Tips & Tricks - Managing Price Group links

URL’s can be changed to display different views, this is achieved by adding parameters to the reservations URL.

• Where can you find a list of available price groups?

• Booking Paramaters

  • Reservation URL

  • Clear date (kd=y)

  • Arrival date (date_in=)

  • Minimum stay (nn=2)

  • Displays open variation (vgo=1)

  • Flexible dates (action=grid)

  • Single occupancy (adults=1)

• How to creating  a link?

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Where can you find a list of available price groups?

3.Optimise sales > Offers and Rooms > See available Offers and Rooms

 

Green label ‘public’ means that offer is bookable on the booking engine, or is present in the website navigation:

 

Red label ‘private’ means that the offer is only bookable from a URL (closed user group, private event etc)

 

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Booking Paramaters

Reservation URL

This is the page url of the reservation page in which the the Booking Engine (iframe) is embedded. This presents the Booking Engine results in an unfiltered view related to the default setup created in Super / Hotel Admin.

EG. https://www.trinitycityhotel.com/en/reservations/

&kd=y

Prevents a date being pre-populated in the engine

https://www.yourhoteldomain.com/en/reservations/?kd=y

https://www.yourhoteldomain.com/en/reservations/?price_group=134217728&kd=y&vgo=1

&date_in=

Specify the arrival date - this is useful to remove any negative messaging for date specific packages:

E.g. Arrival date 1 December :

https://www.yourhoteldomain.com/en/reservations/?262144&date_in=2022-12-01&nn=1

&nn=2

Arrival date 1 December and minimum stay of 2 nights:

https://www.yourhoteldomain.com/en/reservations/?262144&date_in=2022-12-01&nn=2

&vgo=1

Displays open variation (recommended)

?action=grid

Flexible dates - view rates on grid

https://www.yourhoteldomain.com/en/reservations/?action=grid&kd=y

?action=grid&price_group=2&date_in=2022-12-01

Flexible dates - view rates on grid & specify arrival date

https://www.yourhoteldomain.com/en/reservations/?action=grid&price_group=2&date_in=2022-12-01

?adults=1

For Single occupancy

https://www.yourhoteldomain.com/en/reservations/?adults=1

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How to creating  a link?

Start here

This is the page url of the reservation page in which the the Booking Engine (iframe) is embedded. Us this as a stating point in which to build your page URL.

https://www.drumhiernyhideaway.ie/en/

Add Book Now Button

In the smart CMS we can add links to the main content via the content editor or we can use the page url field in content blocks to create a button that links to the reservations page.

EG. https://www.yourhoteldomain.com/en/reservations

Specific Offer

The following examples all contain the base reservation page URL with an additional extension known as paramaters that are used to filter the information presented in the Booking Engine (iframe). 

https://www.yourhoteldomain.com/en/reservations/?price_group=128

?pricegroup=128 that is the price group attached to a specific package - only those packages attached to that pricegroup will be shown.

Adding parameter &vgo=1 Opens the variation

https://www.yourhoteldomain.com/en/reservations/?price_group=128&vgo=1

Adding parameter &sv=false removes the variation

https://www.yourhoteldomain.com/en/reservations/?price_group=128&sv=false

Adding parameter &action=grid displays the calendar in flex dates mode:

https://www.yourhoteldomain.com/en/reservations/?price_group=128&action=grid

Adding parameter &date_in=2023-09-05&nn=1 bring the booker to the date entered

https://www.yourhoteldomain.com/en/reservations/?price_group=128&date_in=2023-09-05&nn=1

Adding parameter &nn=4 tells the engine the Number of Nights = 4

https://www.yourhoteldomain.com/en/reservations/?price_group=128&date_in=2023-09-05&nn=4

The above paramaters can all be combined in a string in order to present the Booking Engine information to your exact needs.

https://www.yourhoteldomain.com/en/reservations/?price_group=128&date_in=2023-09-

05&nn=4&vgo=1

These are really all the main parameters you will need – for anything more complex we are here to help.