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Rental + Experience Bundles Growth+This feature requires the Growth+ plan or higher

A mixed bundle pairs a rental with a guided experience — and, if you like, store add-ons too — and sells them together for one price. Think "Discovery Tour": a guided paddle and a kayak rental, booked in one go, with a deal on the kayak and one tidy security hold covering everything.

It's just a bundle that happens to include an experience. Everything about bundles still applies — you're adding three things: an experience inside the bundle, "pick one" choices so the customer chooses their own gear and tour, and a deal that lands on the rental only.

Customers see the deal, never the math

Customers always see the bundle total and the dollar savings (for example, "Save $54"). They never see the percentage you set behind the scenes.

What a mixed bundle is, in plain terms​

You sell things that go together — gear, a guided trip, maybe a small add-on — and you want them booked as one thing:

  • The customer picks one rental and picks one experience (you offer the options; they choose).
  • The experience is always full price — a guided trip costs the same however they book it. Store add-ons are full price too.
  • The deal sits on the rental, and you can make it bigger the longer they rent (e.g. a better discount on a 2-hour hire than a 1-hour one).
  • They pay once, get one confirmation, and you take one security hold for the whole bundle instead of several.

When a customer books, you get one booking holding both the gear and the tour, which you run independently — hand over the gear and check in the tour separately — exactly like any rental + experience booking.

Before you start​

Have the pieces in your catalog already:

Bundles are part of Bundles, available on the Growth plan and above.

Building a mixed bundle​

1. Create the bundle​

  1. Go to Rentals → Bundles and click + Add Bundle.
  2. Name it — for example, "Discovery Tour".
  3. Set How is it priced? to Add up the items (with deals) — this is the one that lets you put a deal on the rental.
  4. Click Create Bundle. You land on the Bundle Detail page.

2. Add the gear, the experience, and any add-on​

On the What's included tab, use the two buttons:

  • Add a customer choice (pick one) — make a group named Watercraft and add your kayaks (e.g. Single Kayak and Tandem Kayak). The customer picks one.
  • Add a customer choice (pick one) again — a Tour group with your experience options, if there's more than one.
  • Add standard inclusion — anything every customer gets, like the guided tour itself or a store add-on (e.g. wax). Pick rental, experience, or store add-on from the dropdown.

You can mix gear, experiences, and add-ons freely in one bundle.

The What's included builder for a mixed bundle — a rental, an experience, and a store add-on, with a "pick one" watercraft choice and a per-length deal.

3. Put the deal on the rental — by length​

The discount goes on the rental only; the experience and add-ons stay full price automatically. On a watercraft item, choose You set the length and set a deal per length:

  • 2 hours = 20% off
  • 4 hours = 15% off

Only the lengths you set are offered inside the bundle (so a 1-hour hire you rent on its own simply isn't an option here). The customer never sees the percentages — only the bundle total and the dollars saved.

4. Take one flat security hold​

Instead of a separate hold for the gear and the tour, take one flat hold for the whole bundle. On the Details tab, set the security hold to One flat hold and an amount — for example, $4,000. The customer sees one hold, you place one pre-authorization, and you release or capture it as a single amount. The flat hold isn't affected by the discount — it's your safety net on the equipment.

5. (Optional) Charge for extra people on the tour​

If the experience lets extra people join, that per-person charge rides along automatically — you set it on the experience itself (e.g. $39 per extra passenger) and the bundle adds it on top. The extra-person charge is never discounted.

What the customer sees​

On your booking widget, the mixed bundle is one clean package. The customer:

  1. Opens the bundle — for example, Discovery Tour. The date panel reads Booking dates (not "Rental period"), since there's a tour involved.
  2. Picks their watercraft (the "pick one" group).
  3. Picks a departure for the tour — they choose from the real upcoming start times, with sold-out times greyed out. A start time must be chosen; if a tour has no upcoming departures, the bundle can't be added until one is available.
  4. Picks how long they want the gear (only the lengths you allowed), with a sensible default already selected.
  5. Sees the bundle total and the dollar savings update as they choose — they never see a percentage.
  6. Optionally adds extra passengers, each at your flat per-person price.
  7. Pays once and gets one confirmation showing the tour time and the gear window, plus one security hold.

The customer view of a mixed bundle on the booking widget — picking a watercraft, choosing a departure time, the rental duration, and the bundle total with savings.

Savings, not percentages — on purpose

A bundle reads as a deal: the customer sees the bottom-line price and the dollars they save. The percentages you set on the rental stay behind the scenes.

After they book​

A mixed-bundle booking is one booking with two sides — a gear side and a tour side — that you run independently. Hand over the gear and check in the tour on their own clocks, in any order. When both sides are finished and the gear is back, the booking reads Completed and you release the one hold. This works exactly like any other rental + experience booking.

Tips​

  • Keep the choices short. Two or three options per "pick one" group beats a long list.
  • Make the saving obvious. A bundle only works if the dollar saving is worth it.
  • The deal is on the gear; the trip is full price. That's the natural shape — a guided trip costs what it costs, and the equipment is where you sweeten the deal.
  • One hold, not several. The flat security hold is what makes the bundle feel like one purchase.