Weekend vs. Weekday Rates |
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Setting up separate rates for weekdays and weekends is very simple. It's just a matter of setting up two separate daily rates and selecting the appropriate days of the week for each one. Of course this could be expanded to a separate rate for each day of the week if needed.
First you need to make sure the Rates fields for the days of the week are all enabled. If you don't see the checkboxes for them at the bottom of the window when you edit a rate, they've been disabled -- go to Maintenance / Data Field Definitions / Rate Fields, and enable the "Unavailable.." fields for the days of the week.
When you set up the daily rate for weekdays, just remove the check marks from the days of the week that the rate should not apply to. Keep in mind that these are actually "nights", not "days" -- so if the weekday rate should apply to Sunday night through Thursday night, uncheck the Fri and Sat boxes.
Copy that rate, edit it to change the descriptions and amount accordingly for weekends, and now uncheck all boxes except Fri and Sat.
Since they're mutually exclusive (they can't both apply to the same day of the week since they have different days checked), the order in the list with respect to each other won't matter. Make sure you don't have a third basic daily rate still in the list -- it shouldn't be needed since these two cover all days of the week, and it could cause confusion.
Naturally if you also have discount rates, this will have to be repeated for each discounted daily rate.
Other examples:
Add-on for Extra Adults, Children, etc
Next in sequence:
Special Season or Holiday Rates
Electric Meter Rates (also Water and Gas Meters)