Customisable booking widget; room images; booking tags

Three major new features released this morning:

(During this release, we unexpectedly had to take the live server offline for about 10minutes at around 0900 GMT, sorry about that.)

1. Customisable booking widget.

Under Settings > Online Bookings you'll see two new options:

Customise size and basic appearance takes you to a screen where you generate code for a widget with custom parameters:

 You can set:

• Width
• Height
• Show calendar or simple date picker
• Show room/extra images and/or notes (Image? What image? Images are new also, see below.)
• Tags
• Limit to some rooms only

You can use this to generate several widgets (for example, you could have one widget showing just your B&B rooms; and another widget on a different page of your site showing just your rental units)

Edit CSS lets you use your own CSS file to control the colours and layout of the widget. This gives you complete control over the look-and-feel of the widget, so you can make it blend seamlessly with your existing website ... but is definitely a feature for geeks only! (If you don't know what CSS is, and would like to learn, try this tutorial.)

2. Room and extra images

Under the accommodation screen, you'll see a new option to upload an image for each room:

Upload an image, then check the "Room Image" checkbox under Settings > Online Bookings > Customise size and basic appearance. The image will then appear in your booking widget.

Same with extras, each extra can now also have an image:

3. Tags

You can also now tag each booking. You can either do this using the widget (so each booking coming from a particular widget can have a particular tag); or do it manually on the booking details screen:

Tags also now appear in your export file, so you can analyse bookings based on tags that you apply to each booking.

Enjoy!

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