By the time you notice, the rooms are sold.
While busy taking bookings, you may not notice that nearby hotels raised rates for the same night. The rooms left keep selling at the old price, and a chance to raise the rate is gone.
See the rates worth fighting for,
sooner.
Rates nearby went up. Are your rooms still selling at the old price?
Weigh nearby rate changes, your bookings and rooms left, together.
From tonight’s rate to the weeks ahead, every change has a reason, a handover and a record.
H.OS / Rate monitoringSample data
| Hotel / Room type | Rate | Breakfast | Cancellation | Since last check | Checked at |
|---|
Rates nearby went up.
Are your rooms still at the old price?
See the change early, then decide whether to raise the rate.
See which hotels raised rates and by how much, then weigh it against your booking pace and rooms left. When demand supports it, review a better rate in time.
Hotels, channels and check frequency depend on what is connected.
A lower rate?
Check whether it’s worth matching.
The cheaper room may not include breakfast, or may not be cancellable. Following the lowest number can drag down a rate you could have held.
Expand the selling conditions, then decide which rates are worth comparing. Stop unnecessary price cuts before they happen.
Expand each rate, then compare.
Arrival dateOctober 30
Room typeDeluxe King
BreakfastBreakfast for two
CancellationFree cancellation for a limited time
Source and timeTrip.com · 14:20
Filters help with comparison. Room size, amenities and cancellation deadlines still need checking, and conditions that weren’t captured stay unknown.
¥1,280
Breakfast for two · Cancellable
First recordBreakfast for two · Cancellable
¥1,380
Breakfast for two · Cancellable
↑ ¥100Breakfast for two · Cancellable
¥1,380
Breakfast for two · Cancellable
No changeBreakfast for two · Cancellable
The closer the arrival date,
the clearer the changes need to be.
Tonight’s empty room can’t be sold tomorrow. If your bookings are slow, seeing nearby rate changes in time lets you review price and sales actions sooner.
When bookings are healthy, there’s no need to follow others down. Put the change in the context of your business, and decide whether to adjust or hold.
Once you see the opportunity,
put the decision into the rate.
A nearby rate increase is only a signal. How your hotel is selling and how many rooms are left decide the next step.
Every step you care about
has a specific tool.
Start with rate monitoring, then explore pricing, planning and execution as your hotel needs them.
01Competitor rate monitoringBasic＋
02Comparable rate filtersBasic＋
03Rate change log and alertsBasic＋
04Tonight’s rate recommendationAI＋
05Rate decisions and recordsPro＋
06Forward rate planningPro＋
07Rate handover and checksPro＋
08Pricing reviewPro＋
Choose the hotels you watch,
and start here.
Set the hotels and room types to watch, follow their rates for the same arrival dates, and look back at how rates changed.
Rate monitoring scopeH.OS / Revenue management
MeituanCtripTrip.com
Arrival dates watchedTonight+1 day+3 days+7 days+14 days+30 days
Eight checks a dayStandard setup · every two hours, 08:00–22:00
Which hotels and channels can be covered?
Rates can be collected from major Chinese booking channels such as Meituan, Ctrip and Trip.com, and tracked by hotel, room type and arrival date.
Which arrival dates can I see?
By default, rates are collected for tonight and for 1, 3, 7, 14 and 30 days ahead, and the dates can be adjusted per hotel. These are snapshots for those dates, not a complete rate for every future day.
How often are rates updated?
The standard schedule starts a check every two hours from 08:00 to 22:00, eight times a day. Collection takes time, so freshness follows each rate’s check time. Failed checks and sold-out rooms are marked separately.
If breakfast and cancellation match, can rates be compared directly?
You can specify the room type and match the selling tier within it, so different products aren’t mixed. Comparisons still need to check the arrival date, breakfast, payment, cancellation terms and whether tax is included. Missing fields can’t be treated as matching.
Will monitoring change my hotel’s rates automatically?
No. Revenue management can go on to form a recommendation, and the decision maker chooses to accept, hold or set their own rate, which then becomes a rate change task checked against the live rate. Competitor monitoring provides the evidence for that step.