How do I add an existing duration rate to a product?

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Locate:

• Duration Rates: Inventory > Products > Pricing
• Manage Duration Rates: Inventory > Custom Rates

Prerequisites: 

• Admin permissions to manage inventory or restricted permissions to View Products and Assets and Manage Products and Assets.
• Your account must have access to products (Inventory > Products), which is a key feature of our newest version of Checkfront. 
• Duration rates are available for those using All Day, Nightly, and Flex Time only, not Timeslots.

 

New to Checkfront - Products ✨ Products (Inventory > Products) is the successor feature to Items (Inventory > Items) and is available in our newest version of Checkfront. Not yet on our newest version and interested in upgrading? Please contact our Technical Support team for more information. Discover more product-related help articles here: Products (New).

 

In this article, we provide an overview of how to add an existing duration rate to your product from the Custom Rates page or any other product.

 

For a detailed walk-through of product creation please see the following series. Introduction to products and the product builder We also have an entire series on creating and managing custom rates including duration rates, that you can check out here! Introduction to custom rates How do I add pricing based on the duration of the booking?

 

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To add an existing duration rate to your product, you have two options.

• Apply a duration rate to a product from Custom Rates, OR
• Apply a duration rate to a product from another product

 

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To apply a product to an existing duration rate via the Custom Rates page (Inventory > Custom Rates), start by clicking on the name of the duration rate to open the Duration Rate modal.

 

From the Duration Rate modal, open the Apply to Products section to reveal the list of available categories and products, as well as, the option to Select All products. 

Click Select None to clear all selections. Note, that at least one applicable product is required in order to save the duration rate.

Click Save to save your changes.

 

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To apply a duration rate from another product, start by editing, or adding a rate from the Pricing tab of the Product Builder (Inventory > Products > edit product).

 

Next, simply select the category or product to apply the rate in focus. Click on the Apply to Products section to open the list of available options including the option to Select All products. 

Select None is a helpful option if you want to deselect all the categories and products, before adding new selections. At least one product must be selected in order to save your changes.

Click Save to save your changes.