If your official website visitor data are quite good, and the products on the website can only be browsed but cannot be booked online.
, BookingMeta can help you with online booking problems very well, just integrate BookingMeta's booking capability into your official website. This article will give you a detailed introduction to this feature.
, BookingMeta can help you with online booking problems very well, just integrate BookingMeta's booking capability into your official website. This article will give you a detailed introduction to this feature.
Note: This article takes about 10 minutes or more to read
This guide includes:
What are we doing?
We are trying to combine the traffic of your official website with the booking capability of the BookingMeta booking engine. Before starting, a concept should be noted that, your official website and the BookingMeta booking engine are 2 completely different systems. The purpose of our integration is to combine their capabilities to jointly achieve online booking for you. However, they will not be combined into one, so you need to do some necessary operations or authorization during the integration process to achieve the integration effect, which will be described in detail below.
For consumers, they only know that they are visiting your official website, but they do not know the existence of the BookingMeta system. When they operate the booking, they will jump to the BookingMeta booking engine to complete the booking. Consumers are not clear about the two websites so they will be more inclined to think that they have completed the booking on your official website, and usually you do not need to explain all this clearly, just do a good job of service to satisfy consumers.
With the ability to book online, your official website capabilities will be upgraded from linking users and content to linking users and services that your business on official website will move into a new chapter.
Necessary prerequisites for integrating your own website with the BookingMeta booking engine
First, you need to have your own domain name and the ability or permission to manage the operation.
Second, you need to have your own official website and the ability or permission to edit the page code for the website.
If you only have a simple official website built through online building website tools, but do not have your own domain name, you need to contact BookingMeta's CS for specific analysis to determine the combination plan.
Integration Process Step-by-Step Guide
Step 1: Configure the product and website.
Configure the product and website information in the BookingMeta backend, and you can ask the CS staff of BookingMeta to guide you.
Step 2: Configure the enterprise mailbox.
Configure your enterprise mailbox in the BookingMeta background to send a voucher when the booking is received. After completion, ask the CS staff of BookingMeta to assist in verification.
Step 3: Configure the collection account.
In order for consumers to pay you online, you also need to apply for opening an online collection account such as Stripe and provide relevant information to BookingMeta to complete the configuration. BookingMeta currently integrates a variety of online payment methods, but these payment methods need to be selected according to different regions. Please consult the CS staff of BookingMeta for specific information and opening methods. After completing the configuration of the collection account, they will notify you. You can also try to place a test order to verify the payment effect by yourself. If you only do B2B business, this step can be ignored.
Step 4: Create a new domain name and configure the SSL certificate.
Create a new domain name in the domain management backend specifically for the BookingMeta booking engine.
Assuming your domain name is www.ExampleTour.com , you can create a new domain name called booking.exampletour.com for jumping to BookingMeta and provide booking.exampletour.com SSL certificate to BookingMeta. The SSL certificate is used for trusted secure access between 2 sites. Please contact your website service provider to obtain it.
Step5 : Configure the new domain name resolution.
Operate in the domain management backend to point the newly created domain booking.exampletour.com operation Cname to your BookingMeta domain.
Your BookingMeta domain name is usually in a similar example.bookingmeta.com form. The specific CName operation information will be provided by the CS personnel of BookingMeta.
Step 6: Edit the code of the official website page.
Configure each jump link on each page of your official website according to your needs (point the link to BookingMeta booking engine) and publish it online. If the test result is normal, the whole process is done.
(Note: The URLs www.exampletour.com 、booking.exampletour.com and example.bookingmeta.com quoted above are virtual examples, please configure them according to your actual situation)
Four integration methods
We have prepared 4 different integration methods, which you can choose according to your business needs.
- Jump from the main booking portal on the homepage or main menu of the official website to the BookingMeta portal home page. This page contains Banner and popular product recommendations, through which you can access and book all products. You need to create a new general booking entrance button on the homepage or main navigation of the website, and point the URL of the button to your BookingMeta portal URL, similar to https://example.bookingmeta.com
Official website visitors will enter the home page of your BookingMeta portal by clicking on the main booking entrance. Subsequent operations like browsing and booking products will be completed in BookingMeta.
- Jump from the main booking portal on the homepage or main menu of the official website to the product list page on the front desk of BookingMeta, which focuses on product inquiry and browsing, and you can also access and book all products through this page. You need to create a
new general booking entrance button on the homepage or main navigation of the website, and point the URL of the button to the product list page of your BookingMeta portal, similar to https://example.bookingmeta.com/search
Official website visitors who click on the main entrance of the booking will enter the product list page of your BookingMeta portal. There is not a large advertising space on the list page, but searching for products is allowed.
Subsequent operations like browsing and booking products will be completed in BookingMeta.
- Jump from the product catalog of the official website to the Product Detail Page of BookingMeta, which displays all the information of the product in detail, the operation of booking can be finished on this page. You need to create a new entry to browsing details for each product in the product catalog and point the URL of the button to the Product Detail Page of the corresponding BookingMeta portal, similar to https://example.bookingmeta.com/search/Plkdw8gy5 . The URL suffix Plkdw8gy5 is your corresponding product ID. Your product ID can be obtained after the product is created in the BookingMeta background. Please make sure the ID correspondence is correct and the product is on the shelves and in sufficient stock.
Visitors to the official website click on a product in the catalog to enter the details page of the product in the BookingMeta portal, where they can browse the product details and place an order.
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Jump from the details of a product on the official website to the available check page on BookingMeta which focuses on the remaining stock and price of each SKU of the product,and then the booking is finished. You need to create a new quick booking entry on the product details on the official website and point the URL of the button to the available check page of the corresponding BookingMeta portal, similar to https://example.bookingmeta.com/calPrice/Pwyo4rn8m/Cryj4poxy?l=en¤cy=thb . There are two variables in the URL that start with the letter P, such as Pwyo4rn8m, which is the product ID you created in BookingMeta, and Cryj4poxy, which starts with the letter C, is the package ID of the product. You can create multiple packages for one product according to this rule. Different available check pages are used for different booking options on the official website.
Visitors to the official website click the booking button to jump to the BookingMeta's available check page and start placing an order directly.
(Note: The URLs https://example.bookingmeta.com , https://example.bookingmeta.com/search , https://example.bookingmeta.com/search/Plkdw8gy5 , and https://example.bookingmeta.com/calPrice/Pwyo4rn8m/Cryj4poxy?l=en¤cy=thb quoted above are virtual examples, please configure them according to your actual situation)
Quick order without verification
Placing an order in the BookingMeta system according to the normal process requires the consumer to receive the verification email and verify the Email address, as shown in the figure below.
If you are not satisfied with the experience of this process and think that it may affect your visitors to complete the order, you can apply for the fast no-verification function to BookingMeta which is a product function more suitable for booking on the official website. The premise of the application is that you have configured the business email to send the voucher in the backend of BookingMeta. When BookingMeta enables it for you, visitors do not need to verify the email when placing an order, just enter the email to quickly complete the order, as shown in the figure below:
After entering the Email address, the visitors can fill in the order.
Then select the payment channel to pay to complete the order. As mentioned above, the collection account of the payment channel needs to be configured in advance. The payment channel shown below is only an example. You only need to configure one payment channel generally (not so many).