HotelDruid

Hi,

I have to start by saying a big thank you again - I really like your system and it works very well.

Background to my question: we work the system on daily rates (which we input as a seventh of the total weekly rate).

However sometimes someone might want to stay 3 days and we will strike a deal with them for the package of 3 days. Is there any way that we can just force a total price for the stay into the system.

Thanks in advance.

Roger

Hello Roger,
you can use extra costs to automatically apply discounts based on the number of days. More details here:

http://www.digitaldruid.net/php-residen ... costs.html

Also you can set a discount for a single reservation when you insert or modify it.

Marco

Marco,

Thanks for pointing me towards those extra costs page. It seems that you have put a lot of work into making these extra costs very flexible and able to cope with most eventualities.

What I did was this - if I wanted to charge Euro 350 for a 3-day stay: I set up a rate "GetZero" of Euro 10 per day (as it doesn't seem to allow a rate of zero). I then applied an "extra cost" of -10 Euro per day which is automatically activated when you use the rate "GetZero". Then I applied a discount to the booking of -350. Of course it may make more sense to have a daily rate of Euro 120 and apply a discount of 10 (or equally have a daily rate of 100 and apply a discount of -50). These solutions work fine for me - perhaps you have a better way.

Thanks again,
Roger

To put a rate to zero you can put a double zero "00" when inserting the prices. Instead of discount you can also use an "extraorinary extra cost" from the page where you modify the reservation.

Marco

Thanks Marco for those tips.

Regards,
Roger