Setup your Hotel

Go to Components->BlooKing->Hotel Setup and click on the Parameters icon. Here you can find the global parameters of BlooKing, grouped in 4 tabs.

General Properties

Multi room mode: With BlooKing you have the choice to allow your guests to book multiple rooms with a single booking process. In the front end the BlooKing will show results from all of your categories that much the search criteria.

If multi room mode is set to No, the user will be able to book only one room at a time and he will have to select a Room Category. BlooKing will search availability for the selected category only.

Date format: Select the date format you prefer. All dates will be shown in this format.

Currency: Select your currency. All the currencies supported by Paypal are included. If your currency is not listed contact us and we will add it for you.

Show Daily Rates? If Yes, the search results in the front end will also show the price of each of the selected days.

Bookings

Maximum booking period: Set the maximum number of days that a visitor can book.

Days before check-in when cancellation is not allowed: Set the minimum number of days (before the check-in) that a booking can be cancelled.

Required Deposit (Fixed/Percentage): This is the amount that a user has to pay in order to confirm his booking. Either the Fixed or the Percentage amount must be set if you wish to use the Paypal plugin.

Show coupons: If Yes, a Promotional Code input field will be shown in the second step of the booking process.

Auto confirm bookings? If you plan to allow bookings without requiring payment confirmation, you can select to auto confirm your bookings. By default bookings are set to Pending status which can be expirable.

        

Enable pending bookings expiration? If Yes, pending bookings will turn to available again after the given time.

Bookings expire after given time: Give the interval for expiration of pending bookings. If zero, bookings will never expire. Select between Month, Week, Day, Hour or Minute for the expiration measure.

Successful return URL: Commonly a Thank You page where the users will be redirected after a successful booking (enter the absolute URL e.g., http:://www.yoursite.com).

Unsuccessful return URL: The URL where the users will be redirected if the booking could not be completed successfully  (enter the absolute URL e.g., http:://www.yoursite.com).        

Calendar

You can select to show a one-month calendar that can be moved back and forth, and(or) a three-months calendar below the search results. The calendars are fully customizable to your preferences. Select color using the handy color picker and choose if you wish to show the colors on the calendar. The changes apply for both front-end and back-end and for all the calendars.

                                                                                                                   

Emails

Enter the email address to which booking notifications will be sent. You can define a secondary email as well. The From Name in sent emails is retrieved from Site->Global configuration->Server.

Final Form

From the Final Form Tab you can select to show/hide and make mandatory/optional the Address and the Phone fields. You can also setup reCAPTCHA as a human verification system. In order to enable reCAPTCHA please create your Key pair here and paste the generated keys to the corresponding fields fields.