Category:Developers
This page is about the menu (SETTINGS) > BOOKING ENGINE > PROPERTY BOOKING PAGE > DEVELOPERS
The booking page can be embedded in a page using an Iframe or opened with a link or form. It can be fully customised in This page is about the menu (SETTINGS) > BOOKING ENGINE. This page gives an overview. Additional options for developers are:
Contents
1 Custom Text
Any fixed text on the booking page can be exchanged in This page is about the menu (SETTINGS) > BOOKING ENGINE > PROPERTY BOOKING PAGE > DEVELOPER > "Custom Text"
For more information please read the context help (?).
2 Custom CSS
Custom CSS can be added in This page is about the menu (SETTINGS) > BOOKING ENGINE > PROPERTY BOOKING PAGE > DEVELOPERS > "Custom CSS"
To see a list of CSS examples look into this document: Custom CSS
3 External CSS file
It is possible to make the booking page use a CSS file that you supply, you must host the CSS file on a secure web server (using https:).
To do this you need to add the &cssfile parameter to the URL for the booking page, or for example the Iframe SRC.
You could do this to use different styling per page or site.
For example if your css file is: https://yoursite/path/your.css
Go to this site and encode it: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/
Add the resulting parameter to the booking page URL like this: &cssfile=https%3A%2F%2Fyoursite%2Fpath%2Fyour.css
Your CSS file will be included.
The external stylesheet needs to be hosted on a secure site (https) to be accepted by the secure Beds24 booking page.
Keywords: URL parameter, parameter, language, number of guests, web design, web designer, developer
4 Javascript
Javascript can be entered in This page is about the menu (SETTINGS)> BOOKING ENGINE > PROPERTY BOOKING PAGE > DEVELOPERS or in (SETTINGS) >BOOKING ENGINE > MULTI BOOKING PAGE> DEVELOPER "Advanced HTML Settings"
4.1 Redirects
For example: this would cause property 1234 to open in the parent window (frame busting) when it's book button is clicked on the multiple property page
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
$('#propid1234 a').attr('target', '_parent');
});
</script>
Check the settings under (SETTINGS) >BOOKING ENGINE > PROPERTY BOOKING PAGE > BEHAVIOUR before you add such a script.
4.2 Change the title text
Javascript to change the titletext.
<script>document.title='your title';</script>
4.3 Change date format
Javascript to change the date format.
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
$('#inputcheckin').data('date-format','MMMM DD, YYYY');
$('#inputcheckout').data('date-format','MMMM DD, YYYY');
})
</script>
<script>
window.onload = function() {
$("[id^='ptdate']").text(function(i, t) {
return t.split(' ').reverse().join(' ');
})
};
window.onunload = function(){};
</script>
4.4 Change the first day of the week in the datepicker
The start day of the week in the checkin and checkout selectors is set automatically based on the language selected by the guest, different languages have different standards for this. It is possible to override it on a per language basis.
This example changes English to start on Monday, The value of dow can be from 0 to 6 where 0 is Sunday. If you want to change multiple languages you would need to include a script for each language.
<script>
moment.updateLocale("en", { week: {
dow: 1
}});
</script>
5 Booking Page Parameters
The behavior of the booking page can be controlled with the following parameters passed in the URL or form. URL Parameters are always added in the format name=value. To separate them, the first parameter must have a ? before it and all following parameters must have an & before them. For example if you want to change the default for the numbers of night selector to 7 nights you change the link to your booking page from
https://beds24.com/booking2.php?propid=2047
to
https://beds24.com/booking2.php?propid=2047&numnight=7
Example: Make a booking page for selected rooms only
Use the propid to open the page and add &hideroom=22543 to hide a room. You can hide multiple rooms by comma separating them.
https://beds24.com/booking2.php?propid=2048&hideroom=3589,3588
Example: link to the booking page with dates pre populated:
https://beds24.com/booking2.php?propid=13437&checkin=2017-8-24&numnight=3
exchange these values with your data:
checkin=2017-8-24 - the date the guest wants to arrive
&numnight=3 - the number of nights the guest wants to book
Example: Link to a booking form with dates and room pre populated:
exchange these values with your data:
checkin=2017-8-24 - the date the guest wants to arrive
&numnight=3 - the number of nights the guest wants to book
&numadult=2 - number of adults
&numchild=0 - number of children
&br1-32919=Book - exchange 32919 with the room id the guest wants to book
&roomid=32919 - exchange 32919 with the room id the guest wants to book
Example: Booking form for a preselected room and dates
Create a URL like this:
You need to define:
1) propid
2) one of checkin or checkin_hide (different date formats)
3) one of checkout, checkout_hide or numnight
4) numadult and/or numchild
5) br1-32906=Book where "br1 is offer 1, br2 is offer 2 etc. and 32906 is the room to book.
