| Created: 2016-10-14 By: MyHotelZone |
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Customers and managers will receive automated email notification after each booking.
VR Booking is integrated with Live Chat and multi-lingual ready.
With VR Booking you will also get a Property Management System (PMS) that will allow:
In this section of the documentation, you will find information regarding the Properties menu.
If you choose to show your properties by Location / District, you can add your locations in Location sub-menu (Properties menu).
You can also add district / area for each location
If you choose to categorize your properties, you can add your categories (eg, non-smoking, city escape, business class, etc.) in Categories sub-menu (Properties menu).
You can customize Features for each property in Features sub-menu (Properties menu). You can categorize different features by creating groups (eg., Amenities, Accessibility Features, Wellness, etc.)
After that you can add a feature and assign it to certain group.
You assign certain House Rules for each property by creating a separate page in Pages menu.
You can add extra beds (e.g., rollaway bed, baby cot, etc.) for each property.
Extra bed can be added in Extra Bed menu.
Extra beds can be assigned to each property. You will be able to set different price for different properties (please refer to Assign Extra Bed in Add a property section of this Documentation).
You can add extra services (eg., airport transfers, cleaning fee, etc.) for booking. The extra services can be added as a multiple options to be picked from. It will be offered at the booking and customer can select to book it. You can set same price for all properties or set different price for different properties.
Extra services can be added in Services menu.
You will be able to set different price for different properties (please refer to Property section of this Documentation).
For the plugin to work correctly you need to create at least 1 Property.
You can view, edit and delete your Properties in All Properties section of the Menu. Click on selected Property Link and view and edit any detail you wish. Also, here you can see your property’s url.
The VR Booking Plugin comes with the following pages:
In addition, the VR Booking Plugin provides single post templates individual Properties (Property section of this Documentation).
The pages can be edited in All Pages submenu of Pages menu.
The Front page template let you create and display the search box anywhere on your website. Please enter a text of your choice next to the short code and click Update in your WordPress admin dashboard.
(Pages menu > All Pages submenu > Front page > Edit).
The Search Result page template let you display the available properties for certain dates. Please enter a title of your choice and click Update in your WordPress admin dashboard.
(Pages menu > All Pages submenu > Search Results page > Edit).
You can customize extra services page.
Services page template let you display extra services (eg., airport transfers, cleaning fee, etc.) for booking. The extra services can be added as a multiple options to be picked from. It will be offered at the booking and customer can select to book it. You can set same price for all properties or set different price for different properties.
Please enter a title of your choice and click Update in your WordPress admin dashboard.
(Pages menu > All Pages submenu > Services page > Edit).
The Booking page template let you create the booking form page. It is the booking form that the customer is redirected after selecting the property / services they want to book.
1. Please enter a title of your choice and click Update in your WordPress admin dashboard.
2. You can add booking conditions, which are displayed when a customer makes a reservation:
You can customize the Terms and Conditions title and text.
If you wish to add another condition (eg, Privacy Policy), you can customize it as well.
Booking Confirmation page template summarizes the booking information for customers and allows to print out the reservation details.
1. Please edit this page by going to Confirmation page > Edit in All Pages submenu of Pages menu of your WordPress admin dashboard. Enter a text of your choice and click Update.
2. You can add / remove Print button.
You can customize the search parameters, which are displayed when a customer makes a reservation:
In this section of the documentation, you will find information regarding currency and tax settings and customization of different payment modes and methods.
In this section of the documentation, you will find information regarding confirmation e-mail customization and Live chat, Google maps and Rates & Reviews activation (Other Settings submenu of VR Booking Plugin menu).
After the reservation customer will receive a notification email with details of his/her reservation. You can customize email subject and introduction text of this email.
VR Booking Plugin is integrated with live chat service (Olark Live Chat). You can activate your Live chat or you may wish not to do so.
VR Booking Plugin is integrated with Google Maps. You can show your properties on google map or you may wish not to do so.
In order to display your properties correctly on the Google map, you will need to enter the longitude and latitude for each property (you can do it later, see Property section of this Documentation).
VR Booking Plugin is integrated with rate and review service (Rich Review plugin).You can activate your Rate and Review system or you may wish not to do so. Also, you can customize display of Rate and Review on your website.
You can regulate your reviews according to the Rich Reviews plugin documentation.
To display the VR Booking Plugin’s search box on your website, you need to insert main short code - [booking-home title="Properties for Rent"] - anywhere on your website.
The title of the search box can be customized.
You can check the search box display on the front page.
In this section of the documentation, you will find information regarding the pricing (Rate Plans & Promotions menu).
With VR Booking plugin you can create the following rates and rate plans:
The standard rate will apply for all booking dates where you haven't set rate plans, season/custom rates and/or promotions. Standard Rate is the best way to ensure you have a base price set for each night throughout the year.
