The Booking Engine Setup Screen

Modified on Fri, 7 Feb at 10:56 AM

Navigate to the Booking Engine module in the menu.

Online check-in payment

Not actually a part of the booking engine however it is an important payment option.

In this dropdown you can either choose to:

Collect payment during the online check-in;
Or no payment during the online check-in.

To collect payment during the booking process on the booking engine, navigate to My Property > select the rate type you wish and select how much you would like to take as prepayment.

Guest Details

Here you can select which details you would like to collect during the booking process in the booking engine.

Available Languages

Select in which languages you would like to offer your booking engine. Make sure to translate all content for the categories and rates (in My Property) to these languages as well.

City Tax

Here you can choose if you want to display your prices in your Booking Engine including the city tax or if you want the applicable city tax to be shown separately during the booking process.

You can also choose if you want the city tax to be pre-paid.

Add Ons (Prepayment)

You can select if you’d like to include add-ons in the booking engine pre-payment or not.

Multi Property Dropdown

If you have a multi-property account, you can choose here if you’d like to link your properties in the booking engine as well. This means guests can use a dropdown to navigate between your properties.

Booking times & Guest communication

Bookable until: this is the latest time guests can book at your property (in hours).

Maximum bookable stay: how long guests can stay at your property (in days).

First arrival time: what time guests can arrive.

Last arrival time: latest time you allow guests to check-in.

BE minimum initial book days: a setting that allows you to preset minimum stay days on the booking engine. For example; if your property only works with 7-night stays you can preset it here (instead of default on 1-night).

Online checkout link send time: if you make use of the online check-out setting, choose the time of sending out the document here.

Customise the default name of the 'rooms' in the booking engine

If your property does not cater for ‘rooms’ but a different type of unit like for example; apartments, tents etc.

Widgets for your website

To link the booking engine to your website, we provide you with these widgets.

Please find more information about

Discount codes

In this section you set up your discount codes. Please read more about it here.

Branding

This is where you can customise certain elements of the booking engine to match your hotels branding.

Booking conditions

If you have certain booking conditions for your guests, you can provide them with that information through this box. Remember to translate this to all languages.