FAQ Q186: Can I change the minimum or maximum rental duration based on the season?

Yes, you can do this in Site settings > Seasonal settings.

You can set your seasonal settings once for all resources or you can set them for each resource separately. In case the same period is entered specifically for a resource and for the whole site, it's the settings for the resource which take precedence.

If you don't have any seasons but you need to change time restrictions, e.g. set specific arrival/departure weekdays or override the minimum rental time, then you can simply define a single season for the entire year: January 1 - December 31.

Each season can optionally include a name. This name is for your reference (e.g. high season / low season etc.) and multiple periods can be entered with the same name, for example all periods of the low season (e.g. spring and autumn). Another way to use this name is by creating a season-based rule in pricing manager. This way you can have one rule for multiple periods (all of them which use the same season name).

Please note that the system will not let you enter the same period twice. If you want to have different season names / conditions for different arrival weekdays or lengths of stay, you should set your pricing which depends on these criteria as pricing manager rules. Please see Q181 for detailed info about pricing manager.

Filling the gaps for multi-day rentals

Multi-day rentals, such as accommodations, may have a minimum duration requirement. It's possible that you'll end up with short gaps between two consecutive rentals which cannot be booked by an end customer because of the min. rental time restriction. In such case you can select the checkbox Ignore min. rental time restriction if customer reserves entire period between two existing unavailable dates which will allow end customers to rent a period shorter than the minimum duration specified but only if this is a gap surrounded by both sides by reservations or vacations. If you want to use this option but you still don't want customers to rent for e.g. a single night, please see Q347 for how you can add extra restrictions using Pricing Manager.