Q191: How do I use advanced conditions in Pricing Manager?

First of all, please see Q181 if you'd like to find out how Pricing Manager works.

Advanced conditions allow for the final price to depend on multiple conditions. For example, let's say you have seasonal pricing (high/low) and you want to add an extra price for each additional person (above 2) but this price needs to depend on the season (bigger increase in high season). To accomplish this, you'd first enter the rules that define the season and then the rules that define how the price changes with the number of extra persons:

Rule	Apt A	Advanced condition	Comment
1. Default price	100 USD per day		High season is the default
2. Date: January 1-May 1	USD 80 per day		First period of the low season
3. Date: August 1-December 31	USD 80 per day		Second period of the low season
4. Additional persons present (>2)	+25 USD per person	Apply this rule only if ANY of the following rules were applied: 2, 3	This is the extra person price for the low season, so we want to apply the price if conditions in one of the low-season rules were matching
5. Additional persons present (>2)	+35 USD per person	Apply this rule only if NONE of the following rules were applied: 2, 3	Extra persons price in high season (meaning conditions for neither rule 2 nor 3 can be matching)

As you can see by specifying multiple rules (separated by commas) in the advanced condition you can formulate even very complex pricing rules.