Boat pricing

Pricing in Floatist is configured alongside availability — both live inside the same calendars at Settings > Marketing > Availability and pricing. This page covers how to set up nightly rates with Price events, and how to validate your pricing before publishing a season using the Booking Preview.

If you haven’t created any calendars yet, start with Boat availability and come back here once you have at least one calendar with Availability events in it.

Price events

A Price event attaches a nightly rate to a date range. Multiple Price events together form your seasonal pricing structure.

Field	Notes
Start / End	Inclusive date range.
Name	A user-facing label per language (e.g. High season).
Auto-translate from English	When on, only the English field is editable and other languages are computed automatically. When off, fill in each language yourself.
Price per night	Decimal value. Shown to guests without a currency symbol — see Currency below.
Recurrence	Optional — see Recurrence rules on the Boat availability page.

Note

Shown to guests in the booking flow.

Each Price event shows on the calendar as a bar with the moon icon, the price-tag icon, and the price number:

Multiday price — + the price number

See Reading the calendar for the full icon legend.

Recipe: three-season pricing

1. Low season: Start = April 1, End = May 31, Name = Low season, Price = 300.
2. High season: Start = June 1, End = August 31, Name = High season, Price = 600.
3. Shoulder: Start = September 1, End = October 31, Name = Shoulder, Price = 400.

If a guest books across two ranges (e.g. starting in shoulder and ending in low season), the Booking Preview shows one line item per range.

Currency

Note

Prices display as just a number, without a currency symbol. Floatist doesn’t yet track which currency the prices are in, so we show the number rather than guess. Make sure your team and your marketing copy are clear about which currency your prices represent.

Day charter pricing

Price events currently apply to multiday bookings only. Day-charter slots don’t yet have a dedicated Price event type — pricing for those is handled separately. Contact support if you need help configuring day-charter rates.

”Starts from” price

The “Starts from” price is the headline teaser price shown on your marketing website — the “from XYZ” figure on each boat’s fleet-search card and at the top of the boat detail page before a guest has selected any dates. Floatist computes it automatically from your Price events as the cheapest fully-priced charter of a length you choose, so guests always see a real, bookable starting price rather than an estimate.

Configure it per boat alongside the other calendar settings at Settings > Marketing > Availability and pricing, under Marketing site “Starts from” price:

Setting	Notes
Preview duration (nights)	Length of the example charter used for the headline price. Set it to your typical minimum charter length — e.g. 7 for a Saturday-to-Saturday week. Defaults to 7.
Show preview duration total as “per week” price	When on, the headline reads “per week”. Only turn this on if the preview duration is 6 or 7 nights, otherwise the label won’t match the figure.
Recalculate prices now	Prices refresh automatically every night. Use this button to recompute immediately after you change your Price events or these settings.

Note

The “Starts from” price is the cheapest fully-priced window of the chosen length. If no date range of that length is completely covered by Price events, no starting price is shown for that boat — a strong signal that your pricing has a gap (see Watch for pricing gaps).

Booking Preview

The Booking Preview section at the bottom of the sidebar simulates what a guest would see if they tried to book a date range against your currently selected calendars. Use it as a sanity check before publishing a new season.

Field	Notes
Preview as date	The simulated “today”. Use it to go to the past or future and see how time-based rules apply.
Booking dates	The range the guest wants to book.

The preview returns:

• A green Available or red Not available badge.
• A receipt of line items — one per Price event the booking overlaps. Each item shows the price name, date range, nights × nightly average, and subtotal.
• A footer with Avg / night and Total.
• “No pricing available for these dates.” if the dates are inside an Availability window but no Price event covers them — a strong signal that your pricing has a gap to fix.

Note

The Booking Preview currently covers multiday bookings only. Day-charter availability and pricing must be inspected on the calendar itself.

Tips

Watch for pricing gaps

If the Booking Preview says “No pricing available for these dates” for any range your Availability events cover, you have a gap. Guests will be able to view the boat but won’t be able to complete a booking. Add or extend a Price event to fill the gap.

Use the Booking Preview before every season

The Preview’s Preview as date is effectively a time machine. Pick the day your booking system opens, then test typical guest scenarios:

• First weekend of the season.
• A peak-season week.
• A shoulder-to-peak crossover week — does pricing split correctly across the two Price events?
• A date past the lead-time horizon — should be unavailable.

Price events follow recurrence rules too

Like every other event type, Price events support recurrence (see Recurrence rules). Most operators use single non-recurring events per season since the date ranges shift year to year, but recurring Price events are useful for rules like “every Christmas/New Year week the rate is X”.