The check compared Newbook's FIRST tariff (typically flexi B&B) against
Booking.com's lead-in card (often prepaid) — apples vs oranges, e.g.
21 Jul flagged B&B FLEX £289 vs a prepaid BC rate whose true comparable
was B&B PPAY £279.
- classify Newbook tariffs from names/descriptions (PPAY/prepay/advance/
ADV/NRF/saver = prepaid; DBB/dinner/half board = dinner-inclusive)
- use the scraped BC rate's flags (free_cancellation/no_prepayment/
breakfast_included) to pick the cheapest COMPARABLE tariff per date,
excluding tariffs not bookable for that date (success=false, min-stay
>1, unmet advance-purchase windows)
- tiered fallback (matched -> any non-dinner -> any -> legacy headline),
recorded per alert in room_category as 'TARIFF vs BC basis'
- shared gather_comparisons() now drives both the daily job and
GET /competitors/parity (issues gain newbook_tariff, booking_basis,
match_quality, expected_rate)
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- config: parity_markup_value/_unit + parity_tolerance_value/_unit
(pct|gbp), legacy *_pct keys still read as fallback
- expected rate = newbook + £X or newbook × (1 + X%); breach test uses
the tolerance in its own unit
- Settings parity tab: unit selects + live worked example line
- Parity Alerts tab: unit-aware description, badge now shows £ deviation
alongside %
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Parity was read-only — the alerts table had no producer, so the Market
View badge could never fire. Now:
- jobs/check_rate_parity.py: daily 06:45 job comparing own Booking.com
lead-in rate vs cheapest Newbook rate per date, measured against an
EXPECTED markup (we deliberately price Booking.com higher to cover
commission): alert when deviation from newbook*(1+markup%) exceeds the
tolerance. Creates/updates active alerts, auto-resolves dates back in
line, leaves acknowledged dates alone.
- config keys: parity_check_enabled, parity_expected_markup_pct,
parity_tolerance_pct (system_config)
- POST /competitors/parity/check manual trigger; GET /parity now uses the
same markup/tolerance and cheapest-across-categories Newbook rate
- Settings -> Rate Parity tab: markup %, tolerance %, enable toggle,
run-now with result summary
- Market View -> Parity Alerts tab: status-filtered list w/ acknowledge
- Market View -> Hotels: direct-link dropdown per competitor (new PUT
/competitors/hotels/{id}/direct-link) — closes the never-written
direct_hotel_id gap so the matrix direct-rates sub-row can populate
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