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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 link, copy and paste the custom URL ito he into the appropriate page on your website. For best practices, don't use a basic link to open up the BookingEngine, rather use our 'Quick Reservation Code' you (or your webmaster) can learn to place here.

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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 and and allows a property who has multiple Room Types, with multiple with multiple Rates and Packages available for each Room, to have offer 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.so their customers can book multiple rooms with multiple rate options.  Because more choices are available to the consumer, the interface is more complex. This Booking Engine can be accessed via a basic URL or a QuickReservation link.  

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 similar to the Multi Room Booking Engine, but is designed to enable a consumer to book only one Room at a time (ie, book only one Queen room).  Because the options are less, the user experiences is less complex.  This Booking Engine can be accessed via a basic URL or a QuickReservation link as the Multi Room Type Booking Engine above. 

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

For our Our *Legacy* Booking Engine , we may be superior for some properties. It works for both Multi and Single Room needs, but is targeted to both needs, thus focused on neither. We provide sample code below to facilitate your HTML coding in this HelpDesk article, and we host a , and for folks who want a Quick Reservation feature, the Legacy Booking Engine uses a BookingCenter-hosted JavaScript file to assist with your date formatting. If this the HTML information is to too complex for you - no worries! BookingCenter staff will do this work for you, or we'll assist your webmaster. Simply send us add a Support Ticket with 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.  This saves the User a click and provides a 'Call to Action' on each page of your website.  Because BookingCenter supports three different Booking Engine technologies, the Quick Reservation code specification is a bit different between among the Booking Engine servicesEngine templates we provide.  For more details, see https://support.bookingcenter.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/353