What switches on once we know your history
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In the first week we know less about your property than you do, and we do not pretend otherwise. Some of the factors that move the price are calculated from data about the WHOLE city — those work from day one. The rest are calculated exclusively from your own history, and until that exists they simply stay silent.
The silence is a choice, not a gap. The alternative would be to substitute a value „typical for a property like yours” — that is, to calculate your price from somebody else’s data and show a result that looks exactly as credible as a real one.
What works from day one
The season in your region, events nearby, public holidays and long weekends, the general weekend rhythm. All of that describes the city rather than your property, so it needs nothing beyond an address. A new host therefore gets sensible proposals from the first login — just not yet the ones they will get in six months.
What wakes up with your data
Four factors wait for your history and wake in this order, because this is how many different things they need:
- Your occupancy around a date. A connected calendar and a few bookings are enough — this is the first thing to move.
- The pace of your bookings. We need to see not only WHICH nights are taken, but WHEN they were bought. That is where „this date is selling faster than usual for you” comes from.
- Your rhythm of the week. It replaces the general weekend pattern with one measured at your property. This can be a surprise: at some places Thursdays sell best, and at guesthouses along hiking trails — Sundays.
- How your guests react to price. The longest wait, because it needs nights where we know BOTH the price and the sales outcome. Only then can we say how much of the demand we have detected may be turned into price at your property specifically.
You do not have to guess where you stand
The panel has a section called „What will still switch on” and it says plainly what is missing: next to each factor stands either the word working or a specific number of days or bookings. Not „soon”, not „collecting data” — simply how much further.
That list reads the very thresholds the engine uses. If it kept its own copy it would promise something the engine does not deliver — and that exact mistake happened to us once: a host with a full calendar waited twenty days for a factor that was already being calculated for them.
The shortest route: upload your history
An iCal calendar tells us which nights are taken from the moment it is connected — it sees nothing before that. A booking export from your own system sees everything before it. Both answer the same question („did this night sell?”) and we treat them identically; they differ only in when we found out.
In practice: a host who uploads a year of history has the weekly rhythm and occupancy pressure immediately, instead of waiting months for them. It is the only shortcut we can honestly offer.
One thing that will never switch on retroactively
Weather. A forecast is a state of knowledge from a particular day, not a fact about the past — there is no way to check today what forecast stood against a night a year ago. We have been collecting them since the summer of 2026, and only from that point can we measure whether wet nights sell worse than usual at your property.
More on how a single proposal comes about is in the post where the price for one night comes from, and the limits of the whole method are described in our methodology.