Integration apps for OTAs and other channel partners

Distribution

Distribution via various channels

BEX channel integrations

For Travel agencies: making reservations directly

Expedia Application

Changing the Collect method

The difference between Booking Experts Collect and Advertiser Collect

Charging VCCs

Vrbo (formerly known as HomeAway) is an online marketplace for vacation rentals. The platform connects travelers with recreation businesses and homeowners offering accommodations such as apartments, villas and chalets. As part of the Expedia Group, Vrbo is part of a global network of travel websites, allowing you as an accommodation provider to increase your occupancy rate and generate more bookings.

Vrbo: installation & settings

Vrbo: FAQ & restrictions

With our Booking.com integration you can access one of the world’s largest travel marketplaces to offer your accommodations internationally.

Booking.com: installation & settings

In the setup process for the Booking.com integration, you'll need to choose which types of content you want to automatically push from your PMS to Booking.com. Here, you'll find more information about what each choice entails.

Content synchronization for Booking.com

Here, you'll find an explanation of the 'Property Check' and other actions in the ellipsis menu of a property in the Booking.com integration app. A property has a Property ID, and in most cases refers to your administration in the PMS.

Booking.com property actions

Here, you'll find an explanation of the actions in the ellipsis menu of a connected type in the Booking.com integration app. This connected type has a Room ID, and in most cases refers to a type with several objects in your PMS administration.

Booking.com connected type actions

Find answers to frequently asked questions about the Booking.com integration app.

Booking.com: FAQ

Troubleshooting Booking.com error codes

Troubleshooting Expedia error codes

The HomeToGo App gives you the opportunity to link Booking Experts to HomeToGo and thus offer your accommodations internationally. In this article, we explain how you can install it for your own administration(s).

HomeToGo app

Join one of the largest accommodation platforms in the world and offer your holiday homes through Airbnb, with easy control from your PMS.

Airbnb: installation & settings

In our App Store, there are two integrations for Airbnb. One is the direct integration between BEX PMS and Airbnb, the other is the Airbnb connection through channel manager Qenner. These are separate connections, and have some differing functionalities. Read this article if you are considering switching from Qenner to the direct Airbnb app.

Switching from 'Airbnb by Qenner' to 'Airbnb'

Connections that are managed by the partner

Partner channel integrations

If any of your iCal links result in a calendar conflict, you will receive a message.

iCal notifications in reception messages

You can share the availability of objects with another (external) calendar via iCal. For each object, you paste a unique link into the external calendar, and vice versa. The synchronization is updated by the system every 15 minutes.

Calendar availability through iCal

BestCamp

Ferienhausmiete.de

Micazu is a large marketplace for private holiday homes with Dutch roots. This integration is available through channel manager Qenner.

Micazu: installation

Vipio is a distribution channel with European reach that covers a broad spectrum of accommodations, including campsites, holiday parks, hotels, B&Bs and holiday homes. Take a look at the range on Vipio and discover whether your accommodations fit in there.

Vipio: Installation & settings

Belvilla App

Holiday Media App

Villa Piscine App

Leisuretime App

Flean app

Holidu app

Interhome is a leading provider of holiday homes, with over 35,000 unique holiday homes, apartments and chalets in 27 countries. This integration is available through channel manager Qenner.

Interhome: installation

BungalowSpecials: installation

PiNCAMP/ANWB: installation

Neat is a French insurance partner that can help you offer a cancellation insurance to your guests.

Neat: installation & settings

Search for any helpful articles to find an answer to your question

www.bookingexperts.com

Developer Portal

Updates

Onboarding

What you need to know before starting the onboarding process

Before you start

Welcome to Booking Experts! Here you can find an overview of what happens next and how to start with your BEX PMS.

Starting with Booking Experts

In Booking Experts, you can login in the following ways: with an email address and password, with a Google account or with a Microsoft account.

Log in to Booking Experts

All organizations with multiple administrations have an Organization overview. In this overview, as an organization manager, you have insight into the bundled data of all administrations.

Overview for organizations with multiple administrations

The light green upper part of the menubar focuses on options regarding the account details, updates of Booking Experts, or reception messages.

Menubar in the BEX PMS

Every employee who uses the Booking Experts system has their own profile within the software. This is setup during onboarding or when a new colleague needs to be introduced to the system.

Adjusting your profile

In Booking Experts, we have several search functions. Search with the general search field, search at organisation level and search by administration name.

