We are looking to do a discount for one free night when you book a 4 nights stay. (We're currently just doing a % discount off fo 25% when you book) but that doesn't work if they book a 5-night stay because it will give them a 25% discount on the whole stay.
We would love to be able to do a single night free when a guest book with a discount code!
That sounds very much like this suggestion, which you can vote up:
https://www.ownerrez.com/forums/requests/allow-discount-code-to-be-flat-rate
Technically I think you could do this with discounts and rules.
i.e. create a set amount discount equal to your nightly rate. then set the rules to only apply to bookings of equal or greater than 4 nights. If you have seasonal pricing, then you would duplicate the discount but adjust the discount amount and only apply it to that season in the rules.
if you have different rates at weekends to weekdays, then a 4 day booking that straddles a weekend, I assume it is the weeknight rate you would discount, so no real issue there.
The only issue I can see you having, is if you use variable intelligent pricing model were your rates constant fluctuate to market demands.
In fact if your nightly rates changes all the time, you could do it with percentage discount and rules.
again you would set up multiple discounts with rules.
i.e. if booking is equal to 4 nights, discount by 25%
if booking is equal to 5 nights, discount by 20%
if booking is equal to 6 nights, discount by 16.7%
if booking is equal to 7 nights, discount by 14.3%... so on and so forth
In practice, if doing via discount code, you would give each discount the same discount code and the system would present the right discount amount to deduct by the way of rules
I am also looking to create a one night only discount. Currently, we offer a 50% discount on gap nights when available-- after the guest has booked. (I got this idea from OR's template suggestions so I am surprised it's not an option.) The way discounts are set up right now, you can only add a discount per stay or per night but for all nights. I'd like the system to allow me to create a discount of 50% off one night only based on the current rate of the night they want to add (i.e. our rates change from weekday to weekend, they may have booked over holiday rates, but want to add another night not on holiday rates, etc). Another wrench in this is that we also charge extra for additional guests and want to take that into account with the discount. I can create this manually, but worry about my math skills and human error! :)
Also, when I have added this in the past, I intentionally do not select it to be added to the rent because the guests wants to see the extra fee line itemed out, but it still adds it to the total rent when sending the guest the "change" email. It would be great if we could send a quote for that extra night that they can just accept and then it will add it right on to their total b/c what usually happens is the guest expresses interest in the offer, asks how much, I have to manually figure it out, then they think about it for weeks or months, and then after some time, ask me to add it and I have to search for that email, add it in again and then send them another email with the change. Perhaps there is a simpler way to do this?
Hi Shannon!
This sounds like it would be a feature request! You should submit this here: https://www.ownerrez.com/forums/requests
Our team looks here to see what our users want, and others can upvote it to let us know they'd like to see this feature added!
Thanks. I thought I was posting in the feature requests. I'll repost at the link you sent me.
My client would like to do book 6, get the 7th free, and book 12 and get 2 nights free etc... but they don't want to give a flat 14.28% discount across the board or people booking say 9 10 or 11 nights only still get one night free, which make the percentage discount hard to do.
The challenge here is the nightly rate... Fridays and Saturdays will typically have a higher nightly rate than a Tue or Wednesday and OwnerRez is just a single rent total so you really dont have a way to say discount = to the lowest of the nightly rates... IE if Wed is 100, Thur is 115, Friday is 170 and Saturday is 170 - there is no way first of all to know what the nightly rates are because the booking will have a rent line of $555. (I suppose you could look at the spot rate for each of the days)
There is the new option on a January release to include
to emails which could theoretically show it to you and then you could manually add whatever discount you wanted to give. There is no automagical way of doing this that I am aware of and have wanted to for quite sometime. I would actually like to see each individual night with a rolled up subtotal. It would make calculating the Average Daily Rate so much more accurate... In my example above ADR currently is 555/4 = 138.75 but in reality if I was doing a weekend to weekend or day to day comparison of Average Daily Rates this year over last or this month over last I would be losing 31.25 of ADR for Friday and Saturday or gaining 38.75 for Wed or 23.75 for Thursday for this specific booking. Is it the end of the world... NO. Would it be nice to have - for us YES.
Bottom line... you gotta pick your battles... we solved the one night off by analyzing prior period bookings and then coming up with a percentage and we restrict them by date... Bookings between date and date get 18% off if > 3 nights... a lot of leg work to do a promotion. You also want to make sure you are not double dipping.. If you use a pricing/rate management tool to manage your rates remember that you could be giving an additional discount on top of what has already been determined to be the optimal rate for the dates...
