Guests and fees

Set guest capacity, included guests and extra charges on the property’s booking rule. This page explains how those values affect the quote and where guests see them.

Before you begin

kahunacart.bookings.view to read the rule, kahunacart.bookings.manage to change it.
A product whose booking rule is set to Nightly stay. See Getting started.

Maximum guest capacity

It sleeps limits the number of guests. Requests above this limit are refused with More guests than this sleeps.

It sleeps uses Bookings’ party-size field. Find it on the service alongside the booking rule, outside the stay-rules panel. See Services.

Guests choose their party size before dates so the calendar can quote the correct amount.

Guests included in the nightly rate

The nightly rate covers sets how many guests are included in the base price. Additional guests use the extra-guest rate.

For a house sleeping eight with six guests included, up to two guests incur an extra charge. A double room sleeping two with both included never adds this charge.

The included guest count can be lower than the maximum occupancy. For example, a property can sleep eight while its nightly rate covers six.

Extra-guest charges

Each guest after that is charged per guest per night. Two extra guests at $25.00 for seven nights add $350.00.

The quote shows the total under Extra guests, separately from the nightly rate.

The cleaning fee

Cleaning fee is charged once per stay, regardless of its length. It appears separately on the quote and receipt.

Cleaning is not discountable. Sales and coupons can reduce nightly charges and extra-guest charges, but leave cleaning unchanged. See Sales and Coupons.

For a room offered at a single inclusive rate, leave the cleaning fee empty. Use a separate cleaning fee when you need a charge applied once per stay.

The damage deposit

The damage deposit is informational and collected separately.

The listing, quote, receipt and arrival note display this amount. Collect it through your existing process, such as a card terminal or bank transfer. The quote explains:

$500.00, held by the owner and given back after you leave.

The damage deposit is excluded from checkout totals, discounts and tax calculations. The store does not collect or hold it.

Automatic card authorisations for damage deposits are not supported.

Where charges appear

	The listing	The quote	The cart line	The receipt	The arrival note
It sleeps	Sleeps 8	the head-count box	—	—	—
Extra guests	—	its own row	in the one price	its own row	—
Cleaning fee	—	its own row	in the one price	its own row	—
Damage deposit	yes	its own line, as a sentence	—	yes	yes

Each stay has one cart line at its quoted price, including nights, extra guests and cleaning. The receipt shows the breakdown. Stays have no quantity control; additional dates require another selection. See Taking payment.

The damage deposit is shown to guests but excluded from every calculated price.

A stay's rules - what a night is, minimum stays and the gap rule
Rates and seasons - what the nights themselves come to
Taking payment - the one line, the deposit and the balance
Messages - the note the damage deposit is repeated in
Services - where It sleeps lives, and the rest of the booking rule