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MaximumPeopleMaximum People: This is the total number of people this room can accommodate. A booking cannot be made for this room for more than this number of people. If Maximum Adults and Maximum Children are non zero the lowest of Maximum People or Maximum Adults plus Maximum Children will apply as the maximum room occupancy.
Test Do some test bookings to check everything is working and your done.
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*If you want to use another language than English on your booking page click on LANGUAGES and tick the ones you want to use
*Go to PROPERTIES - click on "EDIT" > DESCRIPTION and enter the name and the currency symbol you want to use
*Go to PROPTERIES -> INFORMATION and enter the information you want to display on your booking page. Fields yu leave empty will not be displayed.
*Go to PROPTERIES -> BOOKING QUESTIONS and determine what information you want to collect from your guest
*Go to COMMUNICATION -> GUEST NOTIFICATIONS and define the texts for your booking confirmation to your guests. . [[Template Variables]], which include information from the booking may be included.
'''Collect Number of Guests:'''
Maximum Adults: This is the maximum number of adults this room can accommodate. A booking cannot be made for this room including more than this number of adults. This can be used with the Maximum Children setting to specify the maximum number of adults and children that can be occupied. If both Maximum Adults and Max Children are zero then Maximum maximum People is used and the booking form will only ask for the number of guests.
Maximum Children: This is the maximum number of children this room can accommodate. A booking cannot be made for this room including more than this number of children. If you set this to zero the booking page will simply ask for the number of guests. There will be no field for the number of children. If required you can specify any age restrictions in your description and policy fields.
Dont forget to SAVE.
* Room type means rooms are interchangable and have the same price. Your guest will only book a room of this type and you can allocate any of the availble rooms of that type. If you have more than one room type add another room for each room type and set up
*If you want to display descriptions and/ or pictures on your booking page go to BOOKING PAGE -> DESCRIPTION and select for which property/room you want to enter the description and add it in each language you have enabled. The Booking instruction is valid for a property can be used to give important information e.g. a minimum booking period.
You are done with a basic setup of your booking page. If you want to customise the design of your booking page you can optionally do so under BOOKING PAGE -> DESIGN
*Now set your prices. The easiest way to do a basic pricing is: Go to DASHBOARD -> ROOM GRID. This is a table giving you a complete overview on your bookings, rates and inventory. By ticking the boxes you can select what you want to display.
Click in the DAILY PRICE row and set price and date range and click SAVE. You may modify individual dates as required. If you want to make dates unavailable you can click in OVERRIDE DATES. Each date can be set to BLACKOUT in which case it is not available. Set the rates for each roomtype.
*To avoid double bookings it is advisable to enter the bookings you already have. In DASHBOARD -> ROOM GRID you will find a row INVENTORY. The number shows rooms remaining to sell is also shown. They can be edited to quickly change your availability. Doubleclick to open a popup and save the changes.'''INVENVORY''' The number of rooms remaining to sell is also shown and they can be edited to quickly change your availability. Doubleclick to open a popup and save the changes. 'To ''Add Bookings''' add a booking click on the person+ icon, fill in the information and SAVE. Your booking has now been entered into the system.
Copy your widget to your website. To install the booking widgets on your web site you will need the ability to edit the HTML of your page. This may involve knowing the passwords for your web server and the ability to transfer your files. Your web hosting service should be able to provide information and assist you with this.
Setting up your Beds24.com account is free if you do it yourself. We can do the setup for you for a small one off fee starting from $19€19. Technical support for you or your webdesigner to integrate the availability calendars and booking widgets into your website is free. Upon request we can do this for you as well. Please contact clicking on SUPPORT in the top menu.
'''Step 4'''
'''Congratulations! You are now receiving online bookings.'''
