Demand & rate signals for independent hotels
Losing money because you’re priced under or over the hotels on your street?
Get one email every morning on the pricing signals around you — who sold out, who raised, who cut, and where your rate now sits against their comparable rooms. Move your price while the night is still sellable, instead of finding out from a booking calendar that only records what you already sold.
Built for small and mid-size hotels and Airbnbs running without a costly revenue management system.
Thu 27 Aug · Queen rooms
You, 33% under ▼
Oak Creek has nothing left for tonight; its bar is the $249 it charged yesterday. The other two still have rooms — and both are pricier than you.
Fri 28 Aug · Queen rooms
You, 12% over ▲
Everyone still has rooms and two of the three now sit below you. You raised for the weekend; the street did not follow as far.
Same hotels, one night apart, drawn to one scale. This is what a Rate Board email tells you in words.
The product
This email is the entire thing.
Not a price list. Every night we re-check which rooms are still bookable at each hotel near you, compare it to yesterday, and tell you what moved. Below is a full email, nothing trimmed.
Rate Board
The Ridgeline Inn · Sedona, AZ
Thursday, 27 August 2026
Demand building ▲
Thu 27 Aug: 2 of your 3 competitors tightened. Canyon Rim Lodge sold out its Accessible King Room; Oak Creek House raised its rate 36% to $249. You have not moved: still $142.
Underpriced for similar rooms ▼
Thu 27 Aug: your Queen Room with Garden View at $142 is 33% under comparable rooms at Canyon Rim Lodge, Mesa Vista Inn and Oak Creek House — together around $212.
Sold out
Sun 23 Aug: Oak Creek House is fully booked — it was $195 yesterday. Last bookable: Deluxe King Room. 2 of your 3 competitors still have rooms.
Market raised rates ▲
Fri 28 Aug: 3 competitors moved up — Canyon Rim Lodge +18%, Mesa Vista Inn +26%, Oak Creek House +12%. You are at $261, now 12% over them.
Cheapest similar room nearby ▼
Sun 23 Aug: your Queen Room with Garden View at $123 is the cheapest comparable room nearby. Nearest is Mesa Vista Inn at $172 — 40% above you.
Comparable rooms · Thu 27 Aug
Matched by room type. Rooms we can’t confidently match are left out.
| Queen Room with Garden View | $142 | −33% |
| Canyon Rim Lodge · Queen Room | $190 | |
| Mesa Vista Inn · Queen Room, Garden | $198 | |
| Oak Creek House · Queen Room | $249 |
| King Room with Balcony | $206 | −18% |
| Canyon Rim Lodge · King Room | $224 | |
| Mesa Vista Inn · King Balcony | $241 | |
| Oak Creek House · King Room | $288 |
Tonight and the next 6 nights
Cheapest available room at each property — which may not be the same class of room.
| Night | You | Canyon Rim | Mesa Vista | Oak Creek |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun 23 Aug | $123 | $190 | $172 | — |
| Mon 24 Aug | $142 | $190 | $172 | $195 |
| Tue 25 Aug | $163 | $190 | $184 | $241 |
| Wed 26 Aug | $142 | $190 | $162 | $263 |
| Thu 27 Aug | $142 | $190 | $162 | $249 |
| Fri 28 Aug | $261 | $224 | $232 | $295 |
| Sat 29 Aug | $245 | $224 | $241 | $261 |
Biggest differences ahead
Your room against the middle rate of every comparable room nearby, allowing for what each property normally charges.
| Night | Room | You | Nearby | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 11 Sep | Queen Room with Garden Viewcompared with 3 rooms at Mesa Vista Inn, Canyon Rim Lodge | $198 | $328 | −40% |
| Sat 19 Sep | King Room with Balconycompared with 2 rooms at Mesa Vista Inn | $246 | $386 | −36% |
| Fri 18 Sep | Queen Room with Garden Viewcompared with 2 rooms at Oak Creek House | $198 | $286 | −31% |
| Sat 12 Sep | King Room with Balconycompared with 3 rooms at Mesa Vista Inn, Canyon Rim Lodge | $246 | $346 | −29% |
Checked 27 Aug 2026, 04:12 local · see every rate as we found it
We report what the other hotels charge. We don’t tell you what to charge.
A complete Rate Board email. Real Sedona rate levels and real report structure — hotel names changed.
Comparable rooms
A queen with a garden view is not a two-bedroom casita.
Rate-shopping tools usually put the cheapest room at your hotel next to the cheapest room at theirs — a single against a suite — and call the difference a gap. Rate Board matches room to room by class, beds and view, then compares only what lines up.
Queen Room, Garden View $142
Queen Room · Canyon Rim $190
Queen Room, Garden · Mesa Vista $198
Queen Room · Oak Creek $249
King Room with Balcony $206
King Room · Canyon Rim $224
King Balcony · Mesa Vista $241
Two-Bedroom Casita $395
Nothing comparable nearby — left out of today’s comparison.
Your rooms on the left, what they were matched against on the right.
A room we can’t match with confidence is dropped, never guessed.
What it watches
Eight things worth interrupting your morning for.
And if none of them happened, the email says exactly that. You’ll get that email often, and it’s the one that earns the rest.
Demand building
Half the hotels near you lost rooms or raised rates on the same night. That date is worth a second look.
Overpriced for similar rooms
Your room against their genuinely comparable room — not their cheapest against your best.
Underpriced for similar rooms
The same comparison the other way, on a night that’s already filling around you.
Market raised rates
Three or more hotels moved the same way on the same night. A market shift, not one manager’s decision.
Competitor dropped rate
One hotel moved sharply on its own. Three moving together is a market; one moving alone is a choice.
Sold out
A hotel that was bookable yesterday has nothing left today. The change is the signal, not the absence.
New 30-day low
Someone near you hit their cheapest rate in a month. Usually the first sign of a soft week.
Cheapest room nearby
Nobody with a comparable room is undercutting you. Worth knowing before you discount.
How it runs
Set up once, on a phone call.
01
You name the hotels you compete with.
Not a guess from a map. You know who you actually lose bookings to, and that list is the whole setup. Change it any time from a link in the email.
02
We check their rates every night.
Tonight and the next six nights, the next four Fridays and Saturdays, plus the far-out dates and holidays that matter. Two adults, one night, lowest flexible rate — asked the same way every night, so the comparison holds.
03
The email lands at 06:30.
Before you start making pricing decisions. Every rate links through to how we found it, so you can check us on any number you don’t believe.
What it isn’t
We report. You price.
Rate Board never tells you what to charge. Every line in the email is a plain statement about another hotel, or about the gap — because you know your property, your guests and your costs, and we don’t.
Start here
One free week. Then you decide.
Seven mornings of real emails on the hotels you actually compete with. No card, no contract, nothing to install. Start either way.
Talk it through · 15 minutes
Pick a time and tell us your hotel. We’ll have pulled your competitors’ rates before we speak, and walk you through where you’re under, where you’re over, and what moved this week. No slides.
Book a 15-minute call
Or just send links
Email us two things and skip the call entirely:
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- The Booking.com or Airbnb link to your property
- The same links for the 4–5 properties you compete with
Not sure who to list? Send the ones you lose bookings to, or just your own link — we’ll suggest nearby properties and you confirm them before anything starts.