Jomres Plugin

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The Jomres plugin gives you an interface to Beds24 channel manager which you can use to synchronise your booking channels. Jomres creates the properties in Beds24. You set up the channel manager in Beds24 to connect to the channels.


Contents

1 Capabilities

The capabilities of the connection depend on the channel. With booking.com and many others we have a two way XML connection so Beds24.com can export inventory and prices and import bookings and modifications to bookings. Check the capabilities of the channels you want to use

  • Jomres can send 4 prices and one minimum stay for each room for each date.
  • If you need more complex pricing (e.g multiple channels with different prices for each) you have the option to create them in Beds24.
  • Beds24 sends bookings back to Jomres.


2 What you will need

  • Accounts with the booking channels you want to use
  • A Beds24 account
  • The Jomres plugin


3 Where to get help

For issues regarding the interchange of data between Jomres and Beds24 please refer to your Jomres plugin support.

For issues regarding the setup and data interchange between Beds24 and Channels please contact Beds24 support.

4 Set up

  • The connection is initiated from Jomres. Please follow the instructions for the Jomres plugin.
  • You can enable the Jomres price rows for channel management at the menu Settings > Properties > Rooms > Setup > Channel Manager.
  • Go to SETTINGS->CHANNEL MANAGER in the Beds24 control panel and connect the channels you want to use. You will find specific set up instructions for each channel when you click on HELP or habe a look here.

Set up in Beds24 is free and you can do it yourself. Beds24 is designed as a self service system with context sensitive help, extensive documentation and a free-of-charge ticket support system.


5 Redirect to Jomres Booking page

You can use the Booking Redirect URL setting to redirect traffic from the Beds24 booking page to your Jomres booking page. This can be used with tripconnect, the facebook app etc. so the guest does not see the Beds24 page.

To pass collected dates to Jomres add the following to the end of your Jomres booking page URL

&start=[FIRSTNIGHTDD/MM/YYYY]&end=[LEAVINGDAYDD/MM/YYYY]

To show your Jomres booking page within the facebook app it will need to be hosted with a secure certificate and the URL must start with https://