What are the benefits of using a booking engine?

Booking Engines simplify the process of managing room rates and inventory. Join us to discover the key aspects of Hotel Link Booking Engine.

What is a Booking Engine?

It is a piece of software that allows you to update your room inventory, rates, stop sales, promotions, offers, and more. You load all of your property into one place, then the tool helps make it easy for potential guests to book your property both directly or via a third-party distributor like an OTA.

What does a Booking Engine do?

With this tool, you can easily and instantly make updates to your accommodation room information. With just a few clicks you can make updates to your room types, images, descriptions, bed configurations, rate plans, and much more.

It also provides all the management tools for hotels to optimise occupancy and revenue levels.

From a potential guest’s point of view, your Booking Engine should make it easy for them to securely book the room and extras that they want to be included for their stay. It should also have clear booking conditions and cancellation policies.

What are the main features of a good Booking Engine?

A good booking engine is essential. It must:

  1. Be mobile & Facebook friendly
  2. Support specials, promo codes, booking extras & best price guarantees
  3. Have multi-room booking capability, on-request bookings, and booking prompts
  4. Have all critical info (room info, booking policies, specials, cancellation policies, booking conditions etc) right at the point of booking
  5. Allow you to load inventory up to 2 years in advance
  6. Allow you to tell potential guests what you are doing to make them feel safe and comfortable