Rate plan configuration for Solidres

There are two rate plan configuration modes:

• Standard Mode: available out of the box for Solidres FREE version, this mode allows setting price for each weekday (Monday to Sunday).
• Advanced Mode: available for Solidres paid subscribers (requires plugin Complex Tariff), it allows setting more complicated pricing structure for different date ranges, different customer groups, different length of stay, different number of booked people. It has 05 main types (see below):
  • Rate per room per stay: this type allows setting prices for each weekday (from Monday to Sunday). These prices will be applied per room when guest make a booking in the front end.
  • Rate per person per stay: this type allows setting prices for each weekday (from Monday to Sunday) as well as for each person. Let's say your room type "Double Room" can be used by 2 adults and 1 child, then with this type, you can set the prices for each weekday for the first adult, the second adult, and the child.
  • Package per room: it is a special type when you can only set 1 single price for a room in a specific date range. Different package tariff types can be not joined together.
  • Package per person: it is a special type when you can only set 1 single price for each person in your room in a specific date range. Different package tariff types can be not joined together.
  • Rate per room type per stay (New): it allows you to charge a different amount when guests want to book the whole room type (or apartment), not separated rooms.

You can choose a mode that suits your business model.

1. Standard Mode:

By default, Solidres uses Standard Mode, this is the simple and easy way to set your room price. It allows you to set a fixed price for the rooms that applies to all customer groups and weekday.

First, to configure the price for the room (configure tariff), go to Properties → List of room types, select the room you want to configure rate plan, in the Rate Plan tab, you can see the “Standard Mode” field.

It allows you to set prices for all days of the week. Prices in Standard mode will apply to all customer groups and has no date constraint.

• Customer group: all
• Weekdays: days of the week
• Period of validity: infinite

And here are the results displayed in the front end when the customer makes reservation.

2. Advanced Mode:

To use Advanced Mode, you must install the following plugin: Complex Tariff.

Downloading this plugin requires an active subscription, you can subscribe here: https://www.solidres.com/subscribe/levels

Then install & enable it:

After you have installed and enabled Complex Tariff plugin, select the room type you want to configure rate plan and go to tab Rate Plan.

The common set of fields for a rate plan is as below:

• Title: the title of this rate plan, it should be a short string that describes your rate plan.
• Description: more detailed description of your rate plan
• Customer group: select Public for all customers (logged or non-logged in) or select specific customer groups. You can create as many customer groups as you want.
• Type: Choose one of the existing types that suits your pricing structure.
• Mode (since v0.6.0): choosing between entering prices per date or per week. Available for Rate per room per stay and Rate per person per stay
• Min night/day: the minimum number of night/day that this rate plan requires. Must be a number. If your property's booking type is "Per day", then you this value should be >= 1.
• Max night/day: the maximum number of night/day that this rate plan requires. Must be a number.
• Min people (Optional): the minimum number of people that this rate plan requires.
• Max people (Optional): the maximum number of people that this rate plan requires.
• Valid from: the beginning date that this rate plan is valid to be used
• Valid to: the ending date that this rate plan is valid to be used
• Status (since v0.4.0): enabled or disabled
• Limit check in to (since v0.3.0): choose which days of the week that a guest can check in.
• Interval (since v1.9.3): allow you to configure a fixed interval that your guest have to select: for example if your Min Night = 7, Max Night = 21 and Interval = 7, then in the front end, your guest is only able to choose 7 nights, 14 nights or 21 nights.

Details for each rate plan type can be found below:

Rate per room per stay: Prices are set for different days of the week. The cost is for the whole room and does not depend on the number of booked people.

Rate per person per stay: Prices are set for each adult and child (if available) for different days of the week. Total room cost is the combined prices of each booked adult and children.

The number of adults and children in the rate plan configuration depend on the setting "Room occupancy" in the General tab. For example, if you configured, the occupancy of your room type "Double room" as 2 adults plus 1 child. Then you will be able to enter the prices for 2 adults and 1 child in rate plan configuration. Note that if your room type's occupancy is changed, you need to update your tariff too.

Room price for a child is based on either child's age or the number of children, you can change this mode in Solidres Options - Rate Plan - Child room cost. The child max age can be configured in Solidres’s Option, the default value is 17 years old.

Example for room price based on child's ages is $10 for 0-year-old to 10 years old child and $15 for 11 years old to 17 years old child.

Example for room price based on child's quantity is $10 for the first child and $15 for the second child. Child's ages will be ignored.

Package per room: It is a special type when you can only set 1 single price for a room in a specific date range. Different package rate plan types cannot be joined together.

This tariff type is useful when you want your guest to book a fixed room's package. For example "Double room 4 nights with breakfast". For this rate plan type, the min night and max night should be equal.

Package per person: The same with Package per room but this type allow setting room price for each booked adult and child.

This rate plan type is useful when you want your guest to book a fixed room's package. For example "Double room 4 nights with breakfast. The first adult is $35 and the second adult is $30". For this rate plan type, the min night and max night should be equal.

Details for rate plan modes can be found below:

Adjoining tariffs:: This mode allows you to configure how to join 2 separated complex tariffs together (only apply for Rate per room per stay and Rate per person per stay, not apply for Package types)

For example, you are having these two complex tariffs: A (valid from 01-01-2016 to 31-01-2016) and B (valid from 01-02-2016 to 29-02-2016).

|---------------------------A----------------------------||--------------------------------B---------------------------|

With the above tariff configuration, if you enable tariff joining in Solidres Options, then when the guest search for dates that fall into 2 complex tariff's date ranges, there will be 3 options for adjoining tariffs that you can configure

• No limit - Ignore stay length of any adjoining tariffs: with this option, the min night requirements for A & B will be ignored when joining 2 tariffs.
• Lowest - Use lowest min stay length of any adjoining tariffs: with this option Solidres will use the lowest min night requirement of either A or B to determine whether the guest's check in and check out dates are qualified for this tariff.
• Highest - Use highest min stay length of any adjoining tariffs: with this option Solidres will use the highest min night requirement of either A or B to determine whether the guest's check in and check out dates are qualified for this tariff.

Overlapping tariffs:: This mode allows you to configure how 2 separate & overlapping complex tariffs showed on the front end. First, we need to define what are overlapping tariffs? Overlapping tariffs are tariffs that have the same "Valid from" and "Valid to" dates. Overlapping is useful when you want to have different pricing for different conditions in the same date range.

|--------------------------A-----------------------------|
|--------------------------B-----------------------------|

For example:

• Summer holiday (Breakfast included)
• Summer holiday (Breakfast not included)

• Summer holiday (Free cancellation)
• Summer holiday (No cancellation)

When your guest's check in and check out dates are qualified for overlapping tariffs, there are 3 options for you to configure:

• Show all tariff options
• Show the lowest tariff
• Show the highest tariff