General features
Improve guest retention, increase conversion rates, and customise the information you display.
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- Quickbook booking widgetThe Quickbook booking widget is a small piece of code that displays a booking widget on your website.
- Process wait list requestsIf there is no availability the customer will be given the option to get in touch with the property using a booking request form.
- Export closed user group signupIf you wish to export the list of signups for the closed user group you will need to follow the steps below.
- Flash saleFlash sale discounts can be restricted to a subset of rates, rooms, and dates.
- Add privacy and cookie policiesUnderstand how to add links or content to your privacy and cookie policies.
- STAAH - Channel manager integrationSTAAH is a leading channel manager.
Design
Update your branding and design.
- Add or design your bannerAdd or design a banner for your booking engine.
- Choose your default view on the booking engine: room x rate or rate x roomSet how your rooms and rates are displayed by default on the booking engine.
- Multi-day availability viewsMulti day availability (MDA) on booking engine refers to the start day the booking engine will show when a date is selected for check-in.
- Edit pre, post stay and wait list emailsEach booking engine user has the ability to edit the contents of the pre, post and wait list emails.
- Send a copy of the pre and post stay emailsThis article details how to send a copy of the pre and post stay emails
- Occupancy filtering on the booking engine, quickbook and portalEnhance your guests' booking experience by enabling occupancy selection directly within the Quickbook widget.
- Review a pre or post stay emailHow can I see a copy of my pre and post stay email.
- How to update a guest confirmation emailTo update a guest confirmation email, follow the steps in this article.
- Rebrand on your booking engineA property may decide to rebrand their property if this is the case
- Update your font, style and colour on the booking engine.Change style, colours and fonts on your booking engine.
Tracking
Easily stay up to date with tracking.
- Third party tracking scriptsThis article outlines how to add third party tracking scripts to your booking engine.
- Cookie consent popup in the booking engineThe booking engine includes a built-in cookie consent popup to help you comply with global data privacy regulations like GDPR.
- Facebook codeAdd facebook code to your website or booking engine.
- Bing or Microsoft ads conversion trackingBing or Microsoft ads conversion tracking on your booking engine.
- Guarantee code overrideThis article gives an overview of the guarantee code override
- Learning modelsThis article gives an overview of the learning models on the booking engine.
- Recommender engine javascript APIThis article will outline details on how to access the API for the recommender engine integration.
- Recommender engine set up guideIn this article you will find an overview of what the recommender engine can do and how to get this set up for your property.
- Smart ordering in the booking engineSmart ordering enhances how rates and rooms are displayed in the portal, ensuring that the most relevant options appear first to users.
- Tracking codes the booking engine supportsTracking codes the booking engine supports are listed in this article.
Guest reservations
Managing and optimise your guest reservations.
- Failed reservationsThis article will outline how to identify a failed reservation
- Additional guest names in a reservationThis article will outline how to request to have all guests names noted on a reservation.
- Process cancellations in the booking engineThis article details how to process a cancelled reservation in the booking engine.
- Resend a confirmation emailThis article details how to resend confirmation emails.
- Reasons a guest would not receive a cancellation emailThis article details the reasons a guest would not receive a cancellation email
- Edit the confirmation emailThis article outlines how to edit the confirmation confirmation email text.
- Email confirmation featureAn additional box will appear on the book page to confirm the bookers email address.
- Manually cancel a reservationThis article shows you how to cancel a reservation or booking in the booking engine.
- Difference between hotel and guest confirmation emailThere are a few noted differences between the hotels confirmation email and the email guests receive.
- Disable a specific guests or all pre or post stay emailPrevent a pre or post stay email from being sent out to a guest.
- Book page guest informationOn the booking engine book page, it is possible to detail both the booker information and guest information.
- Credit card detail storage on reservationsThis article details how credit card details are stored.
- Credit card passthroughAlso known as tokenisation credit card passthrough is a paid service to allow credit card information to drop into your PMS without the need to access each reservation on the…
- Zero value credit card authorisation checkThis paid service will carry out checks to ensure the card details provided at time of booking are correct and functioning.
Guest retention
Maintain and improve guest loyalty.
- ReviewPro widget featureThe ReviewPro feature is a third party booking engine widget that presents review data to your customers.
- Private labellingPrivate labelling is functionality that enables you to have property branded booking engine links.
- Triptease widget not showingTriptease widget not showing on my booking engine.
- Enable HotelChampEnable HotelChamp on the booking engine.
- Enable TripteaseEnable Triptease on your booking engine.
- Anti Abandonment messageThe anti abandonment message will deter and reduce abandonment in the guest journey.
- Cancellation dashboardA cancellation dashboard is available in Insights to provide a high-level overview of cancellation patterns at your property.
- How did you hear optionsThis article outlines how to change how did you hear options.
- Price comparison widgetSHR has partnered with Lighthouse to develop a booking engine widget that quickly compares prices with those on leading OTAs.
- Explicit consent options for newsletter signupsThis article outlines how to activate explicit consent options for newsletter sign ups.