Search functions

Tools to help you in the onboarding process

Checklist and Academy

About the safety of your and your guests' data

Privacy and security

Modules

About data transferable from other systems

Importing data

Organization and administration settings

What you need to know about setting up accounts for your employees

Employee settings

Brand and appearance

Central management of terms and conditions

Terms & Conditions

Domains

Setting up objects

Amenities

Individual objects and the types they belong to

Types and objects

Media content

Set up your pricing and business finances

Prices and finances

Important financial settings

Rental prices for various types and periods of time

Price lists

Add cost items for add-ons and separate fees

Costs

Setting up CMS

Switching between BEX PMS and BEX CMS

As a park manager, you can create CMS accounts for employees and manage their rights.

Access rights for CMS users

Tools

Site settings

Website pages

How reservations are made through your website

Search & Book

Brand appearance

Email campaigns

Offering holiday homes for sale on your website 

Sales module

If you are using both ParcVu and BEX CMS with the sales module, you can connect the two to easily generate prospects out of interested website visitors. Set up a form on your CMS website to ask for the details needed to create a prospect in ParcVu.

Connect to ParcVu using a form

All day-to-day actions necessary at your reception

Daily use of PMS

Dashboard

Planboard

Getting started with the reservations module and reception messages

Reservations and messages

BEX PMS

Settings that apply to your entire organization

Organization settings

A label alerts the user to important matters concerning the various modules and data within the PMS. For example, you could give the label 'loyal guest' to guests who have stayed for the fourth time, or the label 'renovated' to objects that have been refurbished. You can create these labels yourself and give them a desired colour and emoji.

Purpose of labels

Special periods are used in Statistics, Price lists and in the Search and Book. Examples of special periods are public holidays, local events or holiday periods.

Special periods

Creating and editing Special periods

It is possible to make predefined holidays and bank holidays visible on your website, so guests can click on them or more easily search for availability, for example, during the Christmas period. 

Set holidays as selectable on your website

Employees

Manage the amenities of your types, objects and administrations

Brands

Manage your booking portal and customer portal

Portal settings

Settings that apply within an administration

Administration settings

In the administration settings, you can make various choices that determine how your guests enter their personal data and those of their travel companions for a reservation.

Administration settings for guests

Description of the park and its surroundings

Exclude postcodes

Period groups

Reservation settings

Manage channels through which reservations are made

Channel management

General invoicing and accounting settings

Financial settings

Everything about communicating with guests and owners

Communication

Translations

About types, objects, availability and meter readings

Setup

Whether or not a late checkout is allowed, is determined in the settings of the booked type. 

How to set up and recognize a late check-out

How do you indicate whether or not pets are allowed? This is done per object, in the object setup. In the type settings, you can set how many pets guests are allowed to bring, but this only applies if the booked object allows pets.

Pets allowed/not allowed

In the BEX PMS, you can add media to your types and objects so that guests can get a good impression of the kind of accommodation they are booking.

Add media to types and objects

How to make exports of your types, objects, or object setups.

Export of objects/types

In auto emails and templates, you can add useful information about an object or type that is predefined in the object or type settings.

Attachment text for emails objects/types

If you have a map, you can use it to let the guest choose an object on the map during the reservation process. This allows guests to choose the spot that best suits their personal wishes. This article explains more about creating, setting up and booking on a map.

Booking on the map

Types

Objects

Arrival and departure schemes

Marking types and/or objects as not-available

Blocked periods

About tracking and charging for meter readings

Meter readings module

All about cost items, price lists, deposits and discounts

Pricing

Charge, claim, and refund security deposits

Security deposits

Cost items for anything that is not included in the rent price

Discounts

Packages

Bundle extras that are available independent of stay

Bundles

Finance

If you are a park working with owners, you need to file a DAC7 report. The BEX PMS can provide the necessary data. Read this article to find out which data is required and some of the common error messages concerning the data.

DAC7: What is it and which data is required?

Creating and checking a DAC7 report

To submit a DAC7 report to the Dutch Tax Administration, you likely use Digipoort. Our DAC7 Digipoort Connector app allows you to upload a DAC7 report directly from your PMS to Digipoort, the Tax Administration’s electronic post office.

Submitting a DAC7 report via Digipoort

Invoice management

Payment policies, bulk payments, payment methods, and more

Payments

About VAT, profit and loss, and ledger accounts

Accounting

Reservation management

View channel reservations

Overview nights stayed and tourist tax declaration

Within the reservations index page you can create a list for export using any of the tabs and filter options. Creating exports of reservations may help you anticipate your guest's needs.

Exporting reservations

Create an export file that lists which reservations have cancellation insurance.