Accommodation Booking System

It is easy to take bookings for accommodation.

Customer Experience

• Customer adds their selected room type (aka products) to their cart. 
• On the next page, the customer is prompted to select an arrival date and departure date. 
• The customer will only see availability for their room types and room quantity.
• The customer can be prompted to pay a deposit, pay in full, or nothing at all, and complete the order. 

Getting Started

1. Configuring Accommodation Booking

To do this go to E-commerce > Setup Options (under bookings section) 

• Configure the minimum notice you want before taking a booking, eg to avoid same day bookings. 
• Configure the maximum notice, to avoid customers booking too far into the future. 
• Add all of your rooms as "resource calendars". Specify any special features of the room for later use. 

2. Add each room type as a new Product

• Add each room type as a new product, of type "accommodation"
• Choose ADD PRODUCTS, then ADD ACCOMMODATION (DAY HIRE) as the product type.
• For each room type, you can optionally specify tag filters, so that only matching rooms are used. This is important if you want to sell certain rooms at a higher rate for special features, but still have the room available for a different product type. 
• 12 noon is the start/end time of each booking for accommodation. You can still add terms and conditions specifying a different check-in/checkout time, as that calendar time is not known to customers. 

3. Setting deposits

Deposits can be set per-product via the PRICING tab when editing the product, or you can set a payment option itself to allow deposits via its payments settings (this would be applicable for any product that uses the gateway)