How your billable rental days are counted

This setting decides how Renta counts the number of billable days in every multi-day rental — and it directly changes what a booking costs, because your daily and multi-day rates are multiplied by that count.

Where to find it

In the sidebar, hover Pricing and click Fees & policies, then find the Rental day counting card. (This page is the Universal Rules tab of the pricing page, so you may see that name at the top.) Only an owner or a manager with settings access sees it.

The Rental Day Counting card

How it works

• Counting rule (a drop-down with a small info tooltip) — one of two options:
• Calendar dates (inclusive) - default — the default. Both the pickup day and the return day count as full billable days.
• Calendar span (difference only) — only the nights between pickup and return count; the pickup and return days themselves don't add an extra day.

Changing the drop-down does nothing until you click the card's own Save button.

Example

A customer picks up Monday and returns Wednesday.

• Inclusive: billed for 3 days (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday).
• Span: billed for 2 days (the span between Monday and Wednesday).

At a $100/day rate, that's a $300 booking under Inclusive versus $200 under Span — the same rental, a different price, purely because of this setting.

Good to know

• This applies to every multi-day rental across your whole business — it's a single tenant-wide setting, not something you choose per booking.
• It also decides which duration-discount thresholds a booking hits (a "3+ day" discount can fire under Inclusive but not under Span for the exact same dates) — see Where duration discounts live across your fleet.
• Changing this setting changes pricing going forward; it does not retroactively re-price existing bookings.