Full day or 24hr mode
How do you define a day's rental in your business?
There are 2 ways to do this:
24 Hour Mode
Some people have a policy that you can rent a bike from this time today until this time tomorrow, for a fixed price.
e.g.
14:00 Wednesday -> 14:00 Thursday = 1 day price (which is really your 24hr price*)
* of course you're really saying you'll give them up to 24hrs for the same price, for many reasons they may want to return early like:
14:00 Wednesday -> 11:00 Thursday = 1 day price (or your 24hr price)
Full Day Mode
Other people treat each day independently. e.g.:
14:00 Wednesday -> 14:00 Thursday = 2 day price - Weds & Thurs.
This counts as 2 full days of hire.
You set this in your settings here, in the Application Configuration panel:
System -> Settings -> Shop Setup tab -> Application Configuration:
This setting has a couple of implications:
- Firstly on the time-range when checking availability
- Secondly on the pricing
For example if I have 24hr mode set, and I go to make a reservation I will see the following:
Please Note - in this mode a 3 day rental spans 4 days.
- First of all you will note that you have the 24hr radio button available to allow you to select in that mode. If you ever want to rent for just a full day, or half-day try pressing those radio buttons.
- The second thing you'll note is that a different pricing model is applied if you have 24 hour mode.
For example if you make a reservation that spans 2 days, but is still less than 24hrs it will simply apply the 1 day rate.
If you don't want 24hr mode, then simply choose full mode.
What about durations less than 1 day?
okay, so hopefully you now understand the distinction between full & 24hr modes. But what if you want to have one price for up to 8 hours and then another price for 24hrs. No problem.This is taken care of in the pricing of your fleet. You define your pricing profile for each price group. A price group is simply a way of pricing up your assets, and you can assign as many assets as you like to a price group.
For example, lets say I want price UP TO 8 hours, and then another price from 8-24 hrs.
you simply add a price for 8hours, that is less than the 1 day price. In the above example 8 hours is the shortest duration we recognise.
However what if you want even shorter like the following?
here, we are saying that we let people rent:
- upto 4 hours for 14 USD
- upto 8 hours for 20 USD
- upto 24 hours for 25 USD
- upto 48 hours for 40 USD
And you define your pricing profile in your settings here:
System -> Settings -> Shop Setup tab -> Application Configuration:
In the above example we're saying that we want to set prices for up to 4 and up to 8 hours.
(as well as price points for 1 to 14 days, and 30 days)
See also:
visual indicator for billable day