Discounts can help you encourage earlier bookings, fill last-minute availability and attract longer stays. You can set up and manage them directly from your Host Dashboard.
Discount types
Plum Guide offers five discounts:
Early bird – for stays booked more than 90 days before check-in.
Last minute – for stays booked less than 5 days before check-in.
Weekly stay – for stays of 7 nights or more.
Monthly stay – for stays of 28 nights or more.
Custom – for stays within a date range you choose, with a minimum length of stay you set.
These fall into three discount types:
Time of booking: Early bird and Last minute
Length of stay: Weekly stay and Monthly stay
Custom: Discounts for specific dates and minimum stay lengths
How to set up a discount
Log in to your Host Dashboard and go to Discounts.
Find the discount you'd like to offer and select Set up.
Choose the percentage discount and which homes you'd like it to apply to.
If you have more than one home, choose whether the discount should apply to All homes or Selected homes.
For a Custom discount, you'll also need to choose the applicable dates and minimum length of stay.
Save your changes.
Once a discount is active, you'll see its terms and the homes it applies to on the Discounts page. Select Edit at any time to change it, or Remove to stop offering it.
Note: You can also view and set discounts within the Pricing section of each listing. Go to Listings, find the relevant listing and select Manage > Pricing > Discounts.
If you use a PMS or Channel Manager
You can still set up Plum Guide discounts if your rates are sent through a Property Management System (PMS) or Channel Manager.
Any discounts you set in your Plum Guide Host Dashboard are applied on top of the rates sent to us by your PMS or Channel Manager.
Make sure this is taken into account when setting your rates and promotions elsewhere, so you don't unintentionally offer a larger discount than intended.
How discounts combine
Some discounts can apply to the same booking. How they combine depends on the discount type.
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Time of booking + Length of stay
✅ Both discounts apply.
For example, if a guest qualifies for a 15% Early bird discount and a 10% Weekly stay discount, they will receive 25% off.
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Time of booking + Custom
✅ Both discounts apply.
For example, an eligible Early bird or Last minute discount can be combined with a Custom discount covering the dates of the stay.
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Length of stay + Custom
⚠️ These discounts do not both apply to the same nights.
For a stay that crosses the Custom discount date rang:
the Custom discount applies to eligible nights within the Custom discount dates
the Length of stay discount applies to eligible nights outside those dates
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Custom + Custom
⚠️ If more than one Custom discount covers the same dates, only the largest eligible discount applies to those nights. Custom discounts are not added together.
⚠️ If one Custom discount ends part-way through a stay, another eligible Custom discount can apply to the remaining nights.
Need help?
If you have a question or need a hand setting up discounts for your listing, contact our team at hosts@plumguide.com