| Parameter | Value | Description |
| https://beds24.com/booking.php | Path to booking page | At the very minimum there must also be one of propid, roomid or ownerid parameter |
| advancedays | number of days | This will set the initial date to this many days in advance of today. Only applies the first time the page is opened. If advancedays is not used the initial date will be the current date. The first date with availability can be specified by setting advancedays to the value -1. |
| checkin | check-in full date | The page will open at this check-in date |
| cssfile | encoded url | External css file for inclusion in booking page, the file must be available via a secure url (https) and the url must be url encoded. (http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/) |
| cur | AUD, CAD, EUR, GBP, NZD, USD, BGN, BRL, CHF, CNY, CZK, DKK, EEK, HKD, HRK, HUF, IDR, INR, JPY, KRW, MXN, MYR, NOK, PHP, PLN, RON, RUB, SEK, SGD, THB, TRY, VND, ZAR | Opens the page showing the currency converted. (responsive booking page only) |
| fdate_date | check-in date of month | The page will open at this check-in date, must be used with either fdate_monthyear or fdate_month and fdate_year. Must be in format DD |
| fdate_monthyear | check-in month and year | The page will open at this check-in date, must be used with fdate_date and be in the format MM-YYYY |
| fdate_month | check-in month | The page will open at this check-in date, must be used with fdate_date and fdate_year and be in the format MM |
| fdate_year | check-in year | The page will open at this check-in date, must be used with fdate_date and fdate_month and be in the format YYYY
|
| group | keyword | Show only properties that have this group keyword |
| hidefooter | yes, no | Do not show the property information at the bottom of the page |
| hideheader | yes, no | Do not show the property information at the top of the page. Do not use this option when using a "Full Width Slider".
|
| hideoffer | 1,2,3,4 | Do not show this offer on the booking page, multiple id's can be specified with a comma separating them. |
| hideprop | property id | Do not show this property on the booking page, multiple id's can be specified with a comma separating them. |
| hideroom | room id | Do not show this room on the booking page, multiple id's can be specified with a comma separating them. |
| invoicee | integer | Charges and payments will be assigned to this invoicee ID. |
| lang | en (English), ar (Arabic), bg (Bulgarian), ca (Catalan), hr (Croatian), cs (Czech), da (Danish), de (German), el (Greek), es (Spanish), et (Estonian), fi (Finnish), fr (French), he (Hebrew), hu (Hungarian), hy (Armenian), id (Indonesian - Bahasa Indonesia), is (Icelandic), it (Italian), ja (Japanese), ko (Korean), lt (Lithuanian), lv (Latvian) mn (Mongolian), my (Burmese), nl (Dutch), no (Norwegian), pl (Polish), pt (Portuguese), ro (Romanian), ru (Russian), sk (Slovak), sl (Slovenian), sr (Serbian), sv (Swedish), th (Thai), tr (Turkish), vi (Vietnamese), zh (Chinese simplified), zt (Chinese traditional) | Sets the default language to open the booking page. (2013 new style booking pages only) |
| layout | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, | Opens the responsive version of the booking page in this layout.
|
| maxprop | number of properties | Show a maximum of this many properties based on the sort order. Additional properties are hidden.
|
| maxroom | number of rooms | Only show a maximum of this many rooms based on the sort order. Additional rooms are hidden. |
| mobile=1 | mobile view | Display the booking page in mobile view |
| mobile=0 | desktop view | Display the booking page in desktop view |
| multiroom | 0, 1 | Opens the page with multi-room booking selected or unselected. (2013 new style booking page only) |
| numnight | number of nights | Initial value for the number of nights selector |
| numadult | number of adults | Initial value for the number of adults selector |
| numchild | number of children | Initial value for the number of children selector
|
| numdisplayed | number of nights with prices displayed | Only applies to price table pages, use this to reduce the number of nights for narrow designs |
| nogroup | keyword | Exclude properties that have this group keyword
|
| ownerid | id number of owner. | The page will open showing all properties and rooms for this owner |
| propid | id number of property. | The page will open showing this property. |
| redirect | encoded url | Redirect to this url, must start with http:// or https:// and be url encoded with a tool like http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/. The booking details are stored in session variables and will be available available to a booking page in an Iframe at your redirect URL as long as the Iframe is not overriding them in it's src url. |
| referer | text | This text will be recorded with any bookings originating from this widget allowing tracking of booking sources |
| roomid | id number of room. | The page will open showing this room. |
| toproom | room always shown on the top of the bookingpage | you can add mulitpel room IDs separated by a comma (resposive booking page only) |
| voucher | voucher code | Pre populates the discount voucher code |
| width | page width in px | Useful for embedding the booking page in an Iframe of fixed size |
6 Customise Booking Widgets
Code snippets for booking widgets are available in (SETTINGS) BOOKING ENGINE > BOOKING WIDGETS.
You can use HTML and CSS to create custom solutions.
Wordpress
If you use the Beds24 Wordpress plugin booking widgets and booking page can be added via a short code. Options and help regarding customisation can be found directly in the plugin settings.
Old booking page only:
|- | hidename || yes, no || Do not show the property name heading
|- | hidedesc || yes, no || Do not show the description
7 Custom Applications / API
We also have an API which allows developers to develop their own applications and solutions.
The API functions are available at https://api.beds24.com
The documentation is directly in the API.
To use the API you need to allow API access. Go to This page is about the menu (SETTINGS) > ACCOUNT -> ACCOUNT ACCESS and allow API access. The API is available at https://api.beds24.com. The XML functions can be accessed with your Beds24 username and password. The JSON functions can be created with a API and prop key which you set yourself in the Beds24 control panel This page is about the menu (SETTINGS) > ACCOUNT and This page is about the menu (SETTINGS) > PROPERTIES > ACCESS
8 Skip to Checkout Page from Beds24 Plugin Widget
You can bypass the booking page and redirect the widget directly to the checkout page by adding this parameter
customParameter:'br1-xxxx=book'
to the widget.
Replace xxxx with the room ID of the room you want to populate.
9 Create a website with the content in your Beds24 account
We have an integration with Rezintel which allows users/developers to create a website with the data you have in Beds24.
Go to Website builder for more details.
10 Suppress Google Translate
Add the following in the "Head" section:
<meta name=“google” content=“notranslate”>
<html translate=“no”>
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