Online Booking for Your Hotel Website
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Your route to profitable online bookings
You own a hotel. You have a website. But how do you get it working for you? How do you avoid paying high agency commissions? The answer is Welcome Online - your route to profitable online bookings.
At Welcome, we know how profitable online booking can be if you take advantage of your most valuable sales channel - your own website. For many hotels, guesthouses and B&Bs, it is a dormant, forgotten source of business. Welcome Online will help realise its revenue potential.
Built seamlessley into your existing website, it will follow your branding and offer guests a simple, intuitive way of checking availability and making reservations.
The ability to offer discount codes will get them flying through the virtual door and the optional extras feature will ensure you can raise the value of each booking by offering additions such as champagne on arrival or choclates in the room.
Welcome Online links fully with Welcome booking systems which results in you not having to lift a finger - it will automatically sell your room stock under the terms and rates you set and is aware of any changes in availability and tariff. Got a wedding next weekend? No problem, simply turn it off for that period.
Be part of Welcome Online and join hundreds of hotels throughout the UK benefitting from profitable online booking.
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Live integration with your booking chart
Welcome Online is compatible with the Welcome 21st Property Management System for hotels and the Welcome Anywhere booking system for B&Bs and guesthouses.
Room rates, special offers and packages are published on your website and instantly updated whenever you adjust them in-house. You can set prices from day-to-day, apply restrictions such as minimum stays and offer special rates to corporate customers without alienating new business. Room availability is constantly synchronised with your front desk (for example, if you take a telephone booking) and any bookings made through your website are automatically transferred to the reservation chart.
And dont worry, you have complete control over how much availability you are offering.
Fits seamlessly into your existing website
The online booking system can be integrated into your existing website quickly and is a simple job for most web designers. The booking pages are customised with your branding and don't look like many of the generic online booking systems available. At the end of the booking process, the guest can be automatically redirected to any webpage of your choosing.
Below are some examples of the system in action. You will note the ability to implement an arrival date calendar on the homepage, tempting any visitors to quickly search for availability.
Examples:
The availability chart - show guests the full picture
Many guests can be flexible with their arrival date, and the calendar (see below) will display colour-coded availability for days either side of the arrival date they've searched for. Clicking a different date takes them straight to the tariff for that day. The number of rooms available can either be shown or hidden from view. You might not be able to satisfy their first request, but there's a chance they'll spot another date that takes their fancy.
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Optional extras
It's important that you maximise the value of every online booking. Welcome Online makes this easier by allowing you to offer guests optional extras for their stay. These might include champagne on arrival for your romantic packages, room upgrades or even excursion tickets if you have an agreement with a local tourist attraction. You'll no doubt have plenty of other ideas as to how you can enhance your guests' stay and increase their booking value to you - the only limit is your imagination! Click here to view the optional extras demonstration.
Discount codes
The discount code feature allows percentage-based discounts to be offered to guests booking via your website. Codes can be run over certain time periods or activated as and when needed. Particularly useful for seasonal promotions, or web discounts, the codes are entered by the guest during the booking process and automatically deduct the appropriate percentage from the total stay.
When used in conjunction with e-marketing campaigns, discount codes can often be the hook which convinces customers to place their booking with you. Also, if a guest books via an agency, avoid paying commission twice by offering them a discout code to use on your own website for their return stay...
What does it cost?
Online booking shouldn't have to cost an arm and a leg. That's why we charge just 3% per booking with no set up fee. That ensures every online booking you receive from your website is profitable.
If you run a guesthouse or B&B, Welcome Online is included as standard with the Welcome Anywhere Booking System, which starts at just £35 +VAT per month.
Channel management
We can also offer interfaces to third party booking agencies such as Booking.com and Laterooms. To find out more, head over to the channel manager page.
What our customers say
“We have been using the online booking system now since spring and it has made such an amazing difference to the way we operate and market our hotel accommodation. It has opened avenues of internet advertising that are just so powerful yet can be so easily controlled and monitored by us.
“It saves many man hours and increases efficiency – not to mention the massive database that is being silently built in the background!"
The Carpenter's Arms
Software Overview:
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Instant allocation and live availability; a few clicks of the mouse from the customer and the booking appears on your reservation chart
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Complete control over availability and rates
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Corporate customer login for preferential business rates
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Upsell your additional services via the optional extras feature (more)
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Offer guests promotional codes to enter during the booking process for a percentage discount (more)
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Let guests see the full picture with the availability calendar
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Online payments straight into your bank account via Worldpay, PayPal, SecureTrading or Barclays Online
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Seamlessly integrated into your existing website
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Advertise special offers and integrate them into your packages
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Flexible payment options
Call us on 0845 4582121 or email to find out more.
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