Lesson 3: Talking to the Pricing Bee (WB1)
WB1 is your pricing specialist. It sets dynamic room rates by reading your occupancy, booking pace, room-type inventory, and your local event calendar — always inside the floor and ceiling you define.
What WB1 can do
- Recommend (Co-Pilot) or set (Auto-Pilot) dynamic rates per room type.
- React to how full you are, how fast bookings are coming in, and upcoming Janakpur/Pokhara events and festivals.
- Hold the line on the guardrails you set — it never moves a price by more than the allowed swing in a single step.
How to direct it well
Name your floor and ceiling in money, not adjectives. "Be aggressive this weekend" tells WB1 nothing it can act on. Give it the numbers and the reason:
"Standard rooms are slow for Tuesday–Wednesday. You may discount to fill them, but never below NPR 2,000, and stop discounting once we pass 80% occupancy."
Frame demand with the Why. WB1 prices far better when it knows the cause of a spike:
"There's a wedding party holding 10 rooms Saturday. Push Deluxe and Suite rates for the surrounding nights up to NPR 9,000, but keep Standard rooms reasonable for their overflow guests."
The ±15% safety net
WB1 is capped by a founder-locked guardrail on how far a single price move can go (a ±15% band by default), plus your own floor and ceiling. This is a safety net, not a target — telling it to "use the full 15%" is the wrong instinct. Tell it the outcome you want and let it find the rate.
What NOT to ask
- Competitor moves: "undercut the hotel next door" — WB1 cannot see other hotels (Lesson 1). Give it your own occupancy and event signals instead.
- Breaking your own floor/ceiling: it will refuse and flag it. If you genuinely want a new floor, change the floor in settings — don't fight the guardrail per-card.