To setup your pricing, you'll navigate to the Setup - Rates section of the system. There are two parts of the rates setup, Rate Categories & Rate Lists. This article will focus on Rate Categories.
Rate categories are used to define a rental period of time such as hourly, daily, weekly, weekdays, weekends, or holidays. In addition, you can easily edit rate categories and create your own time categories that are more specific such as a 4 hour rental or a 3 day rental.
This article will explain how to:
- Create Rate Categories
- Adding Rates per Category
Create a new Rate Category
To add a new rate category, follow these steps:
- Go to Setup - Rates
- On the left navigation bar, click Rate Categories
- Click the Add category button. You will get a blank rate category ready to be configured.
Fill the in the following fields to setup the rate type.
- Name: this will appear as a column in the Rate List as well as on the Book Now button on the online booking calendar. Give it an appropriate name that coincides with the type of category, i.e. Hourly, Daily, or Weekly.
- Description: (Optional): can describe the category.
- Type: this is the most important part of the setup as it defines how the rate will be charged. Valid options are:
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- Daily - charged a per day (or per night) rate
- Weekdays - charged per standard weekdays (Sun - Thu)
- Weekends - charged per standard weekends (Fri - Sat)
- Holidays - charged over defined holidays
- Weekly - charged per week
- Monthly - charged per month
- Period of time - charged per specific time period set (i.e. 1-3 hours, 1-4 days, or 2 days)
- Day Range - charged daily or nightly based on set days of the week such as Per day on Tue - Thu
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- Display to customers: If choose Auto or Yes, then the rate category will display in the listing on the booking calendar and WebReserv.com
Save the category by clicking Save and continue.
Once you create the Category, you can create additional categories as needed, such as Weekday and Holidays.
Adding Rates per Category
Rate Categories will automatically display in your Rate List. You can edit the Rate List to see the categories, and then enter the price per category. If a category doesn't apply to a certain product, then you can leave the category blank in the Rate List.
