Tiered (round up) pricing and pricing templates
Use Tiered (round up) when customers should choose their own dates, but you sell the rental as price steps such as 4 hours, 1 day, 3 days, 1 week or 1 month. The customer picks a pickup date and time and a return date and time. Rentshelf charges the cheapest tier whose duration is equal to or longer than that window.
How the round-up rule works
Section titled “How the round-up rule works”Rentshelf measures the real handoff window: return date and time minus pickup date and time. Each tier is either hours or days (a day tier is 24 hours). The charge is the cheapest tier that is at least as long as the window.
| Customer window | Tiers configured | Charged as |
|---|---|---|
| Same day, 09:00 to 15:00 (6 hours) | 4 hours, 1 day | 1 day |
| Nov 6 09:00 to Nov 7 10:00 (25 hours) | 1 day, 2 days | 2 days |
| 6 days | 4 days, 1 week (7 days) | 1 week |
The storefront and cart show the requested duration and the tier it was charged as, for example 6 days — charged as 1 week. Same-day rentals are allowed.
Availability is still counted per calendar day: a booking occupies every calendar day its window touches, so a same-day rental holds a unit for that day.
Pickup and return times
Section titled “Pickup and return times”For this duration type the storefront asks for a pickup time and a return time next to the dates. The choices run from 06:00 to 20:00 in 30-minute steps. The return must be after the pickup. The selected times are part of the reservation and are checked again before checkout.
Set up a product
Section titled “Set up a product”- Open Products → your rental product.
- In the duration settings, choose Tiered (round up).
- Add tiers in Tiered pricing. For each row set Duration, Unit (Hours or Days), an optional Label such as
1 week, and the Total rental price. Use days for weeks and months:7for a week,14for two weeks,30for a month. - Optional: enter a Base price for multipliers and type a × base price value on a row to fill its price. Only the final price is saved.
- Optional: set Max add-ons on a tier to limit the total add-on quantity a customer can pick with it.
- Choose what happens Longer than the largest tier (below), then save.
Longer than the largest tier
Section titled “Longer than the largest tier”When the window is longer than your largest tier, Rentshelf follows the Longer than the largest tier setting:
- Repeat the largest tier, then round up the rest (default). Whole blocks of the largest tier are charged, and the remainder rounds up to the next tier. With a 30-day tier, 31 days is charged as 1 month + 1 day.
- Charge the largest tier per started period. Every started period of the largest tier is charged in full. With a 30-day tier, 31 days is charged as 2 months.
Pick the rule that matches your published policy, then test a quote just past your largest tier before promoting long rentals.
Pricing templates
Section titled “Pricing templates”A pricing template is a shop-level tier table that several products can share. Instead of prices, each template tier has a × base price multiplier. Every linked product keeps its own base price, and the tier price is base price × multiplier, rounded to the cent.
Create a template
Section titled “Create a template”- Open Products → Pricing templates and select New template.
- Enter a Name and choose the Longer than the largest tier rule.
- For each tier set Label, Duration, Unit (Hours or Days) and × base price. Hour tiers can be 0.25 to 24 hours in 15-minute steps. Select Add tier for more rows.
- Select Save template.
A new template starts with an example table (4 hours, 1 day, 2 days … 1 week, 2 weeks and longer tiers). Edit or remove the rows you don’t use.
Link one product
Section titled “Link one product”In the product editor, choose the template under Pricing template and set Base price. The base price defaults to the Shopify variant price. Choose None — edit tiers on this product to manage tiers on the product instead.
Editing a template re-prices every linked product.
Apply a template to many products
Section titled “Apply a template to many products”- Open Products and select the products in the list.
- Choose Apply pricing template, pick the Template, and confirm Apply to N products.
Products switch to Tiered (round up) unless they already use Hour and day options. Each product keeps its base price, or starts from its daily price when it has none. Rental bundles, appointment products and products with daily pickup and return times are skipped, and the result lists any skipped products.
Templates also work with Hour and day options.
Test before you publish
Section titled “Test before you publish”- Quote a same-day window shorter than your smallest tier.
- Quote a window that lands just past a tier boundary, for example 25 hours.
- Quote a window just past your largest tier and compare it with the overflow rule.
- Add the rental to the cart and compare the cart and checkout amounts.