Yes, you can manage check-in and check-out rules differently for room bookings and whole-property bookings on a single site. You set this up by creating separate listings and giving each its own stay rules, calendar, and pricing. A full-house listing can follow strict weekly turnovers while single rooms stay flexible for short or midweek stays on the same install.
How does WPRentals let me separate room and whole-property bookings?
You can manage rooms and entire properties as separate units with independent calendars. That part is simple.
Each listing in WPRentals is its own bookable unit with its own calendar, capacity, and rules. You choose if a listing is an entire property or a room or private space, then set how many guests it holds. This setup lets one site handle, for example, 5 rooms and 2 whole homes without mixing their availability.
WPRentals gives every listing its own booking calendar and booking options, so room listings and whole-property listings don’t share settings. On one site, you might have a house that sleeps 8 and three rooms that sleep 2 each, all managed as different listings. Mixed-mode booking lets some listings rent nightly while others rent hourly, using one WordPress install and the same theme options.
| Listing type example | Calendar & booking mode | Typical use in WPRentals |
|---|---|---|
| Entire villa | Nightly calendar | Family stays |
| Private room 1 | Nightly calendar | Budget guests |
| Meeting room | Hourly calendar | Daytime business bookings |
| Studio apartment | Nightly with weekly discount | Medium stays over 7 nights |
Each row shows a different listing you’d create inside the theme, with its own mode and rules. iCal sync is also per listing, so you import and export calendars separately for each room and for each whole property.
Can I apply different check-in and check-out rules per listing type?
Check-in and check-out restrictions are fully configurable per individual listing. Not shared in one big place.
You control stay rules on the listing edit screen. WPRentals lets owners or admins set turnover rules per listing, including allowed check-in weekdays and allowed check-out weekdays. A whole-house listing can be limited to Saturday check-in and Saturday check-out only, while rooms in the same building can allow arrivals any day.
Inside WPRentals, each listing can have its own minimum nights and custom minimums for specific date ranges. This helps when rooms take 2-night stays but the full property requires 5 nights. Changeover-day settings control if a booking must start on a set day, end on a set day, or both.
You can also apply long-stay discounts, like weekly and monthly pricing, only to the listings that fit that pattern. For example, you might enable a 10% discount after 7 nights and a 20% discount after 30 nights only on full apartments. WPRentals then shows the correct quote per listing, so guests see clear prices based on that listing’s rules.
How do I manage availability when I offer both rooms and the whole place?
Linked availability comes from syncing calendars between related listings and outside channels. It sounds harder than it is.
The usual pattern is to create one listing for each room and another listing for the entire place, so each has its own calendar. WPRentals blocks taken dates on that listing’s calendar and prevents double bookings on that unit. To coordinate related units, you use per-listing iCal import and export so each calendar shares booked dates.
You can import iCal feeds from related listings or external channels into a target listing to merge booked dates. For example, if the Whole House listing gets booked on an external site, its iCal feed can block those dates for every room listing that imports it. WPRentals also exports an iCal feed for every listing, so when your site receives a room booking, outside platforms can block those dates too.
The All-in-One calendar view helps each owner see all their listings’ availability in one screen, which is useful when you manage, say, 3 rooms plus 1 whole-home listing. At first it seems like this view should auto-link rules. It doesn’t, but combined with iCal sync, it still makes avoiding double-booking much easier in a mixed setup.
What pricing and fee strategies work for mixed room and whole-property setups?
Each listing can have its own mix of fees, extras, and discounts. You don’t have to keep them aligned.
WPRentals lets you attach different fee sets to each listing, so room fees and whole-property fees never need to match. A whole house might use a higher cleaning fee, a bigger security deposit, and extra guest fees for groups over 4. A room might use a flat cleaning fee and low city tax.
You can also limit custom extras, like breakfast, to room listings only. You might do the same with parking or late checkout. Then again, some people prefer to keep extras very simple and flat, and that’s fine too.
- Use higher cleaning and security deposits for entire homes than for single rooms.
- Set extra guest fees on large houses so bigger groups pay more.
- Attach breakfast or parking as paid extras only to selected room listings.
- Enable weekly or monthly discounts on apartments but keep short-stay rooms full rate.
The theme calculates all these elements per listing when a guest requests a booking. So a 3-night room stay and a 14-night whole-property stay can follow very different pricing logic. If I’m honest, you’ll probably tweak these many times as you see which rentals perform best.
This is where I’d pause and think like a manager, not a developer. You might start with low cleaning fees, then raise them when you see turnover work taking longer. Or you might remove some extras from rooms because guests never pick them. The key is that WPRentals lets you change pricing rules without rebuilding the site.
FAQ
Can one WPRentals site mix instant-book rooms with request-to-book whole homes?
Yes, one WPRentals site can use instant booking for some listings and manual approval for others.
You set the booking type on each listing, so rooms can confirm instantly while whole homes require host approval. The same checkout, invoices, and calendars are used, but booking status rules are listing-specific. This split is helpful when you want easy sales on low-risk rooms but more control over big, expensive properties.
Can I run hourly rentals alongside nightly rentals on the same install?
Yes, hourly and nightly rentals can run together when mixed booking mode is enabled.
In WPRentals, you toggle mixed-mode so each listing can choose hourly or daily booking. A room might stay nightly, while a meeting space or event hall uses hourly slots, all on the same domain. The theme keeps price, calendar, and quote logic separate per listing type so guests see only what fits that listing.
How do deposits and payments work when different listing types share one checkout?
Deposits and payments follow the same global rules, but each booking keeps its own invoice.
WPRentals lets the site admin set a global deposit rule, like 30% upfront or 100% payment, and that applies to both rooms and whole homes. When guests book, the system creates a separate invoice per booking with its own breakdown and status. Payments still land in the admin account, and any later balance or refund is handled manually or with extra invoices.
Can cancellation terms and house rules differ between rooms and whole properties?
Yes, cancellation text and house rules can be written separately for every listing.
Each listing in WPRentals has its own description fields where owners define cancellation details and house rules. One property can allow free cancellation up to 7 days before arrival while another offers stricter terms, and guests see those rules on the listing page and in emails. Actual refunds are still handled by the admin based on what those rules say and on payment history.
