Changelog

Follow up on the latest improvements and updates.

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We’re in the process of tidying up the platform to make all settings consistent, clear, and easier to make updates.
In your Portfolio’s Calendar Side Panel, you will now see the following when you select a date range to apply custom Daily Rates:
  • Unified language of “
    Set New
    ” or “
    Adjust Existing
    ” rules
  • Average nightly rates
    for the date-range selected enabling you to easily see how adjustments will impact nightly rates
  • Icons
    added to Dynamic or Fixed rule selections
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  • Easy
    removal of existing rules
    and confirmation when you select “Adjust Existing”
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As a reminder, you are able to
Set expiration dates
for your custom rates making it simple to trial a new strategy around prices for a period of time before having nightly rates return to Wheelhouse’s recommended pricing.
We are excited to continue bringing you improvements across the platform to make your entire Wheelhouse experience faster and easier.
Dynamic Sets now store the most recent filters & boundaries you used to create or edit a Dynamic Set.
For example, if you filter the listings by “apartments”, with “2 bedrooms”, and occupancy of “50 - 70%”, those parameters will be stored and will appear in the top right of your window.
saved filters
Or, you can draw a boundary, which will automatically be saved to this Dynamic Set, as well.
When you next return to this Set, your automatically saved filters & boundaries will load for you to review, analyze or review.
You can clear these filters at any time.
Or, click on any saved filter to scroll quickly to that filter set, for further evaluation or updates.
As a reminder, Dynamic Sets are Wheelhouse newest product, which helps you create collections of external listings to enable better:
  • Benchmarking
  • Pricing Strategy Decisions
  • Owner Reporting & Retention
  • Owner Acquisition
  • Merchandising and more!
You can now easily grab the listings you want to compare when reviewing metrics for a Dynamic Set with assigned listings from your portfolio.
All metrics on the overview page will update to reflect the listings you selected to compare:
  • Highlights
    - The ‘Assigned’ number will change depending on how many listings you’re comparing
  • Booking Pace
    - ‘Set’ vs. ‘Assigned’
  • Asking Rate
    - Both Aggregated and Individual metrics will update
  • Map
    - Assigned listings are shown in green
After clicking “Metrics” from your Sets Dashboard, you can now:
  1. Click “Compare” in the top right to manage assigned listings
  2. Select only the assigned listings you want to compare to the set
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This will give you the ability to quickly pull the metrics you care about against a Set.
We’ve made it much easier to create & update any listing’s
Check in/Check Out
rules.
Now, from your Portfolio Settings page, you can select multiple listings at the same time and:
Add 1+ New Rule
  • Create 1+ new rule and update each listing’s existing strategy;
  • Click “Add New” to add this new rule(s) to each listing’s unique Check-In/Check-Out rules.
Replace All Rules
  • Create 1+ new rule and replace each listing’s existing strategy.
  • Click “Replace All” to override all existing Check-in/Check-out settings, and unify your selected listings' Check-In/Check-Out rules.
Now, you can more quickly update specific Check-in/Check-Out rules for:
  • Global Rules across the board
  • Monthly rules (e.g. to better optimize your high/low seasons)
  • Time-based rules (e.g. for stay dates within & beyond a specific number of days)
  • Date-specific rules (e.g. for local events)
We hope this update makes it easier to maintain your optimal portfolio on Wheelhouse!
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For more information on the process of bulk editing Check in/Check out rules, find details here.
rentalwise-integration
Wheelhouse and RentalWise are now officially integrated to bring automated dynamic pricing directly to listings in RentalWise, an all-in-one vacation rental platform.
In order to establish the connection, visit the integration page in Wheelhouse. Customers will generate the Wheelhouse API key and navigate to RentalWise to connect the accounts.
For detailed instructions on how to connect Wheelhouse and Direct Software, please read this helpful article.
About RentalWise
In addition to automatically pushing your price recommendations and utilizing Dynamic Sets from Wheelhouse, access the following benefits from RentalWise:
PMS & CRM
Control the content, calendars, rates, bookings, payments, and more for all your properties.
Website Builder
Easily build a branded website for your property collection. Increase direct bookings, free from commissions. Create check-in and payment pages.
Channel Manager
Automatically sync content, calendars, rates, and reservations across Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia, Google, VRBO, and more.
Unified Inbox & Automations
Automatically sync content, calendars, rates, and reservations across Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia, Google, VRBO, and more.

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Billing

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Recent Updates Across the Platform

