Many storage companies benefit from being able to choose which rates they set for a unit group in their software, which will display on their website or through various marketing platforms like Storable Marketplace or StoreLocal. In fact, many companies use a Web Rate strictly for online marketing. Your software provides an easy way to select which rates appear across various channels that integrate with it. Using the Channel Rates functionality gives you control over which rate (your standard rate, managed rate, or Web Rate) appears on your Storable Edge website or on third-party channels across the web.
⚠ If you are not using Revenue Management, then you do not have the ability to edit Web Rates. If you want this ability, contact edgesupport@storable.com to have this functionality added to your company.
✅ You will need to define a user's role to give them permission to edit Channel Rates. You'll find this permission in the Roles section of your Corporate Settings under Corporate Permissions. Check the box next to Manage Corporate/channel rates to enable this permission for a user.
📖 You can read more about entering and editing Web Rates in the Revenue Management section on our help site.
Defining Channel Rates
To select which rates you'd like to use through which third parties, access the Channel Rates section of your software, which is located in your Corporate Software Settings under the Rates & Promos heading.
Once you've accessed the Channel Rates settings, select the facility or facility group from the dropdown for which you’d like to select your channel rates. Next, note the different channels you have set for your facility. The channels in this section are the third parties with which your facility is currently integrated and enabled in the API section of your software settings.
⚠ If you do not see a marketing platform that you use to display rental rates on this page, you’ll need to contact edgesupport@storable.com to connect the third parties for you. Some examples of third parties include StoreLocal or Storable Marketplace. After the API has been added, access your API settings and ensure the third parties you'd like to send rates to are enabled.
Under the various channels through which you can send rates, you’ll see a dropdown list. From here, select the rate you’d like to display through that particular channel. You can choose to display the unit group's managed rate, standard rate, or Web Rate. After making your choice, click Save.
⚠ If you select a Web Rate to appear through a channel and a particular unit group does not have a Web Rate entered in your software, that unit group will default to your managed rate. If there is no managed rate, it will default to the standard rate for that unit group.
Once you’ve adjusted and saved your Channel Rates, the rates you’ve selected should appear on the platform within a few minutes.
Examples
Storable Edge Website
If you want the Web Rates that you've entered in the Revenue Management section of your software to appear on your Edge website, select Web under the Storable Edge Website channel. If you use Web Rates on your website, you should also set your Rental Center to use Them. Otherwise, the rate shown on your website and the rate customers see when completing an online move-in may differ.
Within a few minutes, the units table on your Edge website will display the Web Rate. If the Web Rate is lower than your managed or standard rate, the displayed rate will show the standard rate for the unit group, crossed out, with the Web Rate shown above it.
Storable Marketplace
If you'd like your Web Rates to appear on your Storable Marketplace listings, select Web under the Online Marketing Service - SpareFoot channel.
If your Web Rate is lower than your standard rate, Storable Marketplace will display the standard rate crossed out with the Web Rate above it as the rental rate.