4. How Booking Works

How to setup hourly booking

Important to know is that there are 3 limitations for hourly booking. a. All In one calendar works only for “DAYS”, not hourly bookings. Only days will show in that calendar and you can add manual bookings only for “days” b. The custom price period will allow to select a custom price per hour for […]

Taxes info in Invoice Details Explanations

1. How to manage Taxes fee from the theme Taxes in % (taxes are considered included in the daily price). They are added from Price Details of each property – Taxes show for the owner – in his invoice details. Formulas for taxes we use: $you_earn = $total_price – $security_deposit – floatval($city_fee) – floatval($cleaning_fee) – […]

Extra Price per Guest

The Extra Price per Guest is set from User Dashboard > Edit/Add property > Price section Make sure the Extra price per guest fields, Do not consider Children as Guests, Maximum Extra guests above capacity are included in the submission form The price per guest is added in the Extra Guests section This price will […]

Verify Owner

After the Owner registers, in My Profile page he will have the option to UPLOAD AN ID SCAN The Owner will need to upload an image. Save his Profile. The admin will be notified via email about the new submission.   and will need to go to admin-Users to validate the user ID On Owner […]

Can I hide or remove the guest number?

Staring 1.30 theme update you can hide the guest number easily. Hide guest from the booking form Put “What do you want to rent” to Object Rental You will see the booking form like this And the submit form will exclude the guest number Hide from contact owner form This is done with css /*remove […]

How to work with Extra Guest option

Starting theme version 3.4, we added the option to separate guests. If you do not have the below options, then you will need to update the theme. The guest options can be found in Theme Options > General > Booking Options If set to Yes, the advanced guest picker will let you select the number […]

1.20 How to understand Invoice Details Info for Owner and User submitting request

User sending booking request: Invoice explanations in My Reservations Owner of the property: Invoice explanations in My Bookings Other elements you can see in invoices: Early bird discount As owner you can set early bird discount (in %) and how many days to in advance for this discount to apply. Extra Expenses or Custom discount Pay […]

Owner Contact Info – how it works

Contact info on owner page is hidden by default for non registered users and registered users with NO confirmed booking. Info shows only to users who have at least 1 confirmed booking or is user checks his own profile. Admin ca see all contact info by default. Owner cannot see the contact info of the […]

Why register is required to book in WP Rentals

In WP Rentals register/login is mandatory to send a booking request. There are several important reasons for which we designed the theme to work this way (and why other major reservation websites like airbn, homeaway etc do the same) – First of all, not wanting to register to  send a booking is like wanting to […]

Theme Email Notifications

The theme sends several notifications use user, to site admin and to property owner. These emails can be designed and text can be modified. This help explains exactly which emails are sent to Site Admin, Owner and to User. There are several other articles related to Emails that can help understand all options available in […]

Owner info doesn’t show. What to do.

*There is 1 user level in our theme. “Owners ” is the default name attached to this user level. Owner applies for user adding properties, and user sending booking requests.  **All users registering in front end will be also saved as owners and they will have a profile page attached to their account.  ***Users must […]

Increase the number of months in calendar

Change the number of months to show in the booking calendar from Theme Options -> Booking Settings.  Please note: increasing the number of months (and using those months for custom prices, periods, etc) increase the data that is saved for each property into the database. So please use this with caution.

All In one calendar View

Create the page for All Calendar Page This page will be available in user dashboard. Will display all the properties posted by owner and the booked dates.

CONTACT OWNER FORM

For owners to get messages from  the property page / owner conact form, they must be registered in front end register form and submit properties from the front end so that the contact info shows on the property page. Help to use register – https://help.wprentals.org/article/login-register/ For admin – who is single owner, to get messages […]

INVOICES

Owners can check the invoices issued by them and related to their listings in their user dashboard -> Invoices page If you do NOT import demo, create this page to see issued invoices in user dashboard. Only the owner will have Reservation Fee invoices. These are the invoices he has issued for his property booking […]

My Inbox. Theme private message system.

Only registered users can send messages in INBOX private message system. Messages cannot be saved in the theme and in user dashboard unless messages are sent by registered users. Messages are sent also to user email address or to admin duplicate email address. Read more here   – https://help.wprentals.org/article/contact-owner/ INBOX page user user dashboard For the […]

Submit Property – from User Dashboard in front end

First, create the submission page in admin (if you didn’t import demo content) Add New Property page will show for users in 2 situations: 1. Non logged users Non logged users can click on Submit button in Menu to start add properties See here how to disable this option http://help.wprentals.org/article/how-to-hide-the-submit/ The form saves the property when […]

How to create users and owners

Users must register themselves to be able to send bookings to other users/owners. You can enable the option to split users on registration – help https://help.wprentals.org/article/how-to-allow-only-certain-users-to-submit-properties-in-front-end/ If you enable the split, users who select “I want to book and rent” will have an owner profile page attached to their account.  The users who only want […]