booking calendar 2.0
The WebReserv calendar 2.0 now available in Italian
Over the last several weeks our team has been working on translating our calendar 2.0 to other European languages. Until now, the calendar 2.0 was available in English, French, Dutch, Swedish, German, Danish, Portuguese and Spanish. We knew that many of our clients in Europe needed to be able to show their calendar in more languages in order to attend to more customers.
We are please to announce that now the calendar is available in Italian. This is wonderful news for your customers who speak this language and want to book your products or services. They can now view the calendar in their own native language to provide them a better experience and make them feel comfortable with your business. “It’s great to be able to provide the system in other languages so that people in Italia can make bookings without effort.”, says Martin Israelsen, founder of WebReserv.
“We have numerous development plans for the system, but since our launch in Europe, we have been focused on making the system work well with European currencies, languages and payment providers, trying to make WebReserv as complete as possible.”, concludes Martin Israelsen.
And that’s not it. We are planning to add some great features during the next months. We hope you will enjoy the benefits of those updates.
Give your booking calendar a new look with 10 brand new themes
Summer has begun, and the sunny days always puts a smile on our faces. It may be a good idea to transfer that good feeling onto your customers by giving your booking calendar a new look. This week, we have created 10 new beautiful themes that will give your calendar a fresh look and feel. We hope you will like it.
Black & Gold theme:
Adding a booking calendar to WordPress websites
The WebReserv booking calendar can be easily added to your WordPress site. Few years ago we did create a plugin for this site which enables you to add the booking calendar with a simple click of the mouse. In addition to that, now this plugin allows you to embed our new calendar 2.0. Here is what you need to do.
To add the booking calendar to your WordPress site, follow these steps:
- Click this link to get started: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/webreserv-booking-calender-plugin/
- This link will take you to the WordPress Plugin Directory page for the WebReserv Embedded Booking Calendar.
- On this page, click the Download button to begin installation of the plugin.
- Follow the installation instructions on the listing page to complete adding the calendar to your site.
Congratulations! – You are ready to receive your first reservations through your WordPress site. If you would like to know the best tips to increase your conversion rate and make a killer webapge, check this article by WebReserv.
Adding The Booking Calendar 2.0 To Your Webpage
This post describes the different display options of the new booking calendar 2.0 and how to easily embed it in a webpage.
Once you have set up your inventory and rates in the system, next you will configure and add the booking calendar to your website. We understand your webpage is the pillar of your business and we know how much you care about it. WebReserv made the calendar integration straighforward. It is a simple process that doesn’t involve a technical background to achieve and the result looks great. In the following tutorial we will explain how it works.
Access the Booking Calendar
To access the booking calendar features in your WebReserv account, click on the Website tab in top menu. This will default to the Booking Calendar page.
On this page, you can customize, preview, and access the HTML code needed to add the calendar to your site.
Customize
The calendar options in this section allows you to customize the look of the booking calendar. See custom options below.
- Version
- Style
- Search
- Availability/Rate Grid
- Appearance
Booking calendar Version 2.0 and the Embedded style option are the most popular choices and the default options. When the user views the calendar, they will stay on your website, and will see the booking calendar inside your website.
Search
The Booking Calendar gives you a few search options to choose from: No Search, Start/end date, No. Nights, No. Days. No Search is the default option and customers will see the listing of your products as the first view of the booking calendar. Choosing another search option will show the search as the first view of the booking calendar, see examples below.
Availability/Rate Grid
This option, if set to yes, will allow customers to see a view of all your inventory and rates for a week at a time. On the first page of the booking calendar, your customers can click on “View Availability and Rates” button to see the grid view. Customers can also choose a date and see availability for that week.
See example below:
Appearance
The Booking Calendar comes with many options for color themes. Choose one from the list or create your own. To learn about customizing the colors, see the section on Defining styles and colors. The default color theme looks like this:
But you can select other themes like the following:
Preview
After selecting the options that you want, click the Preview button and a preview will be shown on the right side of the screen. If necessary, you can change the options and click Preview again to see how different settings affect the booking calendar.
When you are done customizing the booking calendar, copy the HTML code from the section 4 – Copy HTML code, and paste the HTML code into your website editor at the place where you want the calendar.
Congratulations!!! – You have now completed the booking calendar customization and setup process.
For more information. . .
Overview of the Booking Calendar
WebReserv Blog 