Online Hotel Booking System Development

– Cross-browser compatible site that works on all popular browsers available on market like ‘Chrome’, ‘Safari’, ‘Internet Explorer’, ‘Opera’, ‘Firefox’
– SEO-friendly site and code.
– A site that is manageable via Admin Panel
– On-page SEO (Search Engine Optimization) of the site so that it ranks higher on the search engines.
– Theme design of the site keeping in mind the target audience, so that consumers spend more time on the website and you get the maximum ROI.
– A site that has a premium look and feels.
– A secured site using SSL layer (optional)
– Bread Crumb Navigation – help your visitors navigate hierarchically.
– Logo – a visual representation of your business that’s unique.
– Internal Links – to your website’s inner pages.

Feature of the Online Booking Website:

– Integration with payment gateways like ‘PayPal’, ‘Visa’, ‘MasterCard’
– Secured payment gateways to protect all the sensitive data of the customers
– Easy and hassle-free booking system with minimum clicks to book a hotel
– Multi-currency support
– Search bar with filter (like ‘location’, ‘price’) to search for hotels easily
– Create and offer discounts and coupons to entice the users and increase the revenue
– Option to apply ‘Promo Code’ at the checkout page
– Integration with ‘Google Maps to locate the hotels on the maps so that users can easily find and navigate to the hotel address
– The easy refund process for the users
– Interactive dashboard to monitor all the vital KPIs like number of site visitors, number of bookings, cancellations, net profit, latest bookings, arriving and leaving customers, available rooms, etc.
– Get a complete graphical summary regarding reservations, current bookings, etc. right from the system dashboard.
– Live chat to answers your guests’ queries 24×7 & information about your hotel, amenities, services, availability, and deals & packages.
– Loyalty programs for permanent customers, create special deals for guests by sending them discounts and promo codes
– Offer special discounted rates to corporate guests and VIP Club Members, making them feel elite and enticing them to visit you again.
– The booking system allows you to immediately send an SMS notification to guests upon booking confirmation.
– Post departure; send a thank you email for staying with a request for feedback on your service.
– Maintain rates, inventory, and bookings all under one system login panel.
– Image gallery to include multiple pictures of hotels and rooms so that customers can get a virtual look at the rooms and choose them accordingly
– ‘Book Now’ button to get the booking done instantly
– The integrated reservation management system enables administrators to manage booking and customer details and add bookings manually. They can keep track of bookings by date and status on the room availability calendar.
– Users with administrator’s access to the system can set minimum and maximum nights that can be booked by guests for any room type and date range, and adjust booking start day
– Add your own booking terms and conditions and request your customers to accept them before submitting their reservations
– Prevent any loss of information by regularly performing a backup of your bookings and guests’ database and files.

Admin panel needs the following functionality

– Ability to create other admin users for managing other back-office modules like Finance, CRM
– Ability to increase the price of hotels based on location (city, country), star rating, or all the hotels.
– Create deals- show specific hotels in the deals section on the home page.
– Create membership plans for customers to join
– Show only certain kinds of hotels to certain membership holders.
– Create promo codes for membership plans for seasonal discounts
– Upgrade customers from back-office admin panel
– Bulk upload CSV files with new customer data to create customers
– Update the home page logo, background pictures, and display text regularly. The search panel will not change. Be able to add content and videos from YouTube to FAQ and Contents page.
– Have more than one page, for targeting different types of customers (B2C, B2B)
– See all bookings, see all customers making bookings. Block a customer, Delete a customer
– Able to do booking management: Update, change and cancel a booking, Issue refunds
– See all failed bookings, due to errors or payment failures.
– Create marketing emails and be able to send to distribution lists of customers.
– B2B API management: Be able to change login user and password for production API when the wholesaler has issued new credentials. No front-end coding change should be needed. Be able to add credit card or booking fees surcharges for specific membership holders.

The user panel allows for
– Search all hotels (without signing up)
– When a non-registered customer tries to book, they can choose 30 days free membership or buy a paid membership.
– Free membership has extra charges, admin fees, credit card fees, etc. that get added to the hotel price.
– People can buy membership plans using promo codes to get discounts on membership fees.
– After a booking is done, they get mail with confirmation
– Under My account settings
– Users can 1. Upgrade membership plan 2. See total savings 3. Change Password or details 4. Refer a friend 5. Report a cheaper deal to admin 6. See All bookings 7.Request cancellations or changes of a booking 8. Update their marketing preferences for emails and offers.
– Users should be able to contribute to the Forum page by posting questions and answers and add videos or graphics.

The On-page SEO of the site will include:

– Heading tags of all pages
– Title tags of all the pages
– Meta description of all the pages
– Site map of the website
– Image attributes for all the images
– Optimized images
– Boosted site speed
– An exhaustive audit of the website
– w3c mark-up validation
– Mobile-friendly site
– Reduced server response time
– Reduced redirects
– Keyword tags for all the pages
– Text navigation
– SEO friendly URLs
– Register the site on ‘Google Search Console’
– Unique and quality content
– Internal and outbound link
– Social Media sharing buttons
– Link the site with ‘Google Analytics’
– Make Robot.txt file
– Rich snippets wherever applicable

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