BookingBug for B&B and Guest Houses

Attract more customers and get your business online with BookingBug. Having the ability to take bookings online not only helps you generate new business, but also makes things easier for your existing customers by helping them plan ahead. BookingBug lets you manage B&B, Guest House, or small Hotel quickly and easily.

Features for B&Bs

Your calendar of availability on your website

Take a look below at booking widget below that you could customize and place in your own website. You can change the size, colours and style of your widget. You can set minimum and maximum durations, have different prices for different days or the week or year, and event set specific prices for weekend, 3 day, 4 days or 7 day stays. Sign up now and start taking bookings today.

A simple way to manage your guest house

With BookingBug's intuitive and powerful calendar interface it is easy to manage everything from your own time for a single service, all the way up to multiple staff with multiple services at multiple locations. Our calendar is friendly and straight forward allowing you to see all of your upcoming appointments and business in whatever way works best for you.

Our calendars support your businesses style

With BookingBug's "smart widget" panels you can customize your calendar widget to look any way you want. Select size, color, default display, anything. You can also define custom CSS to make sure your BookingBug calendar looks like a seamless part of your site.

Collect money without hassle

It's easy to take payments with BookingBug. With a variety of payment systems including PayPal, Google Checkout, SagePay, WorldPay and others, allowing your customer to pay you online is simple. Online payments are a key part of helping your business, and you can take deposits or just authenticate cards to help reduce your loss in the event of last minute cancellations. They cut down on no-shows, allow your customers more options when it is time to pay you and ensure an accurate record of who uses your service.

Merchant accounts are for slightly larger businesses or when you reach a certain amount of transactions per month. Integrating your merchant account with BookingBug is simple and it benefits both you and your customer. As a business you will likely pay less of a transaction fee to the processor and your customers will have a smoother payment journey.

Stay connected with you guests

For just 10c/p a message you can get SMS alerts when someone books your time. You can also have reminders sent to your clients 24 hours before their appointments. If you have multiple staff you can also SMS per staff member.

Have a great relationship with your customers

BookingBug allows you to customize any of the emails generated as part of the booking, reservation or enquiry process including cancellation, editing, amending and moving. Our email tool allows you to set up dynamic messages for all of your business's needs.

BookingBug helps keep everything in sync

Already using a calendar program to manage your time? Wouldn't it be great if you could sync it with BookingBug and vice-versa? Good news. You can. To mark time as busy in your BookingBug calendar just paste your iCal link from your existing calendar into BookingBug. Similarly you can add BookingBug's iCal link to your own calendar to show all of your bookings.

Sometimes you only need a call to action

Customisable "Book Now" and "Enquire Now" are available in case a site will not allow you to embed your calendar. Available under the 'Publish' menu you can adjust the colour size and type to fit your needs.

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