About the availability limit yield rule
An availability limit yield rule allows you to limit the availability of certain room types on selected channels at any given time. The availability limit can be set as an amount or percentage.
Use an availability limit yield rule to:
Restrict how many rooms a flash sale, wholesale, or partner channel can access at any given time.
Allocate a fixed room contingent to a specific channel without affecting availability on your other channels.
Reduce the risk of overselling your lowest-return rates or overbookings from bulk accommodation purchases.
Once a room is booked on the limited channel, the allocation tops back up to your set limit automatically — as long as total availability still exists.
💡 If your property management system (PMS) sends availability to SiteMinder, you can still apply an availability limit yield rule to cap how many rooms a specific channel receives, while your other channels continue to receive your full live availability.
➕ For example:
You have a Double room with an availability of 10
You want to send only three rooms at a time to a specific channel
You could set an availability limit of three on that channel. When the channel sells a room, the allocation automatically tops back up to three.
How to set up an availability limit
To limit the number of rooms sent to a specific channel:
Go to Distribution > Yield rules.
Click on the Add yield rule button.
Select Availability limit - Amount or Availability limit - Percentage as the rule type.
Add the Rule name — for internal reference only.
Select all the room types the rule should apply to.
Set the Availability limit. This will be the maximum number/percentage of rooms that your selected channels are able to sell simultaneously.
Select the channels the rule will apply to.
Set applicable dates for the rule to apply. You can set all dates or selected dates and/or days of the week.
Click Save.
⚠️ The availability limit applies at the room type level, not the rate plan level.