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You need exposure to maximise internet sales. As a bookassist client hotel you will have full access to millions of unique visitors annually, apart from those visiting your own website, and you will have access to our promotional expertise to help build your online brand and your online volume....
Benefits to the accommodation provider
See also our checklist for how to choose a booking system
that's best for you
| Free installation |
Most other systems charge a set up fee to cover installation fees, training etc. With bookassist you pay only a small commission with each booking.
There are no other charges.
bookassist benefits only when you benefit!
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| Free training |
Most other systems charge you for training. With bookassist you pay only a small commission with each booking.
There are no other charges.
bookassist benefits only when you benefit!
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| Free upgrades |
Some systems charge you for upgrades and annual licences.
We talk with hotels to deliver the options they need and will provide you with free upgrades to bookassist as they become available.
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| Free security & hosting |
It costs a lot to host and maintain a “secure” ecommerce site. By availing of bookassist you can avoid the high charges and additional responsibility of hosting and maintaining your own booking system.
bookassist is a fully secure booking engine. It is continually upgraded thus making you less vulnerable.
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| bookassist trafficbuilder |
This service is offered to hotels that have bookassist on their own website. Services include:
- A review of your current web site (content, web site positioning etc)
- Analysis of your online bookings, levels of missed bookings etc
- Recommendations and tips on how to increase your exposure and visibility
- Introductions to the best promotional deals from our recommended partners
- Design of on Line ads
- Implement targeted ad campaigns, track costs and report findings
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| Free of invoicing |
The deposit taken by bookassist is the commission charged. As there are no other fees of any sort due, you will receive no invoices from bookassist for the ongoing use of the system.
No paperwork, no time wasting.
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| Reduces no-shows |
Most systems will do some check that a credit card number is a valid number, but few actually validate the guest credit card with a banking system. Validation is the only way to be sure.
bookassist uses Bank Of Ireland to fully validate the credit card in real time online, at the time of booking. This ensures that the booking is a genuine booking and thus dramatically reduces the number of no-shows that can result with other less professional systems.
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| Unlimited room types |
Most systems limit the number of room types you can offer. Furthermore most DO NOT offer you the option to sell packages.
bookassist offers a multitude of options to include packages.
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| Update Once Sell Everywhere! |
Because bookassist is a central system that feeds many sites and portals, you only input your information once in the administration system and all of our sites instantly reflect the changes you have made.
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- Retain your own branding - bookassist is on your site
- Free set-up and installation (more)
- Free annual licence
- Free training (more)
- Free lifetime upgrades (more)
- Free security and system hosting (more)
- Free promotion (more) of your website through our many portals which millions of unique visitors annually, including
- www.softguides.com
- www.roompsring.com
- www.hotelsinireland.info
- www.hotelsindublin.info
- www.dublinhotelsireland.com
- www.bookassist.com
- etc
- Free promotion (more) of your rooms through our affiliate sites, including
- www.visitdublin.com
- www.ticketmaster.ie
- www.bigsavings.ie
- www.entertainment.ie
- www.dublinks.com
- etc
- Access to a specialised booking system for your regular corporates
- Free of invoicing and paperwork (more) as deposit taken is the bookassist fee
- Dramatically reduces no-shows (more)
- Can sell unlimited types of rooms and packages (more)
- Update Once Sell Everywhere! (more)
We actively work with you to increase the visibility of your own website and assist in increasing traffic to your site. You can sign up your hotel to receive all these benefits immediately. Simply use our online sign-up form or contact us for further information.
bookassist trafficbuilder service (more) is a comprehensive online service designed to increase your total visibility online and drive bookings through to your own website. For further information, contact the trafficbuilder team. The bookassist trafficbuilder team includes Google Adwords Professionals to bring you the best possible online service in web positioning and search engine optimisation.
Benefits to your guests
| Viewing availability |
With most systems a potential guest has to enter their required dates to check availability for that period alone. The response is usually just a "yes" or "no". Many potential guests are lost because the chore of entering and re-entering dates to find availability is just too cumbersome.
bookassist will show general availability across a broad period so that a guest can see instantly that certain dates are booked out and certain dates are free thus saving them time and effort finding out!
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| Multiple currencies |
Most systems offer no alternative to the Euro while others force the guest to use a currency converter and just sort it out for themselves!
bookassist shows rates and allows a booking to be completed in any of the main currencies: Euro, Pound Sterling and US Dollar.
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| Fully secure |
bookassist uses state-of-the-art encryption and security when taking credit card details and when interacting with live Bank of Ireland server systems.
You or your guests need never worry.
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| Deposit |
Many systems do not accept deposits but merely hold the credit card as a guarantee. Guests feel that they have a stronger guarantee of their booking when they have paid a holding deposit. The hotel in turn will be more confident that they will turn up!
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| No special software |
Believe it or not, some systems require the user to download a software package or browser plug-in BEFORE they can even begin their booking!
Systems that require plug-ins such as Flash will stop your users in their tracks and tell them they must install software to proceed. Most people are rightly wary of this sort of request. Chances are, they'll just go elsewhere.
bookassist keeps it simple and easy to use - just a web browser, with no need to download any additional software.
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- Can immediately see price & availability of rooms (more)
- Can view rates in multiple currencies (more) - not just a currency converter link
- Can make a fully secure online booking (more) with instant confirmation
- Can pay a security deposit online (more) thus adding confidence in booking
- Can use multiple languages
- Can view a detailed map to locate your hotel
- No need to contact the hotel (more)
- No need to download plug-ins or software before making a booking (more)
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