Charging different prices by day of the week

A day-of-week rule automatically raises or lowers the price of a rental based on the day it's picked up on — for example, a discount on slow Tuesdays or a surcharge on busy weekends.

Where to find it

Pricing → Price rules → Time-Based tab shows every day-of-week rule across your fleet, but this list is read-only. To create or change one, open the fleet item itself (the Edit on item link next to each rule takes you there) and add the rule on its Pricing step.

The Time-Based tab, showing rules by fleet item

How it works

Each rule specifies:

• Fleet item — which item the rule applies to.
• Days of week — which days it fires on, or "All days."
• Date range — an optional window the rule is limited to, or "All year." Fill in only a start date and the rule runs from that day onward; fill in only an end date and it runs up to and including that day.
• Adjustment — a surcharge or discount, shown as +/-% or a dollar amount.
• Apply per — for dollar-amount rules only: Apply per booking charges the amount once for each unit rented (the original behavior, and what every existing rule keeps), while Apply per day charges it once for every day of the rental. Percent rules aren't affected.

The rule checks the pickup date's day of the week in your business's own timezone, so an evening pickup near midnight still matches the day your customer experiences, not a server's clock in a different timezone.

Example

You add a rule to a dirt bike: Tuesday and Wednesday, all year, -10%. A bike that normally rents for $150/day costs $135/day for any Tuesday or Wednesday pickup.

Good to know

• A day-of-week rule can combine with a seasonal rule on the same booking — both adjustments apply together, they don't override each other. See Seasonal price markups and discounts.
• A line never goes below $0. However many discounts stack (day-of-week, seasonal, multi-day, bundle), they can only take the rental line itself down to $0. Add-ons and other items on the booking are never reduced to make up the difference, and the receipt shows the discount actually applied.
• Packages get these rules too. A package line receives day-of-week, seasonal and bundle rules just like an hourly or daily rental; only the multi-day discount is skipped, because a package already has a fixed length.
• These rules are set per fleet item, not fleet-wide — the overview page just lets you see everything in one place.
• Day-of-week adjustments happen before add-ons, coupons, and tax — see How a price is calculated.

Offering a time slot or package only on certain days

Separate from price rules, you can also limit *when* something is offered. In the item's Pricing step, each Full Day time slot, each Time Slot (half-day) row and each package has a row of day buttons (Sun to Sat).

• Tap the days it should run on. Leave every day unselected and it runs every day; the caption under the label reads "Every day" or, for example, "Fri, Sat only".
• The day is decided by the pickup date.
• If a customer picks a pickup day the slot or package doesn't run on, they can't book it. Your staff get a warning on the booking desk but can book it anyway.
• If your slots and packages leave a weekday with nothing bookable, the editor shows a warning such as "Not bookable on Tue, Wed" so you notice the gap.