Allowing group bookings to be made on your website
In BEX CMS, you can enable your website visitors to make a group booking via your website, i.e. make up to 5 reservations at the same time.
Allowing group bookings in your Search & Book
Go to the 'Search & book settings' under 'Search & Book'. At the top of this page, there is a checkbox 'Allow group bookings'. Activate this checkbox and save the settings.
A group booking made via the website can contain up to 5 objects, and the dates for those reservations have to overlap by at least 1 day.
What changes on the website?
A shopping basket will appear to the right of the search & book button in the main menu. A pop-up will ask the website visitor whether they want to proceed to booking, or continue looking at additional stays. The current stay will be added the shopping basket. The shopping basket can contain a maximum of 5 stays.
What changes in the booking process?
For each of the reservations in the group booking, the following can be defined:
guest group composition
additional upgrades (amenities/costs/bundles)
a preference booking (select object on a map)
The booker's personal data will be applied to all reservations in the booking, this aspect does not change compared to a single booking.
Note: check your current Google Tag Manager setup after this change, to make sure that all desired data is still being pushed through to your marketing channels.
Managing group bookings
In BEX PMS, group bookings are managed a little differently to regular bookings.
Read more: Managing a group booking