How do I edit availability events and availability rates?

Keep your availability and pricing current by learning how to edit availability events, rates, and custom rates, so you can adjust dates, update pricing, and fine-tune configurations as your business needs evolve.

Learn how to edit availability events, availability rates, and custom availability rates from the Product Builder.

Accessing the features mentioned in this article

Where can I find this feature using the top menu?

• Availability Events: Inventory > Products > Availability
• Availability Event Rates: Inventory > Products > Pricing
   

What more do I need to use this feature?

• Admin permissions to manage inventory or restricted permissions to View Products and Assets and Manage Products and Assets.
   

Which Checkfront version supports this feature - classic items, classic products, or both?

• Your account must have access to classic products (Inventory > Products), a key feature of our classic products version of Checkfront. This feature is not available for use with classic items (Inventory > Items) in our classic items version. → Learn more about products. 

How do I create a product? Please see the following series for a detailed walk-through of product creation, including adding availability events. Introduction to products and the product builder

What is an availability event? An availability event determines when the product is available for booking based on specific dates.

You can edit availability events in three ways:

• Editing an availability event
• Editing availability event rates
• Editing custom availability event rates

1. To edit an availability event, start by navigating to the Availability tab of the Product Builder (Inventory > Products > edit/+new product). 
2. You can find the availability event you need to edit within the Availability Events table. 
3. Open the actions menu (...) and select Edit from the list of options presented. This action opens the Edit Availability Event modal.

4. From the Edit Availability Event modal, you can edit the event name, date range, fixed start time setting, hours of operation settings, booking rules, and Guest min/max settings.

Changes to the date range Any changes to the date range within availability events impact when any pricing for those same availability events is applicable. The date range within the Pricing table is updated accordingly. Learn more about editing pricing for availability events with the following help articles. Step 4: Configuring pricing for your product How do I add pricing based on availability events?

Do you need to edit the pricing of the availability event? You can do so from the Availability tab of the Product Builder (Inventory > Products > edit/+new product).

1. Click the pencil icon next to the availability event pricing within the Pricing Table. This action opens the Edit Availability Rate modal.

2. In the Edit Availability Rate modal, you can change the rate type (percentage (%) or amount ($)), adjust the rate amount, or remove the availability rate.
3. From the modal, you can also remove the availability event pricing by clicking the Remove button. This action does not remove or delete the associated availability event. It turns off the availability rates and removes the pricing from the Pricing Table.

Learn more about availability events For a detailed look at pricing for availability events, check out the following articles: Step 4: Configuring pricing for your product How do I add pricing based on availability events?

Do you need to edit custom availability rates? 

1. Click the rate amount field within the Pricing Table and Pricing tab of the Product Builder (Inventory > Products > edit/+new product). 
2. Don't forget to click the Save button to save your changes!