How to show total booking price (days × daily rate) WITHOUT using WooCommerce payments?

[vossi]

i everyone,

I’m building a car rental website with RentalHive + HivePress Bookings, and I want to make sure I’m setting up the pricing system correctly. I need some clarification on whether Marketplace + WooCommerce are required for price calculation, even if I do not want to accept online payments.

What I want:

1. Use HivePress Bookings for date selection and availability.

2. Show a daily price on each listing.

3. When the customer selects dates, the system should automatically calculate:
   number of days × price per day

4. On the booking confirmation page, the customer should clearly see the total price.

5. I do not want to use WooCommerce for accepting payments.

   • No checkout

   • No payment gateway

   • Only booking requests

   • All communication/payment handled manually by email

What I discovered so far:

• HivePress Bookings alone allows date selection and booking requests, but it does not calculate prices on its own.

• Marketplace appears to provide the actual “price” field and the price calculation logic.

• Marketplace seems to require WooCommerce to be active.

• WooCommerce can be enabled without enabling any payment methods (so no checkout is used).

My question:

Is this the correct and recommended setup for showing total prices?

• Enable Marketplace

• Enable WooCommerce, but disable all payment gateways

• Use WooCommerce only as the backend framework for price calculation and orders

• Use Bookings to manage availability + date selection

• Customers will see the calculated price, but they will not pay online

Important:

I want to confirm that THIS is the official way to:

• Display a daily price

• Automatically calculate the total cost based on the booking duration

• Show this total price to the customer

• Without processing payments through WooCommerce

If this is not the correct setup, could you please explain what is the correct method for achieving automatic price calculation for bookings without using WooCommerce checkout?

Thanks in advance for your help!

[kseniia]

Hi,

Yes, that’s correct. Without the Marketplace + WooCommerce, the Bookings extension will let customers make bookings, but it won’t provide detailed price calculation. You can still use the Price attribute to display a daily or nightly rate, but if you need the system to calculate the total based on selected dates, plus things like price extras, tiers, multiplying by guests, etc., then you’ll need Marketplace + WooCommerce, even if you’re not accepting online payments.

As an alternative, you can use a payment method like Cash on Delivery or any offline gateway that doesn’t require online payment, so you can still enable WooCommerce without charging customers online.

Hope I helped with your request.