# Calendar

> Every night across every room, with prices, minimum stays and availability editable straight on the grid.

Source: https://docs.santara.ai/daily/calendar/

Rooms down the left, dates across the top, stays drawn as bars. Scroll sideways to load more dates;
free nights show their price.

![The calendar: every room down the left, every night across the top. Free nights show the price they will sell at.](/screens/calendar.en.png)

## Reading it

- **A bar** is a reservation. Its colour tells you the channel; its label shows the guest and the
  revenue.
- **A free night** shows the nightly price that will be charged for it.
- **A striped block** is a ticket scheduled over those dates — a repair, a deep clean, an owner
  stay.
- **Click a day** for the day list: everything moving on that date, arrivals and departures
  together.

## Editing a range

Select a range of nights on a room and you get three actions:

**Book these nights for a guest** — create a reservation by hand. Use it for a direct booking taken
over the phone, an owner stay, or a friend. Manual reservations block the nights on every connected
channel just like a real one.

**Schedule maintenance or a job** — opens a [ticket](/daily/tasks/#tickets) over those dates and
draws it here.

**Price, min stay or close the dates** — the availability editor:

| Field | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| **Price** | The nightly rate for those nights, on the selected rate plan |
| **Minimum stay** | The shortest booking that may start on those nights |
| **Closed** | Nobody can book those nights on any channel |

Everything you save here is pushed to the connected channels. There is no separate "publish" step.

## Prices and the pricing engine

A price you type here is a **manual price**, and the [pricing engine](/money/pricing/) leaves it
alone — unless you have explicitly turned on *Replace prices I typed by hand* for that listing,
which overwrites with no undo.

That is the whole relationship: rules set the shape of the year, your hand wins on the nights you
touched.

## Availability and unit count

A room can never offer more nights than its **unit count**. If a room is one apartment its unit
count is 1, and availability is capped there on the calendar, on the way out to the channel, and in
what you can type. A room representing eight identical units has a count of 8 and sells them
independently.

If the calendar shows less availability than you expected, check the room's unit count first.

## Closing dates is how you pause

To stop selling — a renovation, an owner's stay, a season off — **close the dates** here. Do not
disconnect the channel: that removes your imported history and does not stop the listing existing
on the channel.

## Blocks that came from the channel

A block made on Airbnb or in the Booking.com extranet before you went live is imported and shown.
Once live, make blocks here — the channel's own calendar is now downstream of this one.