Pricing: Check your price accuracy

In the “Accuracy” tab, you can review your price accuracy report, which includes your price accuracy score, recent trends in your score, and the most recent itineraries evaluated by Google from your prices. Use this report to help ensure adherence to Google's Price Accuracy Policy and Taxes and Fees Policy or determine potential sources of price discrepancies.

To view your price accuracy score:

In your Hotel Center account, go to the left navigation menu and click Pricing.
Click the Accuracy tab.

Understanding your price accuracy report

Your current and predicted score

Trend graphs

Recent price samples

The table at the bottom of the page shows the most recent itineraries evaluated by Google. You can also filter the view by columns and download the sample data as CSV.

Column name	Description
Hotel ID	The unique ID for the hotel that you use in your hotel list
Check in	The first day of the itinerary, in YYYY-MM-DD format
Nights	The number of days for the itinerary
Report Date	The date your price accuracy was evaluated by Google
Date (retrieved)	The date and time that Google retrieved the price from your website
Rate (retrieved)	The price retrieved from your website. The value is given in the currency displayed in the "Currency (retrieved)" column.
Base rate (retrieved)	The price per night of the given itinerary that Google retrieved directly from your website
Taxes + fees (retrieved)	The total amount of taxes and fees that Google retrieved from your website for the given itinerary. Google compares this value to the provided taxes and fees to determine if your taxes and fees are accurately displayed in Hotel Center as compared to your website.
Currency (retrieved)	A 3-letter currency code representing the currency that the retrieved price and taxes and fees are given in
Date (feed)	The date and time that Google received and stored the provided price.
Rate (feed)	A representation of the provided price, calculated based on the “Rate type (feed)”. The value is given in the currency displayed in the "Currency (feed)" column.
Base rate (feed)	The price per night of the given itinerary that you provided to Google. Google compares this value to the retrieved price to determine if your prices are accurately displayed in Hotel Center as compared to your website.
Taxes + fees (feed)	The total amount of taxes and fees that Google has for the given itinerary. Google gets this value from its data cache, which contains the taxes and fees that you provided.
Currency (feed)	A 3-letter currency code representing the currency that the provided price and taxes and fees are given in
Rate type (feed)	The parameters used to determine the "Rate (feed)". Possible values are: Base Base per night Base + X% VAT Base + X% VAT per night Total Total per night
Price freshness	The "Date (retrieved)" minus "Date (feed)", in hours.
Advance booking window	The "Date (retrieved)" minus "Check in", in days.
Total price deviation	The difference between the provided price (including taxes and fees) and the retrieved price (including taxes and fees). A positive percentage indicates that the total retrieved price is greater than the total provided price.
Base price deviation	The difference between the provided price and the retrieved price. A positive percentage indicates that the retrieved price is greater than the provided price.
Taxes and fees deviation	The difference between the provided taxes and fees and the retrieved taxes and fees. A positive percentage indicates that the retrieved taxes and fees value is greater than the provided taxes and fees value.
Method	This shows how prices were retrieved.
Price match	This shows whether the provided price matches the retrieved price.
Rate rule ID	The defined rate rule ID for conditional rates from your rate rule definition file
Hotel location	This indicates where the hotel is located.
Device type	The end-user's device type
Affects score	Whether or not the price accuracy check impacted your overall score. Any validations published as being "Affects score = ‘No’" are strictly for debugging purposes and providing more granularity to your Price Accuracy health.
Landing page	The landing page (formerly point of sale) URL that was accessed for this booking.
Final domain	The retrieved domain of your final booking page.
Room ID	The `RoomID` provided in your `RoomData` transaction message.
Package ID	The `PackageID` provided in your `PackageData` transaction message. This will be linked to a `RoomID`.
Promo code	The `PromotionID` we found linked to your feed price. This is provided via the Promotions API in ARI pricing messages.
Source (feed)	The feed source from which Google received the provided price. For example, "Live query".
Date (corrected)	The date and time Google received a new price matching the retrieved price. We only monitor prices for 24 hours after the initial mismatch.
Brand	The brand for your hotel as defined using the “hotel_brand” field in your Hotel List Feed

Price coverage

The "Coverage" tab shows your coverage of cached prices across all supported hotel-itinerary combinations for each of your matched hotel's check-in dates and lengths of stay. This report, updated daily, currently supports up to 330 days of your advance booking window and up to 30 days for the length of stay.

To view your price coverage report:

In your Hotel Center account, go to the left navigation menu and click Pricing.
Click the Coverage tab.

Cached price coverage

The cached price coverage report shows a percentage value that indicates your coverage of cached prices across hotel-itinerary combinations for your advertised hotel's check-in dates and lengths of stay (from 0-330 days in advance and 1-30 nights long). The report displays the following columns:

Advance booking window: The number of days in advance the end-user wants to book the hotel. The rows are grouped by 30-day spans. The maximum number of advance days is 330. It's calculated based on the date in the hotel’s time zone when the request is made.
Length of stay: The number of nights the end-user has selected to stay for. The columns are grouped by 7-day spans. The maximum number of nights is 30.

You can sort by the "Advance booking window" and the 4 lengths of stay in ascending or descending order by clicking the header of each column.

Note: Clicking on each value within the table will display a more detailed graph with additional data points.

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