Over the last quarter, we’ve introduced minor updates to your Portfolio pages, Individual Listings, Performance pages, and Dynamic Sets.
Portfolio Pricing Pages (Calendar, Settings, Pricing Metrics)
  • Updated Columns Menu and addition of “Historical Metrics”: Historical Metrics calculate KPI’s but for backward looking dates. Existing Portfolio KPI’s calculating on forward looking dates named and organized under “Future Metrics''
  • Asking Rate added as a “Future Metric” column
  • Icons added to Settings dropdown in Portfolio Settings
  • Filter and Column for “Admin of Listings” added
Performance Page (Formerly Bookings Page)
  • Comparison of Sets limited to sets of 250 or less
  • New KPI’s for Adj. RevPar and Bookable Nights added as Overlays
  • Added Link to Listing in Reservation Table under Name Column
  • Button to remove Overlay Added
  • Added capability to Export Overlays when added to visualization
  • All Filter Options from Portfolio Pages added as Filter Options on Performance Page
Individual Listing
  • Updated Reservation Display on Listing Calendar: Back to Back reservations are now visible as well as the reservation’s Nightly Revenue (total revenue without fees)
  • Weekday in Daily Chart Header: Name of weekday added in the pricing overlay
Billing
  • Filters added to Billing Page for navigating lists of listings when changing subscription: Full Wheelhouse filter set now available on the Billing Subscriptions page
Sets (formerly Comp Sets)
  • Trends page from Market Reports added to Sets and Comp Sets Overview Pages
Sub-rule copy is designed to ease & accelerate your use of Wheelhouse.
In short, we’ve enhanced our copy/paste rules, to enable fine-grained control to help you copy settings to multiple listings.
Previously, when copying settings to apply to another listing, ALL settings would be copied and applied for the following rules:
  • Demand sensitivity
  • Historical anchoring
  • Min price / Max price
  • Min stays
  • Last minute / Far future
  • Check in / Check out
With this release, you now have the ability to select “sub-rules” of the above categories to apply to other listings. Find the applicable “sub-rules” you are now able to select for each rule set:
Demand Sensitivity
  • Global
  • Day of Week
  • Monthly
  • Time-Based
  • Date-Specific
subrule1
Historical Anchoring
  • Global
  • Day of Week
  • Monthly
  • Time-Based
  • Date-Specific
subrule2
Maximum Price
  • Global
  • Day of Week
  • Monthly
  • Time-Based
  • Date-Specific
subrule3
Minimum Prices
  • Global
  • Day of Week
  • Monthly
  • Time-Based
  • Date-Specific
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Minimum Stays
  • Global
  • Day of Week
  • Monthly
  • Time-Based
  • Gap Nights
  • Date-Specific
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Last Minute or Far Future
  • Time-Based
  • Date-Specific
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Check-in / Check-out
  • Enable/Disable
  • Auto-Adjust
  • Global
  • Monthly
  • Time-Based
  • Date-Specific
Friendly reminder that applying any copied settings will immediately take effect and hopefully save you the manual, tedious effort of going listing by listing!
For more information on the process of copying settings from one listing to another, find details here.
To ensure clarity, consistency, and accuracy of Wheelhouse metrics lexicon across the platform, we’ve introduced minor language changes including updates to:
  • Terminology adjustments to reservation table columns
  • Modifications to the default display of reservation table columns
  • Improvements to language clarity around custom gap rules
  • Renaming of two API products
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Terminology adjustments to reservation table columns
Updates made on the individual listing reservation table and Performance (formerly Bookings) reservation table.
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Individual Listing
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B.
Modifications to the default display of reservation table columns
The default view of displayed reservation revenue rates across the platform will now exclude fees. Previous versions on the individual listings page and the reservations table on the Performance (formerly Bookings) page defaulted to showing ADR (with fees) and Total Revenue (with fees).
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Performance
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C.
Improvements to language clarity around custom gap rules
Updates made when adding rules to Gaps & Adjacencies settings on an individual listing.
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Renaming of two API products
  • Pricing API is now Wheelhouse Pro API
  • Just-In-Time API is now Wheelhouse Lite API
More information can be found here: https://www.usewheelhouse.com/api-docs
We’ve added the “Add New” functionality to three more Portfolio Settings.
“Add New” enables you to create a rule for a setting, and merge that rule into each listing, instread of over-writing those rules.
This feature is designed to makes bulk editing of listings much easier on Wheelhouse.
The updated settings include:
  • Last Minute Pricing
  • Far Future Pricing
  • Gaps & Adjacencies
For each of these setting, when you update 1+ listing, you will now find a “Add New” option.
As an example, you can now:
  • Select 3 listings with different Last Minute Discounting (LMD) strategies
  • Create a new LMD for a specific date range
  • Click “Replace All”, to override all prior LMD settings
  • Or, Click “Add New”, to merge your new rule with any prior LMD settings.
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Far Future
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Gaps & Adjacencies
Gaps
These updates mean that you can now “Add New” on:
  • Last Minute Pricing
  • Far Future Pricing
  • Gaps & Adjacencies
  • Min Price
  • Max Price
  • Min Stays
  • Historic Anchoring
  • Demand Sensitivity
For detailed instructions on how to edit multiple lisitngs, please read this helpful article.
We hope this accelerates your use of the Wheelhouse platform!
rns
Wheelhouse and Rental Network Software (RNS) are now officially integrated to bring automated dynamic pricing directly to listings in the RNS, vacation rental management software.
In order to establish the connection, customers must request the RNS connection via the Wheelhouse integration page. The prompt will populate an email to begin the connection process. Users will then follow the instructions provided by RNS to grant Wheelhouse access to the associated RNS accounts. Users will receive a confirmation email from a Wheelhouse team member once the connection is complete.
An established connection takes approximately 48 hours to complete.
For detailed instructions on how to connect Wheelhouse and Direct Software, please read this helpful article.
About Rental Network Software
Rental Network Software (RNS) provides Vacation Rental Management Software with features that property managers or individuals need to succeed. RNS boasts a powerful software package to fit any company’s needs, from managing 10 units or 10,000 units.
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