Who this is for: studio operators (admin panel) · Plan: Professional/Growth · Product: Podyx V2
This is one of the most powerful revenue tools in Podyx. Pricing ranges from simple fixed rates to a full rules engine, and the rules engine is how studios charge more when demand is high, fill the hours that usually sit empty, and reward the clients worth keeping, all automatically. It is the same yield management that hotels and airlines use to make every slot earn its best possible price.
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🔧 Where to find it
Admin Panel → Pricing Rules
📷 Screenshot: the Pricing Rules page, to add.
🔀 Turn it on
Use the Dynamic pricing toggle to switch the engine on (turn it off to revert to base prices). Your fixed prices stay the baseline that everything builds on.
🧩 The kinds of rules
Duration-based: different rates by session length.
Condition-based: peak or off-peak by time of week or demand.
Customer-specific: negotiated rates for particular clients, applied automatically.
Loyalty: automatic adjustments for returning customers.
Per-slot overrides: a one-off price for a specific time slot.
💰 Ways studios use it to make more
Charge more at peak. Friday evenings and prime hours sell out anyway, so price them higher and capture the demand you were leaving on the table.
Fill the dead hours. Auto-discount slow mornings and mid-week slots so idle time turns into paid time instead of empty rooms.
Rescue last-minute gaps. Drop the price on soon-to-expire empty slots to win a booking you would otherwise lose entirely.
Lock in B2B and VIP deals. Customer-specific rates apply a negotiated price automatically, with no manual discounts or codes to remember.
Reward loyalty without thinking about it. Returning clients get their better rate on their own, which keeps them coming back to you.
Nudge longer sessions. Make the per-hour rate better for longer bookings to lift your average session length.
⚖️ How rules combine
When more than one rule applies, Podyx resolves them into a single clear final price. The Discount order setting controls how surcharges and discounts stack: discounts at the end (surcharges build a subtotal, then the discount comes off) or discounts first (off the base, then surcharges on top). Whatever you choose, the client always sees one definite price.
🧠 Why it matters
Most studios price one flat way and leave money everywhere: peak demand under-charged, off-peak rooms empty, loyal clients treated the same as strangers. Dynamic pricing fixes all of that from one screen. It lifts revenue per booking, fills capacity that was sitting idle, and grows total bookings, which is why it is worth getting right.
⚠️ Start simple
Add one rule at a time (say, a peak-hours surcharge), run a test booking, and confirm the final price reads the way you expect before layering on more.
✅ Summary
Keep fixed prices as your baseline, then add peak, off-peak, last-minute, loyalty, customer-specific, duration, and per-slot rules to price by demand. One feature to optimize pricing, fill idle time, and grow revenue.
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