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Per-guest pricing now works on your derived rates too

  • June 17, 2026
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saurabh.bhatia
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Charge correctly for every guest: on every rate, not just your base rates.

Per-guest pricing is now live for derived rates: the rates that take their price from one of your base rates, like your corporate, promotional, and discounted package rates.

 

Why this is a big deal. Until now, per-guest pricing only worked on base rates. On a discounted derived rate, the discount didn't just come off the room, it also ate into what you charged for extra guests beyond your standard occupancy. So a third or fourth guest got discounted too, and you left money on the table. The only way around it was building a separate base rate for every variation. This was slow to set up, impossible to manage with a RMS and a headache to maintain.

That's solved. Now, if you choose to, your dependent rates can derive the standard-occupancy price from the base rate, and carry their own, correct adjustments for each additional guest or child.

 

What you get:  

  • Accurate revenue on every rate. Extra guests are charged what they should be, even on your deepest-discounted rates.
  • No more workarounds. One base rate, many derived rates. Nreo need to duplicate rates just to price guests correctly.
  • Set once, apply everywhere. Derived rates inherit your per-guest charges from the base rate automatically, so managing them stays effortless.
    • Override whenever you want. Need a different extra-guest charge on a specific rate? Set it directly on that derived rate for full, granular control.

 

Hotels using per-guest pricing on their base rates can now extend the exact same accuracy across their whole rate structure.

👉 Turn it on in your service settings to start pricing every guest correctly across all your rates.

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saurabh.bhatia
Mews Employee
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@Hveilleux  I had received a DM about this from you. Wanted to loop you in, and invite you to try it as well :) 


j.spiess
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  • June 18, 2026

Hello ​@saurabh.bhatia !

Actually this is something that I have been waiting for, also to simplify our setup with Atomize.

However, can you help me with one thing: what if the standard occupancy of the room types are not the same across all room types? I don’t get it, even after reading all the help docs:

Consider this case:

  • Base rate: rate with breakfast incl.
  • Dependent rate shall be derived from this rate by deducting the breakfast cost (approx)
  • Standard occupancy for a single room is 1, obviously, Suites have a standard occupancy of 3 or 4. Most Rooms have 2…

So if I set the base rate derivation to -50 € (consider the difference shall be 2x25€ between breakfast incl. and room only rate):

Double Room with Breakfast rate: 150 € (standard occupancy)

Double Room without Breakfast rate: 100 € (standard occupcancy); from there on I can setup negative and extra person charges per catergory, that’s clear to me

 

But look at a single room:

  • Single Room with breakfast incl. rate: 75 €
  • According to the base rate deduction setting in the derived rate 50€ will be deducted
    • → Single Room RoomOnly is now 25€, instead of 50 €
    • I cannot find a setting where the derivation of the standard occupancy price can be setup by room type..

So, Question: How do I correctly handle standard occupancy derivation by room category, in case not all categories feature the same standard occupancy…

Side note: Thing is: Atomize by mews support recommended me to setup derivations from with breakfast to RoomOnly on MEWS side, but how??? Currently, Atomize optimizes rates with breakfast for us, and loads them into a rate with breakfast included and then Atomize also deducts rates for a RoomOnly rate and loads them into a room only rate in MEWS. To complicate matters further, our channel manager requires rates without breakfast included and ads it on it’s own to correctly calculate child breakfast supplements…. sigh… so currently we use a with breakfast rate that is derived from the Room Only rate that Atomize loads into, by automatically adding breakfast as a product  with a product rule…
I would love to simplify this setup, it hurts my brain everytime I need to change something :-/

Regards,

Jean-Philipp.


j.spiess
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  • June 19, 2026

Let me add one more comment: it would save us a lot of work if it was possible to change the base rate a dependent rate is derived from. Currently once a rate has been created, the linked base rate cannot be changed …

Kind regards,

Jean-Philipp.