A flexible online booking system and availability calendar for your holiday rental property or agency or your B&B

Booking Rates and Calculations

Click to open tabChanging Rental Rates

To update your rental rates for future bookings, choose the ‘Amend Rental Rates/Seasons’ from the Admin Menu/Properties. You can change the ‘Season Rate’ and/or change the dates that a ‘Season’ applies to.

A Season Rate is a rate that will apply to one or more times of the year. You can have up to five different season rates per property and this can be increased up to 10 for a small additional fee. For each Season you can set a daily rate, a weekly rate, a weekend (or short break) rate or any combination of the three.
(Please see below for further details of how the system applies daily, weekend and weekly rates).

You then apply a Season Rate to a date or range of dates. The same Season Rate can be used multiple times/dates throughout the year. You do not need to use all five season rates. Simply leave unused ones with a 0.00 rental rate. If you wish to remove a rental rate that you no longer need, update the weekly rate to minus 1 (ie -1).

Recommendation: Once at the Rental Rates page, choose your Rate Season from the drop down box before completing any other options.

Click to open tabDaily or Weekly Rental Rates

These are adminstered from Property Options on Admin Menu/Properties.

For each Season, you can set either a daily rate only, a weekly rate only or you can set both the daily and weekly rate.

In all cases you can also set an optional 'Weekend' rate which will apply a different rate for certain days of the week when the stay is less than the number of days you specify. You can select which days of the week these are so, although called a 'Weekend' rate, it could be used for any short-break rate on any days of the week if you wish. See the table below for more details.

You have the option to display your rates on your calendar/availability page as daily or weekly figures.

If you have set Rental & Deposit calcualations to 'on' (see Change System Options on Admin/Systems tab) the system will calculate rental and deposit figures as follows:

Daily and Weekly Rentals Rate calculation
Rates input Booking Up to the Weekend/Short Break days
limit you have set
6 days or less 7 days Over 7 days
Daily only Daily rate per day Daily rate per day Daily rate x 7 Daily rate per day
Weekly only Weekly rate divided by 7, per day Weekly rate divided by 7, per day Weekly rate Weekly rate divided by 7, per day
Both daily and weekly Daily rate per day
(but total not exceeding weekly rate)
Daily rate per day
(but total not exceeding weekly rate)
Weekly rate Weekly rate divided by 7, per day
Daily with Weekend Weekend rate for each day you have set as applying + daily rate for any others Daily rate per day
Daily rate x 7 Daily rate per day
Weekly with Weekend Weekend rate for each day you have set as applying + weekly rate divided by 7 for each other day Weekly rate divided by 7, per day Weekly rate Weekly rate divided by 7, per day
Daily, Weekend and Weekly Weekend rate for each day you have set as applying + daily rate for any others Daily rate per day
(but total not exceeding weekly rate)
Weekly rate Weekly rate divided by 7, per day

Where a booking spans two different Rate Seasons, the calculation will apply the correct rate season individually to each day of the booking.

Click to open tabRounding of rates, deposits and balances

When the system calculates rates, deposits or balances you can apply a rounding to the resulting figure so that it meets the level of accuracy you require. This is set from the Change System Options on Admin Menu/System. The default is Normal Rounding 0.01.

You have the choice of rounding to the nearest whole number (1.00), the nearest 0.10 or the nearest 0.01. You can also choose to always round up to the next 1.00, 0.10 or 0.01 or always round down to the last 1.00, 0.10 or .01
(Please see the table below for some worked examples)

Effects of Rounding on calculated amounts
Normal Rounding

 

Rounding to 123.445 123.455 123.464 99.99 100.99 121.25 121.75 121.76
1.00 123.00 123.00 123.00 100.00 101.00 121.00 122.00 122.00
0.10 123.40 123.50 123.50 100.00 101.00 121.30 121.80 121.80
0.01 123.45 123.46 123.46 99.99 100.99 121.25 121.75 121.76
 
Always Round Up

 

Rounding to 123.445 123.455 123.464 99.99 100.99 121.25 121.75 121.76
1.00 124.00 124.00 124.00 100.00 101.00 122.00 122.00 122.00
0.10 123.50 123.50 123.50 100.00 101.00 121.30 121.80 121.80
0.01 123.45 123.46 123.47 99.99 100.99 121.25 121.75 121.76
 
Always Round Down

 

Rounding to 123.445 123.455 123.464 99.99 100.99 121.25 121.75 121.76
1.00 123.00 123.00 123.00 99.00 100.00 121.00 121.00 121.00
0.10 123.40 123.40 123.40 99.90 100.90 121.20 121.70 121.70
0.01 123.44 123.45 123.46 99.99 100.99 121.25 121.75 121.76
Click to open tabChanging the display currency

You can show amounts in GBP (&), euro (€) or dollar ($). If you are using our Lite service, you can change it from the 'Amend my Details' option on the System tab. For Full Service and InSite clients, it is one of your System Options, click on 'Change System Options' on the Systems tab.

Click to open tabDeposits

The Bookingcheck system charges a deposit according to the setting in your Property Options (Admin Menu/Properties/Change Property Options). It is set individually per property and can expressed be a flat figure, or as a percentage of the total amount due. When set to a % of the total, you can also set a minimum deposit figure and it will collect the % of the total or the minimum deposit figure, whichever is the greater.

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