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Hospitable dynamic pricing: how to set it up (and when to turn it off)

Hospitable’s dynamic pricing is included in its paid plans, and it’s easy to try. But when we previewed it on our own lodge, its first suggestion for one November night was £73. Our price that night is £127. Here’s how to set it up properly, using Hospitable’s own help-centre steps, checked on 17 October 2026.

By the PeakRate team. We're UK holiday-let hosts. Facts checked on 17 October 2026; sources are listed at the end.

Where it lives

Hospitable’s dynamic pricing lives in your calendar. Open a property’s calendar and click Preview Dynamic Pricing at the top (or Dynamic Pricing in the sidebar). Hospitable says set-up isn’t available on mobile or on small screens where the calendar sidebar is hidden, so use a desktop.

What it costs. Hospitable says dynamic pricing is included at no extra cost for active properties on its Host, Professional and Mogul plans, up to the number of properties your plan includes. On the free Essentials plan there’s a trial (30 days or your first 3 bookings on dynamic-pricing properties, whichever comes first), then it’s $15 per property per month (USD, or the local equivalent). Legacy plans can preview it but not switch it on.

Previewing changes nothing. Your prices only change when you click Activate Dynamic Pricing at the end of set-up. You can preview it even if another pricing tool is connected.

How to read the preview

The preview shows two prices for each night: your current price on top, and Hospitable’s suggestion underneath. In the preview’s own key, red means “You could get more bookings by lowering your price”, green means you could earn more by raising it, and the neutral one means your price matches its recommendation.

On our first preview, almost every night was red. These are our own lodge’s six open nights in early November that appear on both previews (captured 17 October 2026):

One honest caveat: the tuning also set a £110 minimum, and Monday 9 November sits exactly on it, so on that night part of the gap is the floor. The other five tuned prices are above it. This is one lodge on one day, not a test of how either set of prices would have booked. Our current prices at the time were set by PriceLabs.

The preview panel also says dynamic pricing “can boost revenue by over 20%”. That’s Hospitable’s own claim, based on its market data; we haven’t tested it.

Base price strategy. You choose one of three: more conservative (−10%, which Hospitable says favours occupancy), recommended (a balance), or more aggressive (+10%, favouring revenue per booking).

Tune it, then set the settings that matter

1. Click Customize setup. For eligible properties, Hospitable may auto-tune its recommendations from your pricing history. It calls this “only a starting point”. Ours was tuned with a custom base rate from past performance, extreme minimums cleaned up and smarter last-minute discounts, and the prices moved a long way (table above). So don’t trust the first preview: tune it, then check it.
2. Base price. The starting point for every night, and it moves with demand. Our tuned base was £175, yet November suggestions sat around £120. Hospitable says that’s expected: “Your base price is a reference point, not a floor.” A custom base price is optional.
3. Minimum price (optional). Your real floor. Hospitable suggests it should be “the absolute lowest rate you’ll accept … Think of it as your break-even price.” You can set one value or set it by day of the week. Ours was £110.
4. Maximum price (optional). “The highest rate you’d feel comfortable charging.” Leave it blank if you don’t want a cap.
5. Know the catch. Discounts, promotions and markups are applied on top of dynamic prices, so guests can see prices below your minimum (and above your maximum). Platform discounts set on Airbnb, Booking.com or Vrbo aren’t taken into account when Hospitable sets the price.
6. Advanced settings. Last-minute pricing, weekend pricing, local events and demand, seasonality, far-future pricing, historical anchoring and minimum night stay. Our advice: leave them until the basics look right.
7. Continue and activate. Click Continue, choose whether to keep your existing manual prices or let dynamic pricing override all dates, then click Activate Dynamic Pricing. Hospitable pushes the prices to your connected channels straight away, then updates them every 24 hours.

Before you activate, check its suggestions against what similar places nearby actually charge on the same nights. Hospitable picks its comparable listings for you, in the background; you can’t choose them. After activating, Hospitable suggests giving it at least a few weeks before judging, and comparing seasonal properties with the same period last year.

When to turn it off

• Its prices stay well below what your nights really sell for, even after tuning and a proper minimum. (Our judgement.)
• Another pricing tool runs that property. Hospitable’s own set-up guide says that if you were using third-party pricing software for the property, “don’t forget to turn it off!” Pick one tool per property. Hospitable does let you use its pricing on some properties and another tool on others.
• You’re on Essentials and don’t want the fee. After the trial, you’re charged for any billing period in which it was switched on, even briefly.

How to turn off Hospitable dynamic pricing

From Hospitable’s FAQs (read 17 October 2026):

1. Open the Property Calendar for the property.
2. In the right sidebar, click Dynamic Pricing. If it’s enabled, it shows as On. (If you see “Preview Dynamic Pricing” at the top of the calendar instead, it isn’t switched on.)
3. Scroll to the bottom and select Turn off dynamic pricing.
4. Confirm by clicking Yes.

There’s no master switch, so repeat it for each property. Hospitable restores the prices you had before you started, including manual prices. But turning it off doesn’t clear discounts that already exist on your Airbnb listing, so check those on Airbnb directly.

Weighing Hospitable’s pricing against a paid tool? See our Hospitable dynamic pricing vs PriceLabs comparison.

More guides

• Vrbo’s new 12% fee
• Airbnb Dynamic Pricing
• Is your Airbnb too cheap?
• Christmas and New Year pricing
• How to price a holiday let
• Holiday let occupancy (UK)
• Hospitable Dynamic Pricing vs PriceLabs

Sources

1. Hospitable help centre, “Dynamic Pricing Overview & Setup Guide” (article 11129367, updated 17 September 2026, read 17 October 2026): where it lives, set-up steps, base price strategies, auto-tune, minimum and maximum, advanced settings, activation, costs
2. Hospitable help centre, “Dynamic Pricing FAQs” (article 11130258, updated 17 September 2026, read 17 October 2026): updates every 24 hours, “a reference point, not a floor”, minimum as “break-even price”, maximum, how to turn it off, Airbnb discounts not cleared, costs and billing
3. Hospitable help centre, “Dynamic Pricing for the Essentials Plan” (article 14425164, updated 7 September 2026, read 17 October 2026): trial and $15 per property per month
4. Hospitable help centre, “Maintaining and Optimizing Your Dynamic Pricing” (article 11130498, updated 10 August 2026, read 17 October 2026): allow at least a few weeks to evaluate
5. Our own Hospitable account (The Sahara and our other two lodges): dynamic pricing preview, auto-tune and set-up screens, captured read-only on 17 October 2026 (dynamic pricing not switched on)
6. Hospitable’s preview panel: “Dynamic pricing can boost revenue by over 20%” (Hospitable’s own claim)
7. Our maths: six-night averages from the two previews (738 ÷ 6 = £123; 425 ÷ 6 = £70.8; 711 ÷ 6 = £118.5)

PeakRate makes pricing and competitor-benchmarking software for hosts. Where this guide mentions it, we say so; everything else is sourced above.