Learn how to adjust the settings in your booking widget to customize colors, rate plans, and functionality of the reservation process - giving you complete control over how guests book directly with your property.
What is a Booking Widget for hotel group?
A Booking Widget for hotel group is an interactive component on your website’s interface that get the requested information from the booking engine and present it to the guests. These Widgets will appear on your website and show all of your hotels in your hotel group.
Step-by-Step: Customizing Your Booking Widget for hotel group
To customize your booking widget for hotel group's settings, follow the steps below:
- Log in Hotel Link extranet.
- Go to Booking Widget tab > Booking Widget Customization.
- Click on the first 'Edit' icon. This is the general booking widget for the hotel group:
- On this page, there are 3 main sections:
(1): The color customization
(2): The other settings including: currency, hotel rating settings, etc.
(3): The codes where you can get to embed to your own website. For more details, you can read 'Embedded code' and 'Search Widget code' section in this article.
Understanding the color customization sections
- Search Box Background: Adjust the background color outside of the search bar, best price, and currency sections.
- Search Bar Background (Hover State): Adjust the background color of the search bar (for example: choosing check-in, check-out date) when hovered.
- Button (With Background): Adjust the color of buttons with a background.
- Button Text: Adjust the color of the button text.
Understanding the (2) section
This section includes settings on booking widget for hotel group page as you would like the hotels to appear on that page. For example: currency, manage the default number of nights, etc.
- Currency: Sets the default currency automatically displayed when user opens the booking widget page. If the currency selected is different than the rates currency defined at the booking engine settings page, the booking widget will use the currency exchange tool by Oanda using the latest exchange rate available.
- Days Out: Sets the default date from today when a user first lands on the booking widget page.
- For example: Today is 22 May 2025, Days out = 3. When the user first lands on the booking widget page, the check-in date will be 25 May 2025.
- Nights Selected: Sets the default nights that a user will have pre-selected between the check-in date and check-out date.
- Allow hotel to receive message from traveller on Thank You page: Allow travellers to send direct messages to you right after creating their booking. For details, click here.
- Show hotel rating: Define if you wish to show a rating display for each hotel in the group. This rating is based on the rating configured for each hotel in Accommodation Setup page.
