How do I add custom rates based on availability events?

Offer tailored pricing for specific time periods by adding custom rates to your availability events, so you can set unique pricing rules for peak seasons, special promotions, or any date range that calls for something different from your standard rates.

Learn how to add custom rates to your product availability events, i.e., date range-specific pricing, including adding an availability event, adding pricing, and previewing the experience.

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 add pricing to availability events? This article focuses on adding pricing to availability events to configure a new product. For a detailed walk-through of product creation, please see the following series. 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.

Follow these steps to add custom availability event pricing.

1. Add an availability event
2. Add pricing to the availability event
3. Preview the Customer booking experience

Start by creating an availability event for your product from the Availability tab in the Product Builder (Inventory > Product > edit/+ new product). Learn more about creating availability events in our article Understanding product availability events.

You can also create a new availability event from the Pricing Table within the Pricing tab. You are then returned to the Availability tab once the system creates the availability event.

1. From the Pricing tab of the Product Builder (Inventory > Product), select Availability from the Add Rate dropdown. 

2. This action opens the Add Availability Rates modal. From there, you can select the availability event.

3. The modal then refreshes to reveal your pricing options. Select Custom Pricepoint, then click Save to close the modal and proceed to the next step.

4. You can then specify the custom rates for that availability event in the Pricing Table and the provided fields.

What this looks like varies depending on your base rate configuration. Whether you are using product rates, guest rates, group pricing, or a combination of these rate types, our pricing features are very flexible!

Finally, you can preview your pricing configuration from the Customer's perspective of the booking pages by clicking the Preview button. Notice that we label rates with the applicable availability rate name.