Tiered Duration Pricing

Prices later hours differently from the first one. A long stay stops being billed at the opening block rate all day — after a set number of minutes the fee moves to a second block rate, and after another to a third.

Switch: Settings > Parking > Tiered Duration Pricing. Permissions: Manage Rates & Bays. Needs Timing Fare on — there are no duration blocks to tier without it.

Where it appears

Parking shell: Setup > Pricing Policy, and in the live simulation on the rate card.

How a fee is built

flowchart TD
    E[Elapsed minutes] --> G{Inside the
free period?}
    G -->|yes| Z[Nothing to pay]
    G -->|no| B1[First block: the rate card's opening charge]
    B1 --> T2{Past tier 2
after-minutes?}
    T2 -->|no| A[Additional blocks at the card's rate]
    T2 -->|yes| B2[Tier 2 block rate]
    B2 --> T3{Past tier 3
after-minutes?}
    T3 -->|yes| B3[Tier 3 block rate]
    T3 -->|no| S[Sum]
    A --> S
    B3 --> S
    S --> CAP{Over the
daily cap?}
    CAP -->|yes| C[Charge the cap]
    CAP -->|no| F[Charge the sum]

Why it lives here and not on the rate card

The tiers are business-wide policy, not a per-vehicle-class slab. The rate card holds what each class costs; this holds how a long stay is treated, and it applies across every class. That is why moving a slab price never disturbs the tiers, and changing the tiers never repriced a slab.

Setting it up

flowchart LR
    A[Settings > Parking
Tiered Pricing on] --> B[Tier 2: after-minutes,
block length, amount]
    B --> C[Tier 3: same three,
if you need a third band]
    C --> D[Check the rate card's
live simulation]
    D --> E[Next long stay quotes
through the tiers]