Every unit prices itself from the rate card you set in the unit editor. You set the numbers once — checkout does all the math, always in the renter's favor, and enforces your rules automatically. Here's exactly what each field does.
The rate card
- Daily rate (required, $10/day minimum). The headline price renters see on your listing and the base for every quote.
- 3-day, weekly, and monthly rates (optional). Bundle prices for longer rentals. Leave any of them at 0 to not offer that tier.
- Hourly rate (optional). Only used for same-day rentals (pickup and return on the same date), and only when short-term rentals are turned on in Payment Settings. It's never shown as the headline price on your public listing.
Checkout always charges the renter the cheapest combination
You don't discount anything by hand. When a renter picks their dates, checkout builds the price from your tiers — months first, then weeks, then 3-day blocks, then single days — and it even rounds up to a full week or month when that comes out cheaper.
Example with a $200 daily, $700 3-day, and $1,000 weekly rate: a 5-day rental would be $700 + 2 × $200 = $1,100 as blocks — but one week is $1,000, so the renter is charged $1,000.
Good to know: the price is calculated on the server at checkout, so the quote a renter sees and the amount charged always match your rate card.
How hourly billing works
For a same-day window with short-term rentals on, the renter is billed hours × your hourly rate, with a minimum number of billed hours (set in Payment Settings, 2 by default) — and never more than your daily rate. If the hourly math would beat your daily rate, the daily rate is the cap.
Security deposit
A refundable hold collected at checkout on top of the rental total. Leave it at 0 to skip deposits on this unit. You release or refund it from the booking after the unit comes back — see Deposits and holds.
Rental rules
All three are optional — blank means not enforced. They're checked at checkout, and the renter sees a plain-English message if their booking breaks one:
- Minimum rental (hours): the booking window can't be shorter than this.
- Maximum rental (hours): the booking window can't be longer than this.
- Lead time (hours): the minimum advance notice before pickup. With a lead time of 24, a renter can't book a pickup less than 24 hours from now.
The pickup and return times a renter can pick come from your pickup style and hours of operation — that's covered in Pickup and return hours.
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