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Multi-day charters - Plugixa Boat Rental
Multi-day charters PRO add a fourth booking mode for boats that are hired for several nights, such as a yacht chartered Saturday to Saturday. A charter has a check-in day, set check-in and check-out times, a minimum number of nights, and optionally a longer minimum in high season. The customer picks a start day and a length; the times come from the boat.
Charters is an app in the App manager, on by default in Pro. The other booking modes (free duration, fixed departures and full day) are on Booking modes.
Making a boat a charter
- Open the boat under Plugixa Boat Rental -> Boats.
- Set Booking mode to Multi-day charter.
- Under Priced, choose how the charter is billed: by the day (each night is a day) or by the week.
- Fill in the Charter panel on the boat’s form and save.
“Applies when the booking mode is a multi-day charter. A Saturday-to-Saturday week is a Saturday check-in, seven nights, by the whole week.”
| Setting | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Check-in day | Any day | The weekday a charter must start on. The calendar offers only that day. |
| Check-in time | Empty | The time every charter starts. Empty sets no fixed time. |
| Check-out time | Empty | The time every charter ends. Empty sets no fixed time. |
| Fewest nights | 1 | The shortest charter you sell. |
| Sold by the whole week | Off | Only 7, 14, 21 nights and so on. |
| Fewest nights per season | Empty | A longer minimum for some dates. One season a line: first day, last day, nights. For example: 06-01 09-30 7. A season may wrap the new year (12-15 01-10 5). |
A season’s minimum replaces Fewest nights for charters whose check-in day falls inside it. If seasons overlap, the first line that matches wins. Seasons decide which charters can be booked, not what they cost: prices by season are pricing rules.
How nights are counted
Nights are calendar days on the marina’s clock, counted from the check-in day to the check-out day. Saturday 17:00 to the next Saturday 09:00 is seven nights. A clock change inside the charter cannot add or remove a night.
| Priced | The customer pays |
|---|---|
| By the day | The day rate for each night |
| By the week | The week rate for each week started: 7 nights is one week, 8 to 14 nights two weeks |
When a charter crosses into another season, each night pays its own season’s rate, and the price breakdown shows a line per season. See Pricing rules.
For extras charged per day, and for a tourist tax, a day means a night.
Booking a charter
The charter form appears on the boat’s own page, or wherever you place the booking form for that
one boat, for example [plugixa_boat_rental boat="12"] (see
Shortcodes and blocks).
On it, the return date gives way to a Length of the charter choice (“7 nights”, “2 weeks”), the calendar offers only the check-in weekday, and the times are the boat’s.
On the general booking form, a charter boat is listed only for dates it can sell. The form lists the boats it left out and why, in the rule’s own words, under the boats it offers, or on the dates step when nothing is left. This works for any boat the dates do not suit, not only a charter.
The rules are checked by the server
Whatever is sent, a charter is refused when it does not fit, with the reason:
| Rule | The customer is told |
|---|---|
| Check-in day | “This charter starts on a Saturday.” |
| Fewest nights | “The minimum charter on these dates is 7 nights.” |
| Sold by the whole week | “This charter is sold by the whole week.” |
| Check-in time | “Check-in on this charter is at 17:00.” |
| Check-out time | “Check-out on this charter is at 09:00.” |
The same rules apply when a booking is made from the admin, and when a customer reschedules their own booking.
Availability and units
A charter is a booking like any other: it holds the boat (or one of its units) for the whole stay, with the boat’s buffers before and after. A location set to numbered units stays numbered, so a charter can be given a named hull. See Units.
Security holds on long charters
A security hold on a card lasts about seven days. On a charter longer than that, the hold runs out before the boat comes back. Capture what you need before the expiry, or ask the customer to authorise again once it has lapsed.
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