A toggle for whether last-minute discounts get applied to the entire stay or just the nights that fall within range of the discount period

For direct bookings, let’s say you have two last-minute discounts configured:

• A 10% discount within 10 days of check-in

• A 90% discount within 3 days of check-in

The percentages are exaggerated to highlight the drastic difference in impact, depending on how the discounts get applied.

Let’s say someone books a 20-night stay with 5 days’ notice. This can be handled one of two ways:

• Method 1: All 20 nights are discounted 10%.

• Method 2: Only the first 5 nights are discounted 10% (the specific nights that are within 10 days of check-in) and the remaining 15 nights are regular price.

Now let’s take the same example with a bit less lead time… a 20-night stay booked on 1 day’s notice. In this case both discounts are technically within range of being applied, and this can be handled one of two ways:

• Method 1: Ignore the 10% discount and instead discount all 20 nights by 90%. Probably not what ANYONE intended to happen when they set up the discounts!

• Method 2: Apply the 90% discount to the first 3 days of the booking (because those are the only nights “within 3 days of check-in”; and then use the 10% discount for nights 4-10 (the remaining nights that fall within the timeframe for the 10% discount); and then nights 11-20 would be regular price.

My current understanding (as of Jan 13 2026) is that Hospitable Direct uses Method 1. And based on my current understanding of the 3 major OTAs, this is how THEY handle it:

• Airbnb uses Method 2

• Vrbo uses Method 2

• Booking.com uses Method 1

I don’t use last-minute discounts on booking.com, because of how they handle it (Method 1 provides no predictability or control over the length of stay that a steep discount gets applied to).

To the extent that there is discrepancy between the major OTAs about how to handle multiple overlapping last-minute discounts, Hospitable needed to make a decision about whether to use Method 1 or Method 2, and in my opinion it’s unfortunate that Method 1 was chosen. My ask is that perhaps hosts could be able to choose which of the two methods they would like to use. I think most hosts would probably choose to emulate Airbnb and Vrbo rather than booking.com.