Don't have to rely 100 % on booking sites like Airbnb, Expedia, booking.
Com, and all these type of sites.
You can potentially have your own booking
systemand it's pretty easy and inexpensive to do so.
You don't have to pay a developer
thousands of dollars to have your own booking site.
With this video, I'm going to show you how on a WordPress site with a booking theme
that's going to have all the bells and whistles that you're going to need.
Plus, you're going to save on commissions
that you're not going to pay to these other sites like booking sites.
So let me show you how right now.
This theme is great for home rentals and hotels.
You can avoid or combine the usage
of other booking sites, but you can have your own booking system.
That way, you can avoid paying commissions to other third party systems.
Now, it's super easy to install and get started.
Now, that's the whole beauty about this.
Plus, it's super inexpensive.
You can have a site just like this one,
like the one I installed, and this is what you're looking at.
You can have a whole booking system
for your hotel or home rentals and get started right away.
Now, in this case, I don't have any rooms available because this is a demo site,
but you can have your own site just like this one super easily.
Now, like I said, this theme is only $54
and that's all you have to pay and it includes everything.
Now, you do get six months support just
in case you have some hiccups and to help you out.
In case you need more support, just pay an additional six months.
Now, as of this video, that's the price and if you want to grab
it, the link will be provided in the description.
It's a WordPress theme and it's super easy to get started.
This is my demo site installed
with WordPress and to get started, all you have to do is once you buy it,
download the file, head on over to appearance, go to themes.
And in themes, you're going to add new and you're going to upload a theme
and you're going to install the file that you downloaded.
Once you installed it, you're going to have this installation.
And in the installation,
it's super easy to get started because it's just like five steps to install
the whole thing, including the demo information.
Now, let me show you how that looks.
If you go to the Hotel WP because that's
installed automatically with the theme, I'll go into Getting Started.
And in this case, I already installed,
I already went through the installation process, but I'll show you again.
Go to the next step, and this is how easy it is.
The hotel name or the rental site that you want to use, what is about your site?
Go next, select the theme that you want to use.
They have four themes available as of now.
This is the one that I've selected and you
can decide to import all the demo data or not.
Now, I recommend that you do because it's
super easy to replace information and add your own.
Or you get a sense of where you need
to add the information because you have demo data.
Now I'll go next step and in this case I'll go to Customize Site.
Here in the Customization,
we have the general settings, the header, the page title, the blog.
You go through these one by one, obviously, to customize your site
to change these logos, the information, and make it your own.
In this case, I won't do it right now, but it's super easy to do so.
Once you do that there, you can agree and continue and you're good to go.
Now, in this case, this is the second time that I'm doing it, but if not,
I'll be asked to install certain plug ins that will be needed for this booking site.
Now, if I go to plug ins,
you're going to see that they are installed automatically with these.
You can see all these have been installed and these are needed for the booking site.
Like I said, it's going to come with all
the bells and whistles you're going to need for your home rentals or hotel.
Now, once you do so, you have settings here on Hotel WP.
Just go this in case you made a mistake
and you want to restart again, do it through here.
And if you want to change the demo side, you can do so here.
So in case you don't like this one,
how it looks and flows, you can select the other demo sites.
I'll leave the link in the description to see these demos.
All right? And there's the plug ins here in case you
tick some of these off, you can do it so here and install it again.
Now, once you install that, you're going to have all the settings
to add your own rooms or view the rooms in case you imported the data.
Like I mentioned before,
I like the import data because it shows me what I need to add.
I'll show you this one. For example, premium room.
If I go and edit this one, I'll see that I'll need the description.
There's the general settings.
For example, the quantity of rooms.
If it's a hotel, I have 50 rooms of this budget.
The name of this one, it's like the suite or the presidential suite, etc.
And you have this room capacity,
one maximum per room, external links, additional information, add a video to it,
number of bedrooms, number of baths, room size, etc.
Then featured image, the pricing for these rooms.
Now, there's a weekly pricing here because
you know that hotels or home rentals are more expensive on the weekends.
You can set the price by date.
You can also block special dates because
maybe you're not going to rent on Christmas, on Mother's Day, etc.
Or have a different pricing.
Or if you have a home rental, maybe you're going to use that as
a vacation and you'll block those dates here.
The gallery for this specific room,
deposits, the regulations, frequently asked questions, and facilities.
Now, there's some custom fields here
that you need to check out and see what you want to fill out or not.
Like I said, it helps you when you add your own room because if you go add a new
room, now you know what to do based on the demo data that you imported.
Once you learn how to use this, go ahead and delete all these
rooms because obviously they don't exist for your hotel or your home rental.
Then there's the WP Hotel booking system.
You can manually add a booking here just in case you do an offline booking.
You answer the phone and you book a room.
You can do through here.
You can see it's an offline payment or PayPal.
Now, you could set the status as canceled, pending, process, and you're completed.
Let's just say that they need to pay it. So it's pending.
You can set that there and do a booking.
There you can see the booking orders, extra options,
the coupons for this in case you want to offer a discount for this one.
This is really interesting because if you have the same room on Expedia, for example,
you have the same price here on your booking site.
But if you offer that 5 % discount, well,
they'll most likely book through your site to get that extra discount.
The settings for this and the calendar manager.
There's also the event manager to view everything that's going on.
You can see here, here's one of them.
Hotel WP Film Festival, here's an event manager.
There you go.
You give you the post if you want to add this as a Block 2.
Testimonials, some templates.
The rule commerce is installed to add some products if you like.
You can also sell products on this.
And it's all available through this.
Now, like I said at the beginning, it might be a little bit complex to get
around the settings, but once you do so and you teach someone
to do the bookings or take care of the system, it's going to be super easy.
This is going to be way easier and less
complex than having a developer do something customized.
Plus it's not going to look as good unless
you pay a ton of money to have something made really well.
So this is pretty cool that we have this
option to just pay a $50 theme, set it up, take a little bit of time to add
the rooms, and you're good to go and start booking.
So basically, I think it's a great offer for $54 to grab this theme.
So if you want to grab it, I'll be leaving the link
in the description just in case you want to help me out with a small commission.
And that's a wrap.