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Vik Booking was created to offer a complete management system, to give a real autonomy to the owners of any type of accommodatio, large or small, who have chosen to invest in their website. This is why it evolves together with them, adapting itself to the needs and new dynamics of the hospitality sector. 

The adaptability to a wider target of structures and an extreme software customization characterize this new update, result of months of intense programming to give to its end users a complete plugin.

 

Discover the new features of this major update!

Vacation Rentals, Camping Sites and similar accommodations can benefit of the new Interactive Map.

Those companies who manage multiple accommodations at different locations, or those who manage resorts, bungalows or camping sites with accommodations located in different areas, can represent all of their room-types (or tents) through an interactive Google Map, and allow bookings via front-end to guests directly through the map.

Thanks to the new Geocoding features, it is also possible to allow bookings at "sub-unit level", meaning that you can keep grouping your rooms/tents into room-types with multiple units, and allow the guests to choose specific and exact sub-units.

The same Geocoding features can also be useful for regular rooms with multiple or single units, so that the front-end page Room Details will display the location of the property within a Google Map.

This is how the new booking process through the Interactive Map looks like:

camping booking engine geolocation booking

 

Customize colors and styles through a simple color-picker.

This new version is also very oriented to simplifying the customization of the front-end layout. You no longer need to add custom CSS rules to change some colors, you can just do it through the apposite color pickers in the Configuration settings.

That's not all.

There's a new Customizer tool that lets you select elements from the Email, Invoice and Check-in template files to change their properties, from the colors to the borders. All through some simple clicks.

Scheduled actions through the new Conditional Text Rules

Another important feature of this new version is the Conditional Text Rules. These are basically rules to be applied over any kind of Email message, Cron Job or template file. Thanks to the various filtering rules, you will be able to add custom and dedicated messages, or to perform certain actions (like adding an attachment file), by targeting specific room types that were booked, specific countries, methods of payments, languages and much more.

Basically, this tool will let you create modular contents for any communication between your guests, with the ease of automatizing the whole thing.

The Conditional Text Rules can also be set up to inform your specific guests, maybe returning guests that already booked a room before at your property, about promotions or dedicated discounts.

Find out more here.

Experience the new fabulous dashboard and its Admin Widgets.

Forget the old Dashboard, because you can now build your own Dashboard thanks to the new Admin Widgets and their Customizer.

Feel free to choose your preferred admin widgets among a variety of extendable modular tools. Publish your Admin Widgets into new Sections and Containers of different sizes, to get the best out of this new feature.

The Dashboard is probably one of the most important pages of Vik Booking, and with this new version it will let you monitor any kind of activities with automated updates through AJAX requests.

The new Vik Booking dashboard with loads of widgets Here's how the new Dashboard can look like

What’s new in Vik Booking 1.4?

New features:

  • New major framework release. This is a major release of the framework. Countless improvements and new features have been implemented.
  • Custom Admin Widgets. The new dashboard can be fully customized with useful and pre-installed admin widgets. Customize sections and containers with size and positioning for your widgets. You can also code your own widgets by creating new plugins.
  • Geocoding functionalities. Every room-type can now have geographical information with custom markers and ground overlay images.
  • Interactive Map. Allow your guests to book your room-types (rooms, tents, pitches etc..) through an interactive Google Map that shows your custom markers and overlay.
  • Conditional Text Rules. Adding custom texts or performing custom actions depending on unlimited factors has never been easier. Set up your own rules and use the generated tokens onto any template file for email messages, Cron Jobs and more.
  • Colors and styles customizer. Quickly adjust the colors and styles of the various template files with the ease of a click and a color-picker.
  • Preferred colors. Choose the best color sets that better fit your website's front-end section, or your property appearance.
  • Refund transactions. Easily manage all the refunds through an apposite back-end interface. Only a few payment gateways support this feature for the moment, such as Stripe.
  • Custom payment requests. You can now request or allow payments for any bookings, including the confirmed ones.
  • Airbnb API. Thanks to the new Vik Channel Manager v1.8.0 and the new partnership between e4jConnect and Airbnb, Vik Booking will provide even more features! From the Guest Messaging APIs to the Host-to-Guest Reviews, Special Offers, Pre-approvals and much more.

Improvements:

  • e4jConnect App. Android and iOS devices will become even more powerful thanks to the recent updates for Vik Booking and Vik Channel Manager.
  • Countless improvements. The algorithm to apply the promotions can be set to be calculated on the room final cost, rather than progressively

These and many other news await you in the new Vik Booking PRO 1.4 and open up to a new property management experience

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