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Online Booking
What
Exactly
Is
an Online Booking?

Online booking is a software tool that offers a solution for reservation processes. They feature self-service portals that ease transactions for you and your users. These solutions have succeeded in previous cumbersome systems where agents manually used spreadsheets to manage inventory and track bookings.

Online booking systems overcome the error-prone processes that go with manual input. Instead, key processes such as inventory management, payment, scheduling, and tracking of bookings are updated automatically. Through a simplified dashboard, customers can view existing options and select their preferred bookings. They can do this on the same web page without being taken to another website.

How Does an
Online Booking Work?

Online booking systems are typically cloud-based software that allows businesses to accept payments and run and manage reservations. It is distributed as a software-as-a-service (SaaS). Typically it is integrated into your website and, if necessary, into your social media pages also. There is both a back end and a front end to the booking system, with the latter facing the customer.

  • We will help you to set up the software review or control your reservations and inventory. You do this through its dashboard management tool, which appears on the back end.
  • Unlike spreadsheets which typically need cross-referencing, the booking software gives you all the needed information in one location.
  • The initial setup of your online booking system will take a little time. This is because we need to customize your procedures and content to suit the unique policies of your business.
  • Automation runs the whole system once it is set up, making it simple and convenient. This follows the activation process of the system, which controls all its different parts like report writing, booking form, notification, payment settings, and analytics preferences.
  • When customers visit your site, they can fill out booking forms after selecting what service they want. In just a few minutes they can complete their booking and payment. 

Any changes are updated in real-time so that both
you and your customers can see them.

Online Booking Systems

Advantages
Your business is open around the clock
Customers who make a decision to book a service or a table don't want to wait until you are in the office — they want to lock in the activity on their own schedule. Using an online booking system means that your business is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. ‍
You can maximize reservations
Customers who book their own reservations are more likely to show up, making no-shows a thing of the past. If a customer does need to cancel, the spot automatically opens online, giving another customer the chance to book it. By maximizing your reservations, you won't leave unused spots or rentals on the table.
You get paid quicker
With an online booking system, you can require customers to prepay for activities and rentals. This puts money into your pocket faster and helps make sure that on the day of the event you don't have to worry about payment — giving you and your customers more time and less stress.
You're not tied to a phone
If a customer calls a tour or activity company and gets routed to voicemail, they may call back later — or they may call their second-choice. Online booking means you capture more potential business because reservations and information are always available. It also means you can run your reservations with more efficient staff and manpower.
You can effortlessly up-sell add-ons
You can always add more guides, offer more activities, or expand your hours to grow your business, but all of those take work. By adding additional perks to your customers, you can easily add extra revenue for your business. Fun extras like photo packages or memorabilia, you can include options to these items in your online booking checkout.
It's easy to manage your calendar
Online booking systems allow you to check your reservations and availability wherever you are using any mobile device. You always know the status of your business, and your schedule can be easily managed from a convenient location. Quickly determine your most popular sellers, the most requested time slots, or even the most popular add-ons by using an online booking system with robust insights.

With so much competition, it has become inevitable to switch from your pen-and-paper system to an online booking platform.

Regardless of how big or small the business is, customers around the world expect a seamless experience with a user-friendly platform to create their bookings.

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This plugin works well for all types of businesses, including little cafés, bars, and large restaurants.
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In short, convert website visitors into restaurant guests.

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Restaurant
155One Time Payment
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  • Email template customization 

  • Collect pre-payment 

  • Promo Tools

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BnB
175One Time Payment
  • Accommodation Types

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  • Booking Rules

  • Services & Amenities

  • rates & Seasons

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  • Synchronization OTA via iCal

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  • Service Management

  • Scheduling Capabilities

  • Pricing & Payment

  • Customer Management

  • Manage Appointments & Staff

  • Promo Tools

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Restaurant
35per Month
  • Setup tables

  • Open & blocked time

  • Email template customization 

  • Collect pre-payment 

  • Promo Tools

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BnB
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  • Accommodation Types

  • Property Details

  • Booking Rules

  • Services & Amenities

  • rates & Seasons

  • Taxes And Fees

  • Synchronization OTA via iCal

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Frequently Asked Questions

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An online booking system is a natural option to choose if you want your operations to run more efficiently. It is faster and more accurate, putting less strain on your staff and easing your performance tracking to aid better decision-making. Such a system is also crucial to put you on par or to surpass your competition. It would be suicidal to pass over the booking software option when all your competitors have adopted it.

You should choose the OTP plan if:

  1. your website was not put online by us,
  2. you don’t want to sign up for a monthly plan.

You can opt for a monthly plan at any time, not just when we create your website.

We only offer you the best solutions available on the market. Knowing that the configuration requirements for a restaurant reservation system are not the same as for a night in a B&B or for booking an hour’s training with your sports coach, when there is a dedicated solution, we select it. This ensures greater efficiency and also guarantees that your reservation system will meet your needs today and tomorrow.

If we have created your website and host it, it is easier for us to guarantee a “bug-free” result if you want to add a “Booster” at a later date!
In summary, all our services are available to everyone, but if your website is not hosted by us, we will need to assess the feasibility of implementing the webservice and charge you most of the time a flat fee “OTP”.