The supplier sends this message to set the value of “minimum stay” parameter: with this method you can set the minimum number of nights that has to be booked for a specific combination (period, contract and, if you want, also room type). The query type (type) is set to setminimumstay.

PAY ATTENTION: A period of allotment must be already entered in order to process the request. The period must exist, it doesn’t matter with which values.

PAY ATTENTION: it is recommended to use this instruction AFTER the allotments setting in order to avoid overwritings.

Setting nights = 1 you can delete a minimum stay > 1 which has been previous inserted. The value 1 means that, for a specific period, there isn't any minimum stay set.

Below you can see the fields you can find in the message body and their meanings.

• startdate

  effective date of the period with minimum stay

• enddate

  end date of the period with minimum stay

• nights

  number of nights

• roomtype

  this is an optional field, that you can use if you want to set a specific minimum stay only for a specific room type (and not for all the room types bound to the contract). Parameter which identifies the room type:

• • SGL single room

• • TSU twin for sole use room

    If present, it has to be specified. The TSU doesn't inherit the minimum stay of the TWN.

• • TWN twin room
• • DBL double room
• • TRP triple room
• • QUD quadruple room

• checkindays

  this field has to be set to 0,1,2 etc; the values refer to the days of the week ('MON':0, 'TUE':1, 'WED':2, 'THU':3, 'FRI':4, 'SAT':5, 'SUN':6).

• forced_checkin

  (optional) Boolean (Y/N) value:

  • Y: if True, stays are forced to start in one of the days defined in the minimum stay's checkindays otherwise there won't be any availability
  • N: if False, when a stay does not start in one of the days defined in the minimum stay's checkindays, the minimum stay rule won't be applied

Let’s see an example of message the client could send.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<envelope>
    <header>
        <actor>...</actor>
        <user>...</user>
        <password>...</password>
        <version>1.0.0</version>
        <timestamp>20210808162849</timestamp>
        <transaction>52791</transaction>
    </header>
    <query type="setminimumstay" product="hotel" agrement="1299">
    <!-- new template with night = 3 -->
         <date>
            <startdate>2022-06-10</startdate>
            <enddate>2022-06-25</enddate>
<!-- not mandatory -->
          <roomtype>DBL</roomtype>
            <nights>3</nights>          
            <checkindays>
                <checkinday>0</checkinday>
                <checkinday>1</checkinday>
            </checkindays>
            <forced_checkin>Y</forced_checkin>
        </date>     
    </query>
</envelope>