To offer promo codes through Use Promo Codes to offer discounts and specials on your website booking engine. These Promo Codes can be used to deliver specific or discounted rate plans or packages by using a local agent Agent and then mapping that 'promo code' to the agents allocations. To Agents Allocations. Follow these steps to set up a Promo Code and corresponding Rate Plan. - First you need to enable the use of
promo codes go to Settings -> Booking Engine Settings - Promo Codes. Go to SETUP | SETTINGS | BOOKING ENGINE SETTINGS and set 'Use Promo Code' to 'Yes'
, this - . This will enable the promo code box on the
enquiry - inquiry page of the Booking Engine. See Booking Engine Settings
- Next
you have to - , modify or setup the proper local agent
, to do so go to Relationships -> My Agents. You can use - . Go to SETUP | RELATIONSHIPS | MY AGENTS. Use an existing local agent or create a new one, however it is important to notes that the Agent ID becomes
the promo code. On the agent details you must - the Promo Code. To enable the Promo Code in the Agent. Go to the Agent details and set the Agent Class
= - to Promo Code.
Then - See My Agents
- Once this is completed, then simply allocate the
desired rate plans or packages - Rate Plans or Packages to the proper
room - Room types and to the
agent. Below we'll provide two examples for - Agent/Promo Code in Agent Relationships. SETUP | RELATIONSHIPS | AGENT RELATIONSHIPS. See Agent Allocations
Here are two examples of how to use promo code agents to either provide a flat discount, or to sell a packageas a Package. These are just two examples of how using Agent Allocation features in BookingCenter can help your online marketing.
Flat Discount: Our hypothetical property wishes to offer a 15% discount to all employees of a local company 'Ted's Widgets' when staying in our Queen or King rooms. We first create our local agent at Relationships -> My Agents named TEDWIDG and SETUP | RELATIONSHIPS | MY AGENTS and name it TEDWIDG, we also set the agent class to 'promo code'. Next we go to Relationships -> Agent Relationships to SETUP | RELATIONSHIPS | AGENT RELATIONSHIPS and allocate our rack rate planRack Rate Plan(s) for the Queen and King types to the agent. Once that's done, while still on the Agent Relationships screen we once again find agent TEDWIDG and set Rate Load to -15.
When employees of Ted's Widgets go to make a booking on the booking engine they would enter TEDWIDG in the promo code box and the types returned Room Types and Rates displayed to them would be adjusted by the rate loading, in this case 15%.
Selling a Package: Our hypothetical property has a dynamic or fixed package in which we offer a two night stay in a queen room and one full day of guided fly fishing. We want people to be able to book this off our website with the code 'FLYGUIDE' so we create a local agent named FLYGUIDE and set the agent class to promo code. Then we allocate only the desired package to the queen type for agent FLYGUIDE. Because we're not trying to discount the package via the promo code there's no need to adjust rate loading. |