What is a rate plan for?
Rate plans are essential for defining the pricing details of your property. By creating rate plans, you can set the meal plan (breakfast included, full board, etc.) that will also be displayed in your booking engine, and you can determine specific conditions such as payment rules or cancellation policies. Let's see how to create a rate plan:
From the Rooms / Apartments > Rate Plans section, click on [Create New +] and create your rate plan. Enter the name of the rate plan and choose the meal plan.
If the rate plan is valid on specific periods only, click on the [+] to select specific dates.
You have a rate plan, which is valid on alternate periods during the year, don't you?
Example: September 1-15 and then November 3-18
No problem, you can just add all the range of dates.
You just have to click various times on the [+] button to register all the periods of your interest.
Assign respectively an Automatic Taking rule and/or a Cancellation Policy to the Rate Plan.
You can also decide to create a package by linking an extra to your rate plan (for example, a SPA package) 👇
On the right side, the Price section will give you the chance to set up a supplement that can be applied onto the associated rate plan.
Example: I am creating the half Board rate, which costs 15 euros per person per each day, to be added to the total of the reservation.
I will then select the Per person per day increase/decrease entry, from the drop-down menu and 15 in the value box👇
It is a valid (and much quicker) alternative to the derived rates, to be used on your Booking Engine!
⚠️ WARNING: you cannot avoid derived rates when they're linked to any external OTAs. The rate plan management is exclusively linked to the Booking Engine.
In the Texts section, you will find the Label, Title and Description entries, those that will be displayed online on the Booking Engine.
Check out the dedicated article!
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