Setting up On-line Booking and live Availability Checking:
Experience and research shows visitors like on-line booking with a rapidly increasing volume of reservations being made this way. The whole concept behind the web is seamless ease of use. If having attracted and interested site visitors to the point where they want to book your facilities then the easiest way of closing the sale is to provide the means to check availability and complete a booking on-line.
From the supplier's view point on-line booking saves on administration and gives you a booking office open 24/7. Customers also love being able to book anytime any day and the facility to easily explore and compare what's available at what cost.
doodar supports searches specifically for this purpose. By offering this service you can get your business to feature in these searches.
doodar uses Globekey™ one of the best established worldwide suppliers of on-line booking facilities.
We can provide two levels of on-line availability and booking facility:
1. On-line booking through doodar.
In the next week or two visitors will be able to search for availability from our home page and all accommodation pages. Visitors will be able to say what they want and when they plan to stay and instantly see all the accommodation available for immediate booking.
Costs from just £7.99 a month
no commission charges
free set-up
You can see this same system working elsewhere here.
2. Your own on-line booking system.
Visitors will be able to book on-line with you direct from any of your promotions here as well as through the shared availability search described above.
Your booking system only shows your availability - it's ideal for guests who have already decided where they want to stay and wish to secure their booking without delay.
You can link to this from your other web promotions outside Great Glen Great such as your web site, other directory entries and Pay per Click promotions.
You get special attention grabbing instant booking links on doodar.
Costs from just £25 a month (includes Option 1 above)
no commission charges
plus free set-up, free configuration till end May 2006 worth £150!
You can see this working here.
At this stage you might be wondering what's the difference between set-up and configuration?
Well, set-up is the work we do to get you included on our system for on-line availability and booking searches. It includes creating your access to your administration system.
Configuration is what you do to tell the system about your accommodation, your rates, occupancy levels, terms and conditions, discounts and seasonal offers etc.
The Globekey system is highly flexible and be configured for almost any imaginable business rule you wish to implement. In other words special offers, seasonal rates, minimum advanced notices, arrivals on specific weekdays, charges by room occupancy or length of stay and much more are all supported. Globekey works how you work - not the other way way round.
Configuration is actually all pretty simple and most people manage this themselves just fine, but we're always happy to advise for free.
If you want us to do your configuration for you our charges start from £150 for 5 or less rooms.
What's more with this system and doodar you're not tied to us and you don't have to dedicate a split room allocation to the on-line booking system further fragmenting your availability which is the major drawback of other supplier's solutions like Visit Scotland - aside that is from the cost of these alternatives!
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