A widget is a website element that can be added to your website and is displayed like a search bar or search button. This article will show you how you can install our pre-built widget on your existing website. These do require a minimum knowledge of HTML, so make sure to be careful when adding them.
How does it look?
The look and feel of the Booking Engine is fully customizable.
Some examples are:
How to create a widget?
It is very easy through our specialized Booking Engine Generator.
There are multiple options such as:
Single or Multi-Property Booking Engine
Background Color
Text Color
Language
Horizontal or Vertical View
Background Gradient
Background Image if you prefer
Option to show/hide box for children
Option to show/hide box for Promo Code Section
Option that Engine Widget is always in the fixed bottom position
Custom Domain Option*
Default Room Type to be opened (add just Room Type ID)
If you want to open it in the iframe instead of new tab
When you click on Generate you will see a code snippet that you need to paste on your website and an example below of how the generated widget will look.
*Important Info for the Custom Domain - this feature needs to be activated by our support team, therefore please contact us with details which custom domain name you wish to have.
Usually, if your website is www.hoteldomain.com the custom domain should be booking.hoteldomain.com or reservations.hoteldomain.com. Pre-requests:
You or your webmaster need to add CNAME Redirect (e.g. booking.hoteldomain.com) to this subdomain:
booking.hoteldomain.com → custom-domain.hotelsync.com
Once you set up the CNAME, let us know so we can configure the last step and this will be activated