VisitScotland

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Synchronising Beds24.com with VisitScotland

Contents

1 General

2 Capabilities

  • Beds24.com can show your availability at visitscotland.com and allow direct bookings on your own booking page

For details please click here

3 Limitations

Visit Scotland require a tracking script and newsletter link on your booking page, see below for instructions to install these.

4 Beds24

1) Enable the Channel manager >> Visit Scotland >> Inventory check boxes for the rooms you want to sell at Visit Scotland.

2) Visit Scotland require you to track booking confirmations by saving the following script at the menu SETTINGS ->BOOKING PAGE ->DEVELOPERS. Insert "Confirmation Page Insert in HTML <HEAD>"

 <script type="text/javascript">var utag_data = { pms_site : "Beds24", vs_id : "[REFERRER2]", price : "[PRICENC]", currency: "GBP", product_name : "[PROPERTYNAME]", product_id : "[PROPERTYID]", arrival_date : "[FIRSTNIGHTYYYY-MM-DD]", nights : "[NUMNIGHT]", adults : "[NUMADULT]", children : "[NUMCHILD]", infants : "0", booking_type : "Bed & Breakfast"}</script><script type="text/javascript">    (function(a,b,c,d){    a='//tealium.hs.llnwd.net/o43/utag/visitscotland/pms/prod/utag.js';    b=document;c='script';d=b.createElement(c);d.src=a;d.type='text/java'+c;d.async=true;    a=b.getElementsByTagName(c)[0];a.parentNode.insertBefore(d,a);    })();</script>


3) Visit Scotland require that you include the following link to their newsletter on your booking confirmation page, save it at menu SETTINGS -> PROPERTIES -> CONFIRMATION MESSAGES

 <p align="JUSTIFY" class="western"><font face="Calibri, serif">We’d like to help you discover more about Scotland - to find great offers, ideas and further information sign up to VisitScotland’s e-newsletter today by clicking the following link: </font><a href="http://www.visitscotland.com/newsletter"><font face="Calibri, serif">http://www.visitscotland.com/newsletter</font></a></p>

Cancellation rules

Visit Scotland uses the cancellation rules set in the Beds24 system. The default is to never allow cancellations.

  • To allow cancellations go to SETTINGS->PROPERTIES->BOOKING RULES and change the setting for "Booking Cancellations by Guest"
  • We send offer 1 to Visit Scotland. To allow cancellations for offer 1 go to SETTINGS->PROPERTIES->ROOMS->OFFERS and change the setting for "Booking Cancellations by Guest"

5 Visit Scotland

Your id number is your Beds24 property Id number.

Log on to the VisitScotland Extranet [1] and follow VisitScotlands "Web Booking Integration with your VisitScotland Listing" instructions.

If you do not have a VisitScotland Extranet username and password you should contact the Tourism Services Team: [email protected].