Good to know
Insightful and informative articles on various topics.
- Timed announcementsCreate timed announcements to display on your booking engine.
- Booking engine for propertiesThis article gives a summary of the booking engine and the process to get this.
- The booking engine change potential over timeThis article outlines how and why the booking engine can change over time.
- Change logIf you would like to view updates made to a room or rate you can do this via the change log.
- Feedback on the booking engineThis article outlines where feedback can be left on the booking engine.
- Booking engine experiencing high trafficIf your booking engine is experiencing high traffic press the Please Proceed button to continue.
- Property management systems and channel managers that integrate with the booking engineThis article will list all the property management systems and channel managers that integrate with the booking engine.
- Third party payment gatewaysOutlined below are the third party payment gateways available to use on the booking engine.
- CRM Dashboard explainedThis article will outline each section of the CRM dashboard.
- Locate your site or property IDIn the article you will learn how to retrieve your site or property ID.
Upsells
Make the most of potential upsell opportunities.
- Close out an upsell for specific daysClose out an upsell for certain days.
- Notification if an upsell is purchasedNotify an email if an upsell is purchased.
- UpsellsUpsells allow you to create extra addon's that the customer can choose to add to their reservation at the time of booking.
- Make an upsell compulsoryMake an upsell compulsory or mandatory as part of the booking process.
- Leadin time for an upsellThis article shows how you set a lead-in for an upsell.
- Expand upsells by defaultThis article will explain how to expand upsells by default on booking engine.
- Prevent an upsell appearing on specific rates or roomsPrevent my upsell from appearing on certain rates or rooms.
- Change the price on an upsellUpdate pricing on an upsell.
- Create an upsell inventory blockInventory blocks for upsell items control how many can be sold and when. This prevents overbooking and manages upsell availability.
- Connect Trybe to the booking engineIf you're looking to integrate your Trybe account with the booking engine outlined below is the information on how to start the process.
- Trybe Integration on the booking engineThis article will give an overview of the Trybe Integration on the booking engine and how to get this set up.
Digital
Have an impactful digital footprint.
- Group digital glossaryThis article will explain a group digital glossary
- Content guidelines for hotel websitesThis article will outline information that will assist with content writing for your website.
- Google my business listingA Google my business account is a great way to help customers to find your business and it is free.
Currency
Learn about supported currencies and how to use conversions.
Edit site profile
Customise your site profile for a bespoke look and feel.
- Update the best rate guarantee messageThe best rate guarantee message presents the reasons why a customer should book a room in your property.
- Edit site profileEdit site profile is where you customize the booking experience. This article includes a full overview for building out your booking engine.
- Make your change date box open by defaultHave the changing date option open automatically.
- Edit terms and conditions appearanceEdit how terms and conditions appear on the booking engine.
- Disable confirmation emailsDisable confirmation emails for all customers.
- Check in time range on confirmation emailChange the check in time range on the confirmation email.
- Update purpose of stayChange or create a new purpose of stay option.
- Terms and conditions on a guest and hotel emailThis article will outline the difference between a hotel and guest confirmation email
- Enable purpose of stayIf it is important to know why a customer is staying in your property you can activate purpose of stay.
- Estimated time of arrival featureThis article will give an overview of the estimated time of arrival feature and how to activate this.
- Update tax and fee displayDue to changes in consumer transparency requirements, taxes and fees appear throughout the booking flow, not just at the final checkout step. This gives your guests a clearer picture of…
Payments
Understand different payment options available.
- Supported credit card types in the booking engineThe booking engine accepts a variety of credit and debit cards to facilitate guest bookings. The supported card types include:
- Merchant account providers with global paymentsMerchant account providers with global payments which work with the booking engine.
- Pay by credit card on PayPalHow a buyer will purchase a voucher via Paypal
- Payment options availableA property can have both Realex (Global Payments) and PayPal settings on the booking engine and voucher accounts.
- Payment gateways Booking Engine+ supportsWhat payment gateways does Booking Engine+ support.
- Set up Sage PaySage Pay is a payment gateway that is supported by the booking engine.
- Set up PayPalPayPal is an available payment gateway for both vouchers and the booking engine.
- Set up global paymentsThis article outlines the relevant information on global payments.
Guest conversion
Capture interest through waitlists and turn them into staying guests.
- Update your site scoreUpdate your site score to ensure your booking engine is using best practices.
- Utilise newsletter signupsUse the newsletter signup feature to gather your customers details and keep them up to date on your current special offers.
- Closed user groupsHow to create closed user groups on your booking engine.
- Turning waitlists on and offThe waitlist feature allows guests to express interest in fully booked room types, enabling your property to capture potential bookings.
- Partner sellingPartner selling is a great feature for a group of properties.
- WaitlistThe waitlist feature is used if a customer selects a date that is unavailable and they can request to be included in the waitlist.
- Dynamic room substitution (DRS)Dynamic room substitution (DRS) intelligently substitute rooms that may not be available to facilitate long-stay bookings.