BookingCentral offers a robust and flexible pricing options for rental businesses. The system can handle most pricing structures including:
- Hourly Pricing
- Half Day and Full Day Pricing
- Daily or Nightly and Multi-Day/Night Pricing
- Fixed Hour or Day Pricing (e.g. 6 Hour Rate, 4 Day Rate)
- Combination of Hourly, Daily/Nights, Multi-Day/Night Pricing
What is a Price List?
A price list in BookingCentral refers to the price grid or rate sheet for a rental type. A Price List includes all the rates, lengths, times as well as additional fees, tax rate and deposit rules.
A Price List is unique to each rental, so you can have a different pricing structure for each rental type.
To better illustrate this, let's look at common price lists per rental types:
Boat Rental (Pontoons, Ski Boats, etc) Price List:
Jet Ski Price List:
RV Rentals Price List:
Price List Basics
There are 3 important factors when creating a price list in BookingCentral. At minimum, your price list per rental must include each option for the system to correctly calculate the rate per rental:
- Valid Dates: Called Seasons, and are important as it instructs the system to offer the prices that are based on the season dates.
- Price Lengths (or Duration): Each rental type can have a variable length such as 1-8 hours/days/nights, or fixed lengths such as 4 hours, 8 hours, 3 nights, 7 nights.
- Start/End Times: Each Price Length has a Start Time(s) and End Time. Times can be fixed times or variable times (e.g. every hour)
Price Setup Features
When setting up a price list per rental, you can use these system features for easy setup:
- Copy a price list between rental types and seasons: this makes for a quick setup so you do not have to create a price list manually for each rental type. You can copy the Price List (season, lengths, times) and then edit as needed.
- Create additional price lengths within a price list: this helps to quickly add additional lengths per rental
- Create Columns to accommodate for day of week and holiday variations. Within the same price list for a rental, you can add price variations per day of week or set holidays.
Custom Pricing Options
The system allows for custom pricing options to further assist your rental setup including:
- Ability to create Weekday, Weekend, and Holiday pricing
- Ability to add required additional fees in addition to the based price per rental such as cleaning, prep or dock fees
- Ability to add a tax rate per rental
- Options for deposit payment at the time of booking (fixed amount, percentage, full amount, etc.)
- Ability to create a price length that is only shown on the backend (office only)
Related articles on pricing:
Creating Half Day & Full Day Pricing Rule
Creating Weekday, Weekend and Holiday Pricing
Creating Seasonal Pricing for your Rentals
How do I Add or Edit a tax rate for my Rentals