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The Recommendations Tab
What every column means, why a date might be Blocked, and how to bulk approve, reject, and publish price changes.
What the Recommendations tab is for
The Recommendations tab is the detailed, line-by-line list behind every pricing decision Bnbflight makes. If the Home tab and Calendar tab tell you what's happening, the Recommendations tab tells you why — and it's where you review and act on individual price changes.
What each column shows
For every date, the Recommendations tab shows:
- Baseline price — what PriceLabs alone would have charged for that date, without Bnbflight's adjustments. This gives you a point of comparison for every recommendation.
- Recommended price — the price Bnbflight recommends after applying its own pricing model and safety checks.
- Percent change — the difference between the baseline price and Bnbflight's recommended price, shown as a percentage, so you can quickly see how big an adjustment is being proposed.
- Confidence bar — a visual indicator of how sure Bnbflight's model is about this particular recommendation. A higher confidence generally means the model has stronger data or a clearer pattern to base the price on.
- Estimated dollar impact — the estimated effect of the change in real dollars, helping you understand not just the percentage shift but what it's likely to mean for your revenue.
- Approval status — one of three statuses, explained below.
Understanding approval status
Every recommended date carries one of three statuses:
- Auto-approved — this date cleared every safety check. If your Autopilot mode is set to Automatic, an auto-approved change will publish to PriceLabs on its own, with no clicks needed from you.
- Blocked — this date failed a safety check and will not publish, no matter what your Autopilot mode is set to. Bnbflight shows you the reason it was blocked, so you can understand exactly what rule stopped it. Safety checks are covered in full on the Autopilot and Safety Governor page, but common reasons include the change being too large, the date falling too close to check-in, or the date being on your protected list.
- Pending — this date is waiting on a human decision. It hasn't failed a safety check, but it also isn't cleared to publish automatically — it needs you to approve or reject it.
Every price Bnbflight ever proposes, in any Autopilot mode, has to pass the safety governor's rules first. There's no way around that layer — it's the same set of checks whether a date ends up Auto-approved, Blocked, or Pending.
Filtering and bulk actions
To make reviewing easier, you can filter the list to show only:
- Changed dates
- Pending dates
- Blocked dates
- All dates
You can also select multiple dates at once and Approve or Reject them in bulk, rather than clicking through one date at a time. This is especially handy after a pricing run touches a large number of dates and you want to clear your Pending list quickly.
Review & Publish
Once you've approved the changes you want, use the Review & Publish button to send those approved changes to PriceLabs. This is the step that actually pushes your decisions live. Reviewing before publishing gives you a final checkpoint to confirm exactly what's about to change before it reaches PriceLabs and, from there, Airbnb.