Within the platform, you have the option of restriction modes (Tactical or Strategic) and restriction levels (Bucket or Rate Plan).
What do these terms mean?
Strategic Restriction - Think of this as a rate plan definition. For example, your Weekly discount rate is defined by a min7 requirement, or your weekend package is always CTA for Saturdays. If a restriction would be part of a rate plan configuration in another system, it belongs in your Strategic Restrictions.
Tactical Restrictions - These are restrictions you place to optimize stay patterns and increase revenue. These are also the only restrictions our engine interacts with. These are your LOS restrictions over peak nights, or the CTA you place on a day with an extra-high number of checkouts.
Rate Plan Bucket - This is an aggregated group of rate plans that your team restricts uniformly. Restrictions applied to a bucket will apply to any new rate plan added to the bucket.
Rate Plan - An individual rate plan is the most granular level you can restrict.
How are effective restrictions determined?
Within each restriction mode, the most specific restriction wins. We consider rate plan restrictions as more specific than bucket restrictions. What this means for you is simple management at the bucket level with the ability to apply specific, tactical restrictions to a subset of rate plans within it.
Importantly, this also allows your team to quickly and easily implement manual restriction strategy at the bucket level, while still benefiting from the precision of the restrictions engine at the rate plan level.
Between each restriction mode, the most restrictive wins. After determining the effective strategic and tactical restrictions based on the most selective logic above, the system will consider whether the strategic or tactical is more restrictive when making this final determination. This means your strategic (rate plan defining) restrictions will never be overridden by a less restrictive tactical restriction.