Promos & pricing

Demand pricing looks at how many of your cars (or, separately, motorcycles) are already booked for the dates a renter picks, and how soon the trip starts:

• 80% or more booked (with at least 2 vehicles of that type): +15%, labelled “busy dates”.
• 60% or more booked: +7%, labelled “popular dates”.
• A third or less booked and the trip starts within 1 day: −15%, a “last-minute deal”.
• A third or less booked and the trip starts within 3 days: −8%, a “short-notice deal”.

The change never goes past your Floor (%) (between −40% and 0%; −15% by default) or Ceiling (%) (0% to +50%; +20% by default). The reason is written on the renter’s price, for example “busy dates — 4 of 5 cars booked +15%”. Once a renter holds a booking, their price is fixed.

Mode has three settings: Off; Suggest only (preview here), which shows a table of the next 14 days but leaves your prices alone; and Automatic, which applies the changes on your booking site. In the table each cell shows booked/fleet, or the adjustment.

Renters watching lists renters who asked, on a vehicle page, to be told when the price drops or when booked dates free up. Their emails are partly hidden — this is for pricing decisions, not for messaging them. If you lower a daily rate (or approve a smaller holiday increase) below what a watcher last saw, CeeRent sends them one email. Promo codes don’t count, because watchers see your public price.

Tick Sell gift vouchers on your booking site and a gift page appears on your site at /gift. Buyers pick ₱1,000, ₱2,000, ₱3,500, ₱5,000 or ₱10,000 (or any amount from ₱500 to ₱50,000), add a message, and choose the day it’s emailed to the person — handy for an OFW paying for the family’s car at Christmas.

Vouchers never expire. The Gift Check Act (RA 11765) doesn’t allow gift checks to expire or lose value, so CeeRent doesn’t let them. Renters type the code (like GIFT-AB12-CD34) in the promo box at checkout. It covers the rental, fees and add-ons — not the deposit — and whatever is left stays on the voucher for the next booking. If a booking paid with a voucher is cancelled, that amount goes back on the voucher.

To give one yourself — as a sorry, or because someone paid you by bank transfer — enter the amount, who it’s for, their email and why, then Issue. Void stops a voucher from being used; if the buyer paid, refund them separately. The header shows your Unspent balance — money you owe in rentals.

A voucher bought online gets an official receipt when it’s sold.

Before busy periods — Holy Week, Christmas and New Year, All Saints’ Day, a summer long weekend — a suggestion appears on the Holiday rates tab with the dates and a suggested increase, and the tab shows a dot. Change the number next to Raise rates by (1–100%) and tap Approve, or tap Dismiss.

Prices never change unless you approve. Once approved, your daily and hourly rates go up by that percentage for bookings that start within those dates. It adds on top of demand pricing.

Your normal rates are set per vehicle in Vehicles. Longer-rental discounts, the prepaid rate and the no-deposit option are in Settings → Policies.