If you have a room in your studio that sits empty part of the day, you can offer it for rent through Zenamu to other instructors and organizers. You create a listing for a specific room, set a price and availability, and let people book the open time slots. This article walks you through building a listing and publishing it.
Before you start
Space rental is available on the Ultimate plan and during the trial. Before you can publish a listing, you need at least one working payment method that renters can pay with:
Card online — requires a connected Stripe account with card payments enabled.
PayPal — requires a connected PayPal account in Settings → Payments; it's then offered to renters automatically.
Bank transfer or pay at the studio — require the payment method to be active in Settings → Payments and enabled on the listing.
So Stripe isn't mandatory. Without it, renters simply won't see the card option, and your rentals can run on PayPal or bank transfer alone. If you do want to offer card payments and haven't connected Stripe yet, go to Settings and finish the connection. It only takes a few minutes.
Where to find the feature
You manage space rentals on the Space rental page. You reach it from Settings → Locations, where each room has a link to its rental listing. To keep your main menu uncluttered, Space rental is hidden from it by default — you can add it with the Pin to menu switch in the top right of the rental page.
Creating a listing
You create a separate listing for each room, so if you rent out two halls, you'll have two listings.
When you create a listing, you fill in:
Room — pick one of your studio's rooms. Each room can have only one active listing.
Price per hour — the amount in your studio's currency. The total price of a booking is calculated from it based on the length.
Minimum and maximum booking length — the shortest and longest rental a renter can book (say, from 1 to 8 hours). You set the length in half-hour steps.
Availability — the days and times when the room can be rented. For each day of the week you set time windows, such as Monday 9:00–14:00.
You can also add details that help people decide:
Photos — up to 8 shots of the room.
Tour video link — an optional link to a video on YouTube or Vimeo.
Amenities — choose from the common options (sound system, projector, Wi-Fi, shower, changing room, parking), or type your own and confirm with Enter. Handy for anything specific, like a hot tub, a changing table, or loungers.
Space rules — your rental terms, with formatting: what to watch out for, how many people the room holds, and so on. The renter agrees to them when booking.
How renters will pay
With a connected Stripe account, renters can pay by card online — they pay right when they send the request, and the money goes straight to your Stripe account. With a connected PayPal account, PayPal is offered the same way. On each listing, you can also enable:
Bank transfer — the renter gets payment details with a QR code and a payment reference. You approve the request before the money arrives; if the transfer doesn't come in by the due date, the booking is cancelled automatically and the slot is freed.
Pay at the studio — the renter pays you in person at the studio. You then mark the payment as received in the Orders section.
You can turn on either of these extra methods only when that payment method is active in Settings → Payments.
How you'll confirm requests
On each listing, you choose how bookings are handled:
Requires approval (default) — you review each request first and decide whether to confirm it. You have 24 hours. Useful when you want to keep track of who's using the room and when.
Instant confirmation — bookings are confirmed right away without your input (for card payments once they're paid; for bank transfer and pay at the studio, as soon as the request is sent). It saves time, but you can't turn down a specific booking.
The article Approving rental requests covers this in detail.
Listing states
Every listing is in one of four states:
Draft — you're still working on the listing. No one can see it publicly and it can't be booked.
Published — the listing is live. People can see it and book time slots.
Paused — you've hidden the listing for now. New bookings aren't possible, but bookings that are already confirmed still stand and will go ahead. You keep seeing the listing in the admin and can publish it again anytime.
Archived — you no longer offer the listing. It's hidden publicly but stays in the admin for your records and accounting. Already-confirmed bookings still go ahead.
What you need before publishing
Before a listing can go live, Zenamu checks that you've filled in the essentials:
a listing name,
a price per hour above zero,
at least one availability window,
at least one working payment method (card via Stripe, PayPal, or an enabled bank transfer or pay-at-the-studio option),
the Ultimate plan or the trial.
If something's missing, Zenamu tells you and holds off on publishing. Fill in the missing details and try again.
Visibility and the direct link
Every listing has a Show on the public schedule toggle. When it's on, the listing appears in the Space rental section of your public page, where anyone can find and book it. When it's off, the listing is Unlisted (available via direct link only) and stays reachable only through the direct link you copy from the listing detail. That's useful when you want to offer the room to a select few rather than everyone.
The direct link works for a draft, too. As the logged-in studio admin, you'll see the listing with a note that it's an unpublished draft, so you can preview it through a renter's eyes before you publish.