Time-related settings
First of all, you must start with
time-related settings. Set
Rental duration to
Client can choose from predefined values and enter your 2 options:
4 hours with the label
Half day and
8 hours with the label
Full day. Then set
Restrict starting times to
8:00, 14:00. Of course your durations and start times can be different, enter them accordingly. If afternoon duration is different than the morning duration, you'll need to add 3 choices.
See Q228 for more about configuring date and time fields
Reservation form fields
At this point the customer would see 3 time fields on the reservation form: the date field, the start time field (with 2 choices) and the duration field (with 2 choices). This UI is not ideal, e.g. the choice of full-day starting at 14:00 is by design not possible and would always result in an error message. This is why it's better to add another dropdown field to your reservation form (
do it here) called e.g.
Rental time. This should be a dropdown with the following values:
Morning, Afternoon, Full day. You must set a default value for this field, e.g. morning.
See Q142 for general information about reservation form fields.
Automatic updates of form items
The reservation form is now broken, in that it has redundant fields and the new rental time field will not really do anything at all. To fix this, you'll need to go to
automatic updates of form items which is where you can configure relationships between different form items. Here you'll want to change the value of the
start time and
duration fields based on the choice of
rental time and also you'll want to hide these two fields. In order to do this, you'll need to specify the following rules:
| Trigger item | Trigger value | Dependent item | Dependent value | Hide item |
|---|
| Rental time | Morning | Start time | 8:00 | Yes |
| Rental time | Morning | Duration | 4 hours | Yes |
| Rental time | Afternoon | Start time | 14:00 | Yes |
| Rental time | Afternoon | Duration | 4 hours | Yes |
| Rental time | Full day | Start time | 8:00 | Yes |
| Rental time | Full day | Duration | 8 hours | Yes |
See Q233 for a detailed description of
Automatic updates of form items
Pricing configuration
Go to
pricing manager in order to set up the rules that will set the correct price for half and full days based on the weekday. Let's say the weekends (Saturday, Sunday) should be more expensive than weekdays. You'll need to enter one rule based on the weekday and 6 rules which will set the pricing for mornings, afternoons and full days for weekends and then for weekdays. Here are the required rules:
| Rule | Rule condition | Advanced condition | Price |
|---|
| 1. Default price | | | (leave empty) |
| 2. Weekday | Monday-Friday | | (leave empty) |
| 3. Rental duration chosen | Morning | apply this rule only if all of the following rules were applied: 2 | (set your weekday morning price) |
| 4. Rental duration chosen | Afternoon | apply this rule only if all of the following rules were applied: 2 | (set your weekday afternoon price) |
| 5. Rental duration chosen | Full day | apply this rule only if all of the following rules were applied: 2 | (set your weekday full day price) |
| 6. Rental duration chosen | Morning | apply this rule only if none of the following rules were applied: 2 | (set your weekend morning price) |
| 7. Rental duration chosen | Afternoon | apply this rule only if none of the following rules were applied: 2 | (set your weekend afternoon price) |
| 8. Rental duration chosen | Full day | apply this rule only if none of the following rules were applied: 2 | (set your weekend full day price) |
See Q181 for a detailed description of the pricing manager.
This is the finished configuration. Of course any variations are possible, e.g. pricing depending on the season instead of weekday, or different morning and afternoon durations etc. All these changes require only small modifications to the directions above.