LENGTH-OF-STAY, MANAGED

Minimum-stay rules that protect revenue, not block it

Set the minimum too high and you block bookings, and OTA algorithms notice: harder-to-book listings rank lower. Set it too low and you fill peak dates with low-value stays. Otamiser revisits your length-of-stay rules daily, protecting revenue and rank at once.

Minimum-stay strategies — Otamiser
Minimum stay, tuned to demand
Daily

Firm when demand is strong, relaxed when it's soft.

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Fri
3
Sat
2
Sun
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Mon
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Tue
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Wed
Flat 3-night minimum · blocks 3 soft dates
Bookable dates
50%
Revisited daily, so rules protect revenue without blocking bookings.
The gap

A single minimum-stay rule can't fit every date.

One blanket minimum across the whole calendar is always wrong somewhere. On high-demand weekends a low minimum gives away revenue to one-night stays. On quiet midweek dates a high minimum blocks the only bookings on offer. The right rule depends on the date, the demand, and how far out the booking is, and it needs to change as those do.

Most setups
  • One flat minimum across every date
  • Peak weekends filled with low-value single nights
  • Quiet midweek dates blocked by too-high minimums
  • No flex as the booking date approaches
  • Orphan nights stranded by rigid rules
  • Set once, rarely revisited
Optimized by Otamiser
  • Minimum-stay rules tuned by date and demand
  • Peak dates protected for higher-value stays
  • Quiet dates opened to capture available demand
  • Rules that relax as the date gets closer
  • Gaps filled with dynamic length-of-stay logic
  • Managed daily as demand and pace shift
what you get

Minimum-stay strategy, fully managed

We set length-of-stay rules to the date and demand, then manage them as your calendar moves.

01
Length-of-stay audit

We review your current minimum-stay rules against demand patterns, peak and off-peak dates, booking pace, and the orphan nights your rules are stranding. You see where rules are blocking bookings and where they're giving revenue away.

02
Rule build

We set minimum-stay rules by date and demand window, with advance-purchase logic and gap-night flex built in. Your pricing tool and channel manager execute them. We set the strategy behind them.

03
Daily management

We adjust the rules as demand, events, and booking pace change, and as dates approach. Peak stays stay protected, quiet dates stay open, and orphan nights get filled.

What we do

Revenue management for short-term rental portfolios

Otamiser runs the full revenue operation for STR operators: OTA ranking, pricing, channel strategy, and distribution. Everything that determines what you earn across your portfolio, managed for you.

Dynamic rate management

Nightly rates continuously calibrated to demand signals, seasonality and comp-set movement, across every OTA.

Availability & min. stays strategies

MinLOS, gap-night, advance-purchase and cancellation policy rules tuned to local demand and event windows.

OTA ranking & visibility

Active management of Airbnb ranking factors, Booking.com Genius and Preferred Partner levers, Expedia placement, and the signals that decide where your listing appears.

Channel mix & parity

Which OTAs to weight when, and how to manage rate differentials without triggering algorithmic suppression.

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Regular performance reporting

Structured reporting on occupancy, ADR, RevPAR, ranking trends and comp-set position. Data your owners and investors can stand behind.

Anomaly alerts

Booking pace, rank drops, channel issues and parity breaks flagged in hours, not weeks, with a recommended action attached.

New listing onboarding

Full revenue and distribution setup for every new listing, operational from day one. No ad hoc onboarding, no inconsistent setups.

Listing content optimization

Titles, descriptions, photos, amenities and attributes rewritten and restructured to maximize ranking and click-through on each platform.

Promotional channel strategies

Genius, Mobile, Country, Last-Minute, Early-Booker and Preferred Partner promos calibrated to incremental yield, not just visibility.

Why otamiser

The right minimum stay is a moving target. We move with it.

Length-of-stay is not a setting you get right once. It's a daily decision that changes with demand and lead time. We make that decision for every date, across the portfolio.

01 · what sets us apart

Rules tuned per date, not per listing

A blanket minimum is a blunt instrument. We set length-of-stay by demand window and lead time, so the rule fits the date instead of the other way around.

Nashville · This weekend
Search rank Rank #4
June 2026
Su
Mo
Tu
We
Th
Fr
Sa
1
$148
2
$152
3
$179
4
$189
5
$241
6
$267
7
$259
8
$155
9
$161
10
$182
11
$194
12
$248
13
$271
14
$263
15
$149
16
$153
17
$176
18
$188
19
$244
20
$269
21
$255
Revenue
$0
0% vs last month
Search rank
#1
0 positions
02 · our approach

Stay rules and pricing, connected

Minimum stay and rate work together: a higher minimum can justify a lower rate, a flexible minimum can carry a premium. We manage both as one decision, calibrated to demand.

03 · fully managed

A revenue team, every day

Minimum-stay rules, advance-purchase logic, and gap-night flex across every listing and channel. You keep the tools you use. We run the length-of-stay strategy around them.

Rank vs booking pace — 28 days
Search rank
Booking pace
Rank drop detected
Alert fired before bookings fell
Lead timeCaught 18 days early
results

What managed length-of-stay strategy actually delivers

Otamiser manages pricing and rank every day, across short-term rental and hotel portfolios in the U.S., Europe, and beyond. The pattern is consistent: rank improves first, revenue follows.

~7,500room-nights ahead of last year

coastal US portfolio
+40%revenue year-over-year across 130 properties

Casiola
+15%occupancy year-over-year

~50-unit US portfolio
21nights secured on a stalled listing after adjusting its LOS strategy

UK operator

Otamiser changed how we manage distribution. We no longer wait for bookings to decline before acting. Ranking gives us the earliest signal of performance shifts and the confidence to respond quickly.

Dennis GoedheidFounder & CEO · Casiola

After the first month, there has never been a month where Otamiser hasn't delivered more than 10% YoY ANR (average nightly rate) growth, and in some months it's been nearer 50%.

Corin Craig JacksonManaging Director · The Heim