Why do I need BookingEdge^®?

:: To increase direct sales from your property's website by enabling your guests to make bookings effortlessly and confirm their reservation instantly.

:: To reduce administrative cost by significantly reducing the time your reservations staff spend dealing with fruitless call and emails.

:: To enable Travel Agents and Corporate clients to book rooms instantly from your website, at their password-protected contract rates.

:: To take control of your web-reservations. You collect all guest payments, control room rates and availability.

How does BookingEdge^® work? (See presentation )

Whether you are an 14-room inn, bed and breakfast, 1400-room resort, independent hotel or a condo-rental, BookingEdge^® works equally well by providing real-time reservations and instant confirmations.

With BookingEdge^® attached to your website, your guests

Select the reservations button

Enter the desired dates they'd like to stay

Select an available room

Enter payment information

Get an instant confirmation

Your guests are booking directly with you, there is no software to install, no hidden costs and you close the sale right then and there.

How do get I get paid for instant confirmations?

Your property is notified with an email reservation summary immediately after the system provides a confirmation. Authorized personnel from your property must retrieve the credit card information from a password-protected payment module on a secure server.

Your property also has the option of having the reservation deposit or entire payment deposited directly to your e-merchant account if desired. For more information, please contact us.

My property only has 15 rooms, can BookingEdge^® help me?

Absolutely! BookingEdge^® would not only help you increase reservations directly from your website. It can also help you manage all your reservations by easily adding your email, fax and phone bookings in addition to the unrivaled return on investment it provides.

Is BookingEdge^® installed on our website's web server?

BookingEdge^® is hosted on Ultrabooking Solutions' servers. Control is passed to a secure page that matches your website when the consumer selects the reservations button on your website.

With this implementation, your guests have access to real-time pricing and room availability, 24 hours a day. They are able to determine availability for the desired dates and easily book their room then and there.

Is BookingEdge^® secure?

Absolutely! All communication between guests, yourself and BookingEdge^® is secured using SSL (Secured Socket Layer). A VeriSign Secure Site Seal visible on your reservation page assures your online customers that your reservation page has been authenticated by VeriSign and their confidential transaction is secured using SSL encryption.

Additional measures such as fraud protection and buyer authentication to name a few are taken to validate each secure payment in addition to making sure your inventory is only seen and changed by authorized personnel.

How do we manage our room inventory, rates, etc.?

At anytime, from anywhere in the world, you or your staff can instantly change any aspect (rates, terms, cancellation policy, accepted credit cards etc.) of your website's room inventory. All you need is an internet connection and a web browser to access the management module via a password-protected area on this website. No special software is required to achieve this.

The management module enables you to change all aspects of your website's inventory and gives real-time access to critical information (various reports - booked rooms etc.), to name a few of the benefits available.

How do we know when a reservation is made?

Emails are automatically sent to you and the customer with detail information (minus credit card number and payment information) whenever a confirmation number has been issued (immediately after a confirmed reservation).

The subject line and body of the emails sent to customers and yourself is fully customizable using your own words by any property staff with access to the management module.

Why is promoting our website not enough to boost direct web sales?

website promotion + a cumbersome booking process = low direct online sales

As you can see from the formula above, promoting your website is not enough. Many incomprehensible options and the traditional multi-page forms defeat the goal of maximizing direct online bookings. Potential guests who give up trying to make an online booking either call the hotel directly, try an online booking service that might steer them to another property or even change their travel plans in frustration.

Individualy these elements are useless. It's the combination and proper implementation which provides beneficial results. BookingEdge^® does not only deliver a more effective and engaging booking experience. Combined with the right Hotel Internet Marketing strategy, it helps you increase your margins.

Can BookingEdge^® boost our direct online sales?

BookingEdge^® can help you overcome major obstacles that can otherwise exclude your business from the explosive growth if you are not properly prepared.

Ultrabooking Solutions recognizes these obstacles and implements and effective Internet Marketing and Distribution solutions combined with BookingEdge^® an easier-to-use online booking engine that's easily added to hotelier's websites. BookingEdge^® helps you turn more of your existing website traffic into paying customers.

Is BookingEdge^® affordable?

Absolutely! Whether you have an 14-room bed and breakfast, inn, small to medium size hotel or a 1400-room resort, we've got a product configuration to suit your needs.

BookingEdge^® is affordable enough for an 8-room bed and breakfast and yet powerful enough for a 1400-room resort.

Why choose BookingEdge^® over other internet booking engines?

The implementation of a frustrating-to-use booking engine defeats the goal of maximizing bookings from your website. In fact, research shows that 53% of online consumers that put items in a shopping cart leave without buying anything. For every dollar spent $4.10 is left in abandoned shopping carts. A high percentage of travelers do not complete their booking, finding the process too complicated and frustrating.

Ultrabooking Solutions recognizes these obstacles, and has created BookingEdge^®, an easier-to-use online booking engine by placing guests of all skill levels at the center of the design process. The result is an intuitive single-screen booking engine that enables customers to complete bookings effortlessly.

How do we get started?

To explore the dramatic results that Internet Distribution and Marketing will produce, and have a personal consultation to determine if it is right for you, please feel free to contact us to set up a phone appointment.

There are no setup-fees required to begin increasing your margins. Contact us to get started.