Prezzi Stagionali e Calcolo Tariffe

The pricing system of VikBooking was designed to fit any possible pricing model: per night, per night by length of stay, per occupancy and per season.

From the page WordPress Administrator side, on VikBooking page > Pricing > Rates Table you should enter the costs per night for each room type. This will be the default Rates Inventory from which the rates calculation will take place.
Those properties applying different rates depending on the number of nights of stay, should create various intervals of rates like: From 1 to 3 nights - cost per night = EUR 100; From 4 to 10 nights - cost per night = EUR 90...
If no rates are defined for the number of nights requested, bookings will not be allowed for that room type.

Each room type can apply modifications to the rates depending on the Adults Occupancy. If the room allows a different number of Adults (min and max) like from 1 to 3 Adults, it is possible to specify a charge or a discount for 1, 2 and 3 Adults in this example. These charges/discounts can be specified as a fixed value in your currency or as a percentage value. The rate modifications can be set per night or for the entire stay.
Such rate modifications for the Adults Occupancy can be defined from the Edit page of each room type.

By using the Rates Calculator tool in the page Rates Overview, you will be able to calculate the cost for each night of stay and for each adults occupancy without needing to test the result in the front-end.

Example #1:
- Triple Room for 3 nights and 2 Adults: the system will check if a rate exists for 3 nights for the room type Triple Room. Let's say that 3 nights were defined as EUR 300. Let's also assume that 2 Adults occupying the Triple Room, were configured to get EUR 5 discount per night. This is how the system will calculate the final rate for this request:
300 - (5 * 3) = EUR 285

In the 99% of the cases, prices differ on some seasons/festivities/special occasions of the year. You should use the function Special Prices to modify the default rates on some dates/seasons of the year.
With the Special Prices you will be able to increase or decrease the default rates per night, defined in the page Rates Table. This function will also let you change or set different pricing for the Adults Occupancy.
The rates can be modified on some dates/seasons of the year with charges or discounts expressed as fixed amounts or percentage values. Also, the rates modifications can be different depending on the number of nights of stay by using the function Value Overrides.

Example #2:
- Triple Room for 3 nights and 2 Adults booked on some dates where there is a Special Price applying a charge of 40% and a charge of EUR 10 per night for 2 Adults. This is how the system will calculate the final rate for this booking (this example follows the Example #1 above):
300 / 3 = EUR 100 per night (3 is the number of nights affected by the Special Price and, in this example, also the number of nights requested).
100 * 140 / 100 = EUR 140 per night (40% charge in these dates applied by the Special Price).
140 * 3 = EUR 420 (would be the final rate before applying the occupancy pricing).
(140 + 10) + (140 + 10) + (140 + 10) = EUR 450 final rate for 3 nights and 2 adults in these dates.

The occupancy pricing is always applied on the cost defined in the page Rates Table for the number of nights requested, after applying the Special Prices that will modify the cost for the number of nights requested in certain dates.

The rates calculation takes place in the following order:
Default Cost for the number of nights requested +/- Special Prices defined for the dates requested +/- Occupancy pricing based on the number of Adults.

Example #3:
As explained, the system will first read the cost defined for the requested number of nights of stay from the page Rates Table, for then dividing it by the total number of nights of stay. This is to obtain the so-called "average cost per night". On this basic cost, all the proper Special Prices will be applied depending on how many nights they affect.

- Multiple special prices rules can also be applied by following the same logic, this is an example of how the calculation of the final price takes place:

Considering booking for nights, the system will fetch the cost defined for 3 nights of stay, which is €270 in our example. The "average cost per night" will be €90 (270 / 3), and over this basic price all the Special Pricing rules will be applied.

If we take one seasonal rate affecting just one of the three nights booked, i.e. "Special Price A" that applies a charge of +20%, and another seasonal rate, "Special Price B" rule affecting all the three nights of stay by adding a charge of +30%, this will be the final calculation: