Leaving Hostaway because of their booking fee?

Option to apply Discounts to Nightly rate field only.

Status: Requested 2 Votes
Ed T
Jan 24, 2024 3:53 AM
Joined Nov, 2023 24 posts

It would be nice to be able to set up discounts for military, first responders, friends and family, etc, and have the discount apply only to the nightly rate.   My cleaning expenses, linen expenses, etc are fixed, and currently in this very weak month, my fixed costs are up to 1/2 of my total bill.  A 1 day rental when the nightly rate matches fixed rate fees given a 10% discount ends up being 20% off the nightly rate.    THERE is no simple workaround for this.  If they book 2 days it's an effective 15% off the nightly rate.  4 days 12.5%, etc.

Additionally, it would be nice to be able to exclude certain days.  weekends are easy to book. I'd love to offer discount on weekdays (Sunday-Th) only.  Therefore it would be nice to be able to have discount applied or not by calendar dates.

Alece
Jan 24, 2024 1:00 PM
Joined Jan, 2020 184 posts

Yes yes yes! It is so needed to be able to apply a Discount Code to rent only!

Steven C
Jan 24, 2024 9:58 PM
OR Team Member Joined Jun, 2021 11 posts

Alece see this previous Forum Post where Ken suggests a workaround for adding a code as a % of rent.

There's a workaround for this case: https://www.ownerrez.com/support/articles/discount-codes#position -- use percent of subtotal and configure positioning to make sure the discount comes before surcharges so that it only applies to rent.

Ed T
Jan 25, 2024 3:15 AM
Joined Nov, 2023 24 posts

Thanks Steven that will do it.

Alece
Jan 25, 2024 3:01 PM
Joined Jan, 2020 184 posts

Thank you, Steven!!