- You now have two options as the anchor sourcefor Historical Anchoring.
- Leverage your final booked price(today's default) or thelast Wheelhouse-posted price at the time of booking.
- This new option (last posted price) ensure promo codes, wholesale net rates, and group discounts don't quietly become next year's floor.
- Historical Anchoring now protects your entire 18-month pricing horizon, anchoring off the most recent comparable booking โ even if that booking is still in the future.
- Nothing changes today: every account defaults to Booked price, exactly like current behavior. You'll simply see the new option waiting for you.
- Portfolio Settings now support bulk copyand smartergroupingfor Historical Anchoring, so managing this setting across large portfolios is easier.
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New Unlock: Anchor Source
Historical Anchoring has always protected your floors by looking at what actually booked last year.
That's great โ until a promo code or channel-specific discount leads to a booking, and that discounted rate quietly becomes your floor for the same date next year.
Now you can choose what Historical Anchoring anchors to:
- Booked price (default)โ the final booked nightly rate we ingest for that stay date. This is current behavior, and it's what your account stays on unless you change it.
- Wheelhouse suggested price at time of bookingโ the last Wheelhouse-recommended nightly rate for that stay date, as of the booking timestamp, so external discounts and commissions don't factor in.
Imagine a last-minute traveler booked your July 4th weekend at a steep discount, due to PMS or channel specific discounts.
Under Booked price anchoring, that discounted rate could drag down your floor for July 4th next year.
Switch to Wheelhouse's Posted Price, and your floor instead reflects what your engine actually recommended before that discount was applied.
Activating this is a quick switch, that you can setup in your
Settings โ Historical Anchoring
, under Source
.
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Two Flags!
There are two (2) important callouts for this setting.
First
, as you know, we only post prices for connected listings.Therefore, if a booking occurred before you connected to Wheelhouse, we won't know the "final posted price" for your bookings. (We can see the booking amount, but can't infer potential discounts from your final price)
This drawback means this new data source is
most
useful/valuable for listings that have been on Wheelhouse for 1+ years.Second
, historically we have stored the final posted price for an unbooked night for 7 months. Starting now, we will store this price posting data for 12+ months, but it will take 5 months for us to accumulate 12 months of historic prices for each stay date.
Therefore, for the next few months, you will want to leverage other protections to ensure we protect your nights as intended.
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Protecting Your Full 18-Month Horizon
Good news!
Historical Anchoring now protects every date across your
entire 18-month pricing horizon
โ using the most recent same-day booking as an anchor, even if that booking is still in the future, relative to today.For example:
- October 30, 2026 booked at $1,000/night (still upcoming as of July 2026)
- When pricing October 30, 2027, we will anchor off the October 2026 booking.
- However, if October 30th, 2026 had no booking, our system would fall back to 2025 to look for a booking anchor.
And, for stay dates
12+ months out
, if no comparable booking exists one year back, Wheelhouse extends the lookback up to two years to find an anchor.๐งฎ
Full Transparency, Built In
Every time your account's Anchor source setting changes, Wheelhouse logs it โ timestamp, user, and the old and new values โ so you and your team always have a clear record of what changed and when.
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Built for Portfolios
Managing Historical Anchoring across a large portfolio just got easier:
- Bulk copyyour Anchor source setting across listings from Portfolio Settings.
- Smarter groupingโ listings on Booked price and listings on Wheelhouse suggested price now group separately in Portfolio > Grouped Settings, so you can see and manage them at a glance.
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Getting Started
Nothing changes for you today โ every account, new or existing, defaults to
Booked price
, exactly like current behavior.To try the new option:
- Go to Settings โ Historical Anchoring
- Under Source, selectHistorical posted price