Hello,
When providing a discount code for a guest, I would like there to be a condition for the amount that the guest needs to spend to be equal to or more than a certain amount. For instance, if a guest signs up for our newsletter on our website and then books direct, they get a discount of $100 off a $500 booking or more booking. We would like to be able to send them the discount code in the email they receive upon sign-up.
Thanks!
Hi Punkaj,
Thanks for taking the time to submit this, this is a solid idea and I can definitely see the use case for tying a discount to a minimum spend like that.
At the moment, we don’t have a way to enforce a “minimum booking value” condition on discount codes specifically. That said, there are a couple of ways you can get pretty close to the same outcome with the tools available today.
If your goal is strictly to cap the discount at $100, I completely understand that a percentage-based approach won’t behave exactly the same way. However, if the broader goal is to encourage larger bookings, a percentage discount combined with a length-of-stay requirement can work really well.
For example, instead of $100 off a $500+ booking, you could offer 10% off stays of 3+ nights. If your typical nightly rate is around $250, that would look like:
So you’re in a very similar range at that 4-night mark, and while you may give a bit more on longer stays, that’s often the goal. If that extra night turns what would have been an empty night into a booked one, you’re still coming out ahead overall.
For example, moving from a 4-night to a 5-night stay, you’re giving an additional $25 in discount, but generating $250 in added revenue, netting about $225 more overall.
If you prefer to stick with a fixed-dollar style discount, another option is to structure it as a per-night discount with a minimum stay. For example, $20 off per night on stays of 5+ nights:
Yes, you’re giving a bit more on longer stays, but in that 7-night example you’ve also added two additional booked nights. Using the same $250 nightly rate, those two additional nights generate $500 in revenue, and after the extra $40 in discount, you’re still netting about $460 more overall.
You can also layer in date or season-based restrictions, so the discount applies only during specific periods when you’re looking to drive additional occupancy. That helps keep things more controlled, especially if your rates vary throughout the year.
All that said, this is a good feature request, and we’ll keep an eye on demand for something like this. In the meantime, hopefully these approaches give you a workable path forward.
Appreciate you sharing the idea!
