Drive more direct bookings with Rezcontrol’s NEW booking engine!
Your key to commission-free bookings, a booking engine is a vital element in every hotel’s operational armoury, helping hotels and their guests by enabling self-service, enhancing trust, speeding up the booking process and enabling direct ‘perks’.
While online travel agents serve to introduce your property to large and varied new audiences, hefty commission fees can make a considerable dent in your margin. Your booking engine paves the way for your hotel to balance your distribution strategy and reduce OTA dominance.
An integral part of your Rezcontrol PMS package
After a year in development, Rezcontrol is delighted to be launching its brand new online booking engine. Fast, flexible and frictionless, it will bring together room, extras and table booking in one streamlined process – making the booking process easier for guests and hotel staff alike.
“We felt there was a gap in the market for a booking engine which could incorporate real time table bookings alongside rooms and upsells,” said Mark Cade, Technical Director at Rezcontrol. “This is why we embarked on a 12 month journey to create the most innovative and intuitive booking engine we could imagine. The response to our preview webinars has been breathtaking, with so many of our customers keen to sign up.”
Gain more direct bookings from within your PMS – and SO MUCH MORE
With our new booking engine comes a wide array of advanced features and functions which are rarely found together in any booking engine. And, your guests won’t have to leave your website at all in order to process their booking.
“Your guests won’t have to leave your website to complete their booking – and will be able to select their precise requirements in one simple step, with a single confirmation”
The combined knowledge and expertise of our 30-year track record in hotel management software has enabled us to pinpoint exactly what hoteliers need from a booking engine – and to integrate it into Rezcontrol PMS.
“Our advanced features are designed to enhance guest experience while making your life easier”
Rezcontrol booking engine features:
- Combines room and table reservations, plus extras in one easy booking – so in one single process, your guest can book a room, book a table, and add extras such as meal packages, early check in or late checkout, or physical items like flowers and champagne in the room on arrival.
- Build flexible packages – a welcome drink on arrival? Dinner on the first night? Cream tea on the final afternoon? No problem. Rezcontrol can cater for the most complex packages, breaking down the revenue into the correct departments and accounting for it on the relevant days.
Optimised rates and choices
- Unlimited rate options with dynamic pricing – these will update automatically, while always displaying the cheapest rate available on your website.
- Detailed room choices will automatically be offered based on live availability – so for example if a guest is specifically seeking a dog-friendly family room with a sea view, they will only be shown availability for their choices, avoiding frustration and having to recreate searches to find what they are looking for. They will not have to book, and then email to request the seaview or dog-friendly room, or reconfirm extra beds.
- Alternative dates and locations are offered automatically – so if the desired room type isn’t available, the guest can see when it will be; while for groups, the system can be set up to show availability in sister hotels.
“With our calendar view and complete booking overview in one basket, the user experience has never been easier. From a table reservation to a massage or morning eBike hire, the entire booking detail is in one place.”
- Single confirmation including all pre-booked tables and extras – no need for the guest to book these separately and then receive multiple confirmations, enhancing guest experience before they arrive.
- Live inventory on extras – so if you know you only have capacity for ten early check-ins, these will not show once they have all been booked for the chosen date.
Offers and promotions
- Builds URL-driven seasonal promotions or offers – such as Christmas or a Valentine’s Day break, or for that matter a flash sale to boost bookings – so guests won’t be exposed to irrelevant offers which they then have to sift through to choose their preferred option. These will only show for the chosen dates.
- Direct promo link available so you can send your guests a dedicated link to book a specific date on a specific rate – ideal for wedding or event guests booking their accommodation.
Integrated features – dedicated promotions and Google ads
- Online gift voucher redemption – enabling guests to redeem gift vouchers online, making the process easier and simpler and enhancing their overall experience of the hotel.
- Google Hotel Ads – the booking engine can be linked to GHA, so hotels can choose to use ads to build their strategy beyond the free option, managing advertising budgets and bidding themselves.
“We are absolutely delighted to have our booking engine ready to launch this autumn,” said Mark Cade, Technical Director at Rezcontrol.
“We believe it blows most other booking engines out of the water, bringing room, table, and inventory-controlled extras together into one integrated hotel booking engine. This will bring real benefits to our customers and their guests, making the customer journey smoother through a single shopping basket checkout experience.”
Not a customer? Call us on +44 (0)330 223 1456 or email sales@rezcontrol.com – or contact us for a demo.
