Additional guest surcharges - dependent on season

Hi,

I have a rental unit with 4 bedrooms, with a guest capacity of 8-10. For off-season, I would like to keep the rate of my unit lower and charge extra for additional guests beyond 4+. For peak season, I would like to keep the base rates higher (equivalent to rate for 8-10 guests) and charge less per additional guest or change the minimum free guest setting to 8 guests so that they only have to pay for 2 additional guests if at all.

Here's an example:

1. Off season rate: $300 per night for upto 4 guests and $25 per guest from 4+ to 10. i.e For 10 guests, the nightly rate would be $450.

2. Peak season rate: select one of the following policies:

• $450 per night for upto 4 guests and $10 per guest from 4+ to 10. i.e. For 10 guests, the nightly rate would be $510; OR
• $450 per night for upto 8 guests and $25 per guest from 8+ to 10. ie. For 10 guests, the nightly rate would be $500; OR
• $500 per night for 10 guests

The main purpose of having lower base rate for off season is to make it affordable for smaller parties to rent in off season. Whereas for peak seasons, I would like to ensure that it doesn't get rented for smaller parties at a lower rate.

Is it possible to implement something like the above. Or do you have suggestions on better ways to achieve this.

Hello,

After reading through your example, I believe how you wrote this up is in fact doable.

You would need to create the seasons of course, in the simplest form this would be two seasons, one for off season one for peak season. But if your setup is more complicated than this it should work with any variety of seasons, you'd just need to make sure the seasonal rates found via Settings > Rates > Seasonal Rates are set to your liking.

In the example you provided these seasons and their dates/rates would appear as something along the following, keep in mind I used random dates for these:

Off Season

Dates: September 1st-April 30th

Seasonal Rate: 300

Peak Season

Dates: May 1st-August 31st

Seasonal Rate: 450

Then you could create two additional guest surcharges, each with different multipliers for what you're looking for, and associate those charges with the seasons they're active for in their configuration from the seasons drop down, these would look something a long the lines of.

Off Season additional guest fee

Per night

Amount: $25

Multiplier: Guest for every 1 above 4 up to property max

Peak Season additional guest fee

Per night

Amount: $10

Multiplier: Guest for every 1 above 4 up to property max

Hope this helps!

~Caleb

That's great. Thanks for the clarification on how to do it. I did not realize that the guest sur-charges could be configured per season. This should work out for me.