "3" to require at least a 3-night booking.
4. Click Save.

The minimum stay will appear as a small indicator (e.g., "3n") on each affected date cell, so you can see at a glance which dates have restrictions.

How minimum stay works in practice

When you set a minimum stay on a date, any booking that includes that night must meet the requirement — not just bookings that start on that date. This means a guest cannot check in before that date and check out after it unless their total stay is long enough.

Here's a simple example: imagine you set a 3-night minimum on June 15th to June 20th.

• A guest wants to book June 16 to June 18 (2 nights) — Refused. The stay covers dates that require at least 3 nights.
• A guest wants to book June 16 to June 19 (3 nights) — Accepted. The stay meets the 3-night minimum.
• A guest wants to book June 14 to June 16 (2 nights) — Refused. Even though the guest arrives before the restricted period, the night of June 15 is included in the stay and requires at least 3 nights.
• A guest wants to book June 13 to June 14 (1 night) — Accepted. This stay doesn't include any date with a minimum stay restriction.

In short: think of minimum stay as a rule applied per night. Every night included in a booking must have its minimum stay requirement satisfied by the total length of the stay.

Tip: This is especially useful during high-demand periods like holidays or local events, where you want to ensure longer bookings and avoid gaps in your calendar.

Applying changes to specific days of the week

One of the most useful features is the ability to apply changes only to certain days of the week. For example, you might want to set a higher rate for weekends only:

1. Click on a date cell and set a wide date range (e.g., the entire month).
2. Make your changes (rate, availability, etc.).
3. In the "Apply to" section at the bottom, uncheck the days you don't want to update. For example, uncheck Monday through Thursday to only apply your changes to Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
4. Click Save.

This is perfect for setting weekend vs. weekday pricing, or for blocking specific days across a longer period.

Choosing which fields to update

Each setting in the edit panel — availability, stop sell, nightly rate, and minimum stay — has a checkbox next to its label. By default, all four checkboxes are checked, meaning every field will be updated when you save.

If you only want to change one or two settings without affecting the others, simply uncheck the fields you don't want to modify. Unchecked fields will keep their existing per-day values untouched.

For example, if you want to set a 3-night minimum stay across the next two months without changing any of your carefully configured per-day pricing:

1. Click on a date cell and set your date range.
2. Uncheck "Open for booking", "Block OTA channels", and "Nightly Rate" — leave only "Minimum Stay" checked.
3. Set the minimum stay to 3.
4. Click Save.

Only the minimum stay will be updated. Your existing rates, availability, and stop sell settings for each individual day will remain exactly as they were.

This is especially useful when you have different prices set for each day (for example, via PriceLabs or manual per-day adjustments) and you want to update just one setting across a large date range without overwriting everything else.

How to adjust rates for a specific channel

The calendar lets you set a base nightly rate that applies to all your connected platforms equally. But what if you want one platform to receive a different rate? For example, you might want Booking.com rates to be 10% higher to offset their commission, while keeping your Airbnb rates unchanged.

With the rate adjustment feature, you can set a percentage increase or decrease for any individual channel — without touching your base calendar prices. Your calendar stays exactly the same; only the rate sent to that specific platform is adjusted.

How to set a rate adjustment

1. Go to the Properties page, click the … menu on the property card, and select Synchronization.

2. In the synchronization drawer, find the channel you want to adjust (e.g., Airbnb) and click the Channel settings button (the settings icon next to it).

3. In the Rate Adjustment tab, enter the percentage you want to apply. A positive number increases the rate (e.g., +10 means rates will be 10% higher on that channel), and a negative number decreases it.
4. Click Save.

For example, if your base rate in the calendar is 100€ and you set a +10% adjustment for Airbnb, Airbnb will receive 110€. Your calendar still shows 100€, and other channels without an adjustment continue to receive 100€.

This is especially useful when different platforms charge different commission rates. You can compensate by marking up your price on higher-commission channels, while keeping a single base rate in your calendar that reflects your actual earnings.

Tip: You can set a different adjustment for each connected channel. This gives you fine-grained control over your pricing strategy across platforms — all without cluttering your calendar with platform-specific rates.

How changes sync to your connected platforms

Every time you save a change from the calendar, Nowistay automatically pushes the update to all your connected booking platforms (Airbnb, Booking.com, and any other OTA connected through the Nowistay integration). This happens in real time — you don't need to do anything extra.

This means you have a single place to manage your pricing and availability, and all your listings stay perfectly synchronized.

If you ever need to force a full synchronization of your availability and prices, you can do so from the property's synchronization settings.

Using the calendar on mobile

The calendar works great on mobile too. On your phone, the view switches to a monthly grid for each property. Tap on any property card to open its calendar, then tap on a date to manage its availability and pricing — just like on desktop.

You can also swipe left or right to navigate between months, and switch between the calendar view and a summary list of your bookings for the month.

Automate your pricing with PriceLabs

While the calendar gives you full manual control over your nightly rates, you can also automate your pricing strategy by connecting PriceLabs — a dynamic pricing tool that adjusts your rates automatically based on market demand, seasonality, local events, and competitor pricing.

When PriceLabs is connected, it pushes optimized rates directly to your Nowistay calendar, which are then synced to all your connected platforms. This means you no longer need to manually adjust prices for peak seasons, weekends, or slow periods — PriceLabs handles it for you.

To get started, follow our step-by-step guide: How to connect PriceLabs for dynamic pricing.

Note: Keep in mind that when PriceLabs is active, it may override any manual price changes you make from the calendar during its next sync. If you want full control over specific dates, you can always pause or adjust your PriceLabs settings.

Need help?

If you have any questions about managing your availability and pricing, our team is here to help.