How do I set my base price?

If you choose "set amount" you will pick a base price on Host Tools, and then every price rule you create will adjust that base price. For instance, let’s say your base price is set at $100. You then create a rule of a 20% price increase on weekends. This means that your weekend prices are $120. Let's say you then add a channel-specific price rule to increase your prices on all days, on VRBO by 5%. Then your weekdays would be set to $105 on VRBO, and your weekends to $121. You can keep on adding rules to adjust your prices as needed.

If you choose PriceLabs as your price source, you can connect your PriceLabs and Host Tools accounts. You must have a PriceLabs account to choose this option, and you must follow every step in this article to link your PriceLabs account to your Host Tools account. This will import your PriceLabs prices for each day as your base price. You can still add Host Tools pricing rules to further modify these prices if you want to.

If you choose Beyond Pricing as your price source, this means that you have a Beyond Pricing account and you have connected it directly to all of your listings on your channels. So, for example, Beyond Pricing will set prices directly on Airbnb for you. This also means that Host Tools has no control over your prices and Host Tools will not modify this listing's prices. You cannot use Beyond Pricing with Booking.com. Booking.com will not allow you to have both Beyond Pricing and Host Tools connected.

If you have a VRBO or Houfy listing connected, you may also choose one of these channels as your price source. That means we will pull in your prices from VRBO or Houfy, and then push them out to all connected channels. You can also create price rules on Host Tools to modify these prices. If, for example, you prefer to set your prices on VRBO or have another service that sets prices on VRBO, you can set that as your price source. Then, you could create a rule that decreases your prices by 5% on Airbnb. In this case, we would pull in your prices from Vrbo and push those prices out to all channels, with a 5% decrease on Airbnb. If you select VRBO as a listing's price source, Host Tools will not change the prices on VRBO.

Airbnb and Booking.com cannot be chosen as price sources because both of these channels do not allow you to set prices on them once you are connected to a PMS like Host Tools.

Copy the entire base price calendar from an existing listing. This saves time when setting up properties with similar pricing strategies. Once copied, the prices are independent—changes to the source listing won't affect the target listing unless you copy again.

When to use: Perfect for setting up similar properties, creating pricing templates, or when you want to start with an existing price structure and then customize it.