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How do I create my booking sources?

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The key to using booking sources successfully is to make your booking source options as specific as possible.
Make a list of all your possible sources beforehand. Then create all the required booking sources.
It is possible to always add more or amend existing sources, if required.

  1. To add a Booking source, go to Bookings > Booking sources
Show sources on booking form

These options are applicable for all booking sources and all properties.

For Show in website booking form, select Yes, if you want the options to show on the booking form. If you don't want a list of booking sources to show on your website for the guest to select one from, select No.

To make your sources a Compulsory field on your website, select Yes in in the Compulsory field drop-down.
This means the guests can't place the booking without having selected an option, stating how they found you.

Edit Source

At the top of this section you can archive sources, which are no longer required.

  1. To archive a source, click Archive.
  2. Then select the source from the drop-down menu.
  3. Click Archive.

The source will no longer be shown in the list of sources.
To show any archived source tick the box Show archived sources.

Please note:
The archived source will not be showing in the list of all source, but in a list only showing the archived sources.

Creating a (new) booking source
  1. Enter the name of the source.
  2. If you want to have the sources display in a specific order, enter the number in Display order.
  3. Tick the source should be showing on the customer form or not.
    Any sources you only want to use internally, you might not want to show on the public booking form.
  4. If you have several websites, you list your properties on (you would have several SiteIDs in this case), select the ones you want this source to be associated with.
    This means that this source will only be visible to the guest when they are looking on this specific page.

Example:
There are two websites your properties can be listed on.
In the screenshot below:
- the top source is allocated to website 1
- the middle source is allocated to website 2
- the bottom sours is allocated to both websites, 1 and 2

  1. Click Add new.

Repeat the above steps for all sources you wish to add.

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