Do (weekly) custom prices override smart pricing?

[Louise-And-Matt0]

Hi everyone, happy new year.  I havent seen any other threads that explicitly answer this question, if you know of any please send me a link.

I want to set custom prices for certain weeks but am happy for smart pricing to do it's thing for the other weeks.  If I turn smart pricing on will it override my custom weekly prices, or will the custom weekly prices override smart pricing?

Thank you

[Louise-And-Matt0]

Update: I have four different listings, it appears that the custom weekly price I have set for one listing is being applied to all of my listings, which is wrong as they are for different properties - has anyone come across this and found a way of fixing it?  Thanks again 

[Louise-And-Matt0]

All - I also raised these questions to the Airbnb helpdesk and the incredibly helpful @Ed very quickly gave me these answers which he said I could re-post here - hope it helps you too:

"...You can use a Rule Set to set a custom discount for a specified period for specific listings.  In order to use Rule Sets, you have to activate Professional Tools first.  Here is a link that describes the what and how of the Pro Tools

https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/2499

Here's information on how Rule Sets work and how to implement them.

https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/2061/how-do...

https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/2062/how-do...

..."

[Ann72]

@Louise-And-Matt0  Thank you for the helpful links.  I don't know if Ed told you that pricing Rule Sets don't work with Smart Pricing.  Have you found that to be the case?

[Louise-And-Matt0]

Hi Ann, that's right. We have been using this for a couple of weeks now and have found we have to turn off smart pricing, set a nightly rate, then apply the rules to adjust the rate up or down for certain dates/properties.  The calendar shows the prices after the rules have been applied. We noticed that sometimes it takes up to a few days for the calendar to catch up with any changes made to the nightly price but now it's settled down it's been working fine 👍