What is Livebooking

Holiday Livebooking is the online booking solution for your Holiday Cottage, Bed and Breakfast Guest House, Hotel, Boat Hire and all accommodation rental needs. We offer a fully featured online booking system proven to improve sales, remove errors and allow you to get on with running your business.

The system is suitable for both direct end user or booking agency use.

With Live Booking you will be able to:

Display availability directly from your own website - see chart designs;
Show customers the exact price before they book;
Take bookings 24 hours a day 7 days a week;
Take total control of your bookings, devolving information directly to end landlords and housekeeping staff;
Take deposits and balance payments online *;
Manage cancellations and alterations with as much flexibility as you like;
View, export and print invoicing and VAT information.

Key Benefits…

The key success of the system has to be its proven track record in improving sales. If you are currently running a static web site where you ask customers to phone or email then you are losing out on sales. Many customers will either assume you are fully booked; not want to disturb you; not want to wait for a reply; or not want to pay for the call; With Holiday Livebooking they can see the availability and price and make the booking there and then. It's so quick and easy, and unlike other systems where customers have to choose when they come and are often rejected with no results found - Livebooking lets them see large parts of the year all at once. The availability and price information is combined into an easy to read calendar so that customers don't have to cross reference pricing charts.

You'll be able to take bookings 24 x 7 x 365 days of the year, and even accept debit and credit cards via a secure 3rd party card payment provider. But you only need to spend a few minutes per booking and at a time to suit you. Calls and enquiries for nights already taken will be eradicated instantly.

If you have ever double booked someone or forgotten to cancel a booking then you'll know how costly that can be in lost sales. Typically you would only need to do that once and livebooking would pay for itself for many years to come.

We're even working on code which will allow you to sell instances of identical rooms. This is typically what you have in a hotel, B&B or campsite type setup. No need for guests to select exactly which accommodation they are having just the type they want and the system allocates them to the first available and you can reallocate if and where necessary, all the time the system ensures you never create a double booking.

Each installation is bespoke to your business through a mixture of configuration options and where necessary additional coding. So you're not stuck with running your business in exactly the same way as everyone else, if you have a specific way of working we have the flexibility to include it.

Ease of Use...

You don't have to be an IT expert to use this system, either as an owner or customer. Unlike other systems we don't require you to rehost your website, or spend days creating complex setup, or installing any software. The Holiday Livebooking system integrates directly into your website using some simple links which we'll give you and if you are still not sure we'll even do it for you. We'll start you off with some default setup for you to change as you need to.