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The Booking Engine can be accessed using the  custom URL assigned to your poperty. This custom URL can be placed anywhere on your website  "Book Now" buttons, emails, social media, etc. Basically, anywhere that you want a link to your booking engine.

To see how each Booking Engine looks with your property, go to SETUP | BOOKINGS | WEBSITE CODE. There will be three options listed. Click on the custom link provided to view your property in each Booking Engine.

To get the link your Booking Engine, copy and paste the custom URL ito he appropriate page on your website.

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Multi Room Type Booking Engine (https://book.bookingcenter.com/02/?site=xxxxx)

This Booking Engine template is advertised at: http://www.bookingcenter.com/interfaces-and-modules/bookingengine-api/ and allows a property who has multiple Room Types, with multiple Rates and Packages, to have a graphically-rich Booking Engine accessed via a QuickReservation link.  The URL parameter pass-through is a dynamic URL construction to hand off the reservation request from an external website to get results from the BookingCenter XML Server. It accepts these variables.

Single Room Type Booking Engine (https://book.bookingcenter.com/01/?site=xxxxx)

This Booking Engine template is more simple and is used by properties who sell each Room (or Type) with a single rate, and doesn't want to visually break our Package Rates from regular Rates.  This is also a graphically-rich Booking Engine that can be accessed via a dynamic URL construction to hand off the reservation request from an external website to get results from the BookingCenter XML Server. It accepts the same variables as the Multi Room Type and Package Booking Engine above. 

Legacy Booking Engine (http://requests.bookingcenter.com/enquiry.phtml?site=xxxx)

For our Legacy Booking Engine, we provide sample code below to facilitate your HTML coding in this HelpDesk article, and we host a JavaScript file to assist with date formatting. If this HTML information is to complex for you - no worries! BookingCenter staff will do this work for you, or we'll assist your webmaster. Simply send us the login ID and password for your website and we can place this code for you.

 

Making 'Quick Reservation' HTML for your website

Web traffic analysis shows that each page of a property website ought to have a clear 'call to action' accepting 'Arrival Date" and 'Departure Date' and, when submitted, the user gets availability results from the Booking Engine for those dates.  Because BookingCenter supports three different Booking Engine technologies, the Quick Reservation code specification is a bit different between the Booking Engine services.  For more details, see https://support.bookingcenter.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/353

 

 

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