Rental Restrictions

Restrictions can be created from the apposite page of the back-end, under the menu Rentals. You will be asked to enter a Name for your rule to distinguish the restriction from others. The second required setting is the validity for the rule: you should set either a Month to which the restriction is applied regardless of the year, or you should define a range of dates. You should not combine the validity filters, you should use one or the other.

The rest of the parameters will actually let you define the constraints of your rule:

- Force Arrival Week Day: you can choose to force the arrival on one or two days of the week. If you select two days, you will be asked to select the allowed combinations, like Fri-Mon, Fri-Fri, Mon-Mon.

- Minimum Number of Days: By setting a value greater than 1, customers should rent a car for at least this number of days.

- Multiply Minimum Number of Days: if you activate this checkbox, the minimum stay will be allowed only for multipliers of that value. For example, if the minimum stay is 7 days, with this setting available 8 or 9 nights would not be allowed, only valid multipliers of 7 will. So 14, 21, 28 etc.. This setting is useful for weekly rentals.

- Maximum Number of Days: contrary to the minimum stay, this setting defines the maximum days allowed for rental. Please notice that the configuration of the page Fares Table may also be used to leverage the maximum number of days of stay. In fact, if you define rates up to 15 days in the page Fares Table, rental for a greater number of days would not be allowed. This is because the system always requires to have a "basic" cost defined for each number of days of rental allowed.

- Set Days Closed to Arrival (CTA): this setting is often shortened with "CTA", which stands for "Closed to Arrival". You can decide to deny the pick-up on some week-days on the specified dates/month for your Restriction. This rule can be set as recurring.

- Set Days Closed to Departure (CTD): contrary to the CTA setting, this will let you deny the drop-off on some week-days.

- Apply to all Cars: this setting has a big impact over the whole system of the Restrictions. In fact, if you enable it, you will create a "Global Restriction" that will be used by all booking forms of the site. If you disable this setting, then you will have to choose at least one (or more) cars involved. In this case, you would create a "Car Specific Restriction" that will be applied ONLY in the booking form of the Car Details page. The other "global" booking forms could not apply this restriction to help the customers choose the correct dates, as it has a filter for just some cars.