Guide to pricing and owner earnings
The booking price is the price paid by the driver at booking. It includes:
- The base rate of the rental: This is dependent on the daily rate of your car and the duration of the trip. it is composed of your earnings and our commission fee.
- Additional costs on top of the base rate: drivers pay for protection plan, service fee and options.
Note: the booking price doesn’t include extra costs like missing fuel, extra mileage, or penalties.
1. The Base Rate
To calculate the base rate, we add up your daily rate for each day of the rental and apply any available discounts. The base rate includes both your earnings and our service fee.
Daily rate
You set daily rates in the price calendar of your car. Each date in the calendar has its own daily rate.
Access your price calendar by going to Your cars > select the car > “Price for Carshare”
When a car is booked, we add up your daily rates according to the rental dates. This is the first step when calculating the base rate.
Rentals are priced on an hourly basis. Consequently, we compute the proportion of the daily rates spanning each date.
Example: a rental starts on July 4th at 08:00am and ends on July 5th at 06:00pm. The daily rates are $80 for July 4th and $60 on July 5th.
In this situation, the base rate, before discount, is $98. Calculation: 80 / 24 * 16 + 60 / 24 * 18
Discounts
To stay competitive with professional rental agencies, we automatically apply discounts based on the rental duration:
- Hourly rental (1-24 hours): The base rate is a portion of your daily rate. Once the rental duration reaches 24 hours, the base rate equals your daily rate.
- 1-day rental (24 hours): The base rate is equal to your daily rate.
- 2-day rental or more (24.5 hours+): We apply a discount to the total sum of your daily rates.
Read more about long duration discounts.
2) Additional costs to the driver
Booking Fee
Drivers pay a service fee, which helps us maintain and improve our platform.
Protection Plan
Drivers can choose to buy a protection plan to reduce their damage fee and receive better protection in the case of an accident.
Mileage Package
Drivers have the option to buy additional mileage. Read more about mileage allowances and packages.
License Fee
A flat fee to cover license verification for drivers renting for the first time on Getaround.
Extra Costs - From the Booking Price to the Total Price
After the rental, the driver is charged for any extra mileage, missing fuel, or penalties. You are compensated for these additional charges, which are included in your total earnings.
How we calculate your net earnings
1) At booking, we calculate the base rate and subtract our service fee. Our service fee is a fixed percentage of the base rate. Go to Your cars > select the car > “Price for Carshare” to find out the service fee rate.
2) After the rental, we add on any extra costs paid by the driver. We subtract an admin fee or commission from some of these, such as extra mileage, fuel refill fees (but not the cost of the fuel itself), and certain penalties. Examples of adjustments and penalties are:
This article contains information specific to certain registration countries. Please refer to the international version of this article for other cases.
