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What pricing and payment scenarios can be catered for?

Answer

HBook is highly flexible and provides many options to tailor the booking system to your needs. Here is a non-exhaustive list of possible uses.

Booking system

  • Use HBook to receive inquiries or as a booking request system where reservation needs to be confirmed
  • Use HBook with automated confirmation of the reservation
  • Search form: check-in and check-out fields are mandatory. You can enable/disable the fields "Adults" and "Children"

Payments

  • No payments : you can disable the payments and manage this differently (ex: guests pay on arrival, by checks...)
  • Bank transfer : you can add a message to provide information as bank details, delay for payment, etc...
  • Payment of a deposit (percentage, number of nights, fixed amount)
  • Payment of the full amount
  • Possiblity to enable various payment types
  • Possibility to enable various payment gateways
  • Possibility to hide prices on front-end
  • Possibility to set a "Security bond" : security deposit can be displayed for information only, adde to the total price, paid online/offline
  • View all payment gateways available : https://maestrel.com/hbook/#payment-gateways

Pricing

  • Accommodation rates can be per person per night
  • Accommodation rates can be per accommodation (whatever the number of guests is)
  • Accommodation rates can have a base rate for "x" persons and a fee for additional persons
  • Prices can be set differently for children or adults
  • Prices can be seasonal
  • Prices can be different according to accommodation type
  • Prices can be different depending on the length of stay
  • Weekday and week-end nightly rates
  • Midweek. Week-end and Weekly stays
  • There are many other possible set up so please do not hesitate to send us a pre-sales question : https://maestrel.com/contact-general/
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