Good afternoon,

I planned on using Amelia for giving visitors the option to reserve online two spaces (Room A and Room B) i have available. One of them would have a variable pricing, detailed below. However, i'm not sure what is the best strategy for the configuration of the services.

The room availability and pricing would be as follows:

• Room A is available in 30min intervals (from 7 to 23:00) and has a fixed cost. per hour (meaning 2 hours would cost the double of 1hour).
• Room B is available in 5hour blocks (7-12, 12:30-17:30 and 18-23), each of the blocks has a different price, with a further price difference between weekdays and weekends. Further, if the booking is recurring, i would like to have a different monthly subscription price.

I know Amelia is not a room booking but rather an appointment booking plugin, but i thought i could adjust the pricing with rules based on time/weekday and frequency. However, I can't see how.

Currently, i created a employee and a service and set the price to $0, meaning it does not display during the booking process. There is a overview pricing table in the webpage already, and the price is then confirmed manually in a follow-up e-mail. 

For Room B, the only other option i can think of involves creating an employee/schedule/service for each of the different block/day combinations, so the different pricing can be displayed during the booking process.

Is that the only way or do you have another suggestion to implement?

Thank you in advance and best regards,

Paulo

Hi Aleksandar,

Thank you for the follow-up.

I'll do it the way it has to be done then :) It should do what is needed correctly, despite the higher setup effort.

In case this variable pricing option becomes a feature in the future, it would be a good addition IMHO. Rule-based options definable in the back-end, which could also link to the nb of participants/services contracted/etc would be a flexible an interesting way to approach.

Anyway, thanks for now. Best regards