As summer approaches, it’s crucial for you as an owner to understand how transparency and flexibility can help your RV rental business. This week, we will focus on a new feature that helps fill your calendar, a market shift that renters are focused on, and a best practice that can attract a new segment of renters.
- How Automatic Trip Extension can help fill your shoulder days
- The importance of pricing transparency and having your additional fees displayed on your listing correctly
- Setting your long-term stay prices to attract a growing new segment of renters
Automatic Trip Extension
Looking for a way to fill your shoulder days easily? With the new Trip Extension feature, you can earn money from your in-progress reservations by providing your renters with an easy way to add nights at the end of their trip.
What is Automatic Trip Extension?
- When turned on, your renters can add nights to the end of their reservation if the dates are available on your calendar. Renters can add nights up until the last day of their reservation.
- When they extend their trip, the trip end date is automatically updated, you are notified, and the renter is charged for the incremental costs.
Note: If you have preparation time set up on your listing, that will be considered for extensions and prevent your renters from extending their reservation into your next reservation preparation time.
Pricing Transparency
Additional fees and upgrades are an important part of renter decision-making when booking an RV. Adding your fees and upgrades to the right location on your listing helps renters easily find the information and understand the total cost of renting your RV.
As busy season approaches, review your listing and confirm your fees so they can be displayed properly. Fees and upgrades entered in the wrong Listing Manager section can result in them not being seen or charged properly. Below is a detailed chart on the types of fees you can charge as an owner and where they belong on your listing.
Fee Types and How They Work
| Fee Type | Definition | Where is it located in the Listing Manager |
| Required Fees | Required Fees are applied to every booking and calculated as part of the booking cost displayed to renters in checkout. This is a good place to charge a cleaning fee. | Bottom of the Rates Page under Add Fees |
| Optional Upgrades | Optional Upgrades are services/amenities that can be added onto a booking by renters during checkout. Some examples include dumping, hitch rental, and portable generator rental. | Bottom of the Rates page under Add Fees |
| Usage-Based Post-Trip Fees | Generator usage and mileage allowances and overages can be defined and displayed on your listing. Defining these fees makes it easy for renter to understand potential charges after their trip. | Rates page under Mileage Fee and Generator Usage Fee |
| Rules-Based Post-Trip Fees | Rental rules, such as no smoking or renter cleaning responsibility, should be added to the Rules section of your listing. Fees for breaking these rules can be added to the post-trip form and should not be added to your listing as an optional upgrade or required fee | The Rules section in the Rules and Policies Section |
| Delivery | Fees for delivery within a defined mileage range or specific location can be defined in the Delivery section of your listing. Adding delivery here allows us to display your delivery locations and range on your listing and in the renter checkout. Delivery should not be set up as an optional upgrade. | The Location & Delivery section |
Long-term Stay Rates
Looking to boost your bookings and fill your calendar faster? More travelers are booking extended RV stays — from digital nomads and remote professionals to retirees chasing warmer weather.
By offering discounted weekly or monthly rates, your listing will appear in long-term stay filters and attract renters seeking flexible, affordable housing on the go.