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Base rate

A base rate is the standing price for a room type — the rate that applies on any night you have not priced differently.

Worked example

  1. A room's base rate is ₱3,800, with December set to ₱5,130 and September to ₱3,230.
  2. Two months are overridden; the other ten sell at base.
  3. Roughly 300 of that room's 365 nights are priced by the base rate alone.

Why it matters

Most nights in a year are base-rate nights, so it does more work than any seasonal override you set.

Having one written down is also what lets anyone on the desk quote a walk-in without calling the owner.

Which is why the base rate deserves more thought than the peaks. Operators tend to agonise over Holy Week and leave the number that prices five-sixths of the year exactly where it was last year.

In MangoHost

A base rate per room per year, with month-specific overrides on top. Remove an override and the month falls back to base — there is no state where a night has no price.

Seasonal pricing →

Related terms

  • Seasonal pricingSeasonal pricing means setting different rates for different parts of the year — peak, shoulder and low season — rather than one rate all year.
  • ADR (average daily rate)ADR is the average price a sold room-night actually fetched, across all the nights you sold in a period.
  • Rate parityRate parity is the practice — often a contractual requirement — of not undercutting an OTA's price on your own channels.

MangoHost gives Philippine properties these numbers without a month-end spreadsheet. Book a 30-minute walkthrough and see them on your own rooms.