How To Create a Rental Product

Overview

The rental product type is useful when you have equipment or vehicles that can be hired by the hour or day such as Kayaks, Bikes, and other vehicles.

This article will only discuss the following sections:

• Details tab - Product Pricing & Quantities.
• Scheduling tab - Duration & Allow spanning.

These settings differ to other product types. For information on any other tab or sections, please click here to learn more.

Details Tab

Product Pricing:

There are several ways to configure the pricing for a rental product. Click here to see some common pricing examples below.

• Select Product Pricing:
  • By Day - if you charge by the day.
  • By Hour - if you charge by the hour.
  • By Minute - if your charge by the minute.
• Enter Min: Enter the minimum day/hour/minute duration.
• Enter Max: Enter the maximum day/hour/minute duration
• Enter Price.
• Select from:
  • Per Day/Hour/Minute: if this price is for a single day/hour/minute.
  • Total: if this price is for the entire duration.

Quantity:

• Select Quantity not required if you don't need your customers to enter quantities during the booking process. For example if the product uses specific resource, such as a boat or a car, and there is only 1 to rent per day, hour, or minute.
• Select Quantity required if you need the customer quantities. For example, if you have a maximum 8 Motorbikes to rent per session.

Quantity label:

Enter the label for your quantities, this information will be displayed to your Customers online.

Scheduling Tab

Duration:

• Select Any duration: enter the Min and Max settings.
• Select Choose from a list: enter the label/s and hours to build a list.

Keep scrolling for examples of when to use either of these options.

Note: The Min and Max settings will depend on the min and max settings from the Details tab. For example, if your product is priced by hour; Min 1 - Max 8, then your Duration settings on the Scheduling tab must match.

Allow spanning:

Tick this option if you have gaps in between your sessions, but you want to allow bookings over these periods. For example if you have hourly sessions from 9am to 5pm, and you want to allow multi-day bookings.

Duration - Any duration vs Choose from a list

There are 2 ways to display the duration of your products to Customers booking online.

Any duration:

Use this option if you want to allow your customers to choose any duration between the min and max setting.

• Select Any duration
• Set the Min and Max

Online your customers are presented with the following:

Choose from a list:

This option is useful if you want to limit the amount of choices your customers see online, e.g. Half Day and Full Day rental options.

• Select Choose from a list
• Enter a label e.g. Half Day and the amount of hours (or days or minutes)
• Click the + symbol to add another option
• Enter a second label e.g. Full Day and the amount of hours (or days or minutes)

Online your customers are presented with the following:

Rental pricing examples

These examples will be hourly based, but the same rules and examples can apply to both daily and by the minute pricing.

Example 1

If you have a fixed price per hour on any day.

Rezdy setup

Online your customers are presented with the following:

Example 2

If you have a flat price per hour that decreases on the hour. For example after the first hour, you charge $10 instead of $20.

Rezdy setup

Online your customers are presented with the following: