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Rental — how renting works

Some listings on URBALT are rental offers from rental businesses. Instead of a sale price, the card shows "rent from X €/day" — you don't buy the bike or scooter, you book it for the dates you need.

Where rentals live

  • Rental offers live in Services — pick the Rental type in the filter.
  • A rentable bike or scooter also shows up among the regular bikes and scooters in its section, so you'll meet rentals while browsing normally.
  • The quick Rental filter in the right sidebar of a section shows only rental offers.

What the listing shows

  • The vendor's tariff ladder — for example "from 7 days — 45 € / 7 days (≈6.43/day)". Longer rentals usually work out cheaper per day.
  • Deposit (or "no deposit") and the minimum / maximum rental term.
  • Fully booked periods, so you can see at a glance when the item is taken.

How to book

You won't find a date picker or a price calculator on the site — that's deliberate. The site shows the offer and leads you to the assistant; the exact quote and the booking happen in chat.

  1. Press Book via chat assistant on the listing. It opens a Telegram chat with the Aisha assistant (t.me/ai_sharobot) — she already knows which listing you came from.
  2. Tell her your dates. She calculates the exact price for them and checks availability.
  3. She books it with the owner. A booking is a request — the owner confirms it.

How the price is calculated

The vendor sets a rate for each period they offer (hour, day, week, month). The length of your booking picks one rate — the best one you qualify for — and the whole rental is charged at that rate. Aisha does this calculation for your exact dates.

For rental businesses

Rental fleets are managed through the Aisha assistant — no technical skills needed:

  1. Become a vendor.
  2. In your dashboard at /panel/vendor, open Aisha assistant and press Get connection code. The code works once and is valid for 15 minutes.
  3. Tell the code to Aisha in her Telegram chat. When she accepts it, the dashboard shows Connected.
  4. From then on you create and manage listings right from her chat — including rental-only listings with no sale price.
  • Tariff ladder: set a price for each period you offer and leave the rest blank. The length of a booking picks the single best rate the customer qualifies for, and the whole booking is charged at it.
  • Taking an offer down: set its stock to 0 — the listing is archived automatically. Stock above 0 brings it back.