The standard rate will only apply if there aren't any custom rates such as daily rate, weekend rate etc. in place. To set up your standard rate, follow the below steps:
You can create a specific Rate Plans for weekends, weekdays or Seasonal/Custom rates for non-standard dates, like seasons, holidays, etc. The Rate Plans & Custom Rates will apply for a selected date range. To set up a Rate Plan & Custom Rates, follow the below steps:
Now you can assign the Rate Plan to the certain dates:
You can set promotional rates for certain dates, like weekends, certain dates, etc. The Promotional Rate can be rate can be used as many times as needed. That is why we suggest general names (Weekend Discount, New Year’s Special, etc.) as you will be able to reuse them again in the future. To set up a Promotions, follow the below steps:
VR Booking plugin comes with in-built Property Management System (PMS) with following sections:
1. Central Reservation Office (CRO)
2. Make New Reservation
3. All Reservations
4. My Invoices
5. My Customers
In this section of the documentation, you will find information regarding the Property Management System (PMS) menu.
Central Reservation Office (CRO) allows you to view all your Rates and Reservations per Property in the Availability Calendar, veiw all Reservations and Make New Reservation.
You can make Reservation by request (email, phone, social networks and other requests). First of all you can check the availability of certain Property for certain dates in Central Reservation Office (CRO).
You can also click Make New Reservation submenu directly.
VR Booking is coming with iCal synchronization for up to 3 calendars. VR Booking iCal Sync allows you to import, export and synchronize your booking calendars from other booking platforms, like AirBnB, HomeAway, VRNBO, Booking.com, etc.
Your calendars will be added:
VR Booking synchronizes added calendars every 30 minutes. You can also synchronize calendars manually.
Now, all your calendars are synchronized.
You can export your VR Booking calendar to your AirBnB, HomeAway, VRNBO, etc. accounts.
All reservations made will appear in the All Reservations submenu. You can view your reservations, modify and / or cancel them.
With VR Booking plugin you can generate and print invoices for all reservations.
All customers can be viewed and managed in My Customers submenu. The customer list is generated automatically after reservation. You can view your customer details and add a comment.
VR Booking plugin is ready for localization via .po/.mo files.
If you use qTranslate-X plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/qtranslate-x/), the languages will be automatically set. After activation VR Booking plugin will use configuration file (i18n-config.json) to work with qTranslate-X plugin.
All texts can be translated through .po files. The booking.pot file is included in VR Booking plugin languages sub-directory.
New translation files must have names like “booking-en_EN.po, booking-en_EN.mo” (change “en_EN” to your language code).
Please find more information about WordPress plugins translation here
In addition to the texts, parameters and appearance customization, with VR Booking plugin you can also customize the fields for custom posts.
VR Booking incorporates CMB2 plugin, a metabox, custom fields, and forms library for WordPress. You can can easily create custom fields for custom posts and /or use it for different customizations. Please find more information here.
Example, in order customize the booking fields on Booking page of your website you need to:
add_filter ('vrb_booking_form_fields', 'add_fields_to_booking_form');
function add_fields_to_booking_form($fields){
$fileds = '<div>
<label for=" custom_field_1">FIELD LABEL HERE</label><br>
<input id=" custom_field_1" name=" custom_field_1" type="text" value="">
</div>';
return $fileds;
}
add_action('vrb_create_booking', 'save_custom_fields');
function save_custom_fields($booking_id){
update_post_meta($booking _id, '_custom_field_1', $_POST['custom_field_1']);
}
add_action( 'cmb2_admin_init', 'your_cmb2_metaboxes' );
function your_cmb2_metaboxes(){
$cmb = new_cmb2_box( array(
'id' => 'your_metabox_1',
'title' => 'METABOX TITLE HERE',
'object_types' => array( 'booking' ), // Post type for Reservations
'context' => 'normal',
'priority' => 'high',
'show_names' => true,
) );
$cmb->add_field( array(
'name' => 'FIELD LABEL HERE',
'id' => '_custom_field _1',
'type' => 'text',
) );
}
The following shortcodes are included in the VR Booking plugin:
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There is no need to do additional steps. VR Booking Plugin will check if you have already installed Rich Reviews plugin and, if this is the case, VR Booking Plugin will use your original installation. Even more, if at any stage you will decide to upgrade your Rich Reviews plugin, you can do this and VR Booking Plugin will be automatically synchronized with the updated version of Rich Reviews plugin.
There is no need to do additional steps. VR Booking Plugin will check if you have already installed Olark live chat plugin and, if this is the case, VR Booking Plugin will use your original installation. Even more, if at any stage you will decide to upgrade your Olark live chat plugin, you can do this and VR Booking Plugin will be automatically synchronized with the updated version of Olark live chat plugin.
The Paypal Sandbox can be used to test payment. It does not proceed real payments but fake ones and allows you to check that the payment process through Paypal is working before accepting real payments. If you wish to test payments using the Paypal Sandbox, make sure that you activated Sandbox in PayPal settings (General Setting in VR Booking Plugin menu)
Yes, you can name the Terms and Conditions as you want. For example, you can name it Booking Rules. In that case customers will be asked to tick a box for “I read and agree with Booking Rules” condition on the booking confirmation page.