Accommodation rental and stays

This article complements Services, availability, and bookings and Guest booking and payments. It covers the Accommodation rental service type — stays from check-in to check-out, nights and guests, without hourly slots like 1:1 appointments.

Plan: Accommodation rental is available on every plan (Free, Starter, Growth, Pro) and during the free trial.

What this type is for

Accommodation rental fits:

guesthouses, boutique hotels, cabins, and short-term apartments,
offers where the guest books a date range (check-in → check-out), not an appointment time,
many identical rooms on one catalog service (shared pricing) or separate services per class (Standard / Apartment / Cabin).

Unlike 1:1 services: weekly staff Availability does not drive open dates. Occupancy uses the accommodation engine — date collisions per unit, blocked dates, and minimum check-in lead time.

Structure in the dashboard

Piece	Where in the app
Accommodation units	Accommodations in the business menu — CRUD for rooms / cabins (address, max guests, photo).
Catalog service	Services → type Accommodation rental — guest-facing offer name (e.g. “Guesthouse stay”).
Linking	Attach one or many units to the same service.
Pricing, messages, blocks	Accommodation service editor → General, Pricing, Guest messages, Availability (blocked dates and price overrides).

After creating an accommodation service, the app opens this dedicated editor — the generic 1:1 service editor does not include stay-specific fields.

Pricing (MVP)

Pricing lives on the service, not on each room:

Nightly rate (base),
Guests included (included_guests_count, default 2) + extra guest fee per night,
Cleaning fee (once per stay),
Weekends — separate nightly rate Fri–Sun when enabled,
Date overrides — one amount for a specific night (e.g. holidays); override wins over weekend rules.

Different room classes in MVP = separate services with their own pricing; many rooms of the same class = many units on one service.

Availability and occupancy

Blocked dates — renovation, owner stay, closed season (end date behaves like check-out, exclusive).
Turnover — optional gap days between stays on a unit.
Minimum check-in lead time — per-service field (fallback: business guest rules).
Occupancy calendar — month view per unit (bookings + occupancy).
OTA channels (iCal) — sync occupancy with Airbnb / Booking.com per unit. Details: OTA channels.

Pending and confirmed bookings block dates — same idea as group sessions.

Guest messages

Under Guest messages you can enable a confirmation template (placeholders: guest name, unit name, dates, nights, price, business name). Content appears in:

the confirmation email (“Message from your host”),
the guest thank-you page (B2).

Guest flow (public page)

Choose the accommodation service (or a direct link).
Unit — when more than one is linked; hidden when there is only one.
Check-in and check-out (date range), guest count — live price quote.
Contact details — phone required by default; correspondence address mandatory (snapshot on the booking).
Consents, optional online payment / deposit — same as other types.

Guests may reschedule the stay (new date range, same unit) from the email link — within the business self-service window. Changing guest count after booking is not in MVP.

Bookings in the dashboard

List / schedule — stay dates, nights and guests, unit address (instead of assignee).
Booking detail — stay price breakdown, correspondence address, host messages.
Create booking (staff) — unit, dates, guests; no performer slot.
Reschedule (staff) — new date range; guest gets the standard reschedule notification.

Local demo

For testing you can seed a sample guesthouse:

php artisan db:seed --class=AccommodationRentalDemoSeeder

Account: demo-pensjonat@example.test / password, public slug: demo-pensjonat.

OTA channels (Airbnb, Booking.com) — iCal sync.
Reschedule and cancel bookings — guest self-service and staff.
Guest booking and payments — payments, coupons, thank-you page.
Business and settings — guest booking horizon, timezone (check-in/out dates).