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Beyond Pricing Integration in Mangobeds

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Beyond prices vacation rentals from its own market and demand data, and the Beyond Pricing integration brings those prices straight into Mangobeds. Connect it once and Beyond reads your listings, availability and reservations every day, then sends your nightly rates and minimum stays back to Mangobeds, which pushes them on to your channels through the channel manager.

How the Beyond Pricing integration works

Beyond connects the opposite way round from most apps. Instead of Mangobeds sending data out, Beyond reads it from a private address that belongs to your account:

  1. You give Beyond two values, an API URL and your Mangobeds API key. Nothing else is configured.
  2. Beyond reads your data daily: the accommodations you linked, their availability, their current rates and your reservations.
  3. Beyond sends your new prices back: a nightly rate and a minimum stay for each date, usually a full year ahead.
  4. Mangobeds applies them to your direct booking form and pushes them to your channel manager, so Booking.com, Airbnb and the rest follow within minutes.

Only the accommodations you link are visible to Beyond. Everything else in your property stays private and keeps its normal pricing.

What you need

  • A Mangobeds account with at least one property set up
  • A Beyond account. Visit beyondpricing.com if you do not have one yet
  • A complete address on the property: street, city, postal code and a map location. Beyond needs all four to price a listing

Setting it up

Step 1: Connect Beyond in Mangobeds

Open your property, go to Apps and select Revenue Management. In the Provider dropdown choose Beyond, tick the confirmation that you have read the Beyond guide, and click Connect.

Step 2: Copy your connection details

Click Settings at the top of the Revenue Management section. Under Connection details you will find:

  • API URL: https://api.mangobeds.com/integrations/beyond
  • API key: your organization’s key. If there is none yet, click Create an API key

Treat the key like a password. Anyone holding it can read and change your data, so share it with Beyond and nobody else.

Step 3: Give both values to Beyond

Send the API URL and the API key to your Beyond contact, or paste them where Beyond asks for your property management system connection. Beyond takes it from there and starts reading your listings.

Back in the Revenue Management app you will see every accommodation in the property with a status dot. Click Link next to each one you want Beyond to price. A linked accommodation turns green and reads Connected.

Linking is the opt in. An accommodation that is not linked is invisible to Beyond and keeps your own prices.

Step 5: Set your strategy in Beyond

Your linked accommodations appear as listings in Beyond. Set your base price, your minimum and maximum limits and your strategy there, and Beyond starts sending prices back automatically. That is the whole setup.

Where to see the prices Beyond sends

In the Revenue Management app, each connected accommodation has two buttons:

  • Prices opens a month by month calendar of the nightly rates Beyond has sent
  • Min Stay shows the minimum stay for each date

Use the arrows to move between months. Mangobeds keeps the latest prices Beyond has sent rather than a history of past changes, so your price history stays in Beyond.

What Beyond takes over

For the dates Beyond covers, Beyond is the source of truth:

  • Its nightly rate replaces your seasonal rates and your last minute discounts
  • Its minimum stay replaces your seasonal restrictions
  • Dates Beyond has not priced keep your normal rules

Your long stay discounts and coupons are not affected, and still apply on top for direct bookings. Channel markups also stay where they are, in the channel manager, so a channel priced 10% above direct stays 10% above whatever Beyond sends.

Accommodations with several units

An accommodation with more than one identical unit is published to Beyond as one parent listing with a child listing per unit. Each unit carries its own availability and its own reservations, which keeps Beyond’s view accurate, and the price Beyond returns applies to the whole accommodation.

One provider per property

A property can have one revenue management connection at a time, so Beyond and PriceLabs never run against the same prices. If you manage several properties you can connect Beyond on some and a different provider on others. To switch an existing property over, remove the current integration first and then connect Beyond. The other two options are PriceLabs and Mangobeds AI.

Turning it off

Unlinking one accommodation

  1. Open the property’s Apps section and select Revenue Management
  2. Find the accommodation and click Unlink

It disappears from Beyond on their next read, and your own base and seasonal prices take over again.

Removing the integration

  1. Click Settings at the top of the Revenue Management section
  2. Click Remove App Integration

You can reconnect at any time. If you also want to cut Beyond off from your data, delete the API key next to it, keeping in mind that the same key is used by the Mangobeds API and the AI assistant connection.

Tips

  • Check the address first. A property missing a street, a city, a postal code or a map location is skipped, and Beyond simply never sees those listings.
  • Set your limits in Beyond. Minimum and maximum prices there are your safety net, because whatever Beyond sends goes live on your channels.
  • Link everything you want priced. Beyond works best with the full picture of the property rather than one accommodation out of six.
  • Look at the Prices calendar after the first sync to confirm the rates arriving are the ones you expect.

If you already use Beyond, connecting the Beyond Pricing integration to Mangobeds is a two minute job: pick the provider, copy two values, link your accommodations.

Beyond is one of three pricing options in Mangobeds. See the overview of revenue management software in Mangobeds to compare it with PriceLabs and Mangobeds AI.