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Wheelhouse

E-COMM
Velocity6.3

Wheelhouse turns its pricing engine into an open revenue-management platform

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◆Current state
Wheelhouse is a dynamic-pricing and revenue-management tool for vacation rentals. The last two months read like a platform launch: a full RM API exposing the pricing stack, a wave of new market and neighborhood metrics, a PMS integration, and a developer hackathon. The product is shifting from a pricing app you log into toward infrastructure others build on.
◆Where it's heading
The clear arc is from closed app to open platform. After opening the RM API, Wheelhouse is filling in the data layer with neighborhood benchmarking, market reports, dynamic sets, and last-posted-price reconciliation, while courting builders through an Avantio integration and a hackathon. Product-surface work like check-in/out rules and metric renaming continues in parallel, but the strategic energy is on the API and the data around it.
◆Prediction
Expect the API and its data endpoints to keep expanding, with the July hackathon seeding third-party tools and likely more PMS and channel-manager integrations behind it.

◆Recent moves

  1. 2d ago

    Check-In/Check-Out: Three New Updates

    Bulk check-in/check-out editing, day-of-week rules, calendar display, and time-based seasonal gate rules, all exposed through the API as well. The kind of operational-control depth that keeps the core app sticky while the platform story plays out around it.

  2. 4d ago

    New Metrics Are Live: Neighborhood Occ, Blocked Revenue & More

    Thirteen new and updated metrics, led by neighborhood-occupancy benchmarking and blocked/available revenue, the analytical raw material that the RM API and owner reports increasingly run on. This deepens Wheelhouse's market-context data rather than changing direction.

  3. 5d ago

    Avantio x Wheelhouse Integration

    The Avantio integration extends Wheelhouse's pricing and RM API to professional European operators on Avantio's PMS and channel manager. A distribution move that widens who can build on the platform, consistent with the open-API push.

  4. 15d ago

    RM API: All The Market Data

    Four new RM API endpoint groups, market data, neighborhood data, dynamic sets, and last-posted-price, fill in the data layer behind the pricing stack. The API buildout continuing on a near-daily cadence, turning recommendations-only access into full market context.

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  5. 22d ago

    Wheelhouse's first revenue hackathon, July 21-24, on the RM API

    An event announcement rather than a product change: a July revenue hackathon with $10k in prizes aimed at getting developers building on the new RM API. No capability ships here, but it signals how much Wheelhouse is investing in an external builder ecosystem.

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  6. 25d ago

    Metrics Naming Updates (Live next week!)

    Mostly a structural rename of the metric library toward a base-concept-first naming scheme, but with one substantive change: 'Total Revenue' becomes 'Revenue (+ Fees)' and now excludes security deposits, so reported revenue figures shift. The renaming also sets up the metric expansion that followed.