Rentals cover anything you rent by the hour or the day: cabanas, lockers, tubes, kayaks, bikes, golf carts, pickleball courts. Set up unit types, each a specific numbered unit or a pool of interchangeable ones, then work the Today board. Hourly types show as a draggable timeline; day-rate types stay a quick-book list.
What counts as a unit type?
Either shape works. Court 1, Court 2 and Court 3 are specific numbered units, because a guest booking Court 2 at three o'clock means Court 2. Ten identical tubes are a pool of ten, because nobody asks for tube number seven.
Each type carries its own hours, pricing and booking rules. A kayak that rents in two-hour blocks and a cabana that rents by the day sit side by side without pretending to be the same thing.
What does the Today board do?
It's the day in front of you. Hourly types render as a live timeline with every unit as a row. Drag an existing booking to a new time on the same court rather than cancelling and rebooking it. Drag across a run of open times, with a finger too, to book several slots at once.
Day-rate types stay a quick list, because dragging a cabana across a timeline would be theater. The Bookings page is the full ledger across any date range: filter by status, type or guest, read revenue and cancellation totals, export to CSV.
Rentals are booked by staff, at the desk or over the phone, and the charge lands on a guest's folio or stands as its own order.
Where do deposits and late returns land?
A deposit is taken at booking where you want one. A late-return fee posts when the gear doesn't come back on time, on the rule you set rather than on how the morning is going.
Cancelling reverses the charge automatically, against the folio if it went to a folio, so a kayak that never left the rack doesn't need a manual credit later.
Can you run a weekly clinic?
Recurring clinics and leagues are part of setup, so a Tuesday evening pickleball league blocks its courts every week without anyone rebuilding it. Insights covers the reporting side: which units earn, which hours sit empty.
A concrete afternoon: Court 2 is booked 2 to 3. The group asks to shift an hour, so you drag the booking to 3 and it takes the new time. Five minutes later a coach wants 90 minutes on Court 1, so you drag across three open half-hour slots and book the block in one motion.
Worth checking.
- Which types are specific numbered units and which are an interchangeable pool
- Hours and pricing per type, since a kayak and a cabana rarely share either
- Whether a deposit applies, and what the late-return fee is
- Which clinics and leagues should block their courts on a repeating schedule