By default, Nightly Rates is available for your organisation; however, in Settings -> Organisation Configuration, you can enable Weekly and Monthly Rates as well.
Please note that only Nightly Rate Plans and Rates can be mapped with OTAs at the moment.
Weekly and Monthly Rate Plans and Rates can only be applied to your Zeevou booking engine (website) for direct bookings. These plans help you to create promotions for the longer stays.
How to create a Rate Plan?
1. Navigate to Listings -> Unit Types, open the Unit Type you want to work on and click on the Rate Plan tab. Then click on the Add button
2. In the opened page, you need to choose a Name, specify the Type, set the Min Guests(included in the price), Rate Currency, Default Price, Extra Guest Fee, and Security Deposit Amount. Based on the type of the rate plan, Min Stay gets populated automatically. For Max Stay, the maximum possible stay is 999 days which can be reduced if you wish to. Please choose the Property and Unit Type. Also, a Description of the Rate Plan can be added.
If you are creating a Nightly Rate plan, you will have two different fields regarding Weekday Pricing and Weekend Pricing. The Weekend days will be automatically read from Organisation Configuration and you can customize them based on your country.
While creating monthly or/and weekly rate plans, you will only have default prices instead of the two fields mentioned above.
3. Please note that only one Rate Plan can be Marked As Default for each Unit Type.
Default Rate Plan will be suggested automatically by the system when you are creating a booking.
4. Then you need to specify where the rate plan should send the rates to: Channels, and/or Booking Engine (website), and/or Admin access.
Please note that only Nightly Rate Plans can be selected for Channels.
5. Finally, click on Save and Close button on top right of the page.
How to set Rates?
In Pricing -> Rates, you can create new rates for specified nights/weeks/months. The new rates will override all your previously created rate plans in Property, Unit Type, and Rate Plans. Before clicking on Create button, please make sure you have chosen the right Rate Plan Type (Nightly/ Weekly/ Monthly).
Note: The Create button for weekly or monthly will be available only when you have created at lease one weekly or monthly rate plan in your Unit Type or Rate Plans.
Creating Nightly Rates:
1. To create rates for your Nightly Rate Plans, in Pricing -> Rates, choose Nightly type on top left.
2. Click on Create Nightly Rate button.
3. In the opened page, you need to Select the nightly rate plan that you wish to define rates for in the left column.
Note: The rates of the selected rate plans will be overridden by the rates you set in the right column.
4. In the right column, you need to fill From and To fields.
The data you insert in fields: Rate, Extra Guest Rate, Min Stay, and Max Stay will be applied for all selected nights. Also, you if you tick Close To Arrival, Close to Departure, and Stop Sell, all selected nights will be affected.
Otherwise, you can customise Rate, Extra Guest Rate, Min Stay, and Max Stay for each day of a week separately by inserting data in the related boxes of that days. In addition, you can determine whether you would like a specific day of a week preferred to be Closed To Arrival, and/or Close To Departure, and/or Stop Sell.
Notes:
If you check Closed To Arrival, guests’ arrivals cannot be set for the selected day of week in the selected From-To.
If you check Closed To Departure, guests’ departures cannot be set for the selected day of week in the selected From-To.
If you check Stop Sell, guests cannot book the selected day of week in the selected From-To.
5. At the right bottom of the page, there is an Add button that let you create another set of details for the same Rate plan.
6. Finally, click on Save and Close button on top right.
Creating Monthly Rates:
1. To create rates for your Monthly Rate Plans, in Pricing -> Rates, choose Monthly type on top left.
2. Click on Create Monthly Rate button.
3. In the opened page, you need to Select the monthly rate plan that you wish to define rates for in the left column.
Note: The rates of the selected rate plans will be overridden by the rates you set in the right column.
Since this is a Monthly rate, the rates of the whole selected months will be overridden.
4. In the right column, you need to fill From and To fields (that will include at lease one month).
The data you insert in three below fields: Rate, Extra Guest Rate, Min Stay, and Max Stay will be applied for all selected months. Also, you if you tick Close To Arrival, Close to Departure, and Stop Sell, all selected months will be affected.
Otherwise, you can customise Rate, Extra Guest Rate, Min Stay, and Max Stay for each month separately by inserting data in the related boxes of that month. In addition, you can determine whether you would like a specific month preferred to be Closed To Arrival, and/or Close To Departure, and/or Stop Sell.
Notes:
If you check Closed To Arrival, guests’ arrivals cannot be set for the selected month in the selected From-To.
If you check Closed To Departure, guests’ departures cannot be set for the selected months in the selected From-To.
If you check Stop Sell, guests cannot book the selected months in the selected From-To.
5. At the right bottom of the page, there is an Add button that let you create another set of details for the same Rate plan.
6. Finally, click on Save and Close button on